: - ) SMILE (- :

Smile; make your frown a grin.
Smile; let some sunshine in.
Smile; let me see you beam.
Smile; it makes your eyes gleam.

Smile; it’s good for your health.
Smile; just enjoy yourself.
Smile; make your lips into
a big, gigantic U.

Smile; don’t be sad today.
Smile; wipe your frown away.
Smile; it makes you feel good.
Smile because you know you should.

Smile; it’s a happy thing.
Smile or even laugh and sing.
Smile; you know your face won’t crack.
Smile and people will smile back.

SMILE IS A MAGIC WORD -
Psychologists Francesco Foroni from Vu University Amsterdam and Gun R. Semin from the University of Utrecht conducted experiments to see if emotion language has an influence on facial muscle activity.
What they discovered is that just reading some words can activate a person's facial muscles and make him or her smile unknowingly. JUST READING CERTAIN WORDS CAN TRIGGER A SMILE!
In one experiment, a group of students read a series of emotion verbs (e.g., "to smile," "to cry") and adjectives (e.g., "funny," "frustrating") on a monitor, while the activity of their zygomatic major (the muscle responsible for smiles) and corrugator supercilii (which causes frowns) muscles were measured.

The results showed that reading action verbs activated the corresponding muscles.

For example, "to laugh" resulted in activation of the zygomatic major muscle, but did not cause any response in the muscles responsible for frowning.

Interestingly, when presented with the emotion adjectives like "funny" or "frustrating", the volunteers demonstrated much lower muscle activation compared to their reactions to emotion verbs.

The researchers noted that muscle activity is "induced in the reader when reading verbs representing facial expressions of emotion."