Back ground of the study Nothing is permanent in this world, except change. As a result of changes in physical, mental and social aspects of human beings, we experience a variety of emotions and feelings. One such emotion is stress. Nowadays stress has become a part of everyday life in all individuals. Being the greatest creation of God, human beings use their ideas to cope with stress situatio...

Laughter is a significant paralinguistic cue that is largely ignored in multimodal affect analysis. In this work, we investigate how a multimodal laughter corpus can be constructed and annotated both with discrete and dimensional labels of emotions for acted and spontaneous laughter. Professional actors enacted emotions to produce acted clips, while spontaneous laughter was collected from volun...

thousands of years ago yoga originated in india, and in present day and age, an alarming awareness was observed in health and natural remedies among people by yoga and pranayama which has been proven an effective method for improving health in addition to prevention and management of diseases. with increasing scientific research in yoga, its therapeutic aspects are also being explored. yoga is ...

Laughter, as component of social interaction, has attracted interest within conversational analysis [2, 5]. While laughter can be expressed in different contexts, voluntary or involuntary [6], and diverse in function and degree of functionality [2], it is not random. We study timing of laughter during conversation in relation to topic changes: whether recurrent patterns in laughter distribution...

Despite being a pan-cultural phenomenon, laughter is arguably the least understood behaviour deployed in social interaction. As well as being a response to humour, it has other important functions including promoting social affiliation, developing cooperation and regulating competitive behaviours. This multi-functional feature of laughter marks it as an adaptive behaviour central to facilitatin...

Sahaja yoga (SY) is a unique meditative technique that has both spiritual and mundane aspects. Although SY has generally been regarded as a practice of spiritual and mental well-being, it is also closely associated with a variety of subtle influences on some organ systems. SY has been suggested to have some beneficial effects in a variety of psycho-somatic diseases [1]. Besides subtle effects t...

Purpose: This clinical study was carried out with the aim of investigating whether Hatha Yoga (HY) training affects aerobic and anaerobic power in healthy young adults. Material and method: 33 sedentary, healthy, young adult subjects, aged 18 to 26 were divided into two groups according to age, sex and activity levels. 10 female and 7 male (mean 20.06 +/2.41 years, range 18-26 years) young adul...

BACKGROUND Surdashan Kriya Yoga (SKY) is a procedure that in various studies, has shown evidences of efficacy in alleviating Depression and Anxiety disorders, but in Europe and USA it has not been studied yet on a Caucasian population as an adjunct therapy for psychiatric Disorders. METHODS The study involved a sample of consenting women and men (n = 69) who received SKY therapy for a six-mon...

Laughter and humor are major ingredients of humanity but does not have any black and white authenticate. Laughter is a physiological process, which activates facial, respiratory and laryngeal muscles. Laughter may occur instinctively in response to humor or to appropriate emotional or sociological stimuli and can also be elicited upon command – voluntary, contrived or faked laughter. Exploring ...