Man : Mile a Smile (A Smile)

A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth. Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, joy, happiness, or amusement. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known.

 

 

 

Development of smiling

In infants

     Newborns often exhibit smiles within the first three days of their lives, especially while sleeping. However these early smiles are spontaneous and are not a response to outside stimulation. These early smiles are referred to as "reflex smiles."

     Between 6 and 8 weeks, most babies begin to exhibit "social smiles", meaning the baby will smile at his/her caregivers or in response to stimuli. Most babies laugh between 3 and 4 months

Adults

Frown and you frown alone, but smile and the whole world smiles with you. Not just any smile will do, though. With 19 variations on the smile, including 16 produced by enjoyable emotions, smiling is an incredibly important part of our lives.

 

1.    Benefits of a smile.

     The following benefits are bound to make you lean towards sharing a grin with others most of the day:

• Smiles improve your appearance.

      "A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks". All you need to do is to think about how you feel about a person who is frowning and a person who is smiling – who tends to be the better looking?

• Smiles make things right again

     The reflection of smile say much more than words can. A smile can restore the balance of imperfection. Just need to be to make amends where needed.

• Smiles create trust and rapport.

      A smile is a great way of establishing mutual trust and rapport to others.

• Recipe of feeling good.

     If you're feeling a little blue, insert happy thoughts and add a smile. It will trick your mind into feeling better, as endorphins are released to reduce physical or emotional stress.

• Smiles make other people feel good.

    An open-mouthed smile is visible from further away than a frown, offering people reassurance that you're friendly.

2.    Become comfortable with smiling.

• A smile always looks good.

     Trust that your smile makes you look great.

• A smile is professional.

     A smile will humanize you and make you appear more approachable.

• A smile makes you real.

       Any form of vulnerability can be unmoved by a smile, opening yourself up to others and people will respond better.

3.    Make your smile genuine.

• Think happy thoughts.

      The easiest way to a fantastic, genuine smile is to be happy. Think about someone you care about (perhaps the person standing in front of you as you smile), genuinely love or think of a funny joke or the happiest moments in your life.

• Be genuine. Draw on your heartfelt feelings – find one single thing in your heart that is positive about the person or situation – then smile.
• Love people and your life.

        It's much easier to produce friendly, easygoing, genuine smiles when you love what you do, people and humanity in general. Be grateful, smiles come more naturally.

• Be playful.

         Intense times can make us too serious. See life as an adventure, be gentle on yourself and watch children at play. Playful will bring a smile to your face easily.

 

4.    Smile with your eyes.
       A wholehearted smile will naturally draw in the eyes (called a Duchene smile). It is commonplace to hear a person say "her eyes were smiling". The eyes are essential for a genuine, warm smile. Your eyes light up, twinkle, and reflect your happiness. While it's hard to fake this unless you're really feeling it, you can try this exercise:
   
   
   5.    Practice your smile.
   There is no harm in practicing your smile – doing so will increase your smiling confidence, improve your sense of well-being, and help you to learn which of your smiles are your best. Look at photos of yourself smiling, with a closed mouth, open mouth, and from different angles.
   • Find that picture and focus on what your face is doing.
   Practice in front of a mirror until you get it just right. Keep practicing, and pay attention to how that great smile feels.
   • Remember that you're beautiful (inside and out); your smile is bound to look better if you feel good about yourself!
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   6.    Expect smiling to be difficult in some situations.
   Smiling on demand can be difficult.  In these sorts of cases, smiling needs to come from your memory of good smiles along with a little self-kidding or jokes in the head.
   • For a photo, smile 20 percent more than you think you should.
   • Smile wide and show the top row of teeth.
   • Return to the earlier steps on thinking happy and practicing your smile. Simply know that you can do this without faking it. You should feel beautiful when you smile, or just act like you are the prettiest person in the world.
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   7.    Maintain good oral hygiene. One thing that can cause you to fear smiling is the worry that there is something stuck between your teeth, or that you have bad breath.
   • Visit the dentist for a polishing or whitening. If your teeth are stained, consider your lifestyle habits that bring this about and try to minimize the impacts of such habits as smoking or drinking too much red wine, coffee, soft drinks, etc.
   • Keep your lips in great shape to prevent chapping.
   • Deal with bad breath. If it's surface, cleaning and fresheners should be adequate. If these do not work, it may be a sign of an underlying health problem, so see your doctor for advice.

Tips

• Opportunities for smiling are all around you. Make the most of them.
• You don't need perfect teeth to have a perfect smile.
• Wear clothes that smile.

§  Yellow is the color for dependability.

§  A soft yellow is non-threatening and friendly.

§  Warm colors from the yellow family are welcoming.

§  Golds, browns, golden-oranges, are all dependable colors of friendship. Blues are passive and calm colors.

§  soft blues project a serenity and quiet peacefulness.

§  Avoid reds that are come across as aggressive and threatening.

• Don't let the anger of others get you down.
• You've probably heard of "contagious" or "infectious" smiles. There's a reason for this – when you smile, it tends to make others around you smile.
• Ever laugh hysterically about something, take that memory but just laugh slightly and now you have a natural pretty smile to counter bad feelings.
• A lot of men feel uncomfortable about smiling at strangers, especially at other males, then just offer a casual "Hi", or "Hey man!", or "What's going' on?" and then smile.
• Try a light smile: don't show as many teeth as you would when you're laughing. It's the best smile for flirting - light and seductive.
•  Be yourself, be natural, and be genuine. Everybody has a smile waiting to burst out from inside them somewhere!
• Pretend like you're laughing when you're smiling.

Warnings

• A fake smile can make you look phony, nervous, or even dangerous, so don't just try to put on a smile
• There is no scientific study saying how many muscles it takes to smile over frowning.  It's probably just better to accept that smiling is worthwhile because the longer term benefits are worth the effort!