SMILING releases endorphins, natural mood boosters, and reduces stress. Smiling also helps you appear more approachable and trustworthy, making people more likely to want to help you if you’re struggling. So next time you’re feeling low, don’t be afraid to give smiling a try.
A simple life is about living with intention, and finding joy in the simplicity of everyday moments.
Smiling is one of the best things you can do for your health and well-being because it can boost your immune system and make you feel better. We want to help you enjoy all the benefits smiling offers by helping you achieve the smile of your dreams. Check out the other benefits of smiling and get started on the road to a happier, healthier life.
The next time you’re feeling down, push yourself to smile. It might feel weird, but it can help! Smiling releases endorphins, natural mood boosters, and reduces stress.
Smiling also helps you appear more approachable and trustworthy, making people more likely to want to help you if you’re struggling. So next time you’re feeling low, don’t be afraid to give smiling a try. It is the boost you need to turn your day around.
Have you ever noticed that you feel happier when you smile? When you smile, you send a message to your brain that says, “Things are good.” And when your brain gets that message, it releases endorphins, natural feel-good chemicals that make you happy.
You can also do many other things to boost your mood. Spend time with friends and family, do something you enjoy, or help someone else. You might be surprised how good you feel when you make someone else smile.
What is happiness in life? Typically, happiness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment. While happiness has many different definitions, it is often described as involving positive emotions and life satisfaction.
When did you make somebody smile lastly, my dear reader? Maybe you think that this is hardly the time to do so right now. Understandable, if we consider today’s global and national situation.
Honestly, it seems we have no more time and no reason for laughter if we look around. That can wait until tomorrow or better until the day after tomorrow. Anticipation is better.
Our enemies laugh up their sleeves, and most of the time we miss to recognize the fortune still smiling at us. But hold on: he who laughs last laughs longest. Remember?
American neurologist Henri Rubenstein says, laughter lowers high blood pressure while aiding digestion and fostering sleep. Well, give me even a simple smile and believe in what experts say: “Good humor can help the gravely or terminally ill to hear their ordeal”.
Of course, if we look around us these days, we might really not roar with laughter or split our sides laughing. Or even more than this! Have you heard about the incident at the Danish Imperial Theatre in Copenhagen/Denmark sometime during the 1980’s, when a spectator died of a heart attack while watching the movie “A Fish Called Wanda” starring John Cheese of my favorite Great Britain’s Monty Python Comedy Team? Sure, a heart attack is indeed not funny, and honestly, I still love to watch this movie on Youtube.
Well, even if we think we don’t have reasons to laugh, we should try to express mirth spontaneously, and we should try to be merry or gay. We still have reasons to start with the softest form of audible laughter – the vocalized smile. This is what I learned and experienced from the first moment on while travelling in Asia since 1978, and being an expat living in the Philippines since 1999 for good. Keep smiling – even you are overloaded with huge problems.
Experts also say good humor works because it helps people feel easier in mind. The French psychotherapist Sylvie Tenenbaum stressed that, in her patients, laughter often signals the dawning of a wholesome awakening to reality. Gallow humor might be dubious in the eyes of others. But try to sing out loud, try to cry, but try to laugh!
As a devout Christian, I love reading the bible. Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 say: “There is a time for everything … a time to be born and a time to die… a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh!”
And, very important – Psalms always help. The cries from the heart – the songs for sorrow as well as joy. For every emotion and mood, you can find a psalm to match. They wrestle with the deepest sorrow. Their voice is refreshingly spontaneous.
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