Smile, The Therapy of Life
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks according to Charles Gordy. The expression of amusement, pleasure, love and kindness is smiling. Smiling means having a cheerful and joyous appearance at all times. The best way to convince the people around you that it is comfortable to stay with you is by putting on a smile and being the reason they are happy. The evidence of happiness is simply smiling and it is impossible to be happy or in a good mood without expressing it in such a way that everyone around begins to see reasons to be happy because of you, You now become a source of joy to the people whenever they are around you. If you give people a reason to get angry or feel bad each time they are with you then there is a certainty that you are going to lose a lot of your friends and you won’t be able to make new ones too. In addition, it gives you a bad name because people who got ill-treated by you will not like others to have the same experience and so don’t hesitate in telling anyone who wants to get close to you that you are not the kind of person to be associated with. Most times we do these things unintentionally and you just see everyone staying away from you for reasons you can’t explain up till now, Well I’m here to tell you to give yourself a break and stop overreacting on issues, learn to smile often and make yourself happy.
Phyllis Diller once said, “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight”. Most times, difficult times make it an uneasy task for us to put on a smile because life issues are hitting you here and there that you almost feel like giving up but it’s amazing how much relief you can get in just a few minutes of smiling and making yourself happy. You might even end up finding a better solution to that unending problem that has caused you sleepless nights for so long. That’s the power of a smile, it can make you feel much better and help you relax your muscles after a very long day.
Smiling is a great way to characterize yourself whilst also helping your body system to function better. Smiling makes you look so attractive and make you drawn to others, people find it easier to relate and talk with you when you smile a lot. Smiling is also a great way of changing your mood, when you are feeling bad and put on a smile you see yourself feeling better and that’s the magic that comes with smiling it tricks your body into making you feel better. People who smile a lot tend to affect other people around them with their smile, A smiling person brings happiness with them and also helps to change the mood of others by making them feel better. Smiling is also a great way of relieving yourself of stress, Smiling prevents you from looking tired, worn out or frustrated by situations despite being through a lot, You should dedicate a good amount of your time to smiling.
Did you know that people who don’t smile often tend to grow old easily? Studies have proven that people who don’t take enough time to relax their muscles and make themselves happy tend to suffer from a lot of sicknesses and grow old easily. Smiling helps the immune system to work better and also lowers your blood pressure, there is an amount of blood pressure reduced each time you wear that beautiful smile. Smiling always is a good way to stay positive and maintain a sound mind not allowing the things we see every day to weigh us down, Smiling is a good way to reassure yourself that Life is just simple and things will work out for good, it is also a good way to fight depression and frustration. If you go through it a lot, try smiling and see how it provides an everlasting end to the undying problem. You may not know this too but smiling also makes you appear successful, Smiling also helps to boost your confidence and Charisma, if you work in public service then you need to smile always to serve people effectively.
If you still find it hard to smile then this might help you, it actually takes more muscles to frown than to smile and I’m thinking why you would want to waste a good number of your time and strength putting on a scary monstrous look when it takes little or nothing to make you look more glamorous. If you find it difficult to smile then these skills might help you do better. Don’t look strange or try to copy other people’s style of smiling, make your smiles sincere, natural, warm and authentic. You will also need something to do, hear or see to make you happy whenever you feel sad so make sure you pick something that works and something you can easily take anywhere you go, it can be a memory you cherish so much, you can choose a special friend to call each time you are not okay, you can even choose to read this article each time you get annoyed, I guess you are smiling already. Challenge yourself to smile every day no matter how difficult or impossible the situations might make it seem, find a reason to smile always, there are over one million reasons to be happy all you need to do is to figure yours out. Smiling helps you stay motivated too and not lose focus, the moment you let anger or other emotions get the better part of you, you find yourself straying and losing direction but a simple smile helps to set you right back on track.
Now that you know this, plan yourself well and decide to stay closer to things that make you happy and away from whatever kills your joy, the higher level of smiling is laughter and you might not know but it has amazing therapeutic power. You can laugh out loud or not depending on how hard it hits you, you can get things to laugh about by watching comedy skits, reading funny books and so on. Most importantly, don’t forget to be a source of happiness to everyone around you, try as much as you can not to do anything that will hurt the people around you and when it eventually happens always apologise honestly and make sure you don’t repeat such behaviour.
You need happiness as much as everyone around you needs it, Don’t go around being a source of pain and unhappiness to others and expect to be happy. Learn to wear a smile at all times no matter what life throws at you, A simple smile today can deprive you of suicide.
Well said