{"id":7108,"date":"2011-06-06T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=7108"},"modified":"2011-06-06T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:30:08","slug":"smile-for-your-health-and-your-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/smile-for-your-health-and-your-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile for Your Health and Your Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/smile.jpg\" alt=\"smile\" title=\"smile\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/smile.jpg 500w, https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/smile-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>In this feelgood lecture, Ron Gutman talks about how a smile improves your well being and quality of life.<\/h3>\n<p>A smile is more than just a reaction. It can change our mood and even serve as a predictor for how happy we&#8217;ll be in our lives. I dare you to watch this without cracking a smile of your own:<\/p>\n<div id=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-counter-1\" class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper \" style=\"width:662px;\" data-g1-fluid-width=\"662\" data-g1-fluid-height=\"372\">\n<div class=\"g1-fluid-wrapper-inner\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.19335347432%;\">\n\t       <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9cGdRNMdQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t       <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gutman also talks about how mimicking a person&#8217;s smile is the best way to tell if it&#8217;s real or fake, which goes back to that troublesome study about <a href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/2011\/05\/16\/study-botox-and-perceiving-emotions\/\">botox and its damaging effects on perceiving emotions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you love the idea that something as simple as a smile has so much power to improve our health and happiness? It strikes me as a very empowering idea! <strong>How many times a day do you think that you smile? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: Creative Commons photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/romainguy\/232998465\" target=\"_blank\">romainguy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this feelgood lecture, Ron Gutman talks about how a smile improves your well being and quality of life. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/smile-for-your-health-and-your-happiness\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[661,5082],"tags":[5601,5265,5602,5603],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/smile.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}