Happiness - Smiling and its benefits

Smile actually has a great impact on our life. A simple gesture can make a huge difference. Smiling makes one feels good. The little smile on your face also affects others as well. You make them happy!

There are social psychology research that show our facial expressions do reflect our inner feelings, and by changing our facial expression, we can help to change our feelings too. The studies show that different facial expressions are accompanied by changes in physiological activity. In other words, when we smile we cannot feel angry for instance, at the exact moment we are smiling! It appears to be physiologically impossible.

Try this now! Put a smile on your face and think of something that makes you angry, do you feel angry? I did not! How about you?

Having a smile on our face is easy but most people seem to be unable to do that easily. I must admit even I have a problem in that. Stress has become part and parcel of our life and our faces have been 'dragged' down by the stress and longer smile easily. The rapid pace of our life has almost destroyed our ability to display emotions to others. We no longer smile to people we see, instead we showed them the emotionless, weary eyes look.

However, there is good news. We can learn to SMILE again! But, we need the discipline in doing that as well. We just need to constantly remind ourselves to 'Smile'. I suggest the first thing to do when you wake up in the morning is to smile to yourself and say "I want to have a HAPPY day today!"

Next, put a smile on our face. Remember, when others look at you and you have a smile, you make their day and when they smile back, they make your day! Smile to your Dad, your Mum, even your own children and friends, make their day.


So start smiling now and be HAPPY!