Step 4: Smile and Laugh a Lot
Smiling is a great way to improve your condition, it adds the brightest colours to your psychological portrait. Even a transient smile at an attractive starnger lets you take a deep breath of fresh air when it seems too stuffy in the 'rooms' of your mind and soul. That is why it's so very important to smile whenever you have a chance to. Smile to your friends, your family, even to your mirror image. Smile in all possible positive ways – warm, charming, seductive, naughty, irresistible, innocent, - it's all great as long as your smiling is sincere.
You sure have noticed that if you 'smile your day away' you feel great in the evening. When you happily smile you not only feel better but also share your good mood with others which inspires you to do it more and more often. Forced and i.e. 'artificial' smiles do not count since they can bring negative emotions to you instead of happiness and joy.
Have you ever found yourself walking along the street having a constant smile on your face? You certainly have. The ones who you passed by must have thought you were slightly crazy but you didn't really care because you were crazily happy. And your crazy smile at that instant helped you to express your emotional condition greatly. We'll tell you more – it made people who saw your daydreaming face smile too! They may have even laughed at you but now that you can easily laugh at yourself with them, - your memory of those moments only bring back that lovely smile again.
You have probably heard the expression 'laughter is the best medicine', it really is true and we advise you to take this medicine as often as possible. It has no side effects at all and will only work in the direction of improving your physical health. You can combine this medicine with any possible activity – when you're at work chatting with your colleagues, at home watching TV, at the gym seeing your reflection in the mirror (bad joke yes but you've already learnt to laugh at yourself, haven't you?).
Thousands of researches illustrated the healing effect of smiling and laughing on our psychological condition as well as our physical health. When we smile we make our mood better, when we laugh from the bottom of our heart we heal our bodies and souls with filling ourselves with positive emotions. When you smile and laugh with others – you exchange your happiness and i.e. receive much more than you give. Thinking positive is a key to smiling your way through life.
The main thing is not to exaggerate with laughing or smiling. First of all, it will hardly ever contribute to you having better sense of humour for most likely your 'positive' emotions will be forced and i.e. unnatural. If you just can't smile when you're in a bad mood, try to think of that very moment which used to bring an instant smile to your face, and you will certainly feel it shining your on your sulky lips and cheeks again. It will bring all the colours of the rainbow to your day if you share it with others. And it will certainly contribute to your treating the world less seriously, and will turn you from a helpless crybaby into a strong-willed person who pours ridicule on his or her problems instead of pouring your tears all over them. Try to follow these recommendation of ours just for one day, and believe us next day you'll feel that you have not only become a more positive person but also a person who can play good quality jokes.