Category: योग-साधना/Yoga

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ SHINRIN-YOKU: FOREST BATHING☆

HOW TREES CAN HELP YOU FIND HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Video Link : SHINRIN-YOKU: FOREST BATHING

 

Spending mindful, intentional time around trees – what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing – can promote health and happiness.

Shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing, can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer.

We all know how good being in nature can make us feel.

The sounds of the forest, the scent of the trees, the sunlight playing through the leaves, the fresh, clean air – these things give us a sense of comfort.

Being in nature can restore our mood, give us back our energy and vitality, refresh and rejuvenate us.

‘Shinrin’ in Japanese means ‘forest’ and ‘yoku’ means ‘bath’.

So shinrin-yoku means bathing in the forest atmosphere, or taking in the forest through our senses.

Shinrin-yoku is not exercise, or hiking, or jogging.

It is simply being in nature, connecting with it through our sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch.

We are part of the natural world. Our rhythms are the rhythms of nature.

As we walk slowly through the forest, seeing, listening, smelling, tasting and touching, we bring our rhythms into step with nature.

Shinrin-yoku is like a bridge. By opening our senses, it bridges the gap between us and the natural world.

When we are in harmony with the natural world we can begin to heal.

Our nervous system can reset itself, our bodies and minds can go back to how they ought to be.

We may not travel very far on our forest walk but, in connecting us with nature, shinrin-yoku takes us all the way home to our true selves.

Even a small amount of time in nature can have an impact on our health.

A two-hour forest bath will help you to unplug from technology and slow down.

It will bring you into the present moment and de-stress and relax you.

Shinrin-yoku can:

• Reduce blood pressure
• Lower stress
• Improve cardiovascular and metabolic health
• Lower blood sugar levels

When people started to practise shinrin-yoku, in the early 1980s, it was based only on common sense and the intuitive idea that being in the beautiful green forests of Japan would be good for us. Until recently, however, there was little scientific evidence to support what we have always known innately about the healing power of the forest.

It has been now scientifically proven that shinrin-yoku can:

•  Boost the immune system
•  Increase energy
• Decrease anxiety, depression and anger
• Reduce stress and bring about a state of relaxation
• The World Health Organization calls stress the health epidemic of the twenty-first century. And finding ways to manage stress – not just for our own health but for the health of our communities, at home and in the workplace – is the most significant health challenge of the future.

Studies have now proved that forest bathing:

• Lowers the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline
• Suppresses the sympathetic or ‘fight or flight’ system
• Enhances the parasympathetic or ‘rest and recover’ system
• Lowers blood pressure and increases heart-rate variability Numerous studies have been conducted and a huge mass of data collected from hundreds of people on the impact of forest-bathing on various aspects of human health.
• Forest-bathing can help you sleep
• Forest-bathing can improve your mood
• Forest-bathing boosts the immune system

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Our Fundamentals:

The Science of Happiness (Positive Psychology), Meditation, Yoga, Spirituality and Laughter Yoga. We conduct talks, seminars, workshops, retreats and trainings. Email: [email protected]

 

Founders: LifeSkills

Jagat Singh Bisht

Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Past: Corporate Trainer with a Fortune 500 company & Laughter Professor at the Laughter Yoga University. Areas of specialization: Behavioural Science, Positive Psychology, Meditation, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Spirituality, and Laughter Yoga.

Radhika Bisht:

Yoga Teacher; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Areas of specialization: Yoga, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Laughter Yoga.

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ Positive Education: A Revolution in World Education☆

Positive education is the combination of traditional education with the study of happiness and well-being.

Video Link : Positive Education: A Revolution in World Education

Every parent wants the best for their children, they want their child to be happy and flourish.

However, finding the right education for their child can be a challenge.

Positive education emphasises the importance of training the heart as well as the mind in education.

Positive Education curriculum has been implemented with good results in schools in Australia, USA and Germany.

Be the first one to start this initiative at your school in India!

Well-being should be taught in school on three grounds:

• As an antidote to depression
• As a vehicle for increasing life satisfaction
• And as an aid to better learning and more creative thinking.

“All young people need to learn workplace skills, which has been the subject matter of the education system in place for two hundred years. In addition, we can now teach the skills of well-being – of how to have more positive emotion, more meaning, better relationships, and more positive accomplishment. Schools at every level should teach these skills”.

Martin Seligman Founder, Positive Psychology “Positive Education is preparing students for the tests of life, not just a life of tests. All schools can and should be 21st century schools”.

Anthony Seldon “Positive education is based on the science of well-being and happiness.“

Positive Education is –

• an approach to education that blends academic learning with character & well-being.
• preparing students with life skills such as: grit, optimism, resilience, growth mindset, engagement, and mindfulness amongst others.

