SMILE

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

A smile, like a picture, is a universal language that transcends not only every cultural
boundary but also every conceptual boundary. No matter what village or town or city you
go to, a smile means the same thing regardless of your age, culture, ethnicity, financial
status, faith, or nationality. A smile is a smile is a smile, and a smile by any other name
looks the same. It comes from the heart; thus, there are no misinterpretations. Innately,
we know that we are all in this together and by smiling, we can unleash powerful forces
from within.
For many years, I traveled the world as a photographer, journalist, painter, and musician,
and I have yet to be untouched by the gracious, loving, heartwarming smiles offered to
me in every country of the world Ive been to, be it the Canary Islands, Germany,
France, England, Central America, South America, Mexico, the United States, and
Canada. Wherever you travel in the world, a smile is the currency that will buy you
whatever you need. When you smile, it circles the world. So many languages are in the
world, and a smile speaks them all!
In the field of research and clinical data related to the heart as an organ of perception
and activity, the data shows that the heart rather than the brain is the main organ in the
body for organizing and distributing information. Research proves that smiling could be
the MOST powerful thing you can do. And throughout this research, you can see no
other thing in the world can cost so little but mean so much for so many, including you!
Smiles are contagious, be a carrier!
A smile is the breath of the soul and the spirit revealed, painted upon the face for all to
see, transcending space and time. A smile has a very rich and deeply empowering value
that speaks the language of eternity and unity. A smile will enhance your life, body,
mind, and spirit and that of all those around you. You can inspire everyone with a smile.
It is truly the spirit of GOD in action, the spirit of your own soul saying, Give to yourself
and give to others, and you will immediately receive in turn the gratitude from your heart
and from those around you.
A good world starts with nothing less than a smile!
A world filled with happiness, goodness, joy, and uplifting thoughts and feelings begins
with a smile. You know the value of a smile. How many things, other than breathing, are
so common to each persons needs and desires? What other thing than breathing and
drinking water can equate the power of a smile? A smile is free! You can give a smile to
yourself and you can give it to others for free.
A smile is a powerful weapon. You can even break ice with it.

In negotiating, a smile is the quickest way to an agreement. A frown equals no, and a
smile equals YES! A great way to bypass peace negotiations, mediation, or conflict
resolution is simply with an authentic smilethe Duchenne smile, as it is called (more on
this later)smiling with your lips, with your eyes, and with your heartand meaning it.
Despite linguistic and nationalistic differences, the smile gets through; it speaks to the
heart rather than the mind. A frown says no, a smile says, Yes, of course!
Some people show an even more authentic smile and acceptance and love by actually
weeping while smilingsmiling, weeping for joy, or crying for joy, but still smiling and
mixing the two, as it is something that touches their inner feelings and hence, causes
them to weep with joy.
A smile of encouragement at the right moment may act like sunlight on
a closed-up flower; it may be the turning point for a struggling life.
Smiling is a simple, effective, and universal way to communicate within as well as to
those you meet in life. Communicate your joy, your happiness, your abundance, your
generosity, and your appreciation for life, all of which will return and affect you
beneficially on all levelsmental, emotional, and physical, and a smile will take you the
extra mile.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are trifles,
to be sure; but scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Some people have lost their smile. Share yours with them. Since a smile costs nothing
but brings such great returns, isnt it worth it? Smile. Send out a good vibe and this will
bounce back on you. Those who spread joy, happiness, and smiling cannot help but
reap the rewards of smilingwhich are happiness and joy coming back from others to
you.
A smile enriches those who receive without making those poorer who give. It takes but a
moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. No one is so rich or mighty that
he cannot get along without it and no one is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it.
Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of
no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile.
Give them one of yours, as no one needs a smile so much as he who has nothing left to
give.
The smile signals your own heart and mind that everything is okay, that you can relax
and create a better world, from right inside you, from your heart and on your face. It
shouts to the world that your intentions are wholesome, good, and trustworthy.
A SMILE is the levity and flying upward to Heaven balanced
by the gravity and the grounding and the roots of the earth.
Perhaps you recall a time in your life when a smile and a kind word meant the world to
you and how very deeply it brought you something you wanted and needed. Smile at
your heart if it is anxious. Use this smile like you would a wholesome natural medicine,
for indeed, laughter is the best medicine.

PUT ON A HAPPY FACE!

A smile is the light in the window of the soul
indicating that the heart is at home.
Nineteenth century scientists were obsessed with the human head and face. They measured skulls and tried
to correlate brain size with ability. Phrenologists tried to predict human characteristics from the shapes of
skulls. Criminologists tried to define the human face.
French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne mapped one hundred facial muscles in 1862. His work gave him
insight into smiling. He pointed out that false or even half-hearted smiles involve only muscles of the mouth,
but the "sweet emotions of the soul" activate the pars lateralis muscles around the eyes.
In other words, authentic smiles activate muscles around the eyes, an action that crinkles the skin around
the eyes. Since then, physiologists have talked about the Duchenne marker in a smilethe crinkling of your
crows feet, a slight droop of your eyelids, along with a lift of your cheeks and corners of your mouth. You
know the sign. You recognize true delight in a friend's face.
The act of smiling is a gift that gives a little piece of joy
and sunshine to brighten anothers day.
Psychologist Paul Ekman has gone back to the smile and found something very important. It can work in
reverse. Dr. Ekman studied facial structure and smiling in both women and men and found that producing
this Duchenne smile can bring about a sense of euphoria, happiness, joy, and genuine well being. The
Duchenne smile, it seems, is accompanied by increased activity in the left prefrontal cortex, known to be the
seat of positive emotions, your pleasure center. What Ekman found is that you can activate your pleasure
center by putting on a Duchenne smile.
Yes, you can literally make yourself happy by smiling!
We have been conditioned in our society to believe that a smile that does not come as an authentic
Duchenne smile is absolutely cold and fake, but what we are finding is that we have a process of repeating
and recreating a state of happiness. So, when you have a formula, it is important to remember to repeat
what works.
However, only spontaneity creates the maximum result. A spontaneous smile activates even more reactions
in your pleasure center than does a voluntary smile. So, you cannot fake happiness, but you can create it
within yourself. And when you do, you deeply touch everyone around you.
You can fake a smile and create happiness within yourself. It almost seems like this is contradictory. Of
course, in life there are many contradictory things where both are true, never either or. You personally can
use what might be considered a fake smile even if you are not happy, and you can actually activate the
hormones and neurotransmitters to make yourself feel happy.
This is remarkable research. The physiology of smiling creates a biochemical result. This is why it is best to
"fake it till you make it" and act happy even if it feels unnatural, and no matter what anybody thinks, because
as you start acting like you are really smiling and really happy, you actually feel more like you are! It is
somewhat like an actor taking on a role and totally giving oneself to the character, finally being the
character. And of course, this affects us whether we are optimistic or pessimistic in our whole outlook on
life, and thus, it affects our whole biochemistry.
In the past decades, extensive research was done on having research subjects come in with no training and
put on different facial expressions, one of which was smiling. It was found that smiling definitely increased
the persons sense of well-being, health, and happiness by simply using the facial muscles differently.
So, what do you do when you dont feel like smiling and you dont even feel like faking it? Well, you can be
grateful that you are not being forced to smile and that may make you smile. Remember, it is neither
mandatory to smile nor to be happy!

The research behind this is definite and precise. Many motivational and inspirational teachers have taught
this. Science says you can actually use your physiologyin this case, smilingto create a biochemical
response, activating neuro-hormones, endorphins, and nitric oxide to make you feel great.
Success leaves clues. Think about it. What was the state you were in when you felt happy? Well, go back to
that state rather than trying to find an esoteric mental way to be happy. Smile until you're happy instead of
going, "I wish I was happy so I could smile."
Always remember to be happy because
you never know whos falling in love with your smile.
This may go against some of the research I talk about in which there are authentic smiles and inauthentic
smiles, but we can also realize there is an authentic try at being happy, and an authentic try at smiling.
So, maybe if you stood in front of the mirror and learned how to put on a Duchenne smile, it might develop
those muscles around the eyes and the brain-mind connection so that the heart can take over again, and
you can feel the joy, happiness, and lovejust from smilingand not waiting for somebody else to change
your life, not waiting for a significant other to come into your life to allow you to be happy, or to have to eat
chocolate to be happy.
You can SMILE and be happy!
Smiles are the souls kisses.
Minna Thomas Antrim
A smile comes from a much deeper place, and it was actually planted inside of you by that which created
you and everything else in your universe. Maybe it is worth waiting for a smile to come spontaneouslybut
who is to say that your desire to create the smile and not wait for it is not part of the spontaneous universe
you live in?
So whether you spontaneously pop up a smile on your face, or whether you follow some of the protocol in
this book:
SMILE FOR YOUR HEALTH!
SMILE FOR YOUR HAPPINESS AND YOUR JOY!
SMILE FOR YOUR ABUNDANCE!
SMILE FOR THE FACT THAT NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO SMILE!

Chapter 3
COME OUT SMILING

After birth, we can see for ourselves that babies sometimes smile, especially when face to face
with a smiling mom or dad. When a baby returns that smile, it is a wonderful demonstration of
what babies can see and feel. But, psychologists have had their doubts about these smiles for
the last hundred years; that is the perspective of an unusual psychologist, David B. Chamberlain,
Ph.D., who concentrates on studies of baby behavior in the earliest phase of their development-from conception to birth.
During the 20th century, Chamberlain says, theories about babies smiling after birth depended
heavily on how much brain the babies had and when certain parts of the brain were definitely
connected. From that viewpoint, newborn babies were judged to have insufficient brainpower for
them to feel pain, have emotions, remember anything, or have authentic smiles. The first smiles
after birth, therefore, were merely reflexive and void of personal meaning. (This is what they
also said about baby cries, and baby pain.) Eventually, researchers agreed that true social
smiling in mutual face-to-face interactions, like those of babies and parents, could be expected
around six weeks after birth. I was dubious about this claim, Chamberlain confesses, because

at just ten days after birth, I had a warm, smiling dialog with my first son that ended in a
responsive smile accompanied by a breath-catching gasp and small explosive sound that
revealed both rapt attention and an effort to respond verbally.
This theory about smiling in six weeks after birth began to erode when scientists seriously
measured the behavior of babies born prematurely. These babies are ten to twelve weeks
younger than full 40-week newborns. What these explorers discovered, says Chamberlain, was
that the first smiles were seen while premature babies were dreaming. Being out of the womb, it
was easy to observe the rapid eye movements (REMs) which mark dreaming in sleep. They also
found that premature babies were really big dreamers. The density of smiling for them was 34
smiles per 100 minutes of REM time versus 8.8 smiles per 100 minutes of REM time for full-term
newborns. Looking at the larger picture, researchers found that REM states (dreaming) fall
progressively through our life span from 8 hours in newborns to less than one hour in old age.
Chamberlain emphasizes that researchers were able to see and measure the opposite ways
premies reacted to particular dreams in their breathing, body movements, and facial expressions.
Body language was dramatic: 10 to 15 seconds of writhing of the torso, limbs, and digits,
accompanied by frowns and grimaces apparently associated with bad dreams. In sharp
contrast were the calm, smooth movements accompanied by smiling, reflecting what we would
call sweet dreams. This revealing evidence demonstrated not only dreaming and smiling at
younger ages but clearly established dreams as qualitatively different and very personal in their
effect.
Exactly how early can dreaming start? Regular ultrasound instruments have established first
REMs as early as 21 weeks from conception. More recently, new 3-D high-speed ultrasound
technology has given us a new kind of evidence confirming early smiling in close-up pictures of
baby faces showing smiles as early as 20 weeks. Is smiling innate? Yes. Smiling is an innate
response to feeling good, as crying is to feeling bad.
Important evidence about this, Chamberlain reminds us, came from a pair of notable obstetricians
in France and Sweden who began to look more closely at the emotional expressions on the faces
of newborns. French obstetrician, Frederick Leboyer, was the first to take seriously the unhappy
looks on uncounted hundreds of faces of babies born under his own care. According to
Chamberlain, this interest was undoubtedly sparked by a profound experience in personal
therapy when he recalled his own birth. After this, Leboyer became clear that newborn
expressions were authentic and reflected how they truly felt at their births. He set to work thinking
how to change the standard birth protocols of his day and reinvent them to honor the babys
feelings. (Dont you wonder why thousands of other doctors before him had never thought of
this?) Details of the new plan were revealed in the book, Birth Without Violence (1974), setting a
new standard for gentle birthing with low lighting, a quiet, reverential atmosphere in the birth
room, and--ready for use at the appropriate moment--a womb-temperature bath. With every
adjustment, Leboyer watched for a change in baby bodies and faces, and they finally appeared.
Babies began to look peaceful and smile.
Meanwhile, over in Sweden the noted obstetrician Dr. John Lind was struck by the photos from
France showing the anguished faces of babies at delivery. Having delivered thousands of babies
himself at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm (without seeing faces like this), Lind felt something
was amiss. To prove a point, he started making photos of newborns in his delivery room until he
had accumulated 130 of them. After analysis, it was clear that baby faces in Sweden were
different from those in France and other Western countries! The photos showed, not anguish and
pain, but curiosity and often great expectations according to Lind (1978). This research spoke
volumes about the good conditions for birthing in Sweden (at that time and still today) compared
to most other countries. Babies know the difference; the proof is on their faces.
In far-away Thailand, an obstetrician, Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn at Hua Chiew Hospital,
Bangkok, probably holds the world record for smiling babies. Why? Because of a systematic

program of prenatal stimulation and enrichment that he offers couples beginning about half way
through pregnancy. Mothers are encouraged to take time each day for a warm bath, to sit in a
rocking chair, relax, look at a beautiful picture, and listen to classical Thai music. The doctor
recommends abdominal massage three times a week along with breathing exercises,
visualizations of birth, a multi-sensory program of speaking and singing to the child, playing a
game with a bell, and other activities to enhance bonding. And the result? Graduates from this
program have the highest frequency of both spontaneous and social smiles in the first week of life
than have been reported elsewhere in Thailand or anywhere else in the world.

