Every smile helps you stay fresh and young

For starters, let us know that smiling activates the release of neuropeptides that work toward fighting off stress. Neuropeptides are tiny molecules that allow neurons to communicate. They facilitate messaging to the whole body when we are happy, sad, angry, depressed, excited. The feel good neurotransmitters dopamine, endorphins and serotonin are all released when a smile flashes across your face as well. This not only relaxes your body, but it can lower your heart rate and blood pressure.

Also the endorphins also act as a natural pain reliever - 100% organically and without the potential negative side effects of synthetic concoctions. Finally, the serotonin release brought on by your smile serves as an anti-depressant/mood lifter. Many of today’s pharmaceutical anti-depressants also influence the levels of serotonin in your brain, but with a smile, you again don’t have to worry about negative side effects – and you don’t need a prescription from your doctor” -There’s Magic In Your Smile

And translated to everyday language → Smiling is something that comes natural, even to blind people that never actually saw anyone smiling. Since it′s a natural thing to do when you are happy, smiling even without any major reason may boost your mood and morale. The act of smiling, I believe I read, triggers something in the brain to release (what I call) “happy hormones” basically, tricking the mind, into following the action. At any rate, I know that it's searchable and has been studied. I recommend searching and reading up. It’s actually really interesting! Too much, for me to break down, on an answer string but I do hope that you find the answers that you’re looking for.

Laughing does even more so. We release the same positive happy inducing hormones when we laugh regardless of whether the laughter is contrived or a spontaneous reaction. I suffer from migraine occasionally. I have found that as soon as I sense the usual early warning signs of a migraine starting if I can laugh for as long as possible and as frequently as possible then I often can stop the migraine developing. Even if it does develop the symptoms are far less severe and end more quickly. Smiling and laughing help relieve stress.

But there are people who fake even their smiles. I'd rather be in pain, feel it in it's entirety, and let it heal naturally than fake that it's not there. Like Liz Taylor said, “ Bandages don't fix bullet wounds.” Oh hey, hi, look at you, you've a whole big gaping bleeding scar on your stomach, and wow! You're smiling and exclaiming that it's a wonderful day and you're counting your blessings. This describes literally, no one, ever. It's one thing to not scratch a wound to prevent it from becoming worse, but acting like it's not there isn't helping anyone.

So if you don't feel happiness, don't buy into Pseudo-science and fake it. Emotions of all things should be allowed to stay natural. So, each night, I smile for about two hours straight. I act excited, like learning English is the most fun thing in the world! That month where I was so stressed and sad, I would dread teaching at night. I did not want to smile. I did not want to act excited when I felt so down.

But, I had no choice. So I did it regardless of how I felt. And after teaching, after smiling for two hours straight, I really did feel quite happy. My stress and sadness disappeared. It would last for about an hour after I finished teaching, until the circumstances I was stressed about flooded my emotions again. Before that happened, I never really believed that smiling tricks your brain into thinking you’re happy. But for me, it was definitely true. Smiling completely elevated my mood. The effects wore off about an hour after I finished smiling. Cheers!