The World’s Most Powerful Gesture

The World’s Most Powerful Gesture

           

Hello there! What have you been up to all these years? It’s me Annisa Fauziyah who would like to affectionately speak up my mind about the world’s most powerful gesture. Guess what it would be? Yaapp, SMILING!

The most popular advice when you are sad is to smile. Sometimes you are just being sceptical. But before you get mad, try to smile and enjoy the small facts behind a smile. Forcing a smile actually can boost your mood and relieve stress.

Me personally, I’ve been loving to smile before acknowledging to embrace smiling. My beloved mom taught me how to do such a thing regularly cause it was one of my Prophet lovely gesture.

After recently discussing which words matter the most when we talk, digging into the facts of smiling was one of the most mentioned suggestions. So here we go:

Smile is a universal sign of happiness. Even babies are born with the ability to smile. Newborns can smile during their sleep eventhough they never learn how to do it. Since smile is more attractive than any makeup, smiles can also help you to increase your career. Smiling person is considered to be more sociable and confident.

Beside, what does happen to our brain when we smile? Let's say you experience a positive situation and you see a friend you haven't met in a long time. This means that neuronal signals travel from the cortex of your brain to the brainstem (the oldest part of our brains). From there, the cranial muscle carries the signal further towards the smiling muscles in your face. Sounds simple enough, right? And yet, that's only where it starts. Once the smiling muscles in our face contract, there is a positive feedback loop that now goes back to the brain and reinforces our feeling of joy.

 

Nonetheless, most importantly, smiling can be learnt. The other words, to put more precisely, re-learnt! Most of us forget how to smile genuinely over time, as we adopt social smiles more and more. Here is a guide to get your genuine smile appears back:

• ·        Imagine of something joy before an event.

Talking about imagination, as a human, we can be imaging something easily, can’t we? One of the best ways to make your smile more genuine and real, comes from researcher Andrew Newberg:

“We just asked a person, before they engage in a conversation with someone else, visualize someone they deeply love, or recall an event that brought them deep satisfaction and joy. It’s such an easy exercise, and we train people to do it in our workshops.”

• ·        Smile in front of your mirror, keep practicing it!

To be honest, I regularly do it due to the fact that I have to be thankful for what I have aquired which means a gift from my Almighty God. The power of a smile, even practiced in the mirror is that it can invoke the emotion immediately.

• ·        Be comfortable with smiling!

Personally, I’ve found that developing a better smile starts with being very comfortable to smile a lot. If in your head, you can imagine yourself going through the day and smiling lots to everyone and everything, that’s often when a happier life starts. Yes, this might be just a small change in thinking. And yet, for me personally, that is the most important part to smile more every day.

Well, those are why smiling is important to be done as a personality. If you have figured out something about smiling, don’t be doubtful to share, I’d love your insights on this.

Thank you :)

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