While we are living through an unprecedented health crisis and we must wear the mask in any exchange with others, we must continue to display an expression of contentment and keep the smile under our protection! This guarantees us better health, top morale … Follow the guide!
“The smile you send comes back to you,” says a Hindu proverb. Perhaps because this manifestation springs from the heart. It arises in us spontaneously, often involuntarily. This is why it is so difficult to reproduce it intentionally (as evidenced by our countless photos with so unnatural “cheese”!) It must be said that an authentic smile mobilizes our oral muscles but also our eyes, the very ones that generate crow’s feet.
The baby learns to smile by mimicry in the first months of his life. His mother smiles at him when she changes him, feeds him, sings him a song, says words of love to him. Very quickly, he associates it with moments of satisfaction and fulfillment.
As we grow up, we will then quite naturally laugh when we feel a physical or psychic well-being. An activity to be practiced without restriction which has the art and the way of reconciling ourselves with ourselves and with others. Who says better ?
A natural stress reliever!
A study by psychologists at the University of Kansas, USA, claims that forcing yourself to smile in stressful situations may reduce stress and help you feel better. Researchers explain that it causes a decrease in heart rate and a drop in blood pressure.
Better: this simple movement of the face would lead to a hormonal change. In the beginning, it is the positive emotion that creates the movement of the lips: “I feel good, therefore I smile, often uncontrollably”.
But once the correlation between smile and well-being is internalized, it is possible to reverse the process. It is then the movement of the lips that generates the positive emotion: “I smile, therefore I feel good”.
Studies have shown that the body’s unconscious memory then triggers chemical reactions associated with well-being: on the one hand, the level of endorphins increases (antidepressant hormones), on the other hand that of cortisol decreases (stress hormone). In short, we know what we have to do the next time we are stuck in traffic or waiting on the hotline of our Internet operator …
A longevity booster!
“Smiling three times every day makes any medicine useless,” they say in China. A study from Wayne State University, Detroit, revealed the amazing longevity benefits of smileys. Researchers looked at photos of 230 baseball players who started their careers before 1950.
They found that non-smiling players (63 in total) had died on average at 72.9 years old, compared to 75 years old for players. smiling slightly (64) and 79.9 years for those who displayed a large “banana” (23 players).
The brighter the smile, the longer the life … Thus, approaching the world in a positive way improves the functioning of our body.
A weapon of mass seduction!
Are you feeling down? So smile. Certainly, this helps tone the muscles of the face and thus prevent the inevitable sagging over the years. But that’s not all: in 1996, a study by the Institute of Psychology at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, showed that smiling people are seen as kinder, more beautiful and more attractive. Particularly because of the symmetry that the smile creates in the face.
The simple presence of a smile is enough to increase the attractiveness of the person, but we also note that, as the smile widens, the same person is evaluated more positively.
The smile, which brightens the face and reflects an inner serenity, is undoubtedly an element of seduction.
A key to success!
Nothing like a happy face, especially when you want to convince your interlocutor and push him to adhere to our arguments. For example, a recent study from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, showed that it is very difficult to frown when looking at a smiling person.
In fact, this signal is contagious. It takes away the control of our facial muscles. The mere sight of a third party’s smile stimulates ours. A study from Penn State University in the United States reveals that it not only makes you appear more personable and courteous, but also more competent.
Gracious waiters get more tips! Even if, in the context of work, we do not smile in the same way depending on the level that we occupy in the hierarchical chessboard, reveals a study of the University of San Diego.
Thus, ambitious people will tend not to smile at those who occupy a position higher than theirs. When you feel powerful, you can see people at higher social level as a threat and compete with them. On the contrary, if you interact with a person of a lower social level, you have in a sense already won, hence the smile.
Reference: https://www.verywellmind.com/top-reasons-to-smile-every-day-2223755
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