A look out of the window on Tuesday morning will be enough to put you in a bad mood: the day will be cold, damp and muddy, and to make matters worse, your job will be waiting for you. So it’s understandable that you won’t jump out of bed with a smile on your face and full of energy like a toast from the toaster, but rather drag yourself out of it like stale bread with the butter on the bottom. The cause of this unfortunate morning hour is clear: the store for endorphins is empty, like the German gas store recently – except for a ridiculous remainder, which will have disappeared in the traffic jam in Oberhaching at the latest.
Is it possible to do something against the growing daily depression, and can the memory of happiness be refilled quickly? Yes, you can, but only because it’s Tuesday 24th January. However, an important prerequisite for a lightning-fast mood lift is that you are not in an inappropriate place at 1:24 p.m. sharp, where boisterous laughter would not be appropriate, such as in a flooded area on the sidelines of a speech by the Federal President or as a surgeon during an operation in the open hearts.
So at 1:24 p.m. local time, everyone on earth should throw their hands in the air and laugh out loud for five minutes. That’s what the World Day of Booming Laughter wants. The best thing about it should be that you don’t have to have a reason for a fit of laughter and the happiness hormones still flow wildly into the memory. According to the experts who propagate this form of therapy, you don’t even have to be tickled to be able to burst out and do something for your health.
Simply laughing, chuckling and snorting should be enough to strengthen the immune system and reduce the stress level. No joke, even the most silly people, who usually go down to the basement to laugh, should be able to learn how to laugh for no reason at all, but it still heals, and how to use happy facial expressions to go with it. If you can’t switch from being sad to death to cheering to the skies, you could seek professional help: The European Professional Association for Laughter Yoga and Humor Training is based in Planegg.