Smile Power Day is June 15th. Give everyone you see a sincere, friendly smile and see how many smiles you can promote. You’re warm smile just might turn someone’s day right around…for the good. And a smile can be contagious.
A study from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego found that “happiness” is a collective phenomenon that spreads through social networks and can be contagious.
The study looked at the happiness of nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of twenty years, researchers found that when an individual becomes happy, the effect can be measured up to three degrees of separation. One person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only their friends, but their friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends’ friends. The effect lasts for up to one year.
According to the results, if a friend who lives within a mile of you gets happy, your chances of happiness increase by 25 percent. And if that happy friend lives even closer to you, say half-a-mile away, you have a 42 percent chance of being happy yourself, showing that proximity to happy people makes all the difference.
Need some help with getting happy, then check out Tips 6-10 from Happy People.
6. Accept Emotions, Positive or Negative
7. Exercise
8. Simplify Your Life
9. Solve Problems
10. Live in a Happy Country
Want more? Read the top 5 Tips from Happy People.
It remains almost impossible to remain negative if you smile and maybe you will even begin to laugh and reap the physical benefit of a laugh. Here are 18 ways to snap out of a bad mood.
No excuses on Smile Power Day. Share the power of the smile and promote happiness and health.
