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新唐新聞報導世界愛笑曰2012
香港愛笑日 遊人一同體驗歡笑輕鬆
2012-05-07 04:54 AM
【新唐人2012年5月7日訊】星期天香港的維多利亞港幾百人在一起發出“?-?-哈-哈”的大笑聲成為一道新風景，原來這是為紀念“世界愛笑日”的一項特別活動。
每年五月的第一個星期日是世界愛笑日(World Laughter Day)。來自世界各地70個國家幾百人參加了當天香港的愛笑活動。大多老年人的近200人穿著橙黃色襯衫，他們聚在一起大笑了兩個小時。
愛笑活動始於愛笑瑜伽，這是17年前卡塔利亞醫生(Dr. Madan Kataria)在印度開創的。愛笑活動的宗旨是：「笑不需要任何理由」(Laugh for No Reason!)。目前世界各地約有6000多名成員加入這個活動。
通常人們知道歡笑中能獲得放鬆和休息，不過還有更深的運動機理呢。參與者余先生表示：“大笑的過程中，你自動的使用腹部深呼吸。在笑的運動過程中，你會笑的更美更高興。簡單又容易。”
在香港這個緊張繁忙的城市，有非正式統計顯示，目前大約有5萬人因為各種壓力患有嚴重的精神障礙。
在看著這些愛笑人士“?-?-哈-哈”的同時，好奇的遊客和路人們駐足圍觀，愉悅的情緒也被帶動，隨著他們手舞足蹈，一同體驗歡笑帶來的輕鬆。
新唐人記者方彭綜合報導
2012-05-07 04:54 AM
【新唐人2012年5月7日訊】星期天香港的維多利亞港幾百人在一起發出“?-?-哈-哈”的大笑聲成為一道新風景，原來這是為紀念“世界愛笑日”的一項特別活動。
每年五月的第一個星期日是世界愛笑日(World Laughter Day)。來自世界各地70個國家幾百人參加了當天香港的愛笑活動。大多老年人的近200人穿著橙黃色襯衫，他們聚在一起大笑了兩個小時。
愛笑活動始於愛笑瑜伽，這是17年前卡塔利亞醫生(Dr. Madan Kataria)在印度開創的。愛笑活動的宗旨是：「笑不需要任何理由」(Laugh for No Reason!)。目前世界各地約有6000多名成員加入這個活動。
通常人們知道歡笑中能獲得放鬆和休息，不過還有更深的運動機理呢。參與者余先生表示：“大笑的過程中，你自動的使用腹部深呼吸。在笑的運動過程中，你會笑的更美更高興。簡單又容易。”
在香港這個緊張繁忙的城市，有非正式統計顯示，目前大約有5萬人因為各種壓力患有嚴重的精神障礙。
在看著這些愛笑人士“?-?-哈-哈”的同時，好奇的遊客和路人們駐足圍觀，愉悅的情緒也被帶動，隨著他們手舞足蹈，一同體驗歡笑帶來的輕鬆。
新唐人記者方彭綜合報導
記者拍攝世界愛笑曰2012(World Laughter Day 2012)現場
並訪問在場參家者及笑出健康協會愛笑瑜珈導師Dick Yu
WLD2012記者拍攝愛笑瑜珈的大日子
World Laughter Day 2012
世界愛笑曰2012
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記者拍攝世界愛笑曰2012(World Laughter Day 2012)現場
並訪問在場參家者及笑出健康協會愛笑瑜珈導師Dick Yu
WLD2012記者拍攝愛笑瑜珈的世界愛笶日
World Laughter Day 2012
世界愛笑曰2012
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Laughter Yoga during World Laughter Day
Participants gathered together and practiced their Laughter Yoga during the 'World Laughter Day' observations in Hong Kong on May 6, 2012. Laughter Yoga is the brain-child of physician Madan Kataria which combines laughter with Pranayama or yogic breathing and is performed in groups as a form of exercise.
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Participants gathered together and practiced their Laughter Yoga during the 'World Laughter Day' observations in Hong Kong on May 6, 2012. Laughter Yoga is the brain-child of physician Madan Kataria which combines laughter with Pranayama or yogic breathing and is performed in groups as a form of exercise.
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People practice Laughter Yoga during the "World Laughter Day" celebrations in Hong Kong May 6, 2012. Laughter yoga was launched in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria, a physician in India, and there are now more than 6,000 clubs in 60 countries, the organization said.
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People practice Laughter Yoga during the "World Laughter Day" celebrations in Hong Kong May 6, 2012. Laughter yoga was launched in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria, a physician in India, and there are now more than 6,000 clubs in 60 countries, the organization said.
