Smiling is underrated in my opinion.
When you see someone looking quite unhappy and then catch their face lighting up as they exchange a smile with another, you realise something truly lovely is occurring.
It is well documented that it only takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three or so to frown, but smiling is so much more than facial exercise. It’s the universal welcome, the equivalent of an open heart and open arms in our controlled, often repressed society.
A smile informs us from the heart.
“It helps us to know, that even if we are sad about something, we are more than our sadness.” (Susan Jeffers)
Even on a bad day, if we smile at others we get smiles galore in return, restoring our faith in ourselves, in others and the human race in general. Who can resist a smile?
Reminding ourselves of happy times can bring a smile….bring a warm, lovely memory to mind now…make it really colourful and big and close…..step in to the picture as if you were really there, reliving it in all its colourful detail…hear what you heard at the time…see what you saw… feel what you felt…enjoy this memory for a moment or two….how is your smile now?
There are many types of smile, cheeky smiles, saucy smiles, shy smiles, mischievous smiles, surprised smiles, I’ve won the lottery smiles, and you are beautiful smiles….
Try some out today and let me know your favourites, we never know where a smile might lead us…… as Mary H. Waldrip stated “A laugh is a smile that burst.”
