The Amazing Benefits of a Smile
Smiling is an easy way to encourage and experience a healthy flow of Radiant Circuits energies. When you smile, your brain produces neuropeptides that fight off stress and feel-good neurotransmitters or “happy hormones” known as dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins that can instantly lift your mood. These endorphins also act as a natural pain reliever. Here’s another great reason to turn that frown upside down-- it takes about 13 muscles to smile and about 47 to frown. Imagine that! And if you’re having one of those days where you need a reason to smile (or laugh) here’s a fun list that might just do the trick!
"There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it." -- attributed to Mindy Kaling
There was an old lady of Lynn
Who was so excessively thin
That when she essayed
To drink lemonade
She slipped through the straw and fell in!
-- Unknown
An exercise for people who are out of shape: Begin with a five-pound potato bag in each hand. Extend your arms straight out from your sides, hold them there for a full minute, and then relax. After a few weeks, move up to ten-pound potato bags. Then try 50-pound potato bags, and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-pound potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. Once you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag. -- Beverly Gross, Reader’s Digest
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short
-- Unknown
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." -- attributed to Lucille Ball
“If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; if you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog!” -- attributed to Jack Kornfield