In America, a smiling baby is almost never seen! Why not? What are we doing wrong? Doctors
here do not discuss this as a problem, nor do they look for anything different. Instead, the typical
chorus of screams and cries at birth are accepted as normal. Doctors even congratulate babies
when they cry strongly. In fact, crying is the only way for a baby to receive a full Apgar Score--the
ubiquitous measure of baby wellbeing in American medicine. Obviously, there is no campaign to
lower the number of babies born in anger and pain and no plan to reward parents who give birth
to smiling babies. Chamberlain has suggested that things might change if birth practitioners were
rewarded for babies who smile during delivery or were penalized financially for babies born
screaming in protest!
But can we realistically expect babies to be born smiling? The answer to that question comes
from the babies who do. These babies are teaching us something we have a hard time
understanding--the fact that they like the way they are being treated at birth. Their smiles are not
silly little reflexes any more than their piercing cries are irrelevant to what we are doing to them.
Babies, in fact, practice all through gestation in the womb to perceive with the whole range of
their senses the intimate world that surrounds them. They know when dangerous things are
happening to them and to their mothers and fathers, Dr. Chamberlain claims.
Babies also know when conditions are right. Consider the calm state of babies born in water.
Photographs document how much better babies feel when their mothers have had the comfort of
laboring in water, and when they have entered the world by passing from the amniotic sea to a
larger pool and into their mothers waiting arms. Chamberlain remembers a photo of a water baby
on her mothers tummy, hand on the nipple, and smiling ear-to-ear just seconds after birth. Water
birth advocate and author Barbara Harper comments that these babies seem to know their
mothers have had an ecstatic experience; they express total peace and wear a thank you! on
their faces.
Chamberlain concludes: In an age of violence, we do well to watch baby faces carefully and to
believe what they are telling us. In the past, we neither watched nor believed. We have not let
baby faces determine the direction of obstetrical practice--in spite of the poetic and powerful
warnings of Frederick Leboyer. We are still holding to the mistaken assumption that gruesome
faces and angry screaming are normal. This myth befits a violent society. But smiling babies
have been trying to teach us a higher standard for birth: birth without violence as a foundation for
life without violence. Lets make smiling babies an urgent national priority. I believe it would make
a huge difference in our personal happiness and in the health of our society.
Smiling is an innate response to feeling good, as crying is to feeling bad.
David Chamberlain, Ph.D.

WHENCE THAT THREE CORNERED

SMILE OF BLISS?
THREE ANGELS GAVE ME

AT ONCE A KISS
George MacDonald

4
IS IT REAL?
What do smiles really mean? You know the sign; you recognize true delight in a
friends face. Its no surprise that were all put off by a false smile because it
looks so fake. Its not the truth. Once we see the real thing, the fake becomes
literally offensive and it looks cold and harsh. Does this mean that certain smiles
cover up the fact that theres not an authentic heart-felt emotion of caring or real
happiness behind the smile?
You cannot fake happiness, but you can create it within yourself, and when you
do, you deeply touch everyone around you. Another Frenchman, 17th century
author and moralist Francois de La Rochefoucauld had the idea, as he wrote:
To win that wonder of the world,
a smile from her bright eyes,
I fought my King, and
would have hurled
the gods out of their skies.
If smiling doesnt feel right, just stand in front of the mirror and find out what looks
like a smile. You dont have to be an actor to get into the mood. Just remember
that it will make you feel good and it will make you release endorphins and other
feel good biochemicals just by doing it and the more you do it, the better you will
get at it, whether you feel like it or not. The time that you should smile is when
you really dont feel like it because doing it will make you feel better. Smiling will
give you the natural painkillers to make it through any challenge you are facing,
be it mental, emotional, or physical.
The smile is a learned response. The more you do it the more it becomes
natural. The more you do it, the better you feel and the more reasons you have to
feel good and to smile.
So you see, the reverse is true. Sometimes you have to smile when you dont
feel like it, and maybe those corners of your eyes wont crinkle up but youre still
getting the effects you want and it will be contagious, like laughter. Sooner or
later, someone will smile at you and youll smile back, and theyll smile back at
you and it will become a conditioned reflex. At that point, you have reached
natural spontaneity, and it is a real smile! Just keep at it!

What do you do when a photographer says, Smile? Some people say the word
cheese that makes the corners of their mouths rise up. They say that to
themselves and produce an artificial smile, a polite pose. Others are readily able
to give it a radiant authentic smile.
Look at the photographs in a high school yearbook as Martin Seligman has done
and you can easily identify these two types of smiles. One is genuine and one is
make-believe. A genuine smile has been found to predict a persons level of
happiness in later life. A genuine smile, this Duchenne smile, is the one element
which allows us to positively respond to people in our environment and to signal
them that we welcome them into our space and our life.
Psychological researchers have coded all of the photographs in a 1960s
womens college yearbook and found that half of those smiling had a Duchenne
smile. All of the students were subsequently interviewed at ages 26, 43, and 52.
That means that this has been a long test regarding the state of their marriages,
their satisfaction with life, and their happiness level. It was found that the women
with the genuine smile showing real happiness in 1960 consequently consistently
got married, stayed married, and reported a higher sense of personal well-being
than the women who just gave a polite half-hearted fake smiles. But remember,
fake it til you make it.
When Professor Ekman was using measures of brain wave activity, he
discovered that a spontaneous authentic smile was accompanied by increased
activity in an area of the brain known to be the seat of positive emotions. He also
found that if a person intentionally produces an eye-crinkling smile that those
same pleasure centers are activated, although not as intensely as with the
spontaneous smile. Thus, this fake it til you make it, created smile, has been
proven in the laboratory in brain wave research with Paul Ekman that even if you
are not doing the authentic spontaneous, heartfelt Duchenne smile, you still get
activity in the pleasure centers that produce positive emotions by just acting like
youre smiling.
This is very significant research because the more we smile the better we feel
and thus, the more we attract people who want to be around us. And the happier
we are, and the more we smile, we attract more smiling people and make them
feel good, so we all end up smiling and feeling better simply because we just
went ahead and tried to smile.
Smiling is like bodybuilding so work those smiling muscles! Thus, it appears that
we can make ourselves somewhat happier by smiling on purpose if we smile the
right kind of smile. So try to smile a Duchenne smile even if youre faking it. Look
in the mirror when you have a fake smile, then smile with your eyes and you can
see that it really looks like youre happy and you care, that you are truly
displaying a good feelinga good vibeand this will bounce back to you. Thus,
we say that those who spread joy and happiness by smiling cant help but reap
the rewards of joy, happiness, and smiles coming back from others.

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THE INNER SMILE
The inner smile is a simple yet profound meditation based on Taoist and Chinese
meditation practices. The inner smile can ease emotional or physical tension
and is quite natural to any person regardless of their philosophy in life. It is a
powerful relaxation technique that utilizes the expanding energy of happiness
and joy and the good feelings associated with smiling, and it communicates with
the internal organs of the body, and the second brain in the abdomen, known as
the hara, and the universe as well.
The inner smile is centered on generating the benevolent qualities of a genuine
smile that we usually offer to others through our face and our body gestures. The
inner smile is an opportunity to offer a smile to the whole being using an inwardly
directed energetic projection of the joy and healing qualities of a smile to yourself
rather than to the world.
Let your body, heart, and organs smile. As you redirect the energy of a smile
inward, visualize your organs or your whole body smiling, thus generating
endorphins, nitric oxide, and other bio-chemicals benefiting the immune system,
the regenerative system, growth hormones, and DHEA.
Find a quiet place. Sit in a comfortable chair or in seated meditation or lie down
on your back with your arms at your sides. Many people integrate the inner smile
into Hatha yoga practice. Focus inward, closing your mind to outer distractions,
and visualize a smile in your body, your heart, lungs, brain, eyes, and your other
organs. Scan your body and relax any tension you may be holding. Let your
spine rise from your pelvis as if a balloon is drawing you up. Draw your chin
slightly in and keep your spine straight to allow the energy to flow.
Sense a feeling of natural happiness and joy, as though it emanates from behind
your eyes or another internal place. Some people like to focus on the inner smile
generating initially in the heart but use whatever feeling or visualization you have.
As you continue, visualize your inner smile cascading like a waterfall throughout
your body, flowing down your spine into your heart and lungs, then your stomach
and spleen, through your ribs, into your liver, kidneys, colon and intestines, your
lower belly, down to your legs, and out into your feet.
The inner smile can be a complete meditation or prayerful absorption. When you
feel you are done, bring your hands together in prayer or salutation or meditative
mudra and complete your meditation with a moment of gratitude, reflection, or

prayer to seal the energy of your meditation. Transmit the energy of that inner
smile through your outer smile to everyone you meet.

It will reflect on you as a smile from everyone around you. The inner smile and
outer smiles are contagious. You can cultivate the inner smile anytime
throughout the day and fill your heart with compassion and love as well as that of
everyone around you.
Also, the inner smile makes you very aware and sensitive to your internal body
and your inner self. This energy is built up and increased by doing the inner
smile. It is vital to your progress in all practices and activities in life. Make the
inner smile the foundation of your prayer life or your meditation, or take simple
inner smile breaks during the day. Its important to take your attention inward,
away from the world of sensory bombardment. Feel your body.
By learning to smile inwardly to the organs and glands, the whole body will feel
loved and appreciated, stress and tension will be counteracted, and the flow of
energy or chi will be increased from within and from the universe.
How can something so simple be so powerful? The Inner Smile by female yoga
teacher, Lilias Folan, can be purchased in audiotape or CD from the Relaxation
Company, at relaxco@aol.com. Lilias is a world-renowned yoga teacher and her
presentation of the inner smile is a very non-esoteric simple way of getting the
feeling of the inner smile, although you dont have to do yoga to do the inner
smile. Taoist inner smile meditation is coupled with what is called the Golden
Light Body, which is the energetic body representing our actual photon or light
body. The more we visualize this in the inner smile, the more we interact with the
feeling of goodness, and we find through quantum physics that this light body or
body of consciousness actually existsit is real.
Therefore, this is not simply an Oriental or Buddhist realization since every cell of
our body is made up of millions of atoms and molecules and subatomic particles
and everything is made of photons. We find that this Golden Light Body is a
reality. The inner smile and the Golden Light Body of Taoist qi (chi) teachings,
also known as the energy body, are standard throughout all religions, all
metaphysical teachings, and all literally real scientific teachings. This is not
something esoteric or sectarian.
E = mc2, thus the physical body equals energy, whether it is Golden Light Body
or any other form where energy equals mass or equals mc2, rather.
These ancient teachers had mapped the fact that we have an inner heart of the
inner heart, such as we have a third eye, not just the emotional heart or our
physical heart, but there is another heart that is directly connected to this

experience that we call the soul, a concept in the West that has eluded definition
or acceptance for a long time.
There is a very specific map through the inner heart and the inner self to the
higher self and to the soul, and that is with the inner smile. Whether you make it
a formal meditation or you just simply remember to smile to yourself and to
others, it really does not matter. Nothing rigid stays alive, concepts included.

6
RX FOR HAPPINESS
The face as window and machine for the emotions is an article in LSA Magazine from Dr. Robert Zajonc, a
clinical researcher and psychologist, who has researched the question, Do we smile because we are happy
or are we happy because we smile? New studies prove both to be true, says Dr. Zajonc. In other words,
you can create that state of happiness by making yourself smile, by faking that smile. You make it.
Dr. William James, the psychologist from the turn of the century and author of As A Man Thinketh, had a
more radical view about this. Dr. James was quite famous in his time and his books have been top sellers
throughout the century and many mind, body, and spirit authorities have quoted him. William James
described the process the other way around.
We always assume through our past social and emotional conditioning that we smile because we are happy,
and we cry because we are sad, and we frown because we are angry. According to Dr. James, the more
rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble,
and not that we cry, strike, or tremble, because we are sorry angry or fearful, as the case may be.
The body manifests emotion by physical movement in muscular action in the face and other parts of the
body, and that is what smiling is. It also affects posture and movement as when you are sad, your shoulders
droop, your head is down, and your breathing is shallow.
But when you are happy, you have that Duchenne smile and you manifest emotion as physical. What
research is showing is that when you simply fake it till you make it or smile or stand up straight, inhale
deeply, keep your chin up and smile, you cannot be depressed. So its very important to maintain the
posture and muscular action of a happy, empowered person.
You can learn more about this in neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), psycho-neuro immunology, and a field
that was pioneered by the late Dr. Norman Cousins, who cured himself of bone cancer and other diseases
by watching funny movies and laughing and smiling, which got his endorphins and the healing keys of his
immune system like T-cells, lymphocytes, leucocytes, and phagocytes into action to fight the disease.
That is the importance of playing, laughing, and smiling. A gentle, heartfelt smile puts your biochemistry in
the mental and emotional state of actually being happy and once you see that it feels better than being
angry or depressed, you generally stick with that feeling, for obvious reasons.
The face is a window of the emotions. Again, physiologists inherited from philosophers the assumption of a
mind-body separation, a dualism, which is a separation that persists in greatest form to this day. Aristotles
classic comment about dualism is, Mental character isconditioned by the state of the body, and contrarywise, the body is influenced by the affections of the soul. Your mental and emotional state is affected by the
state of your body, and the opposite is truethat your mental and emotional character affect the body. So, if
you switch one, you will switch the other because it is a mind-body-spirit continuum.
You cannot underestimate the value of smiling and all of its constituent parts that assist in getting it to be
real, authentic, and full of energy, playing, smiling, sharing, caring, hugging, joking, and humor. All of these
things and being around naturally happy people contribute to natural smiles. Learn how to transmute and
transform the situation through your own biochemistry and response.

A spontaneous Duchenne smile is the best or one of the most important smiles that is not only authentic, but
potently biochemically powerful, in a therapeutic, healing format, as well as being liberating and
transformational. Inhaling and breathing and putting on as real a smile as you can affects your biochemistry
and it can heal you.
A smile is medicine itself, and laughter is the best medicine.
Charles Darwin noted parallels between animals and humans and that there was uniformity in emotional
expressions, and Darwin was the first scientist to undertake a systematic study of this. His classic book is
called, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animal. He sent a large number of letters to thousands of
people including military men, government officials, missionaries, and his friends who lived in distant parts of
the British Empire. He asked them a series of very clear questions about whether the people in those areas
expressed emotions like grief by weeping, and joy by laughing, and openness by smiling.
The results of his survey led Darwin to accept the proposition of cross-cultural universal emotional
expression in humans, no matter what culture or country they are from but his research did not show that the
reverse could be true. In other words, that if you smiled, you could make yourself happy, and if you cried,
you could make yourself sad. And we are trying to tell you that you can make yourself happy by putting on a
smile, no matter what kind it is. Do your best. Sometimes it takes practice.
The face is a very unique and special organ as it is externally displayed. You can see it in the mirror and
other people can see it. It is not hidden; it is there for all to see. The face shows what is happening in the
body, in the organs. There are systems of medicine that are over 8,000 years old including Chinese and
Ayurvedic and others in which disease is diagnosed by the lines, the wrinkles, and even by the iris in the
eye, but can you reverse it?
That is what we are talking about. Again, the face is a very special organ, not just some skin. The face is
actually the method of social interaction, what we use to interact with people, and it displays a lot, just as
body language does. The muscles of the face are capable of countless expressive feelings and movements
and configurations and they all have meanings for others, which are sometimes universal.
Again, a smile is a smile is a smile. If you notice, observe people in conversations and you will note that the
important thing is not the exchange of knowledge and information but the feeling of emotions and the
communication of emotions and feelings.
Dr. Zajonc says, A common supposition globally, is that the eyes are the windows of the soul and thus the
best communicative message. St. Jerome (A.D. 342-420) said, The face is the mirror of the mind, and
eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Not so.
In an experiment many years ago, photographs of happy and sad faces were cut in half horizontally, and the
halves were exchanged. It is obvious from this experiment that the bottom of the face dominates the
expression. In other words, you could have a sad mouth and happy eyes, but the mouth would prove that
you are actually sad, or you could have sad eyes and happy mouth, and still prove the reverse. Its the
mouth that shows us what somebody is really feeling.
Dr. Zajonc says, The very word expression is in itself a theory, and could it be that we just dont feel an
emotion and then express through the body, through the face, through the smile?
Facial actions can precede and even cause feelings. A smile can change your feelings. In 1907 author Israel
Weinbaum, a Russian immigrant to France wrote, Facial gestures in general have regulatory and
restorative functions for the vascular systems of the head. Dr. Zajonc noted that Israel Weinbaum was onto
something here. He observed that all emotional experiences produce considerable disequilibria or change in
the vascular system in the blood flow, basically, long story short.
We smile to cool off our brain the same way we have a fan in a super-conductive computer or in a machine
to keep it cool. Smiling causes vascular dilation and more blood flow to keep the brain cool because it works
in a very narrow range of temperatures. By increasing and facilitating the cooling process of the brain,
smiling can alter the temperature of blood entering and leaving the brain. This smiling can produce changes
in brain blood temperature and can also have various relationship consequences.