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記者拍攝世界愛笑曰2012(World Laughter Day 2012)現場
並訪問在場參家者及笑出健康協會愛笑瑜珈導師Dick Yu
China Marks World Laughter Day
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記者拍攝世界愛笑曰2012(World Laughter Day 2012)現場
並訪問在場參家者及笑出健康協會愛笑瑜珈導師Dick Yu
愛笑瑜珈勝事世界愛笑2012報導
世界愛笑2012(World Laughter Day 2012)報導
Crowds of people have gathered at Hong Kong's iconic Victoria Harbour to mark World Laughter Day. Nearly 200 people in bright orange shirts got together to spend a few hours laughing.Laughter Yoga began 17 years ago, and is now practised by more than 6,000 social laughter clubs around the world, according to Laughter Yoga International's official
website.'Through the process of laughing, you can automatically perform breathing through your stomachthrough the laughing movement, you can laugh in a more beautiful and happy way,' laughter yoga instructor, Dick Yu, told Reuters.After the parade, some participants stayed behind to take part in several light-hearted competitions, including one for the "longest-laughter".World Laughter Day falls on the first Sunday every May.
website.'Through the process of laughing, you can automatically perform breathing through your stomachthrough the laughing movement, you can laugh in a more beautiful and happy way,' laughter yoga instructor, Dick Yu, told Reuters.After the parade, some participants stayed behind to take part in several light-hearted competitions, including one for the "longest-laughter".World Laughter Day falls on the first Sunday every May.
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2012世界愛笑曰報導
2012世界愛笑曰
World Laughter Day 2012
傳媒報導
World Laughter Day celebrated in Hong Kong
Isha Soni | May 7, 2012 12:49pm EDT | 2min:30sec
These chants were heard all across Hong Kong's victoria harbour on Sunday, when participants from 70 countries gathered to celebrate the World Laughter Day. From Elderly to young people, a crowd of around 200 came together in bright sunshine colors and spread some joy and laughter.
What looks as just a fun activity, is a form of yoga. Started in India, around 17 years back, laughter yoga is now becoming a popular form of excersie. Dick Yu, a laughter Yoga instructor said that this was a very good breathing excersise and had multiple health benefits. "Research has shown that laughing for one minute is equivalent to rowing for ten minutes, so it's a very good aerobic exercise. At the same time, when you laugh you are exercising your diaphragm, so it is healthy for your digestive system. Also, it can help you de-stress, so you will end up with less stress," In Hong Kong, around 50,000 people suffer from mental disorders. Even though there is no comprehensive data on the stress levels of people in this city, activities like this, certainly show a scope and present a solution for improvement.
After a session of warm-up laughter, the participants paraded along the Avenue of the Stars, laughing, clapping and waving their arms in the air. The procession fascinated the tourists and some of them happily joined the crowds. Seventy-two-year-old Zhu Mei-Ching, who has practised laughter yoga for about a year, expressed her joy in the middle of the parade. "I'm very happy! We have a big crowd and we follow the teacher and go 'ho-ho-ho!' This is also healthy. My daughter came here with me to join us. So I am very happy," After the parade, some participants stayed behind to take part in several light-hearted competitions, including one for the "longest-laughter".
Isha Soni | May 7, 2012 12:49pm EDT | 2min:30sec
These chants were heard all across Hong Kong's victoria harbour on Sunday, when participants from 70 countries gathered to celebrate the World Laughter Day. From Elderly to young people, a crowd of around 200 came together in bright sunshine colors and spread some joy and laughter.
What looks as just a fun activity, is a form of yoga. Started in India, around 17 years back, laughter yoga is now becoming a popular form of excersie. Dick Yu, a laughter Yoga instructor said that this was a very good breathing excersise and had multiple health benefits. "Research has shown that laughing for one minute is equivalent to rowing for ten minutes, so it's a very good aerobic exercise. At the same time, when you laugh you are exercising your diaphragm, so it is healthy for your digestive system. Also, it can help you de-stress, so you will end up with less stress," In Hong Kong, around 50,000 people suffer from mental disorders. Even though there is no comprehensive data on the stress levels of people in this city, activities like this, certainly show a scope and present a solution for improvement.
After a session of warm-up laughter, the participants paraded along the Avenue of the Stars, laughing, clapping and waving their arms in the air. The procession fascinated the tourists and some of them happily joined the crowds. Seventy-two-year-old Zhu Mei-Ching, who has practised laughter yoga for about a year, expressed her joy in the middle of the parade. "I'm very happy! We have a big crowd and we follow the teacher and go 'ho-ho-ho!' This is also healthy. My daughter came here with me to join us. So I am very happy," After the parade, some participants stayed behind to take part in several light-hearted competitions, including one for the "longest-laughter".
