The Power of a SMILE
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Crack a smile, go ahead, no one is looking… And if your kids are looking, they will likely smile too!
Our smile is our body’s natural expression of our happiness to the world around us. A smile is an indicator of our level of satisfaction with life at this exact moment.
The more we smile, the more satisfying life really is.
Have you ever experienced something truly wonderful like falling in love or holding a sleeping baby? Have you ever watched a child experience something new and exciting for the first time and watched their eyes light up and their unstoppable smile? Have YOU ever experienced something new and exciting for the first time and felt YOUR eyes light up and YOUR unstoppable smile?
But, have you ever just smiled for NO REASON?
The SMILE Experiment
Where you are right now, just start smiling. As you read this, crack a smile. Yes, it is seemingly for no reason at all, and right now the reason to smile is simply to smile. I know it sounds almost silly, but if you will work with me on this you will see how you can use a smile to shift the course of your day. In fact, you can use a smile to shift the course of someone else’s day too, and yes, even your kids.
At first it will feel like an unauthentic smile, but stick with it and keep smiling at you.
Pretend you are having a photograph taken and it’s the one you want others to see.
Now, Add Some Thoughts
As you are smiling at your reflection, start to think about the reasons you have to be grateful in your life right now.
Direct your thoughts toward people in your life with whom you have a relationship you cherish deeply.
Direct your thoughts toward all you have in your life for which to be grateful and how happy you are to have the opportunity to experience life and how happy you are for this moment in time.
Okay, experiment is over. How do you FEEL?
You may be feeling energized and generally happier inside, or you may even be gushing with joy and filled with inspiration to change the world.
Either way you are likely feeling happier, and that is the point.
Our own smile can have a very powerful effect on us, and the effect it has on others is truly amazing, especially our children.
Our Happiness Brings True Joy to Our Children.
One of the greatest keys to raising happy children is to be a model of happiness.
The next time you look at your child, without words, give them a true smile.
You will instantly see an authentic smile on their face.
Watch how your day and theirs unfolds when you can start your day with a smile.
Share with your kids your reasons to smile and have them share their reasons to smile with you.
Yes it is true there are bountiful reasons to be unhappy and many reasons to frown, and we certainly don’t have to look hard to find them. In fact for many people unhappiness is just a way of life and for so many kids unhappiness is the norm and happiness occurs on rare occasions.
However, the happiness of our children is worth the small effort it takes to shift the focus of our thoughts to those that make us smile, and doing so models for our children that they too can find the reasons inside to smile too.
Everyone deserves to smile more often and the reasons to smile take only some directed thought.
Smile for NO REASON then add some thoughts of reasons to smile…
Our world will benefit when we all can feel more often…
The POWER OF A SMILE 
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