What does that mean? It means that obviously we know that when we smile we invite others into our space
to share. It indicates that we are receptive and open and not hostile or attacking. It can also be an invitation
to encounters and relationships. So smiling is an obvious social benefit.
A smile communicates a lot.
The fact is that by affecting the cooling of the brain by smiling or heating the brain by frowning and showing
negativity, you can either inhibit epinephrine and increase ceratonin production that will make you feel good
and produce endorphins. Thus smiling triggers a cascade of neuro-hormones that affect our emotions.
Smiling makes you feel good. Thus, laughter is the best medicine.
The brain is an organ that cannot tolerate heat variations as well as other organs. And we depend on smiling
to cool down the brain to keep it in that optimum range so that you will feel good. The structure of the mouth
and eyes when smiling can make us feel good, just by smiling whether anybody is around or not.
So smile for yourself too.
Dr. Zajonc states, Because the metabolic activity of the brain requires continuous cooling, the absence of
cooling of the brain is felt as discomfort and negative effect. Whereas increased cooling by smiling is felt as
pleasurable, and positive effect and thus healing.
In other research, there is exploration of a link between brain temperature and emotion in a different way. It
turns out that the metaphors like hothead and boiling mad and cool as a cucumber are not accidental.
Everything is related to a feeling, which is very kinesthetic, and we can express that in words or facial
expressions. The forehead temperature, which is a very good example of brain temperature, is higher for a
person expressing anger than for one with a neutral expression and definitely more so than one with a
happy smiling face, which is cooling the brain.
Research shows that aggression, violence and negative effects occur more readily when the brain
temperature is high from not smiling. Dr. Zajonc also stated Studied students gave an instructor more
negative ratings when the classroom was on a high temperature than in a lower temperature.
Why do we scratch our heads when we are confused? There is a reason we rub our chins. Why do some
people bite their fingernails, or pens or pencils? Why do people chew gum? Dr. Zajonc believes that these
movements may help cool brain blood by moving cooled blood to the cavernous sinus in the skull more
efficiently. In other words, these activities can help cool off the brain.
Thumb sucking may even be a prime example of this but we dont suggest you do it if youre a grownup.
Thumb sucking is a powerful unlearned action that is very hard to extinguish even after childhood.
Thumb sucking forces nasal breathing that can cool the brain off quite quickly. And it also releases
endorphins for it seems to have a pacifying effect. Smiling does the same thing. Try to make it a natural
response and it will happen all the time and keep you happy, cool as a cucumber, and keep you from being
a hot head.
A smile is health.
A smile is joy.
A smile is love.
A smile says, Hello how are you?
A smile says, Were on the same team.
A smile says, Lets create win-win and lets do this together!
So a smile can be your greatest tool in negotiations, relationships, and for your daily personal life. Dont
underestimate its simplicity. Its quite obvious, but the research and clinical data also shows that smiling is
one of the simplest, cost effective therapies you can participate in.

Smile for your health, smile for your well being, smile for your relationships, and we will create a world in
which smiling is the key to happiness.

7
HUMOR ME
Laughing and humor are a magical part of smiling. No one would doubt that they
play a hefty role in promoting silly smile sessions. Silly smile sessions are more
than they sound like. In some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies and
corporations in the world, silly smile sessions in the form of humor and laughter
are utilized for developmental team building.
Many volumes have been written on how to use humor. Books such as Laugh
and Learn and others have shown how humor is the greatest tool to get people
to smile, then to laugh, and ultimately, to start using both hemispheres of their
brain. The left and right hemispheres connecting through the corpus colosum
allow anyone to be more effective in that which they are intending to create.
The more we get uptight, anxious, worried, workaholic, stressed, the more we cut
ourselves off from the entire universe, the more we stop the synchronicities that
bring about the magical connections, results, encounters, seeming coincidences
that change our lives and bring us those relationships and meetings that will
change our life for the better and for those we encounter. If were stressed and
lacking a sense of humor or if we have a frown instead of a smile, we tend to
block that line of least resistance, that happy flow.
Heres where smiling plays a giant role. You dont have to laugh uproariously and
disconcertingly in a business meeting or at home, especially when people might
misinterpret the meaning. But you can give a gentle and authentic heartfelt smile.
You can lift up the negotiations by giving a heartfelt smile. In other situations,
when youre free to, humor uplifts you.
Humor and smiling, laughter, play, intelligence, and health are all related
because they all support each other. Laughter and humor are sometimes based
on lifes incongruities, things that if you try to analyze would confuse you. What
do comedians like Robin Williams or Jim Carrey do? They mix different ideas and
themes in a way that you would not normally do rationally in your daily life. It
opens up the door. If they do it on screen, you wonder almost as a deeper part of
you why you cant do it more often in life.
Humor usually leads to smiling and laughter. Its cathartic; it releases, it expands,
it wheezes, and coughs, and breathes and it reddens the face and increases the
arterial flow of blood and capillary flow of the skin. It blushes. You cant hold it
back. Youre now fully alive. Youre not lying when youre authentically smiling or

laughing. You cant. Its the greatest truth serum there is, authentic smiling. And it
leads to, as Professor Seligman says, Authentic happiness.
Humor has a synonym. It is levity. Jocularity, humor equals levity. What is levity?
Well think of the word levitationfloating, flying, soaring, lifting, rising, and
levitating. Have you ever seen the magician on stage, with the woman levitating?
Thus, there is an actual, alchemical, magical science to creating a smile,
infecting the world with laughter, joy and humor, which are the only things that
can allow the mind, the brain, and the intelligence to work. When laughter and
humor seem inappropriate, a smile is appropriate; theres never a time when a
smile is not appropriate. You might ask, What about a funeral, a death, an
accident? You can always put forth a gentle, benevolent smile of acceptance
that something is working behind the scenes, a divine order, an acceptance of
the soul that has passed on, or that the accident can be healed.
Think of Leonardo da Vincis painting of the Mona Lisa. This unknown woman
possesses an enigmatic smile that has intrigued artists and scientists and lay
people for many centuries. It is an expectant smile, one that is beginning and is
waiting for you to finish it. The Mona Lisa smile invites you to add your own
finishing touches to the corners of the mouth and the crinkles in the eye.
Actually, computer research in the last decade in Italy has developed a theory by
studying the few remaining self portraits, sketches, and portraits of the artist
Leonardo da Vinci himself and has concluded that the structural basis for Mona
Lisas face was the artist, Leonardo himself; thus he is peering out through that
face, playing a trick on you and inviting you to smile once you get the joke.
I never did have to tell you that smiling is good for you. You all ready knew it.
Your mother knew it when she smiled at you, when you were born and your
father knew it, when he smiled at you. And you smiled every time your
intelligence learned something new, or when you learned how something
worked, you did let out a little bit of a smile. Maybe you didnt notice because you
werent looking in the mirror, and maybe nobody saw you or acknowledged or
told you, but every time you learned, theres a smile.
Its called the SMILE OF KNOWING
Universities have shown that humor increases tests scores, SAT scores, and
overall intelligence. So, even when you dont feel like smiling, smile for you, smile
for me, smile for the world, smile for your brain, smile for your heart, smile for
your health, smile for the future, smile for everything even if you dont feel its
perfect. Smile that you learn from it because a smile is the best response to
anything.

You dont have to know the science of electricity to turn on a light switch. You just
need to flip it on to get the light. You dont need to know the research about
smiling, intelligence, humor, but its nice to know that while others are arguing the
point, other people are laughing, playing, happy, and intelligent. Remember,
E=mc2.
Energy and enthusiasm, which means in Latin, entheos, meaning God saying,
This is ENERGY, LETS DO IT! Enthusiasm, smiling, laughing, playing, humor,
all of it leads to
Mass, mc2. Mass is anything you want to create, anything you intend to do, and
anything you love to do or want to do. Smiling is a powerful energy and not just a
metaphor, and thats why it happens all the time and catches you unaware.
Thank God its unpredictable. Thank God it happens when youre trying to stop it.

8
SPREAD IT AROUND
Wherever you travel in the world, a smile is the currency that buys you just about
anything you want and it definitely buys you things you need. No matter where
you travel to around the world, a smile means the same thing and it creates the
same thinglove, sharing, and communication.
A smile might be said to be the most important thing you can do, next to
breathing. Since it doesnt cost you anything, why not smile authentically all day
long? Everyone around you will love it. Have you ever noticed that the smiling,
laughing people you meet attract you the most? They make you feel the best;
they attract everyone. Everyone listens to the smiling people. Not so with
frowning people.
A smile expands like a happy explosion. The energy of a smile ripples around the
world, like waves. You smile at two people, and they smile at two people, and so
it goes. You might say a smile is like a happy virus that makes people feel good
rather than bad, and theres no medicine that can cure a happy smile. It infects
everybody; it makes a happy world. But why would you need a cure for a happy
smile spreading around the world?
So, start a smile epidemic and spread it to everyone you know! Maybe youll hear
the news report in the morning, Smile virus detected in New York City, smile
virus exploding in Los Angeles, smile virus spreading around the world, and
there youll be, smiling and giggling! Indeed, we hope theres no cure for the
smiling virus, because it makes everyone feel happy. The epidemic will explode
in waves and ripples, and in that wave will cause everyone else who catches it to
smile. And within 24 hours, youve reached every village, every town, every city,

and every tribe in the world. You cant under estimate how a smile will spread
through the six degrees of separation.
Within a smile is the history of all good things that have ever happened in
humanity and in the universe. This is not just hyperbole or metaphor. What
language could convey what a smile does? How many millions of words would it
take just to express what a smile does?
A smile enriches immeasurably. Smiling only adds, it never takes away from. A
smile is Gods way of saying everythings good. You just cant hide the joy in a
smile. The best things in life are free, including smiles. Dont try to hide your
smiles; it wouldnt work, anyway. Smiles are magical. The more you give them
away, the more you have to give away. A smile isnt a smile if you hold on to it.
Who would you rather be around, a smiling happy person or a sad frowning
person? A smile can tell you everything you need to know about a persons
character. Its all right there.
Smiles come in all shapes and sizes. Shy smiles, bold smiles, enduring smiles,
heartfelt smiles, laughing smiles, thoughtful smiles, gentle smiles, lots of teeth
smiles, I love you smiles, I know you do smiles, smiles of gratitude, and smiles
of agreement. No matter what shape size, or strength, smiles always come from
the heart.
A real heartfelt smile is the best way to end an argument, a war, a feud, or a
disagreement. A smile signs the bond of friendship. Sometimes its even sealed
with a hug or kiss. Smiles and hugs sometimes go together. They dont have to,
but its twice as good when they do. A smile is a facial handshake.
Nothing makes you prettier than a smile. Smiles can put plastic surgeons out of
business. Only the cold and heartless dont respond to a smile. A newborn, a
baby, a child, or a ninety-year-old person understands a smile. Even animals
respond to smiles. Golden retrievers are some of the best smilers.
A smile is only a physical response of the facial muscles. Whats really going on
is a radiance of bio-photon energy from the heart and from the center of ones
being, mind, body, and spirit. When tested in laboratories, the actual energy that
goes with the smile is electromagnetic, radiant, extending through a field of
energy radiating from and around the body. We see a smile in the muscles of the
face or relaxation of the body, or an extension of a warmth and energy.
If we were to photograph this with Kirlean photography and electromagnetic
sensors, we would see that we were radiating like the sun when we smile. But we
only feel the heart, we only see the face and the smile and the teeth. But what is
really going on is the radiant light, just like we turn on the light switch.

But a smile is much, much, much, much, more. Its opening up your soul to
everything around you and saying, YES! A smile is nothing less than YES! A
smile is to a city as the sun is to summer. A real smile is the quickest way to get
to total love.
BE PEACE-SMILE.Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
A smile is naturally spontaneous. It floods forth from the depths of the soul. Who
knows the enduring effect of a smile? Who knows how far a smile radiates into
the universe?
Perhaps a smile is timeless, starting with you and going on for eternity. Its
unlimited because it keeps spreading smiles, repeating its life giving benevolence
forever from one to another, from one to the many, from the many to all.
Something so simple, so inexpensive as a smile, with such profound and health
giving and peace bestowing effects, should be taught in schools. It should be
taught to children, it should be taught in continuing education classes, it should
be taught in trade schools, and in colleges of negotiation, it should be taught to
all ambassadors throughout the world, to all consulates, to all diplomats. A smile
is the best diplomatic introduction.
A smile should be on the face of police officers, school teachers, professors,
clerks, plumbers, farmers, housewives, husbands and wives, CEOs, and yes,
even politicians, and one day we can even teach smiling to lawyers.
Humble smile you seem so small, your radiant joy does fill us all
Smiling has been investigated as a medicinal and a potion and a healing agent
as well as an extension of diplomatic well wishing through out history. From the
beginning of time, a smile indicated a lack of hostility and a willingness to share
and communicate.
It is interesting that smiling has been studied extensively for over a century now
in the scientific circles and in clinical data and research. Smiling has been
studied in minute detail with instruments and technical precision to learn of its
biochemical and electrical effects and its healthy effects on the human organism.
Smiling has even been shown to affect the growth of plants. Smiling upon plants
causes them to increase their growth and productivity. Well wishing and smiling
go together but research can show how much it affects productivity as even the
increase of flowers and fruits on trees. Luther Burbank, the well- known plant
magician at the turn of the century in what is now Burbank, California, created
hundreds of varieties of fruits and vegetables by smiling and loving his plants. It
was a new form of genetic engineering, smiling and love.
Since the new biology promoted by Bruce Lipton and other cell biologists proved
that it is beliefs, thoughts and feelings that change our genetics, our RNA and

DNA, it is not the genes that control us. We can see that a loving smile can
change everything around us, more than negotiations, regulations, enforcement,
and genetic cloning and engineering. Using the emotions and the perception of
the world around you and responding to it with a smile can change your whole
reality. Now you know the truth.
Smiling is nothing less than pure absolute magic. If I told you that smiling
everyday could change everything in your life for the better, would you believe?
BELIEVE ME!
When youre walking in nature, in a forest or a meadow or a beach, nature is
smiling at you. When youre taking a shower, the water is smiling on you. When
youre singing a song, every cell in your body is smiling along. When youre
smiling on everyone, you can do no wrong.
The medical research establishment should have announced long ago that
smiling is a cost effective way to reduce heart attacks, blood pressure, obesity,
risk of cancer, and other serious diseases. A smile and play keeps ill health
away. Dont consult your doctor before administering smiling. Just smile at ill
health and laugh it away. If one smile is so good, a thousand a day is better.
There are no counter-indications or restrictions on smiling. You can never smile
too much. You can never feel bad after smiling. In fact, you can never feel bad, if
you are smiling. Its a proven fact. Dont go to the library and check out the
research to find out. Just try it on your own.
If everyone in the world smiled, there could never be another war. Of course, the
author believes that tourism and smiling people spreading the smiling virus
around the world would bring peace in a much faster manner, including when
those smiling faces are spread around the world multi-ethnically by e-mail
attachments and other methods to show that people around the world smile in
the same language.
Thus, e-mails of smiling faces and websites with smiling faces and publications
with smiling faces from around the world can help be carriers of this healthy,
happy, smiling virus.
Anyone, especially children, who hasnt been prejudiced in this world of cultural
conditioning can help to spread this feeling of good will by smiling globally,
smiling when youre traveling, smiling when youre vacationing, smiling when
youre in a different country, and helping to spread this good will
ambassadorship. How is it that something that is so simple and effective could
get ignored? Most likely because it is so simple.

