Be Motivated: Smile with your 15 muscles !!!

Motivate yourself with smiling everyday. We only use 15 muscles to smile but take 72 muscles to frown! Amazing, right ? We can bright our day just a smile. Believe it or not, you will feel more positive for your day.

Cheer up friends!! There are a lot benefits of smiling or laughing. A laugh will have a major changes in our breathing, heart rate and hormonal activities. This is all very good to our health. Moreover, smile and laugh is very " contagious " . I am sure most of you knew the movie " Patch Adam" act by Robin William. Patch Adam is an American physician and professional clown who clowns in hospitals , orphanages and prisons. He done a test in the movie by testing how many people will reply a smile back when he smile with the strangers. So, it can be work. We can cheer ourselves up by just laughing and smile. It doesn't need a joke or a comedy movie. We can just laugh and smile automatically. After that, smile and laugh become our habits. A smile or laugh can simply just light up your day. When we smile, everything will look different. Try it yourself and brighten up your day.


Dr. Robert Holden, founder of the Laughter Clinic and Happiness Project in UK explain in his articles " Laughter is the best medicine" that --------" Laughter has 2 steps actions on the physical body: (1) it stimulates; (2) it relaxes. During laughter, the body is stimulated and exercised; after laughter, the body relaxes and calm itself.


The following are some of the benefits of laughing:

1. Laughing is a good exercises. Not only using 15 facial muscles when we laugh, it also involve our lungs, abdomen, leg and back muscle. It will cause major changes in our respiration, heart rate and also hormones. Laughing involve the abdominal muscle help us in digestion improve absorption. Moreover, laughing can also burn calories and reduces weight.
   
2. Laughing is a prevention for diseases. It can reduces the risk of getting heart attack and stroke, and reduces blood sugar level in diabetics. It can also relieves allergic reaction by release natural antihistamine.
   
3. Laughing is a " natural painkiller". Laughing can reduces pain by releasing hormone endorphin from the brain. It can also improves attentiveness, pulse and heart rate.
4. Laughing is a " stress management" . It relieve stress, depression , anxiety by reduces the releasing the stress hormones. We can laugh and say " This will also pass" when we face problem and get very tension.
5. Laughing is a " natural antibiotic". It will active our T-cell ( immune cells) to strengthens the body's immune system. It make us more healthy and it is free.
   
6. Laughing is a " good communication tool" . When we smile, it will help us in socialization. People will like to be friends with us because we are friendly and always smile.
   

Smile and laugh can motivate and cheer you up everyday. It is a cheep method to brighten yourself everyday. WHY NOT GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE TO BE HAPPY EVERYDAY. There are a lot of benefits of laughing/ smiling. Faking a smile/ laugh will also give you same effect. Cheer up my friends. Get motivated today by a laugh.