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Mirth mends.(humor therapy for work-related tension)
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Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women'sActivities
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October 1, 2006
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A pair of Bangkok-based psychotherapists re focusing on the glee factor by orgaising weekly, laughter-therapy sessions to counter some of the ill effects of contemporary urban life.
Chuckling, giggling, guffawing, chortling, sniggerling, tittering. All therapeutic sounds that come straight from the soul. Or that, at lest is what Dr Jitra Dudsdeemaytha believes.
"Well, they do say that laughter is the best medicine," said Dr Jitra, a psychotherapist who is currently head of the Counselling and Human Enrichment Centre at Srinakharinwirot University. Laughing not only helps us relax, she went on, but also boosts the body's immune system as well as its operating ...