S            M            I            L            E

 I  Bet it will make you feel better—

L            I            T            E            R           A            L            L            Y

When I attended the World Laughter Tour two day workshop to become a

C    E    R    T    I    F    I    E    D      L    A    U    G    H    T    E    R      L    E    A    D    E    R

a  year  ago  February,

Our Professor

Our Mentor

Our Coach

Our All-Around Funny Man Guru,

Steve Wilson

gave us a small but powerful lesson

without saying a word.     .     .

In fact,

why don’t you do what he suggested we do,

that’s right.      .       .

RIGHT   NOW

Get a Straw

Get a Pencil

Get a Pen

A crayon

put it sideways into the your mouth

(I  ILLUSTRATED  IT  ABOVE)

and   W A  H  L–L  A

YOU’RE     SMILING.

So what?

Well  you  are  after  all  a

walking,

talking,

sometimes

balking

C H E M I S T R Y     S E T

You  just  began  a  huge  chemical  reaction  in  your  brain  that:

“stimulates our brain’s reward mechanisms in a way that even chocolate, a well-regarded pleasure-inducer, cannot match.     .     .”

.          .          .And look, Mom,

NO     CALORIES!

Hey,  Sports fans,

Smiling just doesn’t help you on the inside,

it also works to your advantage from the outside.

A study from Penn State University found that people who smile appear

to be more likable,

courteous,

and even more competent.  .   .

and oh yeah.    .     .

it’s contagious!

Smiling actually changes your brain.

When you smile, your brain is actually aware of the activity

and keeps track of it;

Shaun Anchor, in his book,

“THE   HAPPINESS  ADVANTAGE”

s h a r e s:

“.     .     .if you smile often enough, you end up rewiring your brain to make positive patterns more often than it does negative ones.  .   .   .” 

Sondra Barrett claims in her book,

“SECRETS  OF  YOUR  CELLS”

“.  .  .that when you let go of tension–an outcome that can be achieved through smiling–your cells let go of their rigidness.  .   .and this could end up saving your life;  there have been cases where cancer patients go into remission after letting go of a big stress factor.  .  .  .”

S   C   I   E   N   T   I   F   I   C   A   L   L   Y

speaking,

SMILING  MORE

is a great thing for your life.

It costs nothing

and here’s the

knock you to your knees

let the funk run out

best fact of all:

Y  O  U       C  A  N       F  A  K  E       I  T !

Don’t feel like smijling

FOR   REAL

stick a pencil

stick a pen

stick a crayon

stick a straw

sideways in your mouth and keep there for a minute

while you’re  charting

while you’re  reading

while you’re sitting in a traffic jam or a red-light

while you’re standing in line in the  10 or less aisle at the grocery store with a person who has a cart and a half full of goods in front of you that’ll be paying with a check and forgot their license ID in the car.   .   .

T   E   S   T       I   T

THE     SCIENCE     IS     THE     SCIENCE

Make no mistake about it

there’s plenty of straws you’ll find

that’ll break the camel’s back

but there’s quite a few

that’ll make the overly frowning World

absolutely smile!

Here’s to making the Universe Smile

one straw at a time

or in the worst case scenario

Y    O   U

giving  up  one  of  your

S  M  I  L  E  S

because you know the ultimate secret:

THERE’S   PLENTY  OF  MORE  WHERE   THAT  ONE  CAME  FROM

Holy Grins  for  Wins, Batman