You must have often heard that laughing and smiling can make you look younger. However, do you know that smiling can also make you healthier? Below are some benefits of smiling for your health.
1. Lowering Heart Rate
Smiling can lower the heart rate and make the body more relaxed. People who often smile and laugh have a lower risk of heart disease. In addition, smiling can also lower your blood pressure for a while.
2. Reduce Stress
Smiling a bit more throughout your day can also help reduce stress. Smiling causes the body to release endorphins that lead to decreased production of stress hormones. It can also reduce the risk of heart disease indirectly.
3. Fixing the Mood
In addition to reducing stress, endorphins can also make your mood better. When you feel sad or stressed, try to smile even if forced. This may make your feelings better.
4. Increase Productivity
Smiling can also help improve your productivity while working. You may feel more energized and work harder after laughing or smiling.
5. Increase Believe
Various studies have shown that you will more easily trust people when they smile sincerely. This can certainly help you in your relationship and relationship with your partner.
6. Embracing the Empathy
When you feel embarrassed or caught doing something you should not, then often your first reaction is to smile. This is one of the human instincts to reduce shame and make others more sympathetic and empathetic, even to make others smile back.
7. Prevent the occurrence of Regret
Your smile can also be one of your ways to prevent others from feeling hurt when they tell you about something that you do not really care about. Thus you do not feel sorry for having hurt the person's feelings. Regret can make you feel sad and stressed.
8. Reduce Pain
Endorphins produced when you smile or laugh is one of the natural pain relievers that can help reduce your pain.
9. Increase Concentration
Stress can make it difficult to concentrate and make you narrow-minded. Instead, smiling can actually increase your concentration and make you think more open and creative so you may be able to find the answer to your problem.
10. Interesting Your Opponent
Your smile, especially women, can make your opposite sex (male) feel interested. Men usually prefer to approach women who often smile, although not so with women. It takes more than just your smile (male) to make a woman feel attracted to you.
11. Look Younger
Smile can tighten your face naturally. Various studies have also found that frequent smiles can make a person look 3 years younger.
12. Make Longevity
A study found that people who often smile can live longer, which is about 7 years longer than those who rarely smile. Smiling can reduce stress, help the heart work, and other benefits that can make you healthier.
13. Improving the Immune System
Smile makes the body feel more relaxed and improve the work of the immune system so that the body is more able to fight various infections.
How To Smile More Often:
There are some simple ways to make you smile and laugh more often:
• Smile and laugh regularly because your brain can not distinguish between a smile or a fake laugh with a genuine smile or laugh and you still benefit from smiling and laughing. In addition, smile and laughter can also make you feel better and eventually can make you smile and laugh spontaneously
• Watching fun shows or movies
• Spend more time with family or friends or couples that make you feel happy. In addition, surrounded by happy and optimistic people can also influence your behavior
• Think of funny things that can make you smile or laugh. You can also do various activities that you like that can make you smile and laugh
