There’s Magic in Your Smile – 6 Health Benefits of Smiling

With a busy lifestyle and plenty of day-to-day work we often forget to smile. A smile break cannot only give you rejuvenation and freshness but it also gives you endless health benefits while making you healthy from both inside out. So, whenever you feel stressed out and don’t know which way to go, just go along with the old-age thread of ‘there’s magic in your smile’ and take a small pause for those ‘broad smiles.’ A small smile session stimulates the natural relaxation response of the body and releases the feel-good endorphins which give a boost to both mental and physical health in no time. It’s like jogging gives internally to the body to soothe and massage all the internal organs while toning the abdominal muscles.

So, here are some reasons why you should definitely smile more everyday.

• Relaxes the whole body: A broad smile fills you up with enthusiasm and energy while relieving all the tensions and stress. Moreover, it relaxes out the muscles up to 45 minutes afterwards.
• Eases stress levels: A smile is a therapy that can ease out the stress levels by contracting the muscles and regulating the proper blood flow in the body. When you smile, your body increases the flow of blood which releases the feel-good endorphins that make you feel more comfortable, stress-free and relaxed both physically and emotionally.
• Restores positivity: Smiling often can make a person feel good. It lightens your mood and can even boost a feeling of positivity and well-being. Smiling produces hormones that aid you in coping with your immediate fears or problems. Smiling also sets you free from anxiety and provides your comfort.
• Protects the heart: Smile gives you increased flow of blood while improves the functioning of blood vessels and this way it can save you from various cardiovascular problems like heart attacks, stroke and cardiac arrest. Not only this, but it also keeps you away from various other diseases as it maintains healthy blood flow in the body.
• Boost endorphins: Endorphin is a hormone that is released by the pituitary gland. This hormone helps in reducing pain and stress. Lack of endorphins is linked to depression and headaches. Smiling is a good way of releasing endorphins that boosts pleasure and enhances the feeling of overall well-being.
• Combats depression: Being unhappy is a great cause of depression and it can be solved by adding smile therapy in your lifestyle. Various studies show that smiling releases the feel-good endorphins, and relieves the cortisol levels (stress levels) that can improve your mood while combating depression.

Over to you

Now that you know plenty of health benefits of smiling, is there anything stopping you from not adding it to your life? Whenever you feel stressed out just give a try to those big, broad smiles and make yourself happy and healthy.