At first glance, this seems very absurd, but it really works, the main thing is to laugh correctly.
While everyone goes to the gym almost every day and is on strict diets in order to finally lose at least a couple of extra pounds, there is an option to do almost nothing and still lose weight. There is a healing technique, yoga of laughter, which not only improves the emotional state of a person, relieves of various diseases and helps to bring the body into shape. Dmitry Efimov, a joy trainer and ambassador of the yoga of laughter in Russia, told us about the technique.
– Yoga of laughter is a breathing practice. It is very similar to yoga pranayama. If we explain the principles of correct breathing for yoga of laughter in a nutshell, it looks like this: we take a deep breath with our nose, inflate our stomach, hold our breath, count to ten (whoever succeeds) and then exhale all the air completely. And at the moment of exhalation, laugh.
To make it easier to start, say the letter A and start laughing, something like “A-ha-ha-ha-ha.” At the same time, try not to “throw” laughter, but to laugh to the end. Reduce the belly so that all the accumulated air comes out of it, then take a deep breath in order to saturate the body with fresh oxygen.
When laughing, try tilting your head back so it will be easier to laugh without pressure on your neck. And always try to laugh louder. The louder you laugh, the more active and infectious your laughter will be.
During laughter, of course, the abdominal muscles are involved, since a person is actively exhaling, the diaphragm contracts, as a result of which all the abdominal muscles (straight, oblique) and back muscles work. The mimic muscles are actively involved, blood rushes to the face and the skin rejuvenates due to the effect of natural face building.
In the classroom, students also jump, jump, bend over, that is, they use almost all muscle groups.
At the University of California, research has shown that 15 minutes of laughter is equal to an hour of rowing. On average, 500 kilocalories are lost per hour of laughter – almost the same as burned per hour of training on a treadmill.
– When I started to practice the yoga of laughter, the founder of this technique, the Indian doctor Madan Kataria, gave me the task: to laugh for 40 days in a row for an hour a day. During this time, I have lost 8 kg. My body received sufficient physical activity only from laughter. When I was doing fitness, I could not achieve such a result.
It is, of course, difficult to hurt yourself with laughter, because you still cannot laugh too much. There are no side effects from doing yoga of laughter, but there are contraindications. People with chronic heart and respiratory diseases should not laugh, since these systems are actively working during exercise. You can not deal with people with hernias, especially back hernias, because the spinal muscles receive a lot of stress.
People who have recently undergone surgery cannot practice laughter yoga. Those who are sick with any viral diseases, so that they do not infect anyone, since laughter yoga is a group practice. You cannot actively engage in people with epilepsy, since laughter yoga is an emotional charge, and a person with epilepsy may have an attack from overexertion. For everyone else at any age, this charger is great.