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NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. The neurological system regulates how our bodies function, language determines how we interact and communicate with other people and our programming determines the kinds of models of the world we create. The NLP describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay affects our body and behavior (programming).

When NLP is combined with progressive conditioning, it can create a powerful means of creating change. Through progressive conditioning you can install a belief, attitude or new behavior at a much slower pace and then gradually increase the amount of exposure to that new belief, attitude or behavior. This allows the brain to adjust to the new belief, attitude or behavior gradually, rather then it being a sudden shock to the system.

Progressive Conditioning In Laughter Yoga Clubs

If you study the concept of Laughter Yoga, you will find that when people join Laughter Clubs for the first time, many of them are shy and inhibited. It is difficult to do laughter exercises alone and get involved with the experience. This is where Laughter Yoga helps as it is primarily practiced in a group on a regular basis; it allows participants to slowly and progressively adjust to the new behavior of laughing without a reason over a period of time. The group dynamic allows them to find their own comfort zones without feeling embarrassed so that they can continue the practice until their brain and body gets programmed. Once they learn the new behavior it becomes easy even without the help of the group and they can practice it alone.

NLP Anchoring in Laughter Groups

How a particular stimulus can affect and change your state of mind- is an anchor. Anchoring is creating a new response to a stimulus. Anchors aren't just useful for keeping you in one state of mind. They can also work like propellers and move you in specific directions. It simply depends how you set them up and what you expect to happen.

Anchoring incorporates Pavlovian conditioning. When a phone rings and you feel compelled to answer it, that's because you've rushed to answer that sound hundreds of times before. But if you move house or change jobs, do you go to the old place by mistake? Or do you learn to change that habit faster because it's important to you. Everything that goes through our minds is a response to something else, and mostly an unoriginal response that has been anchored in some way. Anchoring isn't complicated but it is a major aspect of everything we do. That means that when you can tilt the natural anchoring that goes in all those different situations, your mind and everyone else's will work far better.

In Laughter Yoga session we have several anchors connected with laughter. For instance, after every laughter exercise we clap and say ho ho ha ha ha. Similarly, we repeat ‘very good very good yay’ several times during the session, take a deep breath many times and hold it and then laugh. By repeating these, they become anchors for laughter practice as each time they are accompanied with laughter. Over a period of time, these anchors invariably lead to laughter coming out easily as it gets programmed in the brain.

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