Smile - One Size Fits All

Go ahead, smile, a real smile, a heart-warming smile! One of those smiles that starts in your feet, and flows through your body, tingling, making you feel great. Those smiles do so much for your own body, and your brain. Not only do they help you, but smiles can help others too. Many things are contagious, some good and some bad, colds are, but so is laughter. Smiles are contagious as well, have you noticed that when you smile at someone, they often smile back? And then, your smile grows because you have spread good feelings to someone. Often time’s people make fast judgements about others, and if you can be smiling, their perception of you will be a positive one. So go ahead and smile when you meet a stranger. Smiling lets people know that you’re enjoying yourself, and enjoying yourself is the first rule to living successfully. People who don’t enjoy what they do, rarely succeed. So put on a smile and you’ll discover that it makes you feel great. Even when you may be in a bad mood, once you can smile you’ll change the chemicals in your brain and soon your whole physiology will be affected and you’ll discover how easy it is to feel amazing. Now even though you may not believe it, that’s no reason not to try it, go ahead and smile more, if your life takes a turn for the worst, you can email me and complain some more, but I know that you’ll actually find yourself feeling great. And people around you will feel great also, because your mood has an effect on the people around you.

Professor James V. McConnell, a psychologist from the University of Michigan has an interesting quote on the subject; I think I will let him guide your belief.

“People who smile, tend to mange, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There’s far more information in a smile than a frown. That’s why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.”

We are all looking to be happy, right? So we should all smile more! I really like what Abraham Lincoln said on this topic, and this short quote will show you a couple of things “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” So what I think he is saying is that happiness is IN YOUR head. Now to most people that’s obvious, to some it has been forgotten. But what’s important to know, is that happiness is a state of mind, and one that is easy to live with. It is much easier to live with than depression, or doubt, or any other negative emotion. We can control what goes on in our head, so we should, and we should all make sure to think positively, to think to make ourselves happy, and feel happy. Because being depressed takes energy too, but it feels awful. So choose to be happy and you’ll enjoy life much more, but first you have to SMILE!

Peace & Love