smiling doesn't mean the lack of sorrow but it means you have aptitude to pass through it..... Anonymous
Smile is a natural phenomena as it gets along with our birth.As we grow we loose this natural tendency to smile.A survey says a child smiles 300-400 times a day but an adult smiles 15-20 times a day even some do not. strange but real.
I was really surprised and equally confused why it happens to us? There can be dozens of reason not to smile but there are tons of reason to smile.But we are looking at negative side so intensively that our eyes are blind towards positive side.
Even though you may very well have reasons not to smile, here are a few reasons to push through...focus on the positive...and yes, smile:
It makes you feel better: Believe it or not, there is research behind this. There is a theory called 'facial feedback' hypothesis. It states that "involuntary facial movements provide sufficient peripheral information to drive emotional experience" implying that you may actually improve your mood by smiling.
It is Contagious:Ever notice if you smile at someone, they smile back? If you don't smile at someone or don't have any real facial expression for that matter, you pretty much get a mirror image back. Smiling is a proactive behavior, or action, which solicits a reaction. Maybe Newton's Law of Motion could be revised to say: To every smile there is an equal and opposite smile.
Convinced yet? The reality is that smiling in itself is a holistic, natural 'medicine' and anti-aging medicine.It helps us feel better, look better and age better! So next time you are feeling like frowning. "Turn that frown, upside down!"
