Happy Face.!

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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.  ~Mother Teresa

As you probably already know from my blog posts I am a Happiness Coach and this week I am sooo in to smiling.  I love researching ideas, topics and material for these blogs and for my workshops.  Sometimes inspiration comes from the smallest of ideas, a word, a conversation or a picture.  I recently watched the film "Eat, Pray, Love" and was fascinated when the female lead was told to smile at her liver every day!  This led me on a quest to find out more about smiling, the inner smile and smile meditations. (I really do LOVE my work!)

In a previous blog, I gave tips on Laughter Yoga and the health benefits that come from that.  Smiling is a little more gentler and so much easier to do anywhere and anytime and without the noise!  Smiling is the most contagious thing you can do with your face (yawning comes a very close second)!

These are 20 benefits:

A smile can...

1. Start your day pleasantly.
2. Make others understand you are in a good mood.
3. Promote positivity in a work environment.
4. Relax your face muscles.
5. Make others put a smile on their face.
6. Tell people that they are going to be okay.
7. Makes you look a lot prettier or more handsome.
8. Reduce all of that stress you might accumulate.
9. Help your immune system work a lot better.
10. Lower your blood pressure.
11. Give you a child like innocence.
12. Release serotonin, natural pain killers and endorphins thus making it a happy drug.
13. Make you look younger.
14. Fill you up with positivity and power.
15. Show your understanding side.
16. Say that you can be polite in the hardest of times.
17. Help you live longer.
18. Make you appreciate the little things in life.
19. Make you look at the brighter side of a bad situation.
20. Be contagious to all those around you.

A smile has more wonderful benefits that you could ever think about. I hope that after you’ve read this, you are smiling now so don’t let anything stop it because, according to research a smile is like eating 2000 bars of chocolate! (In the interests of research I am going to actually eat the 2000 bars of chocolate and report back if this is really true!!!).

Smile and have a fabulous day!

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor x