"Laughter is terrific medicine and we've got it in ourselves. It isn't a silver bullet, it doesn't solve everything, but my goodness it makes life a lot easier to take," she said.While working as a registrar in a Mumbai hospital, he became interested in how laughter could be used to improve health and cope with stress.Ms Campbell trained with Dr Kataria in India three years go.
"He said to me that there was a lot of medicine in laughter, but he did not see of lot of laughter in medicine," she said. "That's what laughter yoga helps us to do — breathe deeper, breathe more efficiently and to look on the bright side."Brisbane doctor Paul Mercer regularly uses laughter as an alternative therapy in his bayside practice.
"There is also a growing body of literature that there are significant positive health benefits of laughter therapy. People with heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, they all do better if they're happier people with lots of humour in their life.""It's not pure science that's going to get us over the line, it's what does it take to be take to be a human who is flourishing," he said.
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