Health & Wellbeing

It was my pleasure a wee while ago to run a six week course for the Kapiti Women's Centre in Paraparaumu. We met on a Friday morning for a couple of hours and I had some very enthusiastic participants!

In Laughter Yoga we regularly practise the nonsense language of Gibberish. It is a great way to release tension and inhibitions. To express deeply felt and difficult emotions and like laughter it can be practised anywhere at any time!

Lycopene is the pigment that makes certain fruits and vegetables red, such as tomatoes, watermelon, guava ...

In Laughter Yoga we have four elements of Joy that we practise regularly. They are: Laughing, Playing, Singing and Dancing.

When it comes to memory, it's "use it or lose it." Just as physical exercise can make and keep your body stronger, mental exercise can make your brain work better and lower the risk of mental decline.

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We gather together, and we introduce ourselves the Laughter Yoga way, by saying our names and laughing. Then, we simply laugh for no reason for 30 seconds, before we find our mental flosses, which are kept behind our ears.

A few days ago, some people in my laughter class were discussing how they were told to be quiet as children, and that they were not allowed to laugh loudly.

Anyone following the latest research reports on calcium supplements would find it quite confusing. Calcium supplements are the most widely used natural health supplements in the world yet much of this latest research is suggesting we should not be taking

Sometimes we come across an idea or read a book that brings together some of the thoughts we may have been thinking about for some time. I recently had such an experience when I read "Just Listen" by Mark Goulston.