smileys are happy!

Circumstances play a lot with out mood ... Yet smiling. It helps no matter how te circumstances are. And laughing does much more! - as for sure we all know!
This following article was such a tranquilizer - to me personally!

The Power of a Smile

By Janice Taylor

Did you know that one of the best things you can do for yourself and for everyone around you is to smile? Smiling brings oxygen to your brain, immediately makes you feel better, and sends out comforting messages to others.

A true smile comes from genuine pleasure. ...

Smiling can make you look like an inviting, accepting, likable and pleasant person (even if you’re not). When you first meet someone, if you don’t smile that person is likely to think that you’re not interested in them or attracted to them. They may even think you are a cold potato. So, even if you’re feeling blue or simply not in the mood to smile, do yourself a favor-smile anyway. Fake it until you make it!

The health benefits of smiling are plentiful.

Smiling …

· increases the production of endorphins, natural painkillers, and serotonin, a hormone that regulates your mood;

· boosts your immune system and increases the number and activity of antibodies that fight infection;

· lowers your blood pressure;

· helps you to relax;

· relieves stress;

· enhances respiratory function;

· exercises 15 to 26 facial muscles;

· makes you look younger as it lifts the face; and

· fires up various parts of the brain!

More fabulous facts about smiling that are sure to make you smile

· 72% of people think that those who smile frequently are confident and successful;

· 86% of people are more likely to talk to strangers if they are smiling;

· bosses are 12% more likely to promote people who smile a lot;

· research shows that 65% of communication is nonverbal (some say even higher); and

· studies show that happiness is a byproduct of smiling, not that those who are happy smile, as most people assume.

The simple act of smiling can change your day.

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...Light up your face with gladness. Hide every trace of sadness. Although a tear may be ever so near. Thats the time you must keep on trying. Smile, whats the use of crying? ...

From the song "Smile"

- Words by john turner and geoffrey parsons. - Music by charlie chaplin :D

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." - Proverbs 17:22