“Widespread support is necessary for the success of the positive education movement.“

“Positive education views school as a place where students not only cultivate their intellectual minds, but also develop a broad set of character strengths, virtues, and competencies, which together support their well-being”.

“In consultation with world experts in positive psychology, the Geelong Grammar School developed its

‘Model for Positive Education’ to complement traditional learning – an applied framework comprising six domains: Positive Relationships, Positive Emotions, Positive Health, Positive Engagement, Positive Accomplishment, and Positive Purpose.

“Positive education is a whole-school approach to student and staff well-being: it brings together the science of positive psychology with best-practice teaching, encouraging and supporting individuals and communities to flourish.”

 

Our Fundamentals:

The Science of Happiness (Positive Psychology), Meditation, Yoga, Spirituality and Laughter Yoga. We conduct talks, seminars, workshops, retreats and trainings. Email: [email protected]

Founders: LifeSkills

Jagat Singh Bisht

Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Past: Corporate Trainer with a Fortune 500 company & Laughter Professor at the Laughter Yoga University. Areas of specialization: Behavioural Science, Positive Psychology, Meditation, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Spirituality, and Laughter Yoga.

Radhika Bisht:

Yoga Teacher; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Areas of specialization: Yoga, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Laughter Yoga.

 

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

 

☆ Buddha: Quotes☆

THE MIND, WHEN DEVELOPED AND CULTIVATED, BRINGS HAPPINESS.

 

Video Link : Buddha Quotes

 

“If with an impure mind you speak or act, then suffering flows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal.”

“Burning now, burning hereafter, the wrongdoer suffers doubly… Happy now, happy hereafter, the virtuous person doubly rejoices.”

“You have to do your own work, those who have reached the goal will only show the way.”

“Abstain from all unwholesome deeds, perform wholesome ones, purify your mind. This is the teaching of enlightened persons.”

“If one man conquer in battle a thousand times thousand man, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.”

“As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.”

“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation – this is the greatest blessing.”

“One by one, little by little, moment by moment, a wise man should remove his own impurities, as a smith removes his dross from silver.”

“Monks, I know not of any other single thing that brings such bliss as the mind that is tamed, controlled, guarded and restrained. Such a mind indeed brings great bliss.”

“The mind, when developed and cultivated, brings happiness.” – Buddha।

 

Our Fundamentals:

The Science of Happiness (Positive Psychology), Meditation, Yoga, Spirituality and Laughter Yoga. We conduct talks, seminars, workshops, retreats and trainings. Email: [email protected]

 

Founders: LifeSkills

Jagat Singh Bisht

Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Past: Corporate Trainer with a Fortune 500 company & Laughter Professor at the Laughter Yoga University. Areas of specialization: Behavioural Science, Positive Psychology, Meditation, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Spirituality, and Laughter Yoga.

Radhika Bisht:

Yoga Teacher; Laughter Yoga Master Trainer Areas of specialization: Yoga, Five Tibetans, Yoga Nidra, Laughter Yoga.

 

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ How to be Healthy, Happy and Wise ☆

A Pathway to Authentic Happiness, Well-being and a Meaningful Life

Happiness, say the positive psychologists, is the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Twenty-three hundred years ago, Aristotle concluded that, more than anything else, men and women seek happiness. It is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life.

What is the pathway to authentic happiness, well-being and a meaningful life? How can we equip ourselves with sustainable scientific tools to cultivate a happy and fulfilling life with a greater sense of well-being? This article attempts to answer these questions.

Taking care of body, mind and spirit is of utmost importance. It’s like a tripod. All limbs must be equally strong for balance and harmony. We need to transform the entire experience of life by taking care of all the relevant dimensions – physiological, psychological and spiritual.

After years of deep study and practical sessions with people from all walks of life, a holistic approach has emerged that blends carefully the best of positive psychology, meditation, yoga, laughter yoga, and spirituality.
Positive psychology is the science of happiness. It provides authentic understanding of happiness and well-being and dispels myths and wrong notions about happiness. It is a treasure trove of evidence-based happiness-increasing strategies from which one may choose activities suitable for oneself.

Meditation is an invaluable tool for calming, concentration and purification of the mind. It clears clouds and lets you seek wisdom. According to Matthieu Ricard, happiest monk on this planet, “Meditation is a practice that makes it possible to cultivate and develop certain basic positive human qualities in the same way as other forms of training make it possible to play a musical instrument or acquire any other skill.”

