Stress Relieving Laughter Meditation

This is a guided meditation to evoke a smile and/or laughter for the listener and to release and relieve stress and tension held in the body. Laughter is incredible as it's contagious - just listening to another laugh, whether real or false, helps us to laugh. When we start to laugh, we often laugh more. The result is the release of endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin and the decrease of cortisol.

The best way to listen is not with headphones on this particular occasion.

Transcript

Hi and welcome to this laughter meditation.

It's something a bit different today and so what we're going to do is just take some time to release all that tension that we always store up in our bodies as a nice collection and we're going to laugh it out and don't worry if you find it difficult to laugh.

There's no pressure here at all so we are just going to give ourselves permission to be silly and give ourselves permission to laugh and smile.

If we don't want to laugh or if there's something stopping us then we can just smile and I'm going to take you through some things just to make you laugh possibly and smile and relax.

So I'd like you to make yourself comfortable.

Okay,

As comfortable as you can and or maybe you can make yourself really uncomfortable.

Maybe that would be funny.

Yeah,

So make yourself really uncomfortable and we will begin.

So I was thinking what you could do first is just practice smiling.

So you can close your eyes if you want to or you can keep them open or you can open them really wide and really intensely.

This is so funny because it goes against all the normal meditation scripts and things I normally use.

So yeah,

So you've made yourself really uncomfortable and you've opened your eyes really wide and intensely.

Nice,

So close your eyes and I'd like you to practice smiling.

So bring a big smile onto your face.

And just.

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Make your lips touch each other.

And then.

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Bring them.

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I'm trying to explain it whilst I'm doing it.

Bring your smile up to your ears.

Can you spread that smile as big as you can?

So.

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Smile.

That's it.

You're doing it.

Smile,

Smile,

Smile,

Smile.

Okay,

Now we're going to just slightly up the tempo a little bit.

So smiling,

Smiling.

And then.

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Maybe a little bit of a.

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Have you noticed that people always laugh in threes?

Or fives?

Threes,

Multiples of threes or fives.

And you get people that laugh with their mouth closed,

Don't you?

You get.

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People that take it all over the musical scale.

And we bring it down again.

There's always that sigh,

Isn't there,

Between the laughs.

So you can always come back to that.

And then we get people that go.

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You get the one note.

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My personal favourite is people that laugh like they can't breathe.

So I do this quite often.

It's kind of.

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