The Laughter Blog

Experiences in Life, Love and Laughter

2010-07-07T08:12:00.011Z

Long time no posts!

It has been a couple of years since last blog and lots of things have happened in the meantime.

One thing that never cease to surprise me, though, is how some people completely lack the ability to understand how change comes from within and that maintaining a negative attitude is only self-harming in the long run and only few will stand up for it...

Is it because laughter creates powerful changes in our mind state that some people avoid laughter in order to uphold their dramas and negative stories? The fear of change coz it may mean giving up the negative thoughts and stories we believed for so long were our 'life'?

Last year I was involved in an amazing project, exploring different aspect of experiences and how they can be interpreted differently when you creatively join music and video. What a fun and fantastic project - that in the end turned into 'sour grapes'...

Experiences embrace all the events we enter into on a daily basis and whether we call them good or bad, they are nonetheless experiences, and 'good' or 'bad' is merely a stamp we attach to them because we want to blame someone else if things go in a different direction than expected...

Experiences are about all the things we go through - laughing, crying, loving, not-loving, enjoying, disliking, screaming, quiet, withdrawn, outgoing, thinking and so on... They create us as individuals and we choose our life perspective from the total sum of our experiences.

And we can change our perspective!

People go through hardship and sad times but we can choose for those experiences to NOT seep through our being and create a negative persona, we can choose to learn and move on - creating an open space of opportunity for new experiences.

In the name of experiences the blogger wrote:

Monday, July 5, 2010

We don't need laughter on this planet. Just Whisky! :)

Let's ban laugh from our lives. Up the glasses and cheers. This is life ... Water of Life as Whisky means...
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The foundation for Experiences is completely different, embracing emotions and feelings on all levels. Who on earth ever got long-term joy from drinking?

We do need laughter - and we need lots of it. One reason...? To combat negativity and fear of change.

The world is changing and people are adopting new and positive ways of viewing life, changing their negative thought patterns and creating the change in life around them.

Never underestimate the power of a good laugh!

Blog Delays...

2007-08-25T10:25:00.000Z

Back after summer holidays realising a blog may not have been the best of ideas - or is it?

This summer has brought a lot of fantastic news and among it - eight new Laughter Yoga Leaders in the UK and Greece.

To step into the Dr. Katria Laughter Yoga footsteps is still pretty groundbreaking - even after 12 years of working the magic around the world.

In the UK it is still a strange way of expressing yourself in a far-too-much-kinda way. So - what makes us Brits so different from the rest of the world?

Well, being a non-Brit in the UK I think our inhibitions as "islanders", and as such being separate from the rest of the world, is SO ingrown that anybody who is slightly OTT or behaving in a different manner from the well-polished British way, is deemed to be somewhat peculiar and people tend to put on an overbearing attitude or simply look the other way.

But - does that mean British people don't laugh? No way! Brits have a great sense of humour but not everyone is born with it and not everyone laughs at the same joke...

So, why not learn to laugh without it? Without having a reason to laugh? This is where it starts being a bit strange to many, because most of us are brought up believing for a fact that we have to have a reason to laugh!

Hey - we do it anyway!

Congratulation to the seven British people who trained to become Laughter Yoga Leaders this summer and who are now changing the face of Britain!

And - just for the record - I love the UK and the people of the UK of which I am one!

Welcome to The Laughter Blog

2007-06-07T17:59:00.000Z

A blog!

It is still a mystery to me how on Earth I got myself talked into starting a blog.

This is not a funny-ha-ha Laughter Blog - at least that is not the intention - since I don't do comedy very well.

In fact, I recently heard somewhere that it is not in a woman's nature to be funny and attempting to be so is only an insult to men who master this technique - apparently so according to the newspaper article...

However, I am very good at laughing and instructing laughter - in groups or even for myself!

The magic comes from not taking myself too seriously - try it yourself, it's a laugh and once you get the hang of it, there is a whole new world revealing itself!

This Laughter Blog is about laughter without jokes and comedy - laughter for no other reason that laughing for the sake and health of it.

The Laughter Blog launches almost on the 3rd Anniversary of The Laughter Club in St. Albans!

I will be back shortly - but until then, enjoy every minute and plenty laughs on your way!