If everyone in the world smiled, money would not be as important. Smiling is the
best life insurance. The monthly payments are a lot less.
How many arguments have been prevented by smiling? How many feuds have
been avoided with smiling? We may never know the exact number but we can be
assured it numbers in the billions.
All that is beautiful is smiling in its own way. You can show your appreciation for
beauty by smiling. And though we may have the symbols of outward abundance,
what would our world be without smiles? You could travel the world forever,
looking for riches and power, but what would your life be like, if you could not
give and receive a smile?
Remember humor, laughter, joking, tickling, playing. They all lead to the cathartic
healing release that makes you more intelligent, hardier and resistant, and more
fun to be around. That may be the most important thing because the more fun it
is to be around each other, the more we share, and the more we share, the more
we spread the happiness, the virus, the smile virus around the world.
That means more sharing, more caring, and even the economy of the world
increases as we share. I spend my capital and give it to you, and you spend it
and give it to ten other people, they spend it and it goes to a thousand people,
they spend it and it goes to millions of people, and thus through the six degrees
of separation and small worlds, weve covered the whole world in less than a
day, not only with the smiling virus, but the economies. Spend your money.
Share it. Be liberal, manifest abundance. Economies increase when we spend
and share. And it spreads around the world. Hearts increase
and health increases and wisdom and joy increase when we smile. Remember
though, you dont have to work hard for a smile like you might for money. Just let
it come. Its free. Its the quickest way to buy what you want. Its the quickest way
to talk to anybody in the world. And a smile is the real you, its the true you.
Smile for wisdom and intelligence, smile for a new world. Rememberinfect the
world with a smiling virus. The epidemic will spread, and no drug that can stop it
and we are glad of that because its the first virus, the ultimate virus to eliminate
or ignore all the rest.
Try it. Smile to everybody you meet. Get them to laugh or smile. If they wont,
use extreme measures. Bringing about an epidemic of smiling takes serious
measures. You might have to tickle them. You might have to tackle them, and
tickle them. You might have to hug them, but do whatever it takes.
Use a hug the same way you use the Heimlich maneuver, grab the person from
behind and hug them and tickle them, and make them laugh. It will get them to
breath again. Its much better than the Heimlich maneuver!

Whatever it takes, get people to smile. Find reasons to smile.

Smile at a persons wisdom.
Smile at their generosity.
Smile at their willingness to see your smile.
Smile at all the things they do.
Smile at their willingness to learn from their mistakes.
Smile at the fact that God lives in them.
Smile at a person because theyre beautiful.
Smile at a person because theyre trying.
Smile at a person because God created them.
Smile at a person, or smile at nature.
Smile at yourself.
Smile in your heart
Smile at your heart.
Smile to your liver, and your kidneys, to your lungs and to your spleen.
Smile to the ocean.
Smile to the mountains.
Smile to the trees
Smile to the flowers
Smile to the birds
Smile to everything and make it an automatic reaction. It will also be authentic.
The more you practice it, its a muscle you can increase and it will make your
heart stronger too.

THE INSTITUTE OF HEARTMATH

New research from the fields of psychophysiology and neurocardiology reveals

that the heart is a principal organizing, information-dispersing center in the
bodyand is also intimately involved in our emotional experience.
While the heart has long been associated with spiritual influx, wisdom, and positive
emotions such as love, compassion, and appreciation, new research findings are now
providing evidence that these associations may be more than merely metaphorical. The
Institute of HeartMath, in Boulder Creek, California, is conducting groundbreaking
research looking at the heart as an intelligent system whose rhythmic patterns of activity
influence the functioning of the brain and entire bodyincluding our thoughts, feelings,
and behavior. In particular, this research has uncovered an intriguing link between the
heart and genuine positive emotions. Dr. Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., the Institute of
HeartMaths Executive Vice President and Director of Research, explains exciting
scientific findings on the hearts critical role in emotional experience.
In the history of Western science, the study of physiology has focused to a great extent
on the pathways by which the brain talks to the body and thereby regulates the

functioning of the bodys many organs and systems. However, comparatively little
attention has been given to the equally complex communication pathways by which the
bodily organs talk to the brain. There is extensive evidence that the information the
body continuously sends the brain not only plays a homeostatic regulatory role, but also
actually influences higher-order brain functions, including perception, cognition, and
emotional processing. In essence, the messages the body sends the brain affect how
we perceive and respond to the world around us, and they also affect how we feel.
While all the major bodily organs communicate with the brain, the heart possesses an
especially strong communication link, states Dr. McCraty. It is not widely known that
there are actually more neural pathways carrying information from the heart to the brain
than from the brain to the heart! Another fact that most people dont realize is that, far
more than a pump, the heart is actually a sophisticated information encoding and
processing center. The nervous system within the heart, containing more than 40,000
neurons, is so complex that neuroscientists call it a little brain in its own right!
Dr. McCraty explains how the hearts rhythmic beating patterns, which change from
moment to moment, have a lot to say about our emotional state. When we are feeling
stress or negative emotions, the hearts rhythm becomes disordered and
erraticlooking something like a range of jagged mountain peaks. This incoherent heart
rhythm signals an out-of-sync psychophysiological state that puts stress on all the
bodys systems. However, when we smile and experience positive emotions, a dramatic
shift occurs within the heart, causing its rhythm to become ordered and
harmoniousresembling a smooth and orderly sine wave. This shift in the heart rhythm
is the key marker of a beneficial psychophysiological state that the Institute of HeartMath
has termed coherence. The Institutes research over the past 15 years has shown that
the coherent state facilitates the bodys natural regenerative processes and is
associated with a wide range of physiological and psychological health benefits. These
include improved functioning of the nervous, cardiovascular, and hormonal systems, as
well as increased emotional stability and improved cognitive performance. There is even
new evidence that increasing coherence may enhance the processes underlying
intuition.
As the hearts rhythms change, so do the messages that the heart relays to the brain. As
mentioned above, its been discovered that these messages play a big role in
determining the emotions we experience. When we smile, the heart produces a more
harmonious, coherent rhythm and sends a message to the brain that signals we are
feeling good. This message from the heart to the brain actually reinforces and adds
texture to our experience of positive emotionslike appreciation, happiness, or love.
The brain also receives messages from other organsincluding the 42 muscles that
regulate our facial expressions. Thus, in the physical act of smiling, our facial muscles
also send a feel-good message to the brain. Like the hearts message, this signal from
the facial muscles also helps to create and sustain positive emotions.
So, by smiling, you actually change the pattern of information going from your body to
your brain. This has big impact on health and well-being, both short-term and long-term.
States Dr. McCraty: Research shows that the brain functions as a complex patternmatching system. The messages it receives from the heart, facial muscles, and other
bodily organs are some of the many input patterns that the brain is constantly
processing. These patterns play a critical role in our experience of emotions. An

important point is that as recurring patterns of input to the brain become familiar, the
brain attempts to maintain these familiar patterns as a stable baseline or norm. This
occurs even if a familiar pattern is one that is ultimately detrimental to our health and
well-being. This mechanism actually provides a psychophysiological basis for
understanding why chronic stress can be so difficult to change: the brain learns to
recognize the stressful patterns as familiar, and thus attempts to maintain and reinforce
them, even though they are unhealthy.
However, just like resetting a thermostat, it is also possible to introduce a new set of
patterns, which, by repetition, become familiar to the brain and become established as a
new baseline. So, if we consciously make efforts to smile and activate positive emotions,
eventually the brain will recognize these coherent, feeling-good patterns as familiar and
will reinforce them. These coherent patterns promote optimal functioning of the bodys
systems, thereby reducing stress, enhancing health and vitality, and also improving our
performance in many areas.
Once we establish increased coherence as a new baseline pattern in our system,
feelings of well-beingand smiles, toobecome much more a part of our natural
statesomething we experience spontaneously and on a consistent basis in our lives.
Having this new, healthy baseline pattern also makes it a lot easier to bounce back
when we do experience stress or challenge. Thats what the HeartMath coherencebuilding tools and techniques are abouttheyre designed to help you learn how to
activate and hold heart-centered positive emotional statesa heart smile if you willso
that you are able to intentionally create and sustain the many beneficial effects of smiling
and experiencing positive emotions.
But the powerful effects of smiling dont just stop within our own bodies. They also
radiate out into our environment, influencing other people around us. Institute of
HeartMath research is showing that the electromagnetic field generated by the heart is
central to this process. The heart generates by far the strongest rhythmic
electromagnetic field produced by the body, Dr. McCraty explains. This field surrounds
us and can be measured several feet away from the body. Furthermore, the information
within the hearts field changes as we experience different emotions. When we smile and
feel positive emotions, as the hearts rhythms become more coherent, the hearts
electromagnetic field becomes correspondingly more organized.
What is even more exciting is that our research is showing that our hearts field is
actually registered physiologically by people around useven influencing their brain
activity! This means that our hearts field has a very real effect on others in our
environment. And because the hearts field changes dynamically with our emotions, this
provides a physiological mechanism by which our emotional states influence those
around us.
So when we choose to smile and consciously activate positive emotions, our hearts
field electromagnetically transmits that coherent, harmonious information into our
environment, where it affects other people. Research also shows that animalsand
plants, tooare sensitive to and respond to the information contained in these
electromagnetic signals. As more people in a given environment activate a heart smile,
with feelings of appreciation, gratitude, love, or deep care, the effect becomes even
more powerful. In effect, were literally transforming our environment as we smile!

So next time theres a smile on your faceand next time you consciously choose to
bring a smile to your day and someone elsestake a moment to reflect on its farreaching effects. Concludes Dr. McCraty: The science shows that by consciously
cultivating a smileboth on your face and in your heartyou can take a proactive role in
creating your own health, happiness, and fulfillment, while positively affecting others and
your environment.
Now, thats really something to smile about!

Resources
For more information on the Institute of HeartMaths research, programs, and
coherence-building tools, visit their web site at http://www.heartmath.org.
Scientific e-books available on the Institute of HeartMaths web site:
The Appreciative Heart: The Psychophysiology of Positive Emotions and Optimal
Functioning Find out more about the physiology of positive emotions and the beneficial
state called coherenceand learn two HeartMath techniques to help you generate this
state at will.
HeartBrain Neurodynamics: The Making of Emotions More detail about the brains
pattern-matching function and the hearts important role in emotional experience.
The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People
Discover how your hearts electromagnetic fieldand your emotionsaffect people around
you!

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DR. BARBARA FREDRICKSON, POSITIVE EMOTIONS
Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is with the Department of Psychology at the University of
Michigan. Her work in Positive Emotions has won many awards. She also won the top
prize ever awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, the Positive Psychology Award,
a $100,000 award for the best research to date in positive psychology and positive
emotions. This is an incredible testimony to Dr. Fredricksons work and papers published
on positive psychology and positive emotions as well as her work with other
psychologists and other researchers.
Dr. Templeton has attempted to use his vast resources to develop these fields of
positive Psychology and research in Astronomy, and Medicine and Bio-chemistry and
Psychology to further his beliefs and the beliefs of those researchers who show that the

actual Creation is an extended beneficent wise Creation which mirrors our own human
abilities to create and extend a beneficent feeling of well being and healing and health
and wholesomeness in the world through our activities in positive psychology, such as
smiling
Dr. Fredricksons work is so astoundingly good that it is tempting to want to divert from
the specific arena of smiling and to talk about all the aspects of positive emotions and
how they benefit humans in all aspects of their lives and relationships. But I will continue
with some information that Dr. Fredrickson has shared with me regarding the research
done in the arena of smiling, and the benefits that authentic smiling bestows upon the
smiler and the smilee.
Although I will restate here that even a fake smile can jumpstart the beneficial flow of
endorphins and good feeling biochemistry, we return to the authentic Duchenne smile,
and why it is important to develop in ones own physiology the authentic smile. It only
takes a little bit of training to detect the Duchenne smile in ones self and in others. Dr.
Fredricksons work shows that an authentic smile indicates a persons willingness to be
receptive to the environment, to learning, to taking in new information, and to open to
dialogue and discussion.
I personally see that this can be used in peace negotiations, where an authentic smile
breeds an environment in which receptiveness and willingness to learn new material is
there, rather than being closed down to information.
But, of course, this is related to an authentic Duchenne smile, where its not fake, and its
very authentic and real, and involves the orbicularis oculi around the eyes and the
zygomaticus muscles of the face. This is the real Duchenne authentic heartfelt smile.
Dr. Fredrickson says this puts people in the receptive, Im ready to receive mode,
rather than being defensive when they see a fake smile, and actually knowing its fake.
Dr. Fredrickson relates it to a child beaming and smiling and being ready to learn.
Theyre telling you in a way as children, Come teach me something, or Come be with
me! This is an authentic innocent smile.
Some people think of a smile as a way to influence other people, sort of a manipulative
type of smile. But what were talking about here is a smile that shows that you really
have a warmth and readiness to learn, from another person. And its safe to share. Thus,
in our research, weve really found that a smile indicates this openness, to be willing to
learn new information that could be a key to learning, and to openness in negotiations.

