Smiles all around
I had a not so good day today. I had many anxiety attacks and I cut. It wasn't a complete disaster because I slept the rest of the day away. But I have to get through tomorrow with no outside contact at all.
I was reading this blog through Psych Central and basically it said Smile and You'll Have a Good Life.
"The genuine smile group were more likely to get and stay married, and had higher score evaluations of physical and emotional wellbeing. Remarkably, Keltner’s study was able to find this connection more than 30 years after the college photos were taken."
It continues to cite this and at least another study that backs it up. The more you smile the better you feel. I laugh a lot considering my circumstances but I don't think I'll ever qualify for this study. I don't just smile a lot and a lot of bad things happen to me. So I tend to be negative. What came first, the chicken or the egg. Well, in this case I think I can answer that. I used to expect good things to happen but then horrible things kept happening so I lost faith. I'm working on the faith thing.
I was reading this blog through Psych Central and basically it said Smile and You'll Have a Good Life.
"The genuine smile group were more likely to get and stay married, and had higher score evaluations of physical and emotional wellbeing. Remarkably, Keltner’s study was able to find this connection more than 30 years after the college photos were taken."
It continues to cite this and at least another study that backs it up. The more you smile the better you feel. I laugh a lot considering my circumstances but I don't think I'll ever qualify for this study. I don't just smile a lot and a lot of bad things happen to me. So I tend to be negative. What came first, the chicken or the egg. Well, in this case I think I can answer that. I used to expect good things to happen but then horrible things kept happening so I lost faith. I'm working on the faith thing.