Circle of Laughter, Accessing our Childhood Joy

Translated from an article written by Su Rahman

Too many benefits we can get from laughing ranging from relieving pain, bring happiness, overcoming fears, increasing self-confidence up to increasing our body immunity system. Laugh can reduce stress hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine (adrenaline, dopamine), it can also improve the hormon for health such as endorphins, and neurotransmitters. It increases the number of cells that produce antibodies and increasing the effectiveness of T cells thus the immune system will be better.

Many laughing group is established in this world and one of them is in Indonesia which is initiated by Anand Krishna, an interfaith spiritual leaders in 2004. The group activity took place in Monas with 5000 participants before the group was closed in 2010 because no permission given anymore.

But the spirit of Anand Krishna in sharing love keeps on and on.Though in a smaller scale this father of 2 children still sets the laughing group at One Earth, One Sky, One HumanKind retreat center in Bukit Pelangi, Ciawi, Bogor, West Java. This laughing group named Circle Of Laughter and it is open for anyone to join on every Friday at 19.30 guided by Ismoyo Palgunadi, a therapist in L'ayurveda Center for Inner Beauty and Holistic Care, South Jakarta. For those who want to join the group and get thousands of benefits can contact Sukmawati 0878-8263-3380 for Jakarta. This group also established in several Anand Krishna Center such as in Jogjakarta, Bandung and Lampung with the same spirit that is to be happy and share the joy to others.

Sharing Session with Anand Krishna

Friday - June 10, 2011, Anand Krishna who is the initiator of this group willing to spend his time to share with participants who attended the program. According to Anand Krishna laughing meditation is intended to access the joy of our childhood, when we see children can laugh spontaneously only by looking at a small piece of paper. Such joy we are trying to access again through laughing meditation. The joy is still there within each of us, yet we are difficult accessing it because of other emotions and stress that covered.

The program was ended after ask & question session. Anand Krishna closed the program with a lovely message "Be careful with daily life association". Then we went back to our home, ready to continue our activities with joy and happiness.