On Dr. Fredricksons website is a paper by Johnson and Fredrickson, which goes into
the research that proves that with positive emotions and smiling, we can transcend the
Own Race Bias or Same Race Bias.
This relates to the fact that most people are only able to understand differences of facial
expression and emotion in their own race, and be very accurate in determining that.
Whereas positive emotions and smiling seem to transcend racial bias and people can
see that a smile is a smile is a smile, no matter what racial group theyre coming from.
Thus, it indicates that smiling could transcend racial or cultural barriers, as we have said,
also. Thus, there is openness, a new openness, to not judge an individual by their

culture, and their facial expressions in that culture, but to be open to them in this
transcending positive emotion expression.
This is quite unique in global human relationships or cultural relationships. Thus, positive
emotions and their facial expressions like smiling can open a new era of
ambassadorship and diplomacy and negotiations or just the global willingness to be
willing to learn, and to grow and to share. We are reminded here of the quotes that,
Smiling has no accent, and Smiling is a universal language, meaning the same thing
in every culture. Thats what Dr. Fredrickson is talking about here.
But Dr. Fredrickson says, This same race bias can be transcended so that a cultural or
global feeling of good will can become more evident through this language of positive
emotion and smiling. And that one language, the actual true lie detector test of others
being open to your belief systems or truths, culturally or individually, or you being open
to others, or theyre being open to you, is a true Duchenne smile. The true honest smile
of the heart, and honest smile of the face, with those crinkled corners of the eyes,
actually show a big heartfelt glowing smile.
This, I believe, is an indicator of openness for cultural and global peace, peace with
oneself, peace between countries and nations. And Im determined to prove, as the
author, that this over looked element of smiling from the heart, smiling from within, and
smiling as a symbol of openness and willingness to learn, accept and grow, and share,
is the key to world peace and personal peace. Smiling seems to become a new
receptive willingness to dialogue, a healing dialogue, a peace negotiation dialogue, and
expansion of that in ones relationships and in the world.
I commented to Dr. Fredrickson that a fake smile, a non-authentic smile, almost seems
as destructive as a fake smile, or cynicism or criticism. Dr. Fredrickson commented to
the affirmative that there is research to show that a fake smile could be as destructive or
more so than worse than no smile. And this comes from biochemical and psychological
research, no less.
Dr. Fredrickson quoted two different studies in which she had come across research
material that showed that non-authentic smiles could provoke negative biochemistry.
One was by Richard Davidson, whose research in study of pre-frontal left and right
hemisphere activity had profound effects, both positive and negative. Richard Davidson
has quite a reputation in this form of study, especially with long term meditating monks,
meditating in silence for extended periods of time, sometimes even days. He has been
quoted widely with research with the Dalai Lama and in psychological documentary
evidence.

smiling. Its made me aware, too, that its definitely worth the risks to try to connect to
people, with a positive smile and a good feeling, and to actually do that from the heart,
sincerely.
Of what use is all the scientific research if it cant bring us to be better people and have
better lives inside of ourselves and in relation to our loved ones?

I asked Dr. Fredrickson if there was one element that really stands out in her research
that shows the beneficial social effects of smiling and the positive effects. She said, I
think the most important thing is to have a better, healthier sense of social awareness.
In other words, when people are smiling and have that type of positive emotion, they
generally think in terms of we, thus they can negotiate around differences of opinion,
but instead of thinking me and you or me against you, theyre thinking, we, and I
think that is a very important thing to remember, it sort of implies what we have in
common, and not our differences, and that helps to unite us, rather than divide us, and I
think smiling does this really well.

And I would say that its more a sense of we working together rather than me
against you.

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MO SIEGEL
In talking about the idea of spreading a smile around the world or a good feeling with the
least amount of effort and financing, I had to interview my friend, Mo Siegel, who started
the company Celestial Seasonings in the early 1970s in Boulder, Colorado. Severely
limited by funding, and picking wild herbs in the mountains of Boulder and sewing up
cloth bags, Mo had a dream of expanding Celestial Seasonings to the next level.
The delightfully illustrated boxes of Celestial Seasonings Teas piled high on multiple
shelves in health food and grocery stores now have possibly spread many a smile on the
faces of more people than any product or person in the world. The quotes and pictures
and artwork on the boxes of Celestial Seasonings teas have brought more contentment
with a cup of warm tea to hundreds of millions of people on hundreds and hundreds of
millions of cold nights than any other product in the world. The comfort of the tea, the
inspirational quotes on the boxes, and the beautiful artwork has certainly served to bring
a smile to many people. Mo Siegel is now one of the directors of Whole Foods Market,
another global business endeavoring to bring consciousness and health to peoples
dinner plates in the same way that Celestial Seasonings Teas brought consciousness
and relaxation to peoples teacups.
If you arent familiar with Celestial Seasoning Teas, they are blends of herbal teas that
were originally for the health food market but they have spread out to grocery stores on
a much larger level and have become a global product. Celestial Seasonings was listed
on the New York Times and Wall Street Journals list of 100 businesses that any
corporate CEO would want to be head of because Celestial Seasonings was a global
success financially and was a win-win cooperative venture with quite happy employees.

When I asked Mo about smiling while on his busy schedule flying around the whole
dealing with Whole Foods corporate business, he replied as follows.
Let me give you an example out of my own home life. I have a friend whos a very
accomplished man, whos extremely creative and active around the world in his business
and his home life. Hes stayed at my house before and he tends to meditate in long
periods or do contemplative prayer work, and my children have told me that when hes
sitting in meditation for a long period of time, he has this goofy smile on his face. And my
children have told me the same thing, that when I am in extended periods of peaceful
meditation, that I have the same goofy smile on my face. And when I look at my friend,
and his so-called goofy smile, I realize theres something going on in his soul. Its not a
frown; not at allits a smile! And it shows up on his face.
And of course, your smile radiates from who you are inside your soul. You cant really
fake a smile. Its your calling card. And if youre happy inside, it does shows on your
face. So a smile is a really good indicator for me.
But of course, even if you do have to learn to smile, by just practicing it every day, we
earn those wrinkles from the smile on the eyes in the face and those are good wrinkles,
those lines on the face. Those wrinkles are a sign of optimism, happiness and joy and
goodwill. Those smile lines on your face are a sign of growth, as far as Im concerned. I
couldnt run a big business without them. And Mark Twain said, Wrinkles are just signs
where smiles have been.
The wrinkles around your eyes from smiling all the time say a lot about who you are.
And theyre not just from weathering of the skin or old age; theyre actually from smiling
all the time. Of course, you always feel more comfortable around people who do. And of
course, its obvious to anybody, Mo said, that smiling makes you feel better. It makes
you feel much better than frowning, and it makes other people feel better. And it certainly
opens the door. You cant have a great relationship without a smile upon your face. For
example, nothing in my world is as beautiful as the smile on the face of my wife and my
family.
Out of everything in nature and this creation, the smile on the face of my wife means
more to me than anything, and it represents all good things. I dont see how I could have
been part of running a large corporation that ended up being a global success, unless I
had smiling as an asset on my side, both smiling employees and my own smile, to
remind us all that we really were on each others team.
Mo Siegel is quite well known, almost like a celebrity, because Celestial Seasonings has
become a part of the lives of so many people, including, spiritual leaders, meditation
practitioners, health foodies, athletes, and other people. Celestial Seasonings is one of
the most consciousness beverage companies in the world. And Mo is an incredible
businessman but hes also a spiritual leader of sorts. His insights into delving into the
Creation and the Creator spread out into his daily life, whether its his relationship with
team, staff, employees, or family.
It all represents that he has a great insight and philosophy of how to make his spiritual
beliefs work in business and the practical world of daily life. Thus, his insights about the
value of smiling in his family life, and in his business and team life, is a great example
that its more than just feeling good, its a matter of a smile carrying you to the next level;

where you can integrate the good feeling with your relationships with everyone around
you, be it in business or home life, or friendships. A smile can do all of it.
Mo continued by saying, I do know when I go into a business deal or a corporate
meeting, or even a new friendship, that when I see the other person smiling, theres an
open door to a great relationship, a new relationship, a business solution, and I consider
smiling a great indicator to break the ice, if theres any hesitation about a business deal,
or a new friendship. If a smile is so valuable on one level, why cant it be in business
too?
Mo Siegel, already a global success on every level, says, Its a sign of goodwill. A smile
is an invitation to open up and talk, to dialogue, to share, to see what we have in
common. I would even go so far as to say, a smile is hope. And I agree with Mo that a
smile is one of the greatest indicators of good will, in business relationships, global
negotiations, peace negotiations, national and cultural interventions, or in any situations
where good will can help communications go a lot easier.
In learning that a smile is more than just feeling good, and then separating that from our
daily life, we must learn that smiles are our greatest asset, our greatest currency for
creating good will, communications, physical health, mental and emotional well being. It
works in business; it works in international communications. Smiling, smiles should be
the modes operandi of the United Nations, even. Im serious.

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DEE COULTER
Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D., is Director of Kindling Touch Institute and a nationally
recognized neuroscience educator, creative teacher, lecturer, and writer who works with
education, learning, brain patterns, children and learning, music and learning, optimum
learning states, and optimum emotional states. She also works with the disabled and
those who have challenges in physical and mental patterns, and shes with the Naropa
Institute. Dee was quite familiar with some of the work on facial expressions and smiling.
Well, Ive studied this work through the work of Steven Porges and Robert Zajonc and
others and smiling seems to be the first indicator as a way of actual survival and taking
care of yourself. Its absolutely essential and thats why its there at birth, especially in
the bonding with the mother. Its almost an effort to disarm any potential harm.
Thus, I think we see that the term, a disarming smile, actually has a meaning.
Disarming smile, means to disarm any potential harmful intentions, just with a smile.
With a baby, its an instinctual activity. Its almost a first introduction into the world. Its an
instinctive endeavor to bond with the caregiver and create a good relationship. Thats
why baby smiles, at least thats what this research shows. So, since babies cant pursue
the fight or flight response, and if they dont bond with smiling, with their caregiver, their

parents, and especially the mother, then they drop into sort of a learned helplessness,
a feeling that theres nothing the child can do but just withdraw. This withdrawal can
have a lot of effects socially. So, actually smiling can solve all that by creating a great
relationship and bond with the parents so a baby that cant obviously opt for fight or
flight obviously has to create a great bond with a caregiver to take care of it. And of
course, thats what mammals do. They have a long period of bonding with a care-giving
parent, as a mammal, to take care of them, and a smile is the best way of creating that
relationship right upon birth.
Dee continues, You can assume that if nature employs smiling and bonding at birth,
that smiling is the most optimal way of creating this bonding, theres something there. Its
almost a basic suggestion then from this that because it is instinctive at the beginning,
and the baby smiles without any prompting, usually, these instincts or reflexes is
natures way of saying, You might want to try this. Weve found it to be useful for your
species.
Your species has found it quite successful, and therefore, our species of humans has
found it quite successful to employ smiling all the way from birth to death. That smiling
creates relationships, both with the outer world and our inner sense of feeling of peace
and goodness.
Evolution itself supports it and tells us You might want to try this. Your species has
found it useful.
In fact, Dee says, It is natures way of rekindling the best foot forward. And she says,
Since its happening at such an unbelievably young age, even in utero or at birth,
smiling definitely is preprogrammed in to be a healthy response. Smiling is actually
imprinted into the consciousness of the species of all humans. Thats why its even prebirth and at birth, without having to be told to learn to smile by society or school, etc. Dee
says, Nature almost says to the species, try this, weve found it to be useful.
So in that first incident, almost like a whisper from the universe, from evolution, it just
has a hint of the evolutionary trait that babies that smile and bond with their parents, are
happier and healthier and theres more relationships and of course, thats an
evolutionary plus. And then as the baby grows up, it finds that it can actually consciously
do this, and it will revert to it, because it worked at birth and it worked as an evolutionary
trait from the species.
Now the baby can choose to use smiling in its relationship with the world, and with itself.
So when the baby learns to do things intentionally, and not just automatically it can
resort to the smile, consciously, and choose to smile, which it generally does, in society.
Smiling is very normal.
So its almost as if we can be born with an automatic response or reflex which is actually
preprogrammed into a conscious ness of the species and evolution. But its with
conscious intention that we make the choice to smile that we come to another level of
choosing the empowerment that smiling can bestow upon us.
Dee says, Its unfortunate that researchers continue to ask the question; well, how do
babies learn to smile when they havent been taught? But theyre not learning, its all
ready pre-programmed into their evolutionary hard drive. They already know to smile,

because all of evolution says, do this itll help you. Dee says, And I think, my gosh, dont
you get it, its not learned, its automatic.
But if you keep smiling automatically, it doesnt have the power of a conscious intended
smile. Where you almost have an empowerment knowing that smile, theres an art to
smiling, and authentic smiling and that it will bring you a beneficial result, either with a
caregiver, if you are a child, or in your relationships, including your inner relationships.
Unfortunately, though, when the child is growing up, even as a baby, and in society if
something as beneficial and beautiful as a smile is not rewarded, it may not stay. In
other words, if we dont reward people in return with a smile, it may not be kept as a
conscious modality. What does this mean? When people give us a gift of smiling, we
should return it with at least a smile or another gift as beneficial as their smile. Otherwise
we dont reward the activity and thus, the activity isnt reinforced. Some times you have
to reinforce even basic good traits. And smiling is a very good trait.
Thats why its all ready pre-programmed into us by many generations of human beings.
Now if people keep the trait of smiling but theres no intention or heart in it, youll see
what looks like a smile, but the eyes arent involved, theres just a smile, and the eyes
arent doing anything. So at least half of the smile, is in the eyes, the authentic
Duchenne crinkle at the corners of the eyes.
Dee Coulter went on to talk about a smile as a Blessing. Being a fellow of the Naropa
Institute of Colorado, Dee is quite familiar with the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk
Thich Nhat Hanh, renowned for his work with meditation, forgiveness, love and the
healing aspects of those modalities. His book, Be PeaceSmile is referred to in Dees
comments, You see some people use a smile as a Blessing, and Thich Nhat Hanh use
a smile as a blessing rather than just projecting his personality, that arent I a good guy,
Im a smiler, and using it for social positioning. He uses it as a blessing.
I, the author, believe that we can bless our external environment and ourselves by
smiling, by radiating warmth and good will to the world through a smile.
You can see there are different qualities of smiling. So we can see that smiling, indeed,
as a blessing is one of the most important uses of a smile, for blessing ourselves and
everything around us, even smiling at things that arent human. Smile at plants, smile at
yourself in the mirror, smile at animals, smile at nature, smile at all of Creation, nothing
less. A smile is a blessing and it could be the most important aspect of smilingto bless
and be blessed back.
Another metaphor about smiling is that its almost like a hugging at a distance. You can
allow people to maintain their space, their privacy, their sense of individual space and
you dont threaten them by hugging them or pushing into their space physically with a
hug, but you can hug at a distance with a smile.
Theres a real benefit to that. In other words, allowing the other people to do what they
do, which is unconditional love, and at the same time smiling as a blessing and as an
acknowledgement.
Being delighted with another person, be it a child or an adult, without interfering in their
world, by demanding an acknowledgement, or hugging, or talking, but just doing it with a

quiet smile of benevolence, allows you to allow that person to continue experimenting
and learning from the world, and again, to hug at a distance with a smile.
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Bruce Lipton
Dr. Bruce Lipton, PhD, is a research scientist, cell biologist, and global speaker on the
subject of the cellular metabolism and cell consciousness and beliefs, and is author of
The Biology of Belief. Dr. Lipton obtained his PhD. from the University of Virginia then
taught Histology, Cell Biology, and Embryology at the University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Anatomy Department. Lipton went on to study quantum physics and was
also a research scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine. Liptons published
papers on epigenetics pioneered the work proving that environmental nature and
nurturing affects the genes and alters their structure.

