Everyone looks better when they smile. Everything is made better when we smile.
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One day it hit me. I was actually in bed, where I love to be. I LOVE my sleep... all cozy, with the dogs at my feet, and I realized that I wasn't smiling, and it seemed to me I should be. Why wouldn't I be? And that feeling has stayed with me for some reason.Dan Harris, meditation 10 % Happier...
PsychoneuroimmunologyHow our thoughts and feelings affect our health is a field of interdisciplinary medicine.
Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness ...
Kids smile an average of 400 times a day, Adults: 20 *
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The health benefits of smiling and laughing are well known in the popular mind as well as scientifically... It's just a wonder we don't do it MORE.BioPsychoSocial... George EngelsWhat I call the “Playcebo” Effect
The Smile FactorIf you were to estimate what percentage of the
day you tend to smile, what would you say?
I was probably around 5-10%Now I’m in the 80s and 90s.
Smile “more” never quite worked for me. The intention to smile all day broke it open.
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If you work in a job where it is required for customer service or whatever, and you have to do it for long periods of time... waitstaff, 40 hour fitness trainer... it can be counterproductive somehow...
The Play & Humor Perspective
Play is the essence of health, of vitality, of learning, and of creativity.
Playfulness is something to be initiated, shared, and maintained.
We have a moral obligation to lift each other’s spirits, especially when times are tough.
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This is square one... The number zero in the Tarot, represented by the fool. This is the energy of creation... even in creating better habits for ourselves, a healthier body, and a better life.
Happiness and Freedom
Happy to the extent we feel in control of our lives... Unconditional happiness flips the script with a
kind of reverse engineering.
Happy and smiling for no apparent reason goes beyond "fake it till you make it".
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Western philosophy and the eastern philosophy of YogaShakespeare says "Twere as easy for you to laugh and to leap and to say I am happy that I am not sad..."
L.A.F."I am Lighthearted, Appreciative, and Free."
I’m the happiest person in the check out line… in the intersection… in the situation…
It’s a tacit competition, With no cost to enter.
Just float on in.
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loving aware and funthe F could be for ForgivenessI'm sorry please forgive me (and everyone), thank you and I love you...It's hard to be lighthearted if you are holding grudges (outward) or feeling unworthy (inward).[image of musical notes as quote marks around song]
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. And in Egyptian mythology, the heart of the dead in the afterlife is weighed against a feather, a large featherbut but a feather nonethelessl...
Words for Smiling
There are only a dozen common synonyms of smile, but there are as many kinds of smile as there are adjectives, or states of experience.
The big-old goofy smile, the shy smile, the fake smile, the wry smile, the provocative and the sly smile, the sad smile, the obsequious smile, etc—
And let's not forget the beautiful smile.
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cut and paste the synonyms here:...mirthful
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add smaller images:Asian boyIndian adult male...
Character BuildingSmiling in the face of adversity and danger.
The cheerful smile. The confident smile.
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It's pretty much THE characteristic that we want in our heroes and exemplars [ Examples:(the big 3) Moter Theresa, Ghandi, Dali Lama ...]
The gritty smile
The determined smile
The courageous smile
Etc.
More Character
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Images John Wayne, etc
"Character"
“We finally grow up on that day when we have our first good laugh at ourselves.”
The "oopsies" smile.
A.K.A. "My bad."
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Schadenfreude is German word for the good feeling we sometimes experience at the misfortune of others.I propose the shchadenfugme smile, which is when you laugh at yourself in realizing your own screw-up.
Friendship Magnet
“In order to have a friend, first you must be one.” Emerson
Like attracts like as much as opposites attract… aka LOA.
The Control Panel
Facial muscles create an electromagnetic signature, interacting with quantum fields.
The body and peripheral nervous system act as an antennae, through posture, etc.
The eyes are signal boosters that amplify the brain wave / heart wave state.
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… hormonal, neuroplastic, and epigenetic benefits follow.
Smile TransmitterSmile when talking on the phone because it
comes across in your voice.
Smile while thinking about a friend to send them good vibes like a psychic cellphone.
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… hormonal, neuroplastic, and epigenetic benefits follow.
"Smile Check"It all starts with checking in, and the awareness
to notice. Smile mindfulness.
It’s right under your nose!
Create new facial muscle habits.Posture and breathing check go nicely with it.
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correcting the mind/mouth disconnect
The Instant Calming Sequence
1. Smile.2. Deepen your breath, in and out through
the nose.3. Balance your posture.4. Exhale with a wave of relaxation,
lowering your shoulders.5. Think any positive affirmation.
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The interconnections between posture, breath, and smilng, these are the Big Three."I'm depressed," with arms raised up victoriously...Learned this from Rober Cooper's Health and Fitness Excellence... later talking to Joseph Chilton Pierce at Omega... HeartMath Institute...
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The impish smile, miscieveous smile... and "the play look".
Degrees of Smiling● Smile Practitioner.
● Smile Therapist.
● Smile Champion.
● Smile Artist.
● Smile Master.