Yoga can do wonders for your health by stimulating endocrinal systems and taking care of neuro-muscular systems. It is suitable for modern day lifestyle diseases and brings about body-mind union. If you don’t have enough time, even then surya namaskara can be easily integrated into your daily life as it requires only five to fifteen minutes’ practice daily to obtain beneficial results remarkably quickly.

Laughter yoga combines laughter exercises with yogic breathing. It is instrumental in oxygenation of the body, strengthening immune system, and stress relief as feel good hormones known as endorphins are generated during the process. Just ten minutes of gentle laughter in the morning can change the complexion of your day.

Spirituality provides right view and right understanding of life. It gives spiritual insight into right speech, right action and right livelihood. Inner wisdom steers us in the right direction. If you desire everlasting health and happiness, cultivate wisdom.

All the five components – positive psychology, meditation, yoga, laughter yoga and spirituality – put together, enable complete transformation of the entire experience of life.

The benefits include health, happiness and peace for individuals; stress relief, team building, higher productivity, leadership and positivity at workplaces; health, bonding and integration in communities; and creativity, better concentration, emotional intelligence, spiritual growth, strong immune system and all-round personality development of youngsters.

In conclusion, may we say that the practice of yoga, meditation and laughter yoga along with fundamental understanding of positive psychology and spirituality can lead you to lasting happiness and peace.

 

Jagat Singh Bisht

Founder: LifeSkills
LifeSkills is a pathway to authentic happiness, well-being and a meaningful life!

Seminars, Workshops & Retreats on Happiness, Laughter Yoga & Positive Psychology.
Speak to us on +91 73899 38255
[email protected]

 

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ Laughter Meditation for Beginners ☆

Jagat Singh Bisht  and Smt. Radhika Bisht 

Founder: LifeSkills

Seminars, Workshops & Retreats on Happiness, Laughter Yoga & Positive Psychology.
Speak to us on +91 73899 38255
[email protected]

 

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ How to LAUGH ALONE for HEALTH and HAPPINESS☆

How to LAUGH ALONE for HEALTH and HAPPINESS?

 

Please watch this beautiful video by Radhika Bisht, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, by clicking on the link below, before going any further:

 

LAUGHTER EXERCISE REGIME FOR DAILY PRACTICE

 

Practice these exercises daily to be healthy, happy and wise.

Laughter yoga is usually practised in groups in the parks.

But we need to laugh daily for health and happiness.

This is a learning video – a tutorial – for laughing alone every day.

 

It demonstrates the following exercises:
Hoho haha warming up, tapping body and laughing, vowel breathing, pendulum breathing,aloha greeting, milk shake laughter, mobile laughter, just laugh, deep breathing, laughter cream, hearty laughter, silent laughter, laugh at yourself, mental floss, no AC in the room laughter,laughter meditation, humming and laughter yoga closing ritual.

 

Jagat Singh Bisht  and Smt. Radhika Bisht 

Founder: LifeSkills

Seminars, Workshops & Retreats on Happiness, Laughter Yoga & Positive Psychology.
Speak to us on +91 73899 38255
[email protected]

Shri Jagat Singh Bisht

(Master Teacher: Happiness & Well-Being, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer,  Author, Blogger, Educator and Speaker.)

☆ Silent Laughter ☆

Let us first watch this video on Silent Laughter:   SILENCE! LAUGHTER SESSION IS ON

Hope, you enjoyed watching it.

Silent Laughter is a powerful cardio-vascular exercise that relieves stress instantly, boosts immune system and produces feel good hormones known as endorphins. It is cathartic, massages internal organs and induces deep breathing from the diaphragm.

Silent Laughter is a laughter exercise where we laugh silently without making any sound. The laughter is vigorous but there is no sound. You may use facial expressions and hand gestures to articulate your laughter. It’s more fun than other laughter exercises because the more you try to supress the sound of laughter, the more difficult and hilarious it becomes until everyone burst out laughing loud.

It’s a powerful cardio-vascular exercise, alleviates stress and induces deep breathing from the diaphragm. Silent laughter is cathartic and boosts our immune system. It produces copious amounts of feel good hormones known as endorphins. Gentle laughter massages all our internal organs thoroughly.

First of all, one needs to cultivate childlike playfulness and get prepared to laugh for no reason. Then, the laughter needs to be sustained for 5-10 minutes before going into Laughter Meditation. You become quieter and relax – laughing less and less outwardly but more and more of your laughter is inwardly.

 

Jagat Singh Bisht  and Smt. Radhika Bisht 

Founder: LifeSkills

Seminars, Workshops & Retreats on Happiness, Laughter Yoga & Positive Psychology.
Speak to us on +91 73899 38255
[email protected]