How many times do you smile in your day?
There are some days, I know this, when the answer is zero. There are some days that you wake up waiting for dusk, to be wrapped up by a sleepy night without dreams to escape from situations, feelings, people.
Your body and its health are mere reflection of your inner life, but you can change the way you feel just with a smile. More you smile, more you will feel positive and proactive.
Do you know that for a smile you have to use about twelve muscles, and for a frown something like fifty? What a waste of energy it is being sad! When you smile you instantly change your state, whatever it is. I tried this with myself years ago. Even if you are not in a particularly negative state, smile, for no reason. It looks like strange, maybe weird, but try it. You will change in a second, do it many times, eventually you will find something to smile for or even to laugh about, because your state will change, your mind will select more positive thoughts, your body posture will change.
As soon as you will get used to smile often, you will attract smiles from people. It’s an automatic reaction, everybody ,unconsciously, tend to answer in the same way is being approached.
You can trigger a chain of smiles like an atomic explosion! What is important, you will change yourself, and the way you deal with life.
Here are a few quotes I particularly like about smiling:
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
Proverb
“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
Mother Teresa
“When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.”
Steve Maraboli
I wonder if my life’s purpose is to share my smile? People have told me, “you have a beautiful smile, never stop smiling!” Here in the USA you get used to walking in the street and nobody looks at each other, nobody smiles at strangers (lest you attract a psychopathic killer!) I think people are afraid of each other, or else too wrapped up in hatred or negativity to bother with other people.
As a teen, I visited a small island in the bahamas, where strangers smile and wave as they pass each other. It all seemed very foreign to me. What? Strangers waving to each other? You can’t do THAT in the ‘hood!
Blessings! Jessica
Yes, Jessica, you are right. Our society is dominated by many fears and indifference.
I see that you own the secret of smiling, though…
I think many people have lost their appreciation of
others and the world we live in. Many have become
complacent, others live in fear of each other and as
we are constantly bombarded with news about all that
is wrong with our own world, people look to other worlds
for a respite from this one, looking outwards in the
hope that we will see the opposite of what we see here.
But as we know Elio, we cannot be happy with what we
get if we are not first happy with what we have.
Great post.
Carol, yes, we are looking outwards for what we already have inside, but we can’t find it