Laughter yoga was developed by Dr. Madan Kataria in Mumbai, India in 1995 and has since been taught to a wide variety of people throughout the world, even including prison inmates and the elderly! The idea is to imitate laughter through breathing and stretching exercises. Often the forced laughter becomes real!
Laughter is known to reduce stress, help your immune system, improve your mindset, and deal with your problems. Additionally, it helps bring more oxygen into your body. Your body can not differentiate between real and fake laughter, and Wikipedia cites that the effects of both are the same, physiologically and psychologically.
This video's quality could be better, but it gives a good glimpse into laughter yoga:
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http://www.radiolab.org/2008/feb/25/
Radiolab's episode on Laughter :D
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