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Maybe there's a another degree, if we add one below smile practitioner, that is how most of us live, where there is a blip on the screen, the occasional smiler, the once-in-while-if-I-have-to smiler... Do you know anyone like that?You are all now certified as Smile Practitioners from this training. Smile Therapy degrees are available for anyone who can remove the frown off of one person per day to achieve certification...
Smiling Nature
"Laugh and the world laughs with you…”Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Deep in the mammalian brain, we are wired to smile. Monkeys, dogs, cats, mice…
You can always find something to smile about, and it’s a kind of emotional first-aid.
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Jaak Panksepp, the rat tickler...
Smiling as Meditation
Primary Object such as breath, and sitting position (back straight, etc).
Smile check. Why sit with a frown during meditation?
Notice the effect of smiling on your experience of the present moment. Now bring the mindful smile with you out into the world!
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Teaching meditation at Canyon Ranch over a thousand times. I've also taught it elsewhere over the years, and practiceds enough to feel like I am approaching the 10,000 hours level. Of all the instuctions I've ever used, this moment has always felt the most poingant and powerful...Sensation at the nostrils, Notice the sounds all around, and Present Moment comparison with smiling. Smiling Mediation. To the "What am I supposed to be doing?" question. Smiling and Noticing, maybe the mantra: I am... Smiling
"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it." --Lao Tzu
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This has always been one of my favorite quotes.Leonard Orr, "My mind exists for my entertainment."Look at the tranquil smile, imitate it...Eckhart Tolle on a park bench.A kind of Reverse Engineering... Imitadio.
Smiling Yoga
Like Laughter Yoga, but quieter, and totally complementary.
Smiling into the eyes, heart, kidneys, (qigong). Smiling WITH the eyes, heart, liver, etc.
Whole body, somatic smiling, is a character-lock into the mode of positive expression.
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Image, figure with chi energy field emanating a smile or heart... [wb page?]Laughing chi gong...Asanas and mudras… how the body is held, in minute detail sometimes, in the case of the hands, they have their own designation, mudras. But what about the face? Mudra means seal or stamp, as in a bio-energy signature, etc.The proper yogi is unperterbable. (The story of the Buddha, "If I don't take the gift...")Arms up in a gesture of celebration and smiling,Say, “I am depressed.” [who?]
Life-Saving Smile
"Psychological healing consists of bringing a patient from a state of not being able to play, to a state of being able to play…”
Donald Winnicott
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Shakespeare's happy because I am not sad...Stuart Brown...This isn’t just cosmetic or superficial.Depression can ruin a life as much as cancer, etc.
Smiling
“It’s a curve that sets everything straight.”
Smile-athonThe All-Day-Smile Challenge.
Smiles per day, 9600. 16 hours X 60 minutes X 10 SPM (smiles per minute).
Enjoy a pharmacological dose of smiling, for any and all problems.
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Athletic performance, smiling versus clenching...Laughter and singing are also good to do and still count as smiling, in my book. Singing is interestiing because you can keep the feeling of smiiling and gives muscles used in maintaining the smile to rest a little.
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put arrows on the image pointing to the woman in zebra pattern
Guinness Book of RecordsBuddhists are rated as the happiest people… I want in on some of that.
I am going to set the record for Longest Continual Smile: 16 hrs.
I guess they are going to have to come and verify my ability.
Midlife Reflection
If I didn’t smile as much as I would have liked, in the first half of my life,I sure plan to make up for that in the second.
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Western philosophy and Yoga
Bright Side of Life"Always look on the bright side of life…
"Forget about your sin, give the audience a grin, enjoy it…
"Cheer up Brian…"
I feel like I finally have.
Optimal Health Architecture1. Avoid toxins, allergens, electromagnetics2. Drink clean water3. Healthy eating, real food, fat-adapted 4. Exercise, also posture and breathwork5. Sleep, quality and quantity6. Social connections7. Financial discipline and generosity8. Practice positivity, SMILING, laughter9. Mental skills, life-long learning, arts10. Meditation and Spirituality (Cosmos)
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The interconnections between categories, everything is interconnected (everywhere, actually) but perceptions of separateness are the default mode...SMILING energizes all the others and adds the juice to the wholeness...
Partner Smile Check
Making an agreement to help each other keep the facial muscle habit.
Help to correct the disconnect, lovingly, playfully…
Smile at yourself in the mirror. “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the smiliest of them all?”
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Image of a mirror or two, face to face...You have to be your own partner too, in a way,..
Extreme HappinessHabitual smiling can result in spontaneous
eruptions of extreme happiness.
The bar is raised to a whole new level. Your brain is rewiring itself.
From tranquil and serene, to ecstatic states of appreciation and perhaps a kind of grace.
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You feel magical, and psychologically bulletproof.even if it is just developing a habit to smile more when using the computer, or when looking out a window, or when interacting with another human being, you will catch yourself enjoying the experience of smiling for no good reason, and you will have a positive feedback loop that can break through all kinds of negative programming.Looshe-free...Mystical union as the great poets say.
