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sproutedlavender · 7 months

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Life | Smiling Can Improve Your Life

Did you know that in addition to lifting your mood, smiling has health benefits?

Smiling can help relief stress, lower blood pressure, boost the immune system, and even reduce pain.

How is this possible? Well, your smile tells your brain that you are happy, triggering a release of hormones that bring actual feelings of joy and well-being.

Some studies have suggested that smiling, even when we don’t feel like smiling, has a positive effect on our emotional and physical health.

The facial muscle movements used to create a smile trigger the brain to produce feel-good hormones including endorphins (the body’s natural painkillers), dopamine, and serotonin; which in turn help to reduce stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.

Smiling causes us to feel happy, and feeling happy causes us to smile. All we need to do is trigger a smile to start the cycle.

This, however, is not always easy to do. Smiling is easy when things are going well. But how do you smile when you don’t feel like smiling? Some people suggest forcing a smile by holding a pencil or a chopstick horizontally with your teeth, or by practicing a smile while looking at yourself in the mirror.

While these techniques may work for some people, they don’t work for everybody. That’s why it’s important to prepare a toolkit that works for you.

Here are some tips to help you on your journey to a happier life:

1. First and foremost, happiness is a choice. You need to choose to smile, which can be very difficult to do when you are upset. However, finding a way to smile during a stressful situation or shortly after is worth the effort.

2. Turn to music. Music has the power to lift your mood, provided you choose songs that make you happy, so prepare a playlist in advance to have available for those stressful moments in your life.

3. Do some karaoke, singing along songs such as Abba’s "Dancing Queen" will make your lips curl up with the lyrics.

4. Watch funny videos. Create a playlist of videos that make you laugh or smile. Do animals make you smile? Babies? Silly people?

5. Visualize or recall an event that brings you joy. Make a list of things that make you happy so that you can have it accessible when you can’t find a reason to smile. You can also put together a few pictures of your loved ones, including your pets; places or things that make you smile. Reach for them when you need a little help with your smile.

The idea is not to ignore the situation, but to get you to a place where you can see it more clearly or from a different perspective without letting negative feelings bring you down or cloud your judgement.

When you smile, life gets brighter and you begin to see things in a more uplifting light.

Check out our post on 4 Small Habits to Lead a Happier Life

#life #happiness #happy habits #tips to smile #how to smile #smile more #how to be happy #music #abba #dancing queen

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whiteshipnightjar · 3 months

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Zoozve, my beloved

#i cannot tell you how much this made me smile just bc it's so full of love #moon #venus #zoozve #long post #sorry about that it's very long but it's very entertaining i hope you enjoy this lil zoozve gem haha #astronomy #astrophysics #space

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tadfools · 4 months

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You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

#this isnt bg3 specific btw im seeing a lot of fandoms rotting cause of this #ao3 #archive of our own #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #PLEASE YOU GUYS INTERACT WITH THE THINGS YOU READ #you’re not being weird or annoying!!! it doesn’t matter how old the fic is!!!#you can just say ‘I love this’ or ‘it’s three am and I haven’t slept yet cause I was reading this’#you can copy and paste a paragraph you like and add ‘!!!!!!’ after it #theories in the comments! mention when you think you’ve found foreshadowing!!!#if there’s a part where you have to physically put your phone down and smile off into the distantce? TELL THE AUTHOR #you can leave comments every chapter too!!! ITS NOT ANNOYING

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sitruuna-art · 3 months

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guys i don't think we can put him on our back

#ever since i learnt how big this man was my entire worldview had been shattered #dogday enjoyers better start hitting the gym #my art #sitruuna-art #fanart #poppy playtime #poppy playtime 3 #poppy playtime chapter 3 #poppy playtime fanart #smiling critters #dogday #player #poppy playtime player #poppy playtime dogday #high quality shitpost #click for higher quality #artists on tumblr

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healthmonastery · 8 months

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10 Easy Tips to Keep Smiling and Enhance Your Well-Being

Hey there, amazing readers! We're thrilled to share our latest blog post all about the incredible impact of smiling on our lives. 😄✨ Join us in embracing the joyous journey of spreading smiles. Let's unlock a world of positivity, one grin at a time. 😊🌈

A smile is a universal language that can brighten someone’s day and uplift your own spirits. However, maintaining a positive outlook and a genuine smile can sometimes be challenging in our busy lives.Let’s explore ten easy and effective tips to keep smiling and enhance your overall well-being. Incorporate these simple practices into your routine, and watch as your happiness and positivity…

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andthebeanstalk · 11 months

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Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.