Looking for a good laugh? It's a healthy thing to do. On You Tube, you will find a video entitled "Bodhisattva in Metro." It has a five star rating and has been posted several times. As of August 11, 2010, one of the posts has received 2,537,108 views.

A guy gets on the metro in France and takes his place on an outside seat. As expected, everyone is dower, poking a nose into a book, gazing out the window, staring at an advertisement and sleeping. The man starts to giggle and eventually explodes into raucous guffaws. The travelers' faces first show startled, quizzical looks at this disturbance, but soon everyone on the train cannot help but join the man who continues to laugh, splitting their sides with belly laughs, wiping tears from their eyes. No doubt, some haven't laughed so hard all year.

This video is a perfect example of hasya yoga or laughter yoga which is a form of working with the breath. People breathe more deeply and from the abdomen when they laugh; the lung capacity expands and the stale air expells from the body more effectively. In a yoga-laughter session, participants laugh spontaneously. Jokes aren't required; you don't even have to be happy. Fake it if you have to, but soon you will be laughing with everyone else because laughter is contagious as is so well demonstrated on the metro video. Let this film be a reminder to take your daily dose of the best, healing medicine ever: laughter!