The Secret Medicine of Laughter

A new book from Joe Hoare and the Barefoot Doctor presents compelling evidence of Laughter’s power to improve our physical and mental health.
 
April 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Good news on Health is rare these days, so the new book from Joe Hoare and the Barefoot Doctor should put a smile on faces.  “Awakening the Laughing Buddha within” is a study of Laughter’s power to significantly improve our physical and mental health.  

The latest research on laughter confirms insights known to Eastern philosophy for thousands of years.  Fields such as bio-chemistry and neuro-plasticity have shown laughter as capable not just of mood improvement, but of helping with pain relief and a list of physical and psychological ailments.  Conditions such as heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, bronchitis, weight loss and insomnia have responded well to the medicine of mirth.  And it’s hard not to smile at a treatment that is scot free and whose only side-effect is aching sides!

In his book Joe Hoare presents the findings of modern medical science alongside the lore and learning of the ancient East – and he filters them through his own painful personal experience and the fruits of two decades of self-development.  

The impact of “Awakening the Laughing Buddha within” is further enriched by Joe’s collaboration with the celebrated Barefoot Doctor, known to millions from his profile in press and media.  The Barefoot Doctor draws on a lifetime of work in martial arts and Taoism to contribute a series of exercises that makes the book a practical guide to the reader’s own journey to health and happiness – a book that could really help them change their life.

Joe has devoted years to laughter.  “Science and medicine have both been actively researching its benefits”, he says, “and the list of laughter benefits gets longer all the time.  But a turning point for me was meeting Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga, over here from India in 2002.  We swapped notes and he told me that as a GP he had realised that more often than not he could do more for people by prescribing daily doses of laughter than he could with medication.”

“The Laughing Buddha,” he continues, “is an archetype of happiness, abundance, and the wisdom of contentment. It represents generosity and open-heartedness, qualities we all possess and have the potential to develop.  And after a typically tortuous and painful journey, I’m happy to use my own story to give people the courage and compassion to awaken the Laughing Buddha within each of them.”

As the philosopher and psychologist William James wrote over 100 years ago: “We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh”.  The truth of this surprising statement is fully explored in “Awakening the Laughing Buddha within” – mapping the science and the wisdom and providing practical steps on how to use laughter to achieve real health and happiness.  

“Awakening the Laughing Buddha within” is available as an e-book from Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakening-Laughing-Buddha-within-ebook/dp/B00CCSCBFU/.  You can find out more about laughter master Joe Hoare at http://www.joehoare.co.uk/ – and you can meet the Barefoot Doctor at http://www.barefootdoctorglobal.com/.
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