6 Reasons To Smile More

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June 27, 2018

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Why You Need To Smile More

Its Healthy – It Builds Trust  – It Affects Results – It Makes You Happy – It’s Contagious – It Conveys Emotions

Smiling lifts your mood and the mood of everyone around you. A smile is something that is infectious, the more you do it, the more those around you will too. Smiling and laughing boosts your well being, but as we get older we often forget to smiles as much as we used to in our adolescence.

How Smiling Affects You

                       Every time you smile your brain is telling you that your happy. Smiles relieve stress by releasing endorphins. This helps you experience a whole range of emotions, from happiness to sadness and anger to depression. When you smile; dopamine, endorphins and serotonin are all released into your bloodstream, making your body relax and lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Endorphins are natural pain killers, which are %100 produced by your own body, without the negatives effects of medication. Have you ever noticed that when you smile people treat you differently? When smiling your seen as attractive, reliable, relaxed and sincere. Scientists have said that seeing a smiling attractive face activates your orbitofrontal cortex, which is the region in your brain processing sensory rewards. This suggests that when you see a person smiling, you actually feel as if you are being rewarded.

                     Smiling is contagious, because the part of your brain that is responsible for facial expressions of smiling when your happy is located in the cingulate cortex. The cingulate cortex is your unconscious automatic response area. There was a study one where subjects were shown pictures of several emotions: joy, anger, dear and surprise and when the picture of someone smiling was shown, the researchers asked the subjects to frown. Instead, they found that the facial expressions shown were directly imitated by the subjects of the study as each emotion was shown. So, if you look at the bigger picture, each time you smile at a person their brain coaxes them to return the favor.

 

Fun Facts About Smiling

Smiling boost your immune system

Smiles relieve stress by releasing endorphins

It is easier to smile than to frown

It take 5 to 53 muscles to smile

Babies are born with the ability to smile

There are 19 different types of smiles

 

Smile Randomly – Smile Around Others – Smile Sincerely – Smile Often – Smile Intentionally – Smile More

 

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