Smiling Reduces Stress

 Smiling Reduces Stress

“Sometimes all it takes is a smile to make everything feel better”

Isn’t this so true!

To me personally, a smile means ‘life is alright after all’.

How about you?

When we’re walking down to the shops, and see someone smile at us, we ‘automatically’ smile back, it’s such a natural thing to do.

When you smile at people, how many of them do not smile back?

I think it’s a ‘human trait’ to always show the world that everything is alright.

Even if it’s not!

None of us know what is going on in someone else’s life, no matter how close we are to that particular person.

What we can do is to make sure that we smile whenever we meet him or her, to show that person that we care about them and think about them.

And that “Smile” can make all the difference to that person’s day (or even their life).

When someone smiles at you, even a stranger, how do you feel?

A “Smile” is free and takes very little ‘effort’, so there really is no excuse not to smile.

We are very conscious of our mental health, so the question is: can a “Smile” help my mind?

The answer is “YES”, for the person “Smiling” and for the person who receives that “Smile”.

“Smiling” reduces stress and enhances Positive Emotions.

When something is good for us, we should do “It” as much as possible.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Think, Live And Breathe "It"

 Think, Live And Breathe “It”

“What you choose to focus on determines your happiness. Look for the roses in life and overlook the thorns”

A ballet dancer who focuses his or her mind on dancing “the Swan” spends days, even months, practicing.

That person will watch, read, ‘dream’ and “live” that part.

And when he or she gets that special part — their performance is fantastic.

A very Important feature of this is the Focus within the mind!

What do you “Want” in Life?

Do you want it enough to ‘ignore’ the barriers and “just go for it”?

Something like this can even apply to someone who is married, with children, who looks after their elderly parents and still holds a job down,

Does this sound familiar?

You and I can still Follow our Dreams.

We need to Focus on them.

We need to Plan for that Dream.

But most of all, we need to Believe in ourselves and to Believe in the Dream itself.

Focus or Direct your mind towards the Positive.

Sit down.

Focus and think.

Write down and plan.

You’ll be surprised at what you “see”.

And when you Focus, you’ll be surprised at what you will actually do to make that Dream come true.

Like that ballet dancer, do you think, live and breathe your Happiness?

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Take Control Now

 Take Control NOW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Do you remember being asked that question?

At home or at school?

How many of us have ‘actually’ accomplished it?

To Predict means ‘to say or estimate that something will happen in the future’.

Therefore, the future is in our hands!

It is up to us to Control and Create our Lives to be what we would like them to be.

However, how easy is this?

When we leave school, we get ‘caught up’ in the responsibilities of everyday life, and we soon forget that we have a dream, and sometimes even that we have a future.

This is because we are living in the ‘Now’, in the ‘today’.

By taking Control of our lives NOW, we will have Control of our Futures.

Then, we will be in the right frame of mind towards life for today and for the future.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

We CAN Help Ourselves

We CAN Help Ourselves

“It doesn’t get easier. You just get Stronger”

When we are starting to walk, as toddlers, it takes time to Balance and for our legs to become Strong, so that we can eventually walk Confidently.

This applies to any aspect of our lives.

As we become adults, our responsibilities become many and varied, and sometimes extremely difficult to “do”.

But as we work through these, we as a person, become Stronger, Learning so much as we go along in life.

We can always ‘help ourselves’ too.

Giving ourselves that all Important “me-time”, every day, will help us to Strengthen our minds, which will help us to ‘cope’ with everyday life.

And don’t forget the “3 R’s” — Rest, Relax, Rebuild.

All of this will help us to get Stronger in everyday life.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

 

Keep Thinking About It

 Keep Thinking About It

“Every dream in life is sustained by hope”

Hope is: a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.

Hope is: a feeling of trust.

This says a lot about our own lives and our own way of thinking.

Do we Trust ourselves enough to Believe that we can make our dreams come true?

Are our minds Strong enough to ‘make that dream come true’?

A “Dream” can mean different things to different people.

For one person, it could mean a completely different way of life.

For another person, it can mean something very small that they want to put into their lives.

What about you and I?

The word “Sustained” means: continuing for a long time.

Some of us have dreams that last our lives.

For others, it takes time to get to their dream because they have to study for years before they can qualify (to be a doctor, for example).

Some dreams are as simple as wanting a baby — “I have always wanted to be a mother!”

It is a good idea to sit down and write out your dream in a journal, because this could be the start of ‘realizing’ that dream.

And, of course, always thinking about that dream helps also.

To keep it in the mind will help to sustain it in your life.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

It's Ever So Fashionable

 It’s Ever So Fashionable

“Being happy never goes out of style”

It has always been ‘fashionable’ to smile.

People always want to be around Happy, Cheerful and Smiling friends.

We live in a busy world, which can take our minds away from Peaceful thoughts, and because of this, we may not ‘always’ seem happy.

It’s not done deliberately on our part, we are just so wrapped up in the day-to-day busyness, that the smile isn’t always there.

But, like many who ‘must’ stay in fashion, wearing the latest styles, so must we “stay” in fashion with that Happy Smile.

And when we are ‘wearing’ that smile, we’ll look good wearing anything.

The dolphin is born with that Smile, as it dances in the Oceans of the Earth.

We, as humans, are ‘said’ to be more intelligent, should ‘Live with that Happy Smile on our faces’.

It’d be great, just for once, to be always in ‘fashion’ and Happy.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE! 

It's The Little Changes Sometimes

 It’s The Little Changes Sometimes

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change”

Only we can change our lives for the better.

No one else can do it for us.

This can seem difficult because very few of us like change.

We are so used to our routine that ‘anything’ can seem to put us out.

However, if we are unhappy in our lives, something has got to change. 

We need to have the Courage to change things ourselves for the better.

Any change starts in the mind.

We need to start putting Positive thoughts into our minds, and these will Encourage Positive changes, physically, in our lives.

Sometimes we may need to ‘study’ for these changes.

For example, a young woman who loves fashion and wants to work in the fashion industry, will study as much as possible about the fashion world, and by doing this, she would ‘fit in’ with that particular life.

The same is true for a school teacher, she or he would have had to ‘studied’ to be qualified to teach in a classroom.

What about you and I?

Whilst we may not be able to make big changes in our lives, because of the responsibilities we may have, we can make those little changes which can make our lives that little bit happier.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!