記者拍攝世界愛笑曰2012(World Laughter Day 2012)現場
並訪問在場參家者及笑出健康協會愛笑瑜珈導師Dick Yuhttp://tv.ibtimes.com/world-laughter-day-celebrated-in-hong-kong/5462.html
APR 2012 法國新聞社(法新社) 報導
APR 2012 法國新聞社(法新社)
報導香港愛笑俱樂部，拍攝愛笑瑜珈
採訪維多利亞公園愛笑俱樂部
訪問參加者及Laughter Yoga Teacher 阿Dick 余狄夫
採訪維多利亞公園愛笑俱樂部
訪問參加者及Laughter Yoga Teacher 阿Dick 余狄夫
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZgxM52gEC8
2012年 法新社報導
採訪維園Laughter Club
訪問Dick(Laughter Yoga Teacher)
Hypnotherapist Dick Yu has a mission that seems unthinkable to
some Hong Kong people: he
wants to make the Asian financial hub's seven million residents laugh.
"Hong Kong people don't laugh because they are under constant pressure
to make more money, to make life better," says Yu, who has founded 11
Laughter Clubs in the southern Chinese city since 2007.
"People get worried easily because housing is so expensive, the cost of
living is getting higher and people are concerned about whether they can
keep their job."
The 35-year-old trained hypnotherapist set up Hong Kong's first laughter club in 2007, after he discovered the
concept of laughter yoga -- made popular as an exercise routine by Indian
physician Madan Kataria in 1995.
Since then hundreds of heavy-hearted Hong Kongers have signed up for the free
classes, a sign, experts say, of the city's underlying health and social
problems.
"When you laugh, you're happier, you become positive and everything
else will become better," Yu says after a one-hour laughing session in a
park.
"Ho ho, ha ha ha," the group of 30 students recite. They combine the
exercise with deep yogic breathing, give each other high-fives, clap and
waddle like penguins, all in the name of laughter.
The fake laughter very soon breaks into the real thing, demonstrating
one of the core principles of laughter yoga: laughter has physiological
benefits whether it is fake or real.
As the adage "laughter is the best medicine" goes, researchers credit
belly laughs as a recipe for a healthy heart. It helps expand blood vessel
linings to increase blood flow, reduces stress hormones and boosts the
immune system.
A British study last year showed 15 minutes of laughter increased the
level of pain tolerance by around 10 percent, as the action helps to
trigger the release of endorphins, the body's naturally produced pain
killers.
"It was a bit awkward in the beginning when we tried to fake the
laughter with the 'ho ho, ha ha ha', but after a while you can tell the
difference and you feel more relaxed," said Kaman Wong at one of Yu's
classes.
The 37-year-old student joined the laughter club two years ago when he
was a supervisor at a food processing firm.
"The work was stressful. There was a lot of overtime work, I had to
deal with many workers. If anything went wrong I was responsible, but I've
learned how to laugh away all the stress," he says.
But on top of his work problems, he said the pressure-cooker atmosphere
of Hong Kong itself was getting him down.
"Everyone is like a balloon that is about to explode in Hong Kong. If
you smile at me, I wouldn't know how to react to that. I think there are
just a lot of barriers among Hong Kongers that we need to break," he
says.
Social scientists say the laughter club boom highlights the stress
issue faced by many residents of a densely populated city which groans
under extremes of inequality, soaring property prices and cramped living
spaces.
The number of people seeking psychiatric treatment at Hong Kong's
public hospitals leapt 20 percent between 2007 and 2011 to 184,087,
according to the Hospital Authority.
Hong Kong's suicide rate rose from 11.5 deaths per 100,000 people in
1990 to 14.6 in 2009, World Health Organization figures show. That's
higher than in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, but
lower than South Korea.
Paul Yip, director of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Suicide
Research and Prevention, says material success means more to many Hong
Kongers than physical well being.
"Hong Kong is a very fast-paced society. People walk fast... They have
to work long hours not because it is their choice but because they have to
survive," he says.
Sky-high property prices fuelled by the entry of rich mainland Chinese
tycoons into the local market mean families often have to squeeze into
tiny apartments.
"Even if you're not happy, you have nowhere to go," Yip says.
In other words, Hong Kong is fertile ground for laughing guru Yu, who
hopes to set up branches of his club all over the city.
"The laughter club should be like a convenience store, which you have
in every community. If everyone is laughing, the society will be happier,"
he says.
"I hope there are more laughing ambassadors in Hong Kong to spread joy
and laughter to everyone."
香港電台 訪問愛笑瑜珈
香港電台 直播節目"上網問功課"於2011年5月14日邀請笑出健康協會Healthylaughters Association 余狄夫 Dick Yu 連同兩位LL2成員介紹及示範愛笑瑜珈 Laughter Yoga 並剪輯了 2011世界愛笑曰 World Laughter Day的花絮。
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