Smile every day
You can be smiling with your mouth and with your eyes.
Do the best that have given to you and SMILE, feel the relief.
Alma V
According to researchers the reason why smiling can help create a positive mood is because when you smile your brain registers this as a sign/signal of happiness. As a result, even if you’re feeling down in the dumps smiling really can lift your mood. One of the best times to start your smiling is in the morning. This is because as we all know the mornings can be tough and mornings also have a way of setting the tone for the rest of your day.
So upon waking smile for a little while. After lying for a few minutes after waking take a deep breath and smile big. Then relax all the muscles in your body – repeat. This may look goofy so if you sleep with a significant other you might want to tell them before you start doing this so they don’t think that you’re losing it.
So are you skeptical about this smiling therapy? Well according to Jane Plant, a chief scientific adviser to the British government, smiling is better than Prozac. Professor Plant exclaims that “smiling is a way of tricking your brain into thinking everything’s OK, even if it’s not.” In an article for the British publication the Guardian, Plant and company encourage people with mood disorders, like anxiety and depression, to focus more on life style changes then simply popping “happy pills.”
