Laughter Yoga for Seniors

Tue, 30 October 2012

Seniors can truly benefit from Laughter Yoga. These 5 categories can help you explain how Laughter Yoga is so well suited to helping seniors live fully and meaningfully.

1. Adds More Laughter to Life

Laughter Yoga is ideally suited to helping seniors live a more laughing life. It does not rely upon a sense of humour or cognitive function. Therefore, anyone can laugh heartily. It also helps people understand that they do not need a reason to laugh. As we grow older, we laugh less and less. Because of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, seniors often times can’t get jokes or find anything funny. This is because humour is mental and cognitive phenomena. Therefore Laughter Yoga is ideally suited for seniors to do laughter as a form of exercise and get multiple health benefits from it.

2. Promotes Physical Health

As we grow older because of wear and tear most seniors have many ailments like high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma and other diseases of aging. Laughter Yoga helps in healing from illnesses by strengthening immune system, increasing oxygen to the body cells and bringing a positive mental state.

3. Supports Good Mental Health

Many seniors suffer from depression, frustration and anger. As they lose loved ones and their health, it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain a positive mental attitude. Laughter Yoga changes a person’s biochemistry in a way that supports good mental health regardless of their circumstances.

4. Increased Social Connection

Laughter Yoga allows for strong social bonding with friends, relatives, fellow residents at care facilities as well as care givers and medical personnel. Even persons with dementia can forge meaningful connections with Laughter Yoga. This development of friendship decreases loneliness and increases quality of life.

5. Laughter Yoga adds to Longevity

Laughter Yoga gives Elders a reason & purpose to living fully every day. Laughter Yoga has been reported by many ages around the World including individuals in their 70’s, 80’s & 90’s. As the population becomes increasingly older every day, Laughter Yoga is a tool for transformational aging & increased longevity.

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