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Laughter Therapy: how laughing can help to reduce stress and increase our feelings of health and wellness

12/11/2019

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Laughter is the best medicine, as the saying goes. It may be because laughter therapy is so beneficial to our minds and bodies. Everyone feels good when they laugh. It is the opposite of feeling stressed and encourages our body to relax and release endorphins.

​The role of a laughter therapist is to make it easier for the client to laugh. This is often done in a one-on-one or group setting by teaching various techniques to get you laughing. The body cannot differentiate between a real or fake laugh, therefore the benefits are the same. 
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​Reasons that laughter is beneficial to our bodies includes lowering levels of stress, improving the immune system, allowing muscles to relax, reducing pain, reducing blood pressure and increasing a happy, healthy outlook.

​Those who participate in laughter therapy have found a reduction in costs when it comes to health care. They also have healthier arteries and blood flow. 
Laughter therapy has started to become more popular after the success of laughter yoga, a type of yoga that originated in Mumbai. Today, there are over 5,000 clubs for laughter therapy across the globe. Laughter yoga incorporates breathing, stretching, clapping and laughing exercises.

​The laughter yoga workshop allows participants to experience endorphin release, which makes one feel great and relaxes the entire body. This has a great effect on reducing stress or muscle tensions. It is also a bit of a work out because laughing increases muscle tone and stimulates the respiratory system, all of which help improve the immune system. 
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Anyone can be involved in laughter therapy and the settings for therapists are very varied.

A session of laughter therapy leaves one feeling overjoyed and at the same time, a little upbeat. Laughter therapy is beneficial in the long run because it allows us to deal with stress or pain in a more positive manner. It also makes us understand that laughter does not need to be synonymous with happiness, but can encourage feelings of happiness instead.

​Patients learn to laugh at anxiety, stress and anger. Even if it is fake laughter, it lifts our spirits since our bodies cannot tell the difference anyway. 
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Laughter therapy can also be applied to our daily lives through various methods. It encourages us to let go of things that upset us and to keep life light by engaging in activities we enjoy and that reduce stress.

​Finding ways of laughing everyday, whether it is a daily joke or sit-com can help improve your life and wellbeing. Spending time with children is another excellent way of encouraging laughter. 
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​#LaughterTherapy #comedy #comic #laughter #laugh #laughingyoga #laughteryoga #NaturalHealing #ReduceStress #FreshandNatural #AlternativeMedicine
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Alexander Technique: a lesser known alternative medicine therapy

12/8/2019

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The Alexander Technique is basically a practice that allows one to have mental control and to practice techniques that aid in removing harm caused to the body. The harm it can help heal includes muscle tension, pain, posture, stress and so on. It involves the entire body and is not meant to focus on isolated body parts. It delves into the movement of our body and the functions that dictate it.

The Alexander Technique aims to promote lightness in the body, which allows its users to restore feelings of balance, clarity, liveliness and easier movement. 
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​It has been found to alleviate stress and tension caused by regular activities such as sitting, walking, driving and standing. It allows us to focus on various forms of exercise that help with movement and mental restoration through activities such as Pilates and yoga.

​The technique also helps reduce pain in areas such as the shoulders, neck, lower back, knee and elbow, as well as prevent other injuries from occurring. Other benefits include an increase of energy, better posture, more self-awareness and clarity in the mind. 

​The Alexander Technique aims to restore our body to the state it should be in, if we were not to experience the daily factors that cause stress on our bodies. Many of those who decide to learn the Alexander Technique have pains that are related to every day activities, stiffness and reoccurring injuries.

​Many performers also adopt the Alexander Technique in order to increase their performance and get over issue such as stage fright. 
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​This technique can be used by practically anyone, even without any existing injuries or problems. This is because it helps us get more out of life by feeling like the best version of ourselves, both in the mental and physical capacity.

​Those who take up the Alexander Technique before any problems arise tend to live a healthy, problem-free life, while those who adopt it after problems occur are alleviate of their ailment after some practice. 
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There are many aspects to learning the Alexander Technique and it is definitely a complex technique to understand and familiarize yourself with. One of the main concepts of the Alexander Technique is to un-do what has been done to your mind and body until the current stage of your life.

​It teaches methods of mental and physical release and relaxation in order to have a clear mind and body that is working at its optimal level. 
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​#AlternativeTherapies #NaturalHealing #HealPain  #FreshandNatural #CardiovascularHealth #alexandertechnique #HealPainNaturally #PainManagement #naturalpainremover
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Autogenic Therapy

12/23/2017

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Autogenic therapy, or AT, is a system of combined exercises that help restore the mind and body. It helps combat and release pre-existing stress and also teaches techniques for dealing with everyday stress occurrences. Stress is often relieved via meditation or exercise, however autogenic therapy uses techniques that allow the patient to feel deep relaxation through self-suggestion. 

While autogenic therapy can help all kinds of people, it is especially beneficial to those who suffer from insomnia or sleep deprivation. Anyone that experiences conditions of stress can benefit from participating in autogenic therapy as well. Many illnesses and diseases are actually caused from stress or are worsened through stress. Autogenic therapy gives people a tool for self-treatment that can help all kinds of stress-related conditions, such as migraines, asthma and skin conditions. 
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The techniques used in autogenic therapy minimize the level of stress in the body and substitutes it with a sense of calm and well-being, which raises our ability to self-heal in natural way. The primary exercises involved in autogenic therapy encourage methods of self relaxation that include alleviating weightiness within the musculo-skeletal system and encouraging warmness within the circulatory system. Other exercises include paying attention to and monitoring breathing, heartbeat, forehead temperature and the abdomen. 
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#autogenic #therapy #healing #alternative   #medicine #natural #health   #wholistic  
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Art Therapy in Therapy

6/29/2013

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1] As a cathartic means of expressing emotions. The patient could safely express their hidden negative emotions, thus reducing tension, anxiety and/or any associated hostility.

2] The therapist could help the client interpret the drawing/paintings (art work) they have created and thus in this process helping the patients to better understand their own selves.

Such Art Therapy could be carried out as a group therapy or on a one to one basic. If in a group, the number of participants is usually limited to not more than eight to allow for extensive and meaningful interaction.
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Using Art for Therapeutic Healing

5/8/2012

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1] As a cathartic means of expressing emotions. The patient could safely express their hidden negative emotions, thus reducing tension, anxiety and/or any associated hostility.

2] The therapist could help the client interpret the drawing/paintings (art work) they have created and thus in this process helping the patients to better understand their own selves.

Such Art Therapy could be carried out as a group therapy or on a one to one basic. If in a group, the number of participants is usually limited to not more than eight to allow for extensive and meaningful interaction.
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Benefits of Art Therapy

5/7/2012

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Art Therapy has been used to heal various psychological and mental conditions- ranging from anxiety and depression to eating disorders. Art Therapy could be carried out as a group therapy or on a one to one basic. If in a group, the number of participants is usually limited to not more than eight to allow for extensive and meaningful interaction.

It has been found to help people cope well with bereavement ‘or’ a sense of loss as well as for those who do typically have difficulty expressing themselves and their feelings. 

Art Therapy has also been prevalently used to help people overcome various addictions such as alcohol or drugs. 

It’s use is very well known in treating several mental illnesses including psychosis. Art Therapy helps in inducing in people a serene sense of self-worth, balance and well-being.
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