Dr. Lipton first became a cell biologist when he saw live cells under a microscope in the
second grade. In an undergraduate program at the University of Virginia, his studies
included cellular biology and electron microscopy. He also pioneered the work in stem
cell research in 1967, which has been in the news headlines only in the past few years.
One of the most important aspects of smiling is the biochemistry it creates and the
change in the actual genetic structure of our cells. As far back as 30 years ago, Dr.
Lipton found out that the environment in which cells were put affected the genetic
structure; that environment can also include emotions and physiology or muscle
structure. Thats where smiling comes in. He found that it was the environment and the
nurturing of the cells that affected the genetic structure and not just the genes alone.
The main focus of epigenetics was the delegation of the proof that environment and
nature and nurturing affected the genetic structure of the cell. The information was
based on that rather than genetic structure and genetics was nothing more than
reproductive element in a cell.
So Dr. Liptons insights into the value of smiling are quite unique considering his
pioneering background and his personal clarity and his insights regarding other factors
that change our RNA and DNA structures. Liptons work is with the brain of the cell,
which is what were talking about altering, as we alter consciousness by smiling and
facial structure.
This dramatically affects every one of the 50 trillion cells in the body, an amazing
quantity of consciousness since each cell is an individualized bio-computer that works
the same way as the human brain. Therefore, studying cell brains helped Lipton to bring
about theories that related to the fact that the brain of the cell acts and operates in much
the same way as the human brain. By studying one you can realize the results in
another.

A cells expression and health is a reflection of the environment it is in, not just the
biochemical environment, but also the emotional and physical environment that includes
the smile on the face and the biochemical, bioelectrical result of smiling on each of the
50 trillion cells in the body.
Thus, you can see that smiling infers an effect upon 50 trillion cells. By maintaining an
environment as positive and supportive, especially as loving and nurturing, the cell will
adjust its biology to conform its mechanisms, systems, and entire life force to survive in
that environment.
If it is a positive, nurturing, and supportive environment full of smiles, the effect is much
more beneficial than a negative effect, with frowning and arguing.
Indeed, smiling is a key factor here. Dr. Lipton goes on to say, Both the human, the total
human of 50 trillion cells, and each one of the 50 trillion cells adjusts its biology and its
consciousness to environmental stimuli good or bad, and will change its genetics and its
biochemistry as the whole of 50 trillion cells and also every cell will adjust, and therefore
a smile has a dramatic effect upon the belief system of the cell and the whole body. Dr.
Lipton says the perception of a smile is a very important environmental signal that
stimulates the physiology to a new system that is now called by scientists, Mirror
Neurons. Through these mirror neurons we respond and mirror and automatically mimic
activities we see outside of ourselves. We can mimic the activity of anything in our
environment.
Thus, when someone smiles at you and you smile back, that is a form of mimicking and
mirroring, which gives you back a form of immediate response. Mirroring neurons are
very, very important to understand. Dont underestimate the value of its function in
helping you to learn new protocols and ways to act and ways to respond, especially to
challenging situations in your life.
Mirrored neurons are actually recognized to be specific neurons in the brain. They are
there to allow you to learn a new activity or procedure without having to go through
reading a book about how to do it. We simply mirror it by looking at it, and then
reproduce the same activity in our own physiology and yes, belief systems.
This is where the real magic comes in. These mirror neurons allow the actual brain to
stage the activity that you are copying in your mind and copy the activity you want to
reproduce on these neurons, like your mental hard drive, simply by looking at somebody;
then, those mirror neurons and the brain tell the physiology, your body, your muscles,
how to do the activity, thus monkey see, monkey do.
If I see you doing an activity, my mirror neurons in my brain copy your activity and then
tell the muscles how to achieve it. It is a very complex, evolved, and amazing system of
learning by seeing and then copying.
Thus, we were told in life by many neuro-linguistic programming people and others that
we can mirror other peoples activities and copy the physiology of anything that anyone
has done and accomplish the same physical acts and other accomplishments simply by
copying what we see. It sounds simple, and it is in a sense, so that we can learn new
activities and procedures in a quick and simple way. Mirror neurons allow us to see a
smile and respond with a smile.

In these studies at various universities and in clinical research, Dr. Lipton says,
Monkeys were wired to watch other monkeys performing certain activities. When
monkeys were allowed to watch the activity of other monkeys performing certain motor
response activities with the muscles, that is, performing certain functions and acts in the
physical body, the observing monkeys that were not actually performing the act could
then stimulate the same mirror neurons in their brain that were demonstrated by brain
scans and perform the same activities simply by watching, mimicking, mirroring.
Again, monkey see, monkey do.
But it is a complex situation that allows them to see an activity, and then not have their
muscles mimic it, but their actual mirror neurons, which then tell the biochemistry and
the muscles of the body how to copy it. Simple, immediate, but very complex and thats
what we do in life, thats why we smile at somebody. It spreads a beneficial smiling virus.
You smile at another, they see that its good, it makes you feel good, they see that you
feel good, and you see that they feel good. You spread this beneficial good feeling
euphoric smile around the world, hopefully so that everybody interprets life as being
positive rather than negative and destructive, in which situation, the body would produce
poisonous chemicals or negative biochemistry simply by perceiving that a person got
depressed by frowning.
Dr. Lipton has studied extensively peri and pre-natal birth procedures with children. He is
well acquainted with the work of the Peri and Pre-Natal Birth Association of which Dr.
David Chamberlain is a member.
The baby is tuned in intimately and very responsively to the face of the mother and the
father. Therefore, the facial muscles of the mother and father convey an enormous
amount of information, if not the most amount of information to the baby about that which
it needs to learn about its environment, its actions, and the information that the parents
are conditioning the child to. Thus, smiling at birth and the response of the mother
smiling back, and the father, have a dramatic effect on the baby, and also so do the
babies activities ask the parents to give a beneficial response to the babys perception of
the world.
Thus, a smile from the mother at birth gives the child a definite response and the mirror
neurons in the child of a newborn baby can actually smile back. Thus, it is a universal
language, actually starting at birth. Thus the actual fact with the baby is that the face or
the smile of the parent will allow the baby to see directly if the environment is safe for
them. A look of concern, or doubt or fear on the face of the parent will be conveyed
immediately to the baby who will pull back rather than gladly go forward with an activity
simply by the facial muscles of the parent.
And of course again, a smile equals YES! Thats wonderful. That actually gives a
newborn baby a lot of information, just from the smile alone. It seems so simple, but it is
so complex, and so informative. Thus, very early in life, as early as birth, we tend to
connect the fact that safety and good feelings are connected to this smile. We find that a
smile indicates safety and good will of the caretakers, the parents.
You see how important this is? It is one of the first things a child should see at birth to
develop a healthy attitude. A smile says, Yes! We will protect you in the world. And it

says that, as the child grows older, even into adulthood. A smile says to those around
you, I will nurture you, and take care of you. You neednt be afraid of me. And that
leads to beneficial biochemistry in the cells, all 50 trillion of them.
Dr. Lipton explains the science behind this. When we smile, we generate a neuro
pathway in the brain, and that neuro pathway that creates the smile plays itself out, and
the mirrored neurons that plan the physical consequences of a smile will observe
another person smiling, your friend, a new acquaintance, or your parents, and the
mirrored neurons will play the same neuro pathway and allow a smile to come back.
Thats why its so easy that the good feeling of a smile is reciprocated immediately on
the face of the person you smile at. Its almost automatic, that the good feeling of a smile
is healthily responded to in such quick manner. I smile at you, and you smile at me. See
what a universal language this is? Thus, a smile to me gives me the same physiological
consequences as if I were smiling myself.
A smile of somebody feeling happy, or choosing to feel happy, or interpreting life in a
positive way, will stimulate me to feel good, and then I will mirror those neurons in the
brain, and give off the same painkillers, and the same feeling of joy and elation that a
smile gives anyone.
Thus, the smiling virus spreads around the world, and heals everyone. Dr. Lipton says,
In truth, a smile would be contagious, like a virus. If I observe a smile in another, it will
bring about a response in me, another smile. And thus it spreads down the line, the
mirror neurons that are activated in me from seeing a smile will activate mine, and then
my smile will activate the mirror neurons in another and so on and so on. You see the
power of a smile to spread around the world, quickly, and a most wonderful and magical
way. What else could equal a smile, Dr. Lipton says? Dr. Lipton says, That these mirror
neurons not only mimic the physiology of smiling and the biochemistry of the cells in the
body, but also mimic the neuro pathways, the way of thinking and the way the emotions
work. Thus, this is part of the actual mechanics and physics of how a smile can carry on
the good feeling that only a smile can.
Dr. Lipton says that there are two fundamental states of the body and the cells, either
growth or protection. He says the two do not really coexist together. If youre afraid, and
theres fear and frowning, you pull back. This even applies to unicellular organisms. But
if you see a smile, youre willing to expand and learn and grow. Thus, physical growth
itself and expansion of brain matter, learning and a healthy body are limited by lack of
smiling.
Isnt that incredible?
Dr. Lipton says that environments that are supportive and self sustaining, such as those
of a smile, will signal the system that its okay to indulge in growth rather than pulling
back from growth or learning out of fear. This is the off/on switch that a smile can turn on
and frowning and fearful expressions on the face turn people more to the fear, or the
flight or fight response, at which point you do not grow, you do not learn, but you act as
wanting to fight or flee from a dangerous situation, which a frown or a fearful expression
usually conveys. Thus, smiling also creates a state in which enables learning, growth,
and expansion, and optimal mind, body, abd spirit can actually exist.

In contrast, in negative facial expressions of fear, anger or disgust which signal the body
to go into a state of retreat and create neuro- hormones like cortisol, which allow the
body to react quickly.
It does everything from shut down the digestion and even rational thinking, as it is
prepared for danger. Many of these neuro-hormones like cortisol are extremely
destructive and cause the body to age, and create actual toxic substances within the
neuro physiology and the general biochemistry of the body.
Throughout history it didnt take science, biochemistry and cellular biology to know that a
smile created beneficial results, bonding, social attraction and other elements.
It didnt take biochemistry, neuro anatomy, or any other aspect to know that a smile is
good. It creates a positive environment to grow in, to learn in, and to actually turn off the
negative bio-chemicals and hormones that are given off by a negative state of anger, or
condemnation, or fear. Thus smiling creates beneficial hormones, and beneficial states
of mind, body, and spirit, all in one thing. The ancients knew this. And now science is
actually proving and rediscovering it through people like Dr. Lipton.
I personally say we can use this globally, through pictures on the internet, and
photographs of people smiling to remind each other, that most of the news in the world,
is good news, we just never hear about the millions of incidents every day of people
smiling and helping each other to lead a more optimum life. It can also be used in my
opinion, as the author for peace negations and diplomacy. To say, Its okay to work with
us. We have an authentic smile, and that allows us to both to proceed towards a winwin solution in peace negotiations.
Think of the trillions of dollars we spend on war and destruction could all be avoided by
smiling more and spreading that to every person in every country in the world who would
send back the smiling virus and say, Were your friends. We dont need to have war
and waste our manpower and our budgets on global warfare. THINK ABOUT IT.
How does this occur? By seeing your mirror neurons or another person seeing you
smiling, it assures them that the environment is safe to grow and to learn and to expand
in, rather than contract and run away in a fight or flight defensive mode. You cannot
have both, Dr. Lipton says. Youre either growing and learning and expanding, or
youre contracting, running away from and fearing. A smile sets the stage for the
environment of a supportive nurturing atmosphere to say its okay to relax, expand,
stretch and learn.
All research into subliminal learning, unconscious learning, and conscious learning
suggests that relaxation, feeling good and a non-fight or flight attitude allows one to learn
exponentially faster, much faster, than if one is in a negative, restrictive, fearful, angry
environment. A smile can do it all in one simple twist.
Dr. Lipton says, Of course, if you smile, and it is contagious, and it is, because of the
biology behind it, then smiling really is a necessary exercise in life, essential actually.
Almost like a self medication, for you and those around you, and if you can feed that
back into the system by noticing that you feel better when you smile, on all levels, for
many reasons, and those around you feel better and want to repeat the smile because it
is a feel good medication, then it becomes a self-reinforced habit.

By feeling good you smile more, and by smiling more you feel better, and by feeling
better, you feel good, and everybody says, I want that too. And so they smile back
automatically through their mirror neurons, thus, smiling creates a self-generating
cascade, an exponential expansion of good feeling around the world.
Dr. Lipton says it this way, The repetitious pattern you use of smiling repeatedly and
reinforcing it will be the one you actually run off of, almost like running a smiling softward in your brain, in your body, and in all 50 trillion cells.
Therefore, its self-reinforcing and its an automatic response. You automatically smile
rather than think about it. Thus, it becomes automatic to smile.
This is in contrast to what most people are conditioned to do. They wake up in the
morning, not with a smile on their face, but with a concern that it will be a seriously
challenging or negatively eventful day, like what will I have to face today?
Where as those who wake up smiling, think and feel differently. As powerful as it may
seem, if you wake up smiling, it probably wont matter what you face, because youll
interpret it positively, no matter what, and that will help you through positive psychology,
and optimism and smiling, to not only face the day in a more optimistic, resourceful way,
but to have the biochemistry to be stronger to have the brain work optimally, and
therefore the emotions, too.
Smiling can do all of this. Maybe because its so simple and automatic that we thought it
wasnt a miracle, but now you see that it is, and that research proves that every one of
the 50 trillion cells in the body, the DNA, the genetic material actually responds.
It says, Dont run from life and hide and give off destructive cortisol and other
hormones, neuro- hormones, but relax and get the pain killers, the natural endorphins
and nitric oxide and other elements which relax you and open you up to learn, to share,
to accept, and to be a beacon of healthiness, and readiness to learn and grow, mentally,
emotionally, intellectually; just by smiling. Incredible, isnt it?
Dr. Lipton continues, The importance of smiling, whether you are a child or adult, is that
growth and positively is not sustainable at the same time that fear, doubt, anger or
running away is. Theyre mutually exclusive.
The response of defending oneself against the environment because it looks hostile to
you, or you see it in the face of another that its hostile, stops the growth and learning
mechanisms that want to expand. At the same time, it increases the cortisol and other
neuron hormones that can destroy the body quite quickly, creating a very stressful
situation in the mind and body.
In other words, growth or protection are not easily done at the same time; one is either
growing and learning and increasing or shrinking and pulling back from.
So the 50 trillion cells in your body move towards a feeling or emotion thats positive and
supportive, such as a smile, and therefore, it says, Its okay to nourish and to grow and
expand. Or if the stimulus is threatening either a person, place or thing, but especially in
this event, a person frowning or having a fearful, disgusted look on their face, rather

