Smile, let the world know that you are happier than yesterday

Smile, let everyone know that you are stronger than yesterday. She lifts her face and draws that smile that your expression deserves and that your heart asks of you. Because if life is an attitude, it is worth dressing with the most dignified and beautiful gesture, the one that infects emotions and forces us to reboot ourselves inside to continue moving forward.

Boris Cyrulnik, famous neurologist and psychiatrist, says that no one really knows how to define happiness. We could say that, in a way, it has many of those wounds that one has been healing with the needle of time and the thread of resilience to embrace hope again, being much stronger than our “self” of the past.

Therefore, every smile we give to ourselves and to the world itself is like a subtle perfume, like a hymn to personal improvement and that courage with which to accept everything we have experienced, everything we have overcome, everything we are. The smile is the celebration of one’s own being and our most refined mechanism to connect with others; hence this gesture gains authenticity when it corresponds to a sincere expression.

We cannot forget that although there is magic in many of the smiles we see every day, what is truly behind all these beautiful expressions are stories. We suggest you reflect on it.

Always smile, smile even if it hurts sometimes

Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor at the University of California, is one of the best-known scientists in the study of happiness. According to her, The smile is not a simple gesture of non-verbal communication or connection between people. In reality, it is a type of high-intensity “energy” capable of altering our brain chemistry.

To check did a small study on people with severe depression. He showed them a video that contained various comic images, funny scenes with animals and monologues from well-known television comedians. Something that most specialists expected is that patients would not react to these types of images. However, they did it, but in a barely perceptible, barely visible way. They showed small movements in the lips, on the face, between the eyebrows…

They were almost instinctive microgestures to which a positive emotion was associated, something that many of these people with depression did not quite accept, which is why they left the room. The smiling mechanism is linked to a sudden release of neuropeptides that work to relieve stressto change that negative charge into a positive one through serotonin, dopamine and endorphins.

That revulsive feeling of placidity and relaxation was something very contradictory and even painful for people with depression. They are those moments when “smiling hurts”, because although the brain wants it that way, the heart is not yet prepared for it.

Smiles that are sincere

Analysts and advertising experts know that smiles have the power to captivate the consumer. by awakening positive emotions, trust and closeness in them. However, we have reached a point where there are more smiles out of protocol than out of the desire to express joy or pleasure. Thus, many times when someone approaches with a smile on their lips we cannot help but wonder what are you going to ask me? What will you want in return? What do you want to “sell” me?

Somehow, We all like those smiles that we find on the street printed on unknown faces more. Those who smile at us for no reason and those of us who end up smiling without knowing why. We are enchanted by children’s laughter and we immediately connect with those who smile alone, immersed in their own thoughts and carried away by a pleasant memory.

All these everyday gestures that we encounter every day always inspire us. They convince us that smiling is also an attitude towards life and a wonderful way to face it despite all the difficulties we go through.. So much so, that according to a study from the University of Michigan, people spend 3 days out of 10 trying to appease our bad mood or our personal demons.

Smiling in itself does not solve all problems, we are clear, however it improves our mood and prepares us for action.. There is no point in letting ourselves be overwhelmed by that indefinable discomfort, there is little point in giving up when we have so many mechanisms with which to emerge victorious from our personal labyrinths.

Therefore, the next time you feel a bad mood knocking on your door,Maybe this basic and cathartic strategy will be useful to you:

Breathe in for 5 seconds. Hold that breath for 7 seconds. Breathe out for 9 seconds. Raise your brow as high as you can for 5 seconds while breathing in and out again.

To conclude, most of the time joy is the source of the smile, but On other occasions, it is the act of smiling itself that gives us calm, motivation and well-being.. Let’s make use of this power that is always within our reach.

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Images courtesy of Tracy Turnbull