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		<title>Banking on your mental health</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Bank on your mental health and build your mental wealth. HeatherJoy tells her story.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/banking-on-your-mental-health/">Banking on your mental health</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 reasons to put the hohoho into your life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Certified laughter yoga teacher Heather Joy presents 5 ways laughter yoga can help you get through the Christmas season stresses  even when you're as busy as Santa writing lists and checking them twice!</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/5-reasons-to-put-the-hohoho-into-your-life/">5 reasons to put the hohoho into your life</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laughter yoga as a social prescription for better mental health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 21:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Queensland Mental Health Week kicks off today yet there's a year-round social prescription supporting positive mental health: laughter yoga’s laughter clubs.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/laughter-yoga-as-a-social-prescription-for-better-mental-health/">Laughter yoga as a social prescription for better mental health</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Depression and exercise: could laughter yoga help?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Newly-published research that exercise ought to be part of core treatment for depression has laughter yoga practitioners celebrating. Find out why.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/depression-and-exercise-could-laughter-yoga-help/">Depression and exercise: could laughter yoga help?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How laughter clubs and comedy clubs differ</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 01:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Laughter clubs practising laughter yoga are happy hours with significant differences to comedy clubs: no joke!</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/how-laughter-clubs-and-comedy-clubs-differ/">How laughter clubs and comedy clubs differ</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why workplaces need playfulness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 05:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Laughter yoga helps create more productive workplaces with happier, connected staff.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/why-workplaces-need-playfulness/">Why workplaces need playfulness</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laughter yoga reduces stress response, research shows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>New research confirms laughter yoga reduces the cortisol response, making it an ideal stress management tool for all.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/laughter-yoga-reduces-stress-response-research-shows/">Laughter yoga reduces stress response, research shows</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laughter yoga addresses workplace loneliness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>With laughter yoga proven to improve morale and create connections in the workplace, it could be a cost-effective and simple solution to workplace loneliness, reported as rife in Australia.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/laughter-yoga-addresses-workplace-loneliness/">Laughter yoga addresses workplace loneliness</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laughter yoga in schools: reteaching children to laugh and play</title>
		<link>https://thehappydemic.com.au/laughter-yoga-in-schools-reteaching-children-to-laugh-and-play/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Is it time for Australia's jam-packed school curriculum to include laughter yoga, teaching children and adolescents to face tough challenges, handle emotions and survive this competitive world, in a happier more content state of mind. Heather Joy thinks so.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/laughter-yoga-in-schools-reteaching-children-to-laugh-and-play/">Laughter yoga in schools: reteaching children to laugh and play</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Laugh Out Loud Alone!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Laughter is contagious when you laugh in a group but what do you do when you're on your own? Here are Heather Joy's fave 5 laughter exercises that she uses on her ownsome.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/laugh-out-loud-alone/">Laugh Out Loud Alone!</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rural women top up resilience through Laughter Yoga</title>
		<link>https://thehappydemic.com.au/rural-women-top-up-resilience-through-laughter-yoga/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>While few of us have a sixth sense to foretell what the future holds, all of us have the ability to develop our resilience to change and difficulties. Heather Joy explains how Laughter Yoga can be added to your resilience tool kit.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/rural-women-top-up-resilience-through-laughter-yoga/">Rural women top up resilience through Laughter Yoga</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How can we lose something as natural as breathing?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HeatherJoy Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Getting caught up in the seriousness of life, somehow we can forget something as natural as breathing: laughter.</p>
The post <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au/how-can-we-lose-something-as-natural-as-breathing/">How can we lose something as natural as breathing?</a> first appeared on <a href="https://thehappydemic.com.au">The Happydemic</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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