Smile to be happy ☺️

Song 🎵🎶🎶: Pretty shining people, George Ezra https://open.spotify.com/track/2JVwsN6viHjR9t5pCPQ4Br?si=AGi-3wDGSSez-poripc8fQ

William James, one of the founders of what we know as psychology, discovered this. That we don’t laugh because we’re happy; but instead are happy because we laugh.

It reminds me of the Duchenne smile. You can recognize this one authentic smile by the crow feet in the corner of your eyes. So, those little wrinkles are actually nice to have 😉.

While other smiles are more likely to be ways of politeness than indicators of true joy, the Duchenne smile is referred to as the one and ónly true smile. 

Also good to know: you can induce it yourself. By sticking a pencil between your back molars and biting it for 30 seconds or so, the smile you produce afterwards is a real Duchenne smile.

This shoukd be mandatory knowledge for all humans.

Did you also know that it is impossible to have negative thoughts with the corners of your mouth turned upwards?

Summarized: when you smile, you feel happy. And the one smile that guarantees true happiness can be generated by yourself. And if you do that, you not only look really happy, you actually become so. And at the same time you are released from your negative thoughts.

And those wrinkles…consider them to just be proof of your positivity. 

So…a smile is effectively the best thing to wear☺️.