than a smile, you immediately want to move away from it, and wall yourself off from that,
because the body knows that those negative expressions on the face, could be life
supporting, but they are poisonous in their own sense if maintained for too long.
Therefore, Dr. Lipton continues, You can see that the positive or negative effects of a
stimulus like a smile can affect our survival. And if it affects our survival, its the same
thing for the survival of the whole human species. Its good for the whole race that
everyone smiles.
I can actually tell the happiness ratio of the person and their psychology just from the
condition of the cells. If there was a bad cellular metabolism, I could tell what the person,
or myself had been through, just by what shape the cells were in. Thus, bad cells and
illness equals a negative attitude, and a lack of smiling. Thus, if the cells didnt look good
you could say, Oh my goodness, theres something wrong here.
Smiling is a demeanor that you can actually express with your facial muscles. Smiling
by its very nature implies that harmony is running through the system, Dr. Lipton says.
Thus, I, the author would say about this that the beneficial effects of smiling create also
a biochemistry that is alkaline, rather than acidic. Acidic conditions in the body can tear
down the cells, the nervous system, and the attitude.
Thus, by creating an alkaline beneficial ph through smiling and interpreting life positively
and acting and speaking positively, we create a biochemistry of alkaline ph, which again
is another reason to smile, for health, happiness and hormones.
Dr. Lipton says that, All organisms or people will look to other organisms or people to
see if its a safe environment to grow in or to run from, and thus, socially spreading a
smile is very important. Thats part of the environment, the 50 trillion cells grow in your
own body, and which can spread to you, and you can spread throughout the world.
Many people might think its over optimism to be positive and to smile in a challenging
situation, but just the opposite. Learned optimism and smiling allows you to be optimally
present in your brain, in your nervous system, in your physiology, and therefore, be able
to interpret a situation. Most people dont realize that when they frown and withhold a
smile, and run and are scared, that they are creating and amplifying the situation, and
their own poisonous biochemistry.
Dr. Lipton says that, Smiling is one of the things that can increase exponentially the
potential of jumping to a new level, socially, and in biology and actually reaching a
threshold where we go to a whole new level of biochemistry and health.
This is called spiking; it reaches a threshold, and then everything spikes, almost like a
quantum leap. They spike into the next phase of growth and learning, and optimum
health. You literally jump from one level to the next. Smiling can facilitate that
dramatically. If only a relatively small amount of people were smiling consistently, it
would help us to get to that threshold transformation of society, and of course, our own
50 trillion cells in our body, which is a society.
A small percentage of people smiling in the world can change the history of the world,
away from war and destruction towards personal satisfaction and growth of the arts, the

sciences, and health. So smiling can even be a uniting factor, to take incoherence, noncoherence, which has proven to be destructive to metabolism as the metabolism
becomes more coherent and more orderly, there is more health and more happiness.
This allows more of society to fall in alignment with smiling and health and coherence, in
the same way that once you smile and feel better, all of your 50 trillion cells become
coherent and work together rather than against each other.
At some point, smiling becomes self-satisfaction or a feedback loop that lets you know
by the good feeling that youre doing something right and to keep doing it. It also signals
others that youre doing something right, and their mirror neurons want to copy you.
Again, this is how the positive, healthy virus can spread.
Its self-reinforcing. You want to do it more and more. And sooner or later, everybody in
your environment, will say, Why are they smiling? I want to be that happy. What are you
smiling about? What if your answer is, Im smiling cause Im smiling? Or explain, Im
smiling cause it makes me feel good, and itll make you feel good, too.
Consciousness is your ability to have the feedback to see how youre fitting into the
world, the effect it has, and how youre acting and feeling, and the effect that has upon
both the world, and your internal biochemistry, those 50 trillion cells youre composed of,
as an adult.
A smile gives your body and mind a signal that youre satisfied with yourself and your
life. Therefore, it is very important, a smile reinforces that this makes me happier, and
healthier, as well as those around me. Lets keep doing it; its a feedback loop. It says,
Keep doing this, youre on the right track.
Nature and its evolutionary pattern, Dr. Lipton says, always uses those activities that
are pleasurable, to reinforce having you do them again. And usually if nature wants to
tell you not to do it anymore, it gives you pain. No matter in what form, whether its a
negative emotion, of guilt or shame, or over-eating. It says, Dont do this. Its not
beneficial for your state of mind, and for your evolution.
Nature has us hardwired to want more smiling, so we can have more pleasure, and
more love in our life. We always gravitate towards the smiling person. Everyone wants to
be around a smiling person. As the old saying says, Smile and the world smiles with
you. Frown and you frown alone.
Literally, Dr. Lipton says, millions of years of evolution have gotten to the point of
saying, See this makes you feel good, and thus, you know to continue smiling. It just
feels good. In fact, why do we even have to remind you? Dr. Lipton goes on to say that,
This community of 50 trillion cells in your adult body has to learn to how to become
coherent, and smiling helps do that, and the cells in the body, once they cohere by
realizing they can thrive rather than just survive. They can go beyond survival in the 50
trillion cells, if they are synergistically cooperating. What a great role model for the 6
billion people on Planet Earth to learn to cooperate synergistically, especially with
something as simple as smiling. It doesnt take a big group effort nor does it take a big
budget. In fact, it takes no energy, and it gives you energy, and it costs nothing, its free.

Thus, Dr. Lipton continues, The first receiver of all the benefit from the smile is your 50
trillion cells. Wow! Thats the consciousness aspect of it. Your conscious aspect is
talking to your city under your skin, 50 trillion cells. Thats a big number, do you realize
how big 50 trillion is? Even one billion, and it allows them to work in harmony and relax
and increase your brain matter, your physical cells, your muscle tissue, your organs and
everything. What youre doing by smiling is giving the feedback to those 50 trillion cells,
Everythings fine, lets keep going.
Dr. Lipton says, A smile is an expression of a harmonious energy. Thus the
harmonious energy in the biochemistry and the mirroring neurons happen at exactly the
same time as the smile. Theres barely a difference between the smiling and the
beneficial results. They go along with each other. You dont have to say, which comes
first, the beneficial physiology or the smile. They go together. Theyre basically the same
thing, so you have a choice.
When you see the smile on your own face, it is a visual representation of a simultaneous
message being sent to 50 trillion cells in your body, and that signal says, Life is good,
Dr. Lipton says. Why is that important?
Dr. Lipton continues, Because the only other alternative is life is bad. And that changes
the entire behavior, biochemistry, and health of the cell, and its environment, for all 50
trillion cells. Theres a connection again, between growth and protection. We wont grow
and expand our brain cells, and our muscle cells, and tissues, if were in the fear mode
or the non-smiling restrictive mode. That smile is a signal to say, Its okay to be happy,
intelligent, strong and healthy, nothing less.
So Dr. Lipton says, If you can get 50 trillion citizens to live in harmony and coherence
like you do when you smile to your 50 trillion cells, it helps us to get to that point,
socially, where maybe 6 billion people, a minimum number, can work together in
harmony and coherence towards a better society, same way as it occurs in the body,
biochemically, with the 50 trillion cells, when you smile.
This is all, Dr. Lipton says, a very natural drive and thats why it made you feel good to
tell you its good for everything. So if your 50 trillion cells feel good when you smile, then
it signals the person around you who sees you smile, they pick up on all that energy, on
how good it makes you feel. They know you are not faking it. And evolution says if it
feels bad, dont do it again.
Dr. Lipton says, When you are smiling the genuine Duchenne smile, where your eyes
crinkle on the corners, theres a field of energy that waves through the system that says,
I, the system, the body, and then full harmony with this idea; its attractive. In other
words, Dr. Lipton says, Your smile is an outer demonstration that all 50 trillion of your
cells are powerfully aligned together, nothing less. Dr. Lipton says, Since we read
everything on our environment to see how we should respond to it, this is where the real
power of smiling becomes obvious.
Thus, Dr. Lipton says, When a human being sees another human smiling, it signals his
50 trillion cells to go towards that person, and to be attracted to them, and that facilitates
communication, I would say, also, that youre willing to be with that person and want to
be with them because they are smiling.

Thus, you both learn and you are both attracted to each other just from a smile.
Generally the smile was generated by the harmonious inner state, and thats why it
came out as a smile. It had to be experienced from within first, before it became an
authentic smile.
And nature and evolution always lead you to places that encourage your growth, the
growth of your body, and the growth of humanity. It always leads you to that state of
growth, happiness and learning. Otherwise, it keeps you away from other states, by
making them painful, so youll want to go away from them.
Dr. Lipton said, When I first started to realize that I wasnt a victim, and had a creative
capacity in my own life, one of the problems was I started smiling so much it hurt,
because I was smiling all the time, because I realized I really was creatively in control.
And using the smile to control your filter of how you look at the world is one very
important reason to smile for health and happiness, and relationship. And once I realized
the benefit of smiling, it became an eternal feature upon my face.
Dr. Liptons web sites are www.brucelipton.com and www.liptonbiologyofbelief.com.

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SMILING 101
Now you have some idea of the power of a simple smile. Remember that by spreading
this beneficial expression to everyone you know and even to those youve never met,
you can affect the state of the world that you live in with very little effort. You can affect
your own feelings, as well.
So, what do you do when you dont feel like smiling and you dont even feel like faking
it? Well, you can be grateful that youre not getting forced to smile; that may make you
smile. Remember, it is not mandatory to smile nor is it mandatory for you to be happy.
SMILING EXPERIMENT!
Why not try a little experiment that takes very little time, no money, and very little effort
on your part. Ask your friends and every one you know whether they prefer being around
a person whos smiling or frowning. Ask yourself the same question. Ask them and
yourself to whom you gravitate at a party or a gathering, the people who are exuding a
smile and happiness or those who seem angry or depressed? The answer is usually
obvious.
You dont have to cultivate a spiritual practice or take a course in self-improvement or a
course in how to influence others, nor do you have to take a course in socio biochemical
agreement producing behaviors. A smile comes from a much deeper place and it was
actually planted there inside of you by that which created you and everything else in your
universe.

Maybe its worth waiting for it to come spontaneously but whos to say that your desiring
to create the smile, and not wait for it, is not part of the spontaneous universe you live
in? So, whether a smile spontaneously lights your face or whether you follow some of
the protocol of this book
SMILE FOR YOUR HEALTH!
SMILE FOR YOUR HAPPINESS AND JOY!
SMILE FOR YOUR ABUNDANCE!
SMILE FOR THE FACT THAT NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO
SMILE!
But, for whatever reason, share that good feeling with those around you. They cannot
help but smile right back! All to often in life we realize that the pursuit of things that are
complex, expensive, or status seeking was never as potent and life giving and life
enhancing as those good things that are free.
SMILING IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THOSE THINGS!
It is free, effortless, and it always brings immediate results. If people dont smile back at
you, they probably need the smile more than anybody. So dont judge somebody
because they dont have a smile, and dont judge somebody because theyre not sharing
their smile with you. Maybe they really need the smile to find a way to plant the seed, to
remember what a good feeling it brought to them. Then when theyre feeling a little
better, they might give it back to you, quite spontaneously, or to someone else. They just
might pass it along.
And you can remember also, when you dont feel like smiling, you dont have to. But its
okay for you to gravitate towards those people who are smiling and laughing. It will make
any burden you might have a lot lighter. Laughter, humor, and most of all smiling, makes
one feel at home no matter how down or negative you might be feeling. So, you are not
obliged to be smiling all the time. There is no punishment, there is no reward, except the
state of feeling good and being around those who feel good, which in turn makes you
feel good.
Whether youre interested in curing chronic disease, or acute disease or pain, whether
youre involved with emotional challenges, or financial ones, or those of relationship,
whether youre seeking optimum health or well-being, or youre seeking to bring a unique
gift to someone who has everything, or to someone who has very little: a smile is always
a good way to being and end such pursuit or desire.
At times, when it seems inappropriate to smile because the challenges in the world or
critical situations demand that one assume one must keep a serious face on, and prove
that one is committed to transcend suffering and help end suffering by suffering and
frowning, you can remember this: nothing can help pain better than a smile.
A gentle smile may be more appropriate than a humorous smile, in some situations. But
that particularized type of smiling response comes from your heart, and it quickly

bypasses any cultural, conceptual or philosophical differences and goes straight to the
heart of the other person and other people.
When challenges are the greatest, smiling is needed the most. It reassures the heart
that all things will pass, and that which is now a challenge, will be transcended in time,
and healed. And on the happier note, a smile is so much like a boomerang; it always
comes back to the sender. And just like an email, if you send out smiles all over the
world wide web of life, youll get a notification that the smile was received. There are all
ready NATIONAL SMILE DAYS!
Lets make a GLOBAL SMILING DAY! in which the celebration and festivities manifest
in the form of global smiling. Just as the saying goes, Let peace begin with me, you
can also say, Let peace begin with a smile. It is an assurance that there is only good
will.
A SMILE IS IMMEDIATE!
A SMILE IS NOW!
A SMILE IS FREE!
A SMILE IS POWERFUL!
A SMILE IS COMPLETE IN ITSELF!
A SMILE IS GOOD WILL, ITSELF!
It doesnt require any other gift, but you can always add it to any gift you give. It is the
greatest gift you can give, and you can give it frequently. You can never give or receive
too many smiles. You can vary the intensity or the meaning about how your heart marks
each smile with a definite purpose and definite well wish. Those who receive your smile
will know its profound meaning without any interpretation. When you feel least inclined
to smile, it might be a good affirmation to your mind, body, and spirit to smile anyway. Itll
remind you that things will get better.

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KEEP ON SMILING
The power of a smile is never-ending. Once you give it to others in your immediate
physical environment, or even in a photograph, it spreads to all those people, and they
go out feeling good and smiling, in turn affecting countless others. Thus, you can spread
your smiles around the world, by the millions, just by smiling, or just by sharing this book
with others. You can remind them to surround the planet with smiles. Now with the
Internet, we can share the power of our smiles through our digital photography, through
our sharing of this research; we can network our smiles around the world billions of
times.

