Last update: May 07, 2016
Every day try to draw a smile on your lips, try to convey your happiness to others, to exploit every moment of your life distributing smiles. Remember when you were little and used to play in the park? You didn't stop smiling for a moment as you ran and played with the other children. Now you can't smile like that anymore, but you can try hard to do it again.
You don't have to feel happy to smile, just do it. This because the power of a smile lies in changing, in making things see differently when we print it on our faces: when we tilt the corners of our lips upwards, our eyes see life in another color.
Smiling brings benefits to the mood, what you transmit to others will be positive, it helps to make you known, to have a connection with other people and to make you feel better. A smile makes us feel good. In the act of smiling, the body releases endorphins and serotonin into the bloodstream, thereby reducing pain and improving the immune system, hence our defenses.
Smile to be happy
A smile has a very positive effect on ourselves. There is a two-way communication channel between our body and the brain. In a sense, when something makes you feel happy, your brain tells your body to smile.
In the other sense, that is, if you smile for no reason, your brain receives this information from the facial muscles, understands that you are smiling and that there is something that makes you happy, therefore, for consistency, your emotional state begins to turn towards. optimism and cheerfulness.
Charles Darwin, who had already talked about this theory, found that by simulating an emotion one can arouse it in one's mind. Therefore, no matter how you feel - sad, happy, disappointed, tired - smile and you will be happier.
Smile to be forgiven
If you have made a mistake, apologize and do it with a smile. To err is human, as is admitting that you have made a mistake and asking for forgiveness. It is about smiling, about accompanying our apologies with a sincere smile, it is not about laughing. There are studies that show that a smile conveys sincerity, so it becomes easier to forgive someone who smiles.
Smile to seduce
The smile is the most powerful form of seduction: by smiling, we show ourselves closer and happier, more accessible. If you want to get to know someone, let a smile become your weapon, draw sincerely on your face to show who you are. Both men and women use their best smile when they want to conquer someone, is a form of seduction, an additional element that accompanies gestures and words.
However, seduction is not only used in couple relationships, it can also be used in professional life, for example in a meeting, to achieve what is desired in a negotiation, to show our empathy and reach satisfactory agreements.
"A woman can give everything with her smile and then take it back with a tear."
-Coco Chanel-
Smiling to arouse emotions
Have you noticed what happens when you smile at a child? He usually smiles back automatically. This also happens with adults: probably if you smile at a stranger on the street, he will love you back.
Smiles arouse emotions in others positive. Smiling makes you and the people around you happier, as through it you send a message of sociability and closeness. Don't forget that smiling is contagious.
If you smile and they smile back, this is due to the effect of mirror neurons: smile, the other person smiles, and positive emotional change occurs in both.
Instructions for smiling
Think of something beautiful, something you like a lot, someone that excites you; draw an image of it in your mind and feel it, feel what arouses you, how it moves you. Little by little a slight movement of your lips will be generated: let your mouth arch and the lips show their teeth. Let your eyes smile in turn, let the happiness of this smile traced on your face invade you and be transmitted to everything.
“Notice that when she smiles, quotes form on the sides of her mouth. That, her mouth, is my favorite quote. "
-Mario Benedetti-
