The Laughter Effect
How to Build Joy, Resilience, and Positivity in Your Life
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How to Build Joy, Resilience, and Positivity in Your Life
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Average rating5
Laughter really can be the best medicine, and in this transformative body-mind guide, acclaimed wellness expert Ros Ben-Moshe shares the prescription. In The Laughter Effect, Ros Ben-Moshe provides a roadmap to tap into the lighter side of life with laughter therapy. Ben-Moshe shares tips and tools to achieve an intentional state of being she calls the Laughter Effect–a way to elevate mindfulness, gratitude, and self-compassion. When used regularly, it enhances resilience to stress, enabling you to respond to adversity and bounce forward with humor, levity and grace. Drawing on research from around the world, practice and wisdom from humor and laughter therapy, and positive psychology and neuroscience, Ben-Moshe shows you how to use the energy of laughter and joy to counter stress hormones and stimulate a daily dose of positive wellbeing with “happy hormones.” The techniques, strategies and practices you’ll learn can transform your physical, mental, social and emotional landscape. Viewing life through a laughter lens will awaken a positive change in yourself, how you respond to the world and, in turn, how the world responds to you.
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This book is filled with so much positivity and laughter that I couldn't help giving it a five-star even though initially I thought a four-star would suffice. Yes, she talks about laughter yoga a lot (something I do not engage in or agree with) but there is so much more to the book than that. I never thought I'd have so much fun reading about history, especially the history of laughter. While you might have heard about some of the concepts written in this book before, having them about laughter would bring a new light to the idea. The last chapter talks about how to put the information into practice and not much yoga is involved. Thankfully you don't need to put all the exercises into practice to benefit from the laughter effect so that's a good start. Give it a go, if not for the information, you'd have a chuckle at times and at others, you'd laugh out loud. That must be worth something.
