Comments on: Tiny Tips to increase Happiness

By: jsmith

jsmith — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:09:01 +0000

Adam, I love that you are spreading happiness to the world! You are so on to a HUGE and powerful ‘secret’ — which is: we can create our moods and emotions thru our actions. Play the role (which may feel odd at first) and notice how you eventually grow so used to it that it becomes natural.

and yes, it is just that simple! In happiness, J

By: Adam Galas

Adam Galas — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:30:08 +0000

My psychology professor told me that studies in which clinically depressed people smiled for a week indicated that the simply mechanical act of smiling increased happiness, decreases stress and improves one’s mood.

I have been smiling ever since and have noticed that grinning, a big, natural grin causes a rush of positive emotion identical to the first time I fell in love.

Now I am spreading the gospel of smiling to anyone who will listen. I owe my future lifetime of happiness to my professor for cluing me into the secret to a happy life. It is the simplest imaginable thing which is why most people don’t realize it.

You don’t smile when your happy, you smile to become happy!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:26:41 +0000

“Smile when you walk” is such good advice, and I know because I do it all the time! I’m a shy person by nature, so for many years I walked around deliberately NOT making eye contact with people… then someone who I had gotten to know told me that when they first met me, they thought I was stuck up or mean, because I deliberately avoided connecting with people. I thought to myself, “How awful! I’m not selfish OR mean!” From that point on I made an effort, though it was uncomfortable at first, to smile at people as I walked past them. I work in a building with hundreds of other people, and walking from one place to another I inevitably encounter several passers-by…. I found by making eye contact and smiling at people, that people actually smiled back! Not only do I feel better when I get to where I’m going, I know that it has an effect on others too because one of my previous managers commented to me once, “Kelly, I love that you are always smiling! It’s so nice to see”. Smiling when I walk is one of the ways that I “flex my happiness muscles” every day!