We’re now in May – Mental Health Awareness Month

It’s about time I shared the extent of my mental health journey.  It will never end for me; it’s about mental strength nowadays.

I wasn’t always happy – even now, I still dip several times, primarily due to ADHD. What I do know is that daily Laughter Yoga exercises boost the positive chemicals inside me.

Amazingly, even when I’m not happy, I am still laughing daily to boost serotonin and dopamine and all the goodness from deep, hearty laughter.

Because I know how well and completely different I feel afterwards.  It’s topping up my resilience to cope with life’s challenges too.

Back in 1995, I roared with laughter at Victoria Wood (I mean, who doesn’t when she’s in person on the stage and the whole audience is laughing – it’s so contagious, isn’t it, laughter?).  That’s the last time I had prolonged laughter inside me.  Right up to 2016, when, right by accident, a wellbeing day I attended included Laughter (great, I thought, hope I “get it” to watch the performer) – but no.  No performer, simply games, exercises and at the end we sat in circles, eyes closed, the room soon filled with the sound of laughter as 55 women laughed heartily.

This planted a seed inside me, and for the next 4 months, I researched laughing for well-being.  Eventually, in July 2016, I found out about Laughter Yoga (these days, Google knows more about Laughter Yoga; luckily, you’ll find it quicker!)

I attended a couple of Laughter Yoga clubs in Manchester, which were a long trek from where I lived at that time.  After each session the feeling of completely cleansed of stress was so beneficial I had to do more of it.

So I went on to train as a Laughter Yoga Leader to learn more and fill my life with laughter.

I’ve ended up filling not only my life but thousands of others since October 2016, encouraging and spreading the amazing mind and body benefits of Laughter Yoga.  You’ll find the details of some of them here in this blog.

Mental strength and stress relief are available to us through wellbeing techniques like Laughter Yoga.

Are you ready to feel mentally strong?

For more information on Laughter Yoga sessions, happiness workshops
and Bollywood Laughter Yoga Dance
contact Sunny Turner – happy@seriouslaughter.co.uk
or call 07974 778091