One gentleman who hadn’t spoken to anyone in last many months came with his family. His family wanted him to get back to his normal life. I asked him if he could do few things and nothing more. (What possibly could help a person who is not talking et all) So I got him a mirror and asked him to look into it and smile. He raised his eye brows. He did not say anything. His wife told me that he is asking what’s the reason for him to smile. So I said because it’s life and he is alive. Would he like someone who is looking at him without a smile all the time? Then how would he like himself? To get back to life, he first has to smile. He started practicing to smile and when he did that he spoke. He said that he hadn’t looked at himself in many months. Now when he did, he realized how dull he had become. He did not feel any life in himself. When he started smiling, he realized he could do better. So the smile started bringing real life in him. Within a few days, he was ready for the next step in his life. But the beginning was with a smile.
How often do we just smile? Can we learn to smile? We do not like a picture without a smile. We do not like it when someone meets us without a smile. Sometimes we think it’s an attitude, sometimes, the person was not happy, sometimes, he did not like us or maybe anything we would assume. Without a smile, we do not feel comfortable.
If we really want to like ourselves, we really want to feel comfortable within own body and personality, we definitely need to learn to smile more and more. So look at yourself and smile. Think of yourself and smile. Make it a habit and make it your style. You will feel so relaxed within yourself. You will like yourself so much more. How would you feel about a person who always has a smile on his/her face? I guess we all will feel good about that person. Besides all this, scientifically, a smile is an antidepressant. When we smile, our mind and body relax. So let’s just smile our way to life.
