Atlanta Conference Promotes Connection Between Laughter, Wellness
A conversation with Lori Sugarman and Meridy Hurt on the benefits of laughter.
What makes you laugh? A good joke? An amusing thought? A funny scene in a movie?
At the 2015 Southern Fried Laughter Conference what matters is not what inspires a laugh as much as the act of laughing itself. Lori Sugarman is a co-facilitator with the conference, and Meridy Hurt is a certified laughter yoga leader. Recently, they spoke with WABE’s Steve Goss about the benefits of laughter.
“There’s a physical effect.” Hurt said.
“So by the end of it, because you have breathed more deeply, because your blood has become more well oxygenated, you get more oxygen in your brain. And so you have more creative problem solving. You can think more clearly, and then of course you get jokes more easily too, and so the natural humor also ensues. The whole thing snowballs,” she added.
The Southern Fried Laughter Conference takes place April 24 and 25.
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