Would you like to share your smiling metaphors, quotes, anecdotal stories or inspiring
experiences? Let me know how a smile empowered you or a loved one or a child. Im
looking forward to creating a world of smiling, hopeful people. Send your submittals to
me by e-mail, regular mail, or voice mail:
elansunstar@yahoo.com
Elan Sun Star
P. O. Box 0000
Honolulu, Hawaii 968-(808) 779-0073
What better purpose or mission than the sharing of smiles? It is so simple, it doesnt take
planning or a board of directors or a large budget to make it happen. Its something you
can do, and you can teach others to do it, by doing it. And by doing it, your own heart
keeps saying, YES! And your mind says, YES! And your body says, YES! And you
spirit says, YES!
It keeps rebounding in an echo. Smiling is the best way to bring peace in the world. To
say, Let us forgive, let us live in the element of peaceful coexistence. And smiling
reassures all that it is a safe world. Creating a smiling world seems like such a simple
thing, and yet it can do so much.
Smiling can bring so much goodness, happiness and joy to the world. As we realize that
were all in this together, by smiling we unleash heretofore hidden forces in our hearts,
bodies, minds, and spirits. The research shows proves smiling could be the most
powerful thing you can do, to reveal that goodness is simple, and a good world starts
with a smile, nothing more.
The more you focus on that, the more you focus on the heart rather than the problems,
or the heart rather than the minds arguments, and the smile, thus the more youre
protected from any negativity in the world. In other words: Goodness is a radiance that
casts no shadow.
Wherever you can bring a smile, or stimulate them, generate them, youve brought
healing, enrichment, and empowerment. On a crowded city street, in an elevator, in a
checkout line, in the country, in your garden, in your home, while youre driving, while
youre bathing, while youre talking, always make it a habit to smile. Its the best habit
you could ever develop. It will automatically enhance your life so immeasurably that
youll come to realize that the best things in life are free, which helps nudge the other
things in life into perspective.
Start making your dreams come true. Start with something that you can do right now,
and thats smile! Throughout this book, Ive given you helpful hints and research
material. But give it a 30-day test and ask others around you to do the same and find
out what it can do for your life.
PROGRAM YOURSELF TO SMILE.
Smile in a mirror at yourself, and youll feel good all day long. Smile to people around
you, and theyll love being around you, and theyll want to share their smile, too. If they
have a faint smile, help them to make it big. You can use humor and laughter to cajole
them along and to reinforce your own good feeling. Volumes could be written about the

benefits of smiling, but let your own smile and the feeling you get from it, and those
around you, be your critical appraisal.
Smiling is such a simple technique. Anywhere, anytime, smile. If you like you can even
e-mail me your smiles and those of your loved ones. Big close-up smiles, lots of teeth, or
no teeth! Get out your digital camera and send us your smiles, so we can include them
on our SMILING website and link you to others around the world who are part of the
SMILING team. Service with a smile is our motto.
The inherent wholesomeness of a smile says the same thing, in the same language, to
everyone it reaches, young or old. Good will and good intention create harmony in the
world and within ourselves, thus, as many researchers have said, creating an actual
heart and brain coherence that leads to a wholesome and happy life.
The best gift to give on a birthday or at Christmas is your smile. Include a smile with
everything you do. When youre serving food, when youre walking along the street,
when youre in the line at the post office, keep smiling.
A smile is flying upward to Heaven balanced by the roots of the earth. Allow yourself to
remember all of the thousands of smiles you have received in your lifetime from family
and friends, and books and pictures. Let your memory roam. How did those smiles
make you feel? Can you remember a smile that lifted you up when you were down,
when someone came into your life and smiled?
Beyond all the data, reference material, and personal experiences, a smile is the
universal frequency that lifts your level of vibration to the highest spiritual practice. It
allows you to be in the spiritual realm that transcends religions, dogmas, and
differences. Use smiling as a spiritual practice, for it is nothing less.
A smile allows you to offset the challenges of the day. The higher frequency always
cancels out the lower frequency. The higher power of love and joy prevails over fear,
negativity, doubt and shame, vibrating like a universal Sun. Allow your smile to cover
the whole world like the Sun, and feel your smile warm your body like the warmth of the
Sun, thawing out the chill of winter. Smile in truth from your heart. A smile is the
greatest gift we can give each other.
KEEP SHINING AND KEEP SMILING!
SMILING QUOTES
Smiles are contagious. Be a carrier!
Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy day.
Lawrence Welk
SMILE and be happy, the day is brand new.
This is the day the Lord made for YOU!
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl
and have wrinkles. George Elio

A Smile is a powerful weapon. You can even break

ice with it.
Dont start to frown, its never in style
just do your best to smile, smile, smile!
A smile is like looking in a mirror.
If you give a smile youre likely to get one back!
SMILE.
Some people think its wads of cash that make a life
Worthwhile.
But what makes this world a better place is a super,
Smashing SMILE!
~Morgan Falchi
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a
lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel
better.
~Tom Peters
Be your own florist: wreathe your face in smiles
Its better to make the world smile at what you say than laugh at what you do.
We all learn from experience: no man wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.
A smile is a language that even a baby understands.
Dont cry because its over, SMILE because it happened!
~from Clara, a friend from Ireland
If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.
~Sr. Mary Christelle Macaluso
Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because
you are cheerful;
but if you will force yourself to smile youllbe cheerful
because you smile.
~Kenneth Goode
He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
~Japanese Proverb
Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it
adds something to his fragment of life.
~Lawrence Sterne
Its easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a
song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can
smile when everything goes dead wrong.
~Anonymous
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most
important.
~Janet Lane

Smile! If you cant lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Keep a smile on your face and let your personality be your
autograph.
~Leo Daniel
Whats the use of worrying? It never was worth the while, so pack up your troubles in your
old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile,
~George Asaf
Would you like to improve your face value? SMILE! It works
every time!
~Tichia
No matter how small, a SMILE on your face tells all.
~Tichia
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been
~Mark Twain
Smile at someone and find something worth laughing about.
As the laughter permeates your life, the spirit of celebration
will take root in your heart.
~Emily Barnes
A SMILE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND!
A smile of encouragement at the right moment may act like
sunlight on a closed-up flower; it may be the turning point for a struggling life.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are trifles, to be sure; but, scattered
along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
~Joseph Addison
Forgery is pointless: no one wants a fake smile.
Smiles dont take up shelf space.
No theft insurance: smiles are only valuable if you
give them away.
Smiles are great investments: the more you collect,
the better you feel.
Antique smiles are valuable----so are newborn&
middle aged ones.
Smiles are unbreakable---and mend broken hearts.
Be multilingual; smiles are the universal language.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
~Washington Irving
A smile costs nothing, but give much.
A smile enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.

A smile takes but a moment, but the memory of it lasts

Forever.
A smile brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged,
sunshine to the sad, and it is natures best antidote for trouble.
A smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is on no value
to anyone until it is given away.
Some people are too tired to give you a smile, so give them one of yours as no one needs a
smile as much as the one who has no more to give!
So many languages in the world, and a smile speaks them all!
A laugh is a smile that bursts
~Mary H. Waldrip
A smile is the curve that sets all things straight
~Phyliss Diller
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
All the statistics in the world cant measure the warmth of
a smile.
~Todays Special, a TV Ontario childrens show
I smile and everyone loves me. I cry and find out who my true
friends are.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is home.
A smile is as nice to give as it is to receive.
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can
bring to the most important muscle of the bodythe heart.
A smile is Worth A Thousand Words
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
~Proverbs 15:13 NKJV
or another version: A cheerful heart brings a SMILE to your face!
Your SMILE makes my day!
If you dont have anything nice to say, just SMILE!
Most smiles start with another smile.
A SMILE IS FOREVER
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks almost
instantly.
~sited in Bits & Pieces
Smiles are the souls kisses
~Minna Thomas Antrim

YOUR SMILES WILL BE RETURNED!

~Pamela Speidel
SMILE, light the way and have a great day!
SMILE, its a nice reflection on you!
Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will
come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.
Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone.
A SMILE is a facelift thats in everyones price range!
~Ziggy
The act of smiling is a gift that gives a little piece of joy and
sunshine to brighten anothers day.
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around
you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, youre
the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
If youre not using your smile, youre like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no
checkbook.
~Les Giblin
If you only have one smile, in you, give it to the people you
love. Dont be surly at home and then go out in the street and
start grinning Good Morning at total strangers.
~Maya Angelou
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the
beginning of love.
~Mother Teresa
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes
your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and
effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there
is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out share, SMILE, hug.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~Og Mandino
DONT WORRY, BE HAPPY, AND KEEP SMILING!
SMILE! It only takes 13 muscles; a frown takes 64!
SMILE! Its free therapy!
~Doug Horton
Smile more often! Give someone a hug! Praise someone for
doing a job well done! These are the little things that can make a big difference in a persons
life. Do you notice that they are all free? They are free to give and free to receive. This just
gives you another reason to SMILE, hug and praise more!
~Mary Shaw

SPREAD THE SUNSHINE!

~Mary Shaw of the The Mystic Realm
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day
~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A smile confuses an approaching frown
~Author Unknown
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.
~Lee Mildon
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
~Phyllis Diller
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag
their tails and fall over
~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course,1997
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
~Author Unknown
Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
~W.C. Fields
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
~Jim Beggs
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~Charles Gordy
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain, Following the Equator
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
~William Shakespeare, Othello
A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people youre at home.
~Author Unknown
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it
~Andy Rooney
If you smile at someone, they might smile back.
~Author Unknown
Always remember to be happy because you never know whos falling in love with your smile.
~Author Unknown
Everyone smiles in the same language.
~Author Unknown
If you dont have a smile, Ill give you one of mine.
~Author Unknown
Ive never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
~George Eliot
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
~Raymond Chandler
A smile appeared upon her face as if shed taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it
there.
~Lorna Chandler
A laugh is a smile that bursts.
~Mary H. Waldrip
If you dont start out the day with a smile, its not too later to start practicing for tomorrow.
~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy youre feeling,
Youll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreathe
All around the front teethThus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.
~Author Unknown
A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and lifes worthwhile.
~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
~Charles Reade
A smile is the universal welcome.
~ Max Eastman
Keep smiling-it makes people wonder what youve been up to.
~Author Unknown
Youre never fully dressed without a smile.
~Martin Charnin
It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.
~Author Unknown
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
~Janet Lane
All the statistics in the world cant measure the warmth of a smile.
~Chris Hart
If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.
~Author Unknown

Peace begins with a smile.

~Mother Teresa
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
~Author Unknown
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer
those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is
so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be
made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something
that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a
smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.
~Author Unknown
It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can
bring to the most important muscle of the bodythe heart.
~Author Unknown
A smile can brighten the darkest day.
A smile is a frown turned upside down.
A smile is a whisper of a laugh.
A smile is a language understood by all persons.
A smile is something that you use when youre happy.
A smile is something that tells youre happy.
A smile is something that a guy sometimes makes on your face
then a kiss on the lips so your smile will grow.
A smile is something you cant give away. It always comes back to you.
A smile is the light in the window of your soulindicating that the heart is at home.
Angels know that if you smile, it is infectious.
Cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.
Dont interpret this smile as happinessits insanity!
Go with a smile.
~Turkish saying
Keep smilingbecause it makes them wonder what youre up to!
I smile because I have no idea whats going on!
It I had a star for every time you made me smile,
I would be holding the night sky in my hand!
It life deals you a lemonsqueeze out a smile.
It you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
Put a smile on your facemake the world all better

Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner,
When someone saw my grin.
He started smiling,
And I realized I passed it onto him.
I thought about that smile,
Then I realized its worth.
A single smile, just like mine,
Could travel round the earth!
So if you feel a smile begin,
Dont leave it undetected.
Lets start an epidemic quick,
And get the world infected!
~Author Unkown
Smiles makes ones life much longer.
SmileSunshine is good for your teeth!
Smilethe second best thing you can do with your mouth.
Some people just grin and bear it,
While others smile and change it.
Someone, somewhere dreams of your smile.
And while thinking of yousays life is worthwhile.
So when you are lonelyremember its true,
Someone somewhereis thinking of you.
The smiles between us are greater than the miles between us!
When Irish eyes are smiling
Theyre usually UP to something!
A smile is like a toothbrush. You have to use it regularly to keep your teeth shining bright.
We do not smile because something good has happened; rather
Something good happens because we smile
A smile is a special remedy for an injured mind and body
Your smile determines how you see and think about the world
around you.
Every survival kit should include a sense of humor
He who laughs, lasts
~Mary Poole

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances the
respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations!
~Norman Cousins
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects!
~Arnold Glasow
Laughter is the Sun that drives winter from the human face
~Victor Hugo
Always smile when you can. It is cheap medicine!
~Lord Byron
The most wasted of our days are those in which we have not smiled
~Nicolas Chamfort
The sound of laughter has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the universe.
~Peter Ustinov
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh!
Laughter has no foreign accent.
~Paul Lowney
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
~Helen Keller
They can because they think they can
~Virgil
For they can live who believe they can
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is what he believes
~Anton Chekov
Ones confidence, or lack of it, in the prospects of recovery from serious illness affects the
chemistry of the body, the belief system converts hope, robust expectations, and the will to
live into plus factors in any contest of forces involving disease
Everything begins, therefore with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
~Norman Cousins

Positiveness begets positiveness

~Leo Buscaglia
There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally
create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire.

~Douglas Bloch
If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must
think prosperous thoughts. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in
like form
~Louise Hay
Be like the bird, who, halting in his flight too slight, yet sings-knowing he has wings.
~Victor Hugo

Newest Smiling Quotes

Smile as much as you can. Come onSmile!
A smile can work wonders. Put it to work for you.
Its almost impossible to be negative when youre sincerely
smiling. Smile, and youll be turning yourself into the positive
possibilities of life. Smile with sincerity, with your eyes and your
face,
as well as your lips, and youll naturally bring out the best in the
people
around you.
Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle
comes
from the belly, But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
overflows,
and bubbles all around.
~Carolyn Birmingham
When people are smiling, they are most receptive to almost
anything
you want to teach them.
~Allen Funt

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world
will
not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against
nuclear
missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of
smiling,
breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
A smile is something nice to see, it doesnt cost a cent
A smile is something all your own, it never can be lent,
A smile is welcome anywhere, it does away with frowns
A smile is good for everyone, to ease the ups and downs.
~Author Unknown
~
Peace begins with a smile---smile a hundred times a day at someone
you dont really feel like smiling at---do it for peace. In this way, we
will
spread the peace of God, and in this way we will shine with His light,
and in the world and in the hearts of men we will snuff out all
hatred and all love of power.
~Mother Teresa
When you have a rainbow deep down in your heart, your smile will
shine
bright. You know youre a part of that colorful, magical feeling youll
find, when you have a rainbow inside.
~Anonymous
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
~Japanese proverb

A smile is the quickest way to agreement. An endearing Walt Disney song from the
1940s says, A dream is a wish your heart makes. Well, a smile is a song your heart
sings. A frown says no, a smile says, Yes, of course!

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybodys heart.

~Anthony J. DAngelo
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks
them all.
~Anonymous

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain
too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives
everything
its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather
strength from distress and grow.
~Thomas Paine
Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give.
~Rabbi Nachman
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy,
not
only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind
of peace work.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
The smile that flickers on babys lips, when he sleeps----does
anybody
know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale
beam of

a vanishing autumn cloud and there the smile was first born in the
dream
of a dew-washed morning.
~Rabindranath Tagore, Gilanjali

SMILING QUOTES #2
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are
no smiles available.
~Jim Beggs
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean
it.
~Andy Rooney
Always remember to be happy because you never know
who's falling in love with your smile.
~Author Unknown
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful
~Author Unknown
No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teethThus preserving the face from congealing.
~Anthony Euwer
Every day you spend without a smile, is a lost day.
~Author Unknown
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything
in its
vicinity freshen into smiles.
~Washington Irving
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword
~Charles Reade

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of

a smile.
~Chris Hart
Peace begins with a smile.
~Mother Teresa