Smile

Perhaps some of the simplest advice I have ever been given is to smile.

Smiling is much more than a simple action, it has great psychological benefit.

When you smile, you are actually using over 80 muscles in your face.

As a result of this change in physiology, almost everything about the way you feel changes.

Napolean Hill wisely said that you should smile when you least feel like doing so.

This is because your state will be changed when it most needs to be.

Just for a day, wear a smile. You will be glad that you did.

There is a simple exercise that highlights the power that the act of smiling has on your emotional state. This simple exercise goes like this. 1) Put a big, smirky, funny, eye-wide smile on your face and 2) without changing any muscles of your face or any intesnity with which you are smiling, try to think of something depressing. If you did this exercise correctly, you will find that it is physically impossible to do this. Take sollace from this fact and learn that the easiest way to be happy is to smile.