Top five reasons to smile every day
Smiling is sometimes viewed as an involuntary response to things that inspire joy and happiness. While this has an atom of truth, it overlooks a crucial point: smiling can be conscious; it can be an intentional choice. Furthermore, it appears that whether your smile is wrapped in genuineness or not, it can act on our mind and in different ways, offering numerous benefits and lifting your mood and the moods of everyone around you. So, what are some of the reasons to smile every day? Read on to find out more:
- It relieves stress
Oh yes! Stress can break down our entire being and permeate through the core of our being, and it often shows in our faces. So smiling regularly not only helps to prevent us from looking like we haven’t slept for decades and worn down, but it can also help decrease stress.
Smiling can reduce stress even if you feel you aren’t in the mood or fake it. So when you’re stressed out, take out to smile, and you and those around you will reap the benefits.
- It helps you live longer.
Perhaps, this is the most compelling reason to keep smiling no matter what. Smiling may lengthen your overall lifespan. A study carried out in 2010 found that a genuine smile is associated with longer life. Overall, happy people seem to enjoy better health, though more research is still needed to comprehend why. However, research does suggest that happiness could increase lifespan by years. Therefore, maintaining a happy mood may be a crucial part of living longer in good health.
- Smiling elevates mood
Try putting on a smile next time you are feeling down. The fact is, there’s a good chance your mood will change for the better when you do. This is because the act of smiling activates pathways in your brain that are responsible for your emotional state – which means that adopting a happy facial expression lets you trick your mind into entering a state of happiness.
A simple smile can activate the release of neuropeptides responsible for improving your neural communication and neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine, which can help boost your mood.
- It may lower your blood pressure.
It is believed that smiling could have a positive impact on your blood pressure. Laughter seems to lower blood pressure after triggering an increase in heart rate. While smiling is believed to lower your heart rate in the face of stress, more research is needed to determine exactly how it further reduces blood pressure.
You can test this idea for yourself if you have a blood pressure monitor. Sit for few minutes and take the reading. Then smile and take another reading while still smiling.
- It is contagious
A smile has the power to light up a person’s mood and that of the people around him. It isn’t just a beautiful sentiment; it has an atom of truth in it. Smiling can lift your spirit and can also change the moods of others around you. This is because your brain instantly notices and interprets other people’s facial expressions. So remember smile… and say: “I’m Okay.” Cause nobody gives a shit anyway.
