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Smiling Is Good For Your Health

How does that old song go? "When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you..." Smiling has got to be one of the fastest and easiest ways to turn any mood around. But what if I don't feel like smiling right now I hear you ask? Do it anyway!...Go on...you can do it...Force a smile.

You see...it's not that hard.

All of those facial muscles that you just used to smile produced a natural chemical in your body called "Endorphins". Now the good news is for those of you having a down day, is that the brain can't tell the difference between a real smile and a fake one....So if you didn't participate in our little experiment before, take a breath, fake a smile and soak up some good old Vitamin H (H is the chemical sign for "Happy")

Here are a couple of situations where you may have to pull a fast one over your brain to set those endorphins free.

• Your pre adolescent child's mood swing has just flown off the radar

• You've just shut the car door on your thumb in front of your husbands mother (Breath, breath, fake that smile....Vitamin H is on the way)

• You've just caught your toddler in the middle of the lounge room doing a wonderful impression of your dog "Sam" doing a wee wee.

Smiling leads to laughter, Laughter has been linked with happiness. When you're happy you're feeling good, right? Great, now let's get changed into our runners and fake a smile...it's time for exercise!

Kel Harper is an author at LizHarperFitness.com where you'll find FREE information, [http://www.lizharperfitness.com/ ]Fitness Strategies, [http://www.lizharperfitness.com/?cat=9 ]Recipes and much much more.
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