Hello, I'm Eliseo Cheo Torres, an administrator and
professor at the University of New Mexico.
And this is part of a series of films that we're taping on traditional medicine
of Mexico and the southwest, part of the course of also that I teach in the summer.
And with us today again, is Rita Navarrete from Mexico City.
And Rita is a well known Curandero that's part of our team.
She teaches here during the summer and gives workshops and she's here to
talk about a therapy that a lot of people don't realize is a therapy and
that's laugh therapy, risoterapia.
Why is this important?
Well, it reduces stress.
It circulates our blood.
It exercises our lungs.
And it's one of the best therapies that one can imagine, has been known for
a long, long time.
But there's studies of left therapies so
[FOREIGN] with her is Tonita Gonzales.
Tonita is a local healer here at the University of New Mexico and
in Albuquerque so we want to thank Tonita [FOREIGN].
>> Thank you.
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>> This is a real noble therapy.
>> [FOREIGN] >> But especially to relax your muscles.
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>> It's a moment that feels good that you start to enjoy.
>> [FOREIGN] >> So that you relax your muscles.
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>> As if you did 40 minutes of exercise.
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>> And we're going to practice with breaths.
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>> There's a lot of information that you can investigate as why [CROSSTALK].
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>> But for right now, what's most important is the practice.
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>> And we're going to see the different ways of how simple it is to laugh.
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>> And it's going to be with just exercises.
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>> We want you to first relax your body.
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>> Start to relax your body.
>> Relax and move your hands.
>> Move your shoulders by breathing, inhaling and exhaling.
>> And start to say >> [FOREIGN]
>> And then you start to warm your throat.
>> [SOUND].
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>> I want you to feel it.
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>> If we have an emotion.
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>> That's bugging you or a pain.
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>> We want to visualize it and to bring it here.
>> [FOREIGN]. >> And when we inhale, and
we'll exhale, so it comes out in the exhale.
>> Inhale.
>> [FOREIGN] >> Go to your stomach.
>> [NOISE].
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>> Now breath in deeply.
>> [FOREIGN] [LAUGH].
>> With this exercise [LAUGH]
>> [FOREIGN] >> Relax your body, let it relax.
>> [LAUGH].
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>> And we're going to do a little bit more.
>> [LAUGH] [FOREIGN] One more time.
>> [LAUGH] [FOREIGN]
One more time [LAUGH] [FOREIGN]
you accumulate a lot of stress
here on your face [FOREIGN].
>> And with the mouth big you say [LAUGH]
>> [FOREIGN] >> Now, we're not going to stop.
>> Nobody stop laughing.
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>> You start to laugh and don't stop for anything.
>> [LAUGH].
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>> [LAUGH]
[NOISE]
[LAUGH]
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>> Inhale.
>> [LAUGH] [LAUGH] [LAUGH].
>> [FOREIGN] [LAUGH] [LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH]
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[LAUGH].
>> [LAUGH].
>> [FOREIGN] >> So, things that make you angry.
>> [FOREIGN] >> Put one foot forward.
>> [LAUGH].
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>> [LAUGH].
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[LAUGH].
>> Put your hands on your waist.
>> [LAUGH]
[LAUGH].
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>> Make a circle, inhale.
>> [LAUGH] [FOREIGN].
>> Inhale.
>> [FOREIGN] >> Exhale.
>> [FOREIGN] >> Inhale.
>> [FOREIGN] >> Move.
>> [SOUND] [FOREIGN].
>> How do you guys feel?
>> Relaxed.
>> [FOREIGN]
>> I would like to say how do you feel?
>> [FOREIGN] >> What did you let go?
>> Did you feel like you?
>> What is?
>> I felt like I let go of a lot of stress.
>> [FOREIGN] >> My shoulders are calm now.
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>> My hands are hanging by the side, probably.
>> [FOREIGN] >> I feel like looser, a little looser.
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>> And I feel like I got a lot of oxygen, like I can breathe easy.
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>> It a really calm, but like awake like.
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[LAUGH].
>> She's asking me to remember when I had the first hard laugh.
[FOREIGN] Well by laugh hard with her it's been I guess like eight years now,
so and that's is because of laugh therapy that I ended up transforming my life and
doing what I love now and it was what Rita taught me through laughter.
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>> [FOREIGN] [LAUGH].
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Thank you very much.
>> We want to thank Rita and Tonita and
our guests that helped us with the laugh therapy.
If you are in pain, laugh therapy has been studied.
And for time you laugh for about 15, 20 minutes,
you could be pain free for about an hour, or so.
[FOREIGN] >> Mm-hm.
>> [FOREIGN] >> [FOREIGN] Mm.
And there has been all sorts of studies.
So we want to thank Leita for this wonderful exercise.
[FOREIGN] Thank you.
>> Thank you.