Learn to Create Happiness
Posted on Dec 13th, 2006
by 
Cynthia
Cynthia
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
-- Thich Nhat Hanh While December is a month of celebrating and holidays, it is also a stressful and depressing time of year for many people. Fortunately, it is possible to create happiness by smiling, even when you may not feel like smiling at all. The picture of me at the top of this month's ezine was taken with my laptop computer's built-in camera just minutes after I'd been very sad and crying. I found that just by smiling and watching myself smile, I felt better immediately. I felt even more buoyed up after spending an evening watching comedian Robin Williams perform some new material live in San Francisco this week. Laughter and smile therapy really does work! I got the idea to try smile therapy on myself from reading several reports that it is possible to get nearly instantaneous improvements in mood by smiling and laughing, even if at first you don't feel in the mood for such merriment. Recent studies indicate that people notice long-term improvements in their overall happiness when recalling at least three good things that happened each day, a new kind of yoga is teaching people how to work their smile muscles in order to feel better emotionally and physically, and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have established a clear link between laughter and healthy functioning of blood vessels. With so many reasons to laugh and smile, its time to let a little more happiness come shining through! One of my favorite ways to put a smile on my face is to view my very own personal music video vision statement, which you can learn to create by watching Malcolm Cohan demonstrate. When you hear a favorite uplifting song as you watch images of yourself doing and being all that you wish, it is so much easier to relax and imagine how all your favorite dreams really can come true. And if you find yourself needing a bit more confirmation that this sort of thing can really work, watch this years' movie phenomenon, The Secret, which explains the principles that make this kind of positive visualization so very effective at changing the physical world. December really can be your lucky month, since The Secret will be sent to you along with some other wonderful spiritual cinema movies when you sign up for a free one trial of the Spiritual Cinema Circle this month!
Wishing you the merriest December ever! Cynthia Sue Larson cynthia@realityshifters.com
-- Thich Nhat Hanh While December is a month of celebrating and holidays, it is also a stressful and depressing time of year for many people. Fortunately, it is possible to create happiness by smiling, even when you may not feel like smiling at all. The picture of me at the top of this month's ezine was taken with my laptop computer's built-in camera just minutes after I'd been very sad and crying. I found that just by smiling and watching myself smile, I felt better immediately. I felt even more buoyed up after spending an evening watching comedian Robin Williams perform some new material live in San Francisco this week. Laughter and smile therapy really does work! I got the idea to try smile therapy on myself from reading several reports that it is possible to get nearly instantaneous improvements in mood by smiling and laughing, even if at first you don't feel in the mood for such merriment. Recent studies indicate that people notice long-term improvements in their overall happiness when recalling at least three good things that happened each day, a new kind of yoga is teaching people how to work their smile muscles in order to feel better emotionally and physically, and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have established a clear link between laughter and healthy functioning of blood vessels. With so many reasons to laugh and smile, its time to let a little more happiness come shining through! One of my favorite ways to put a smile on my face is to view my very own personal music video vision statement, which you can learn to create by watching Malcolm Cohan demonstrate. When you hear a favorite uplifting song as you watch images of yourself doing and being all that you wish, it is so much easier to relax and imagine how all your favorite dreams really can come true. And if you find yourself needing a bit more confirmation that this sort of thing can really work, watch this years' movie phenomenon, The Secret, which explains the principles that make this kind of positive visualization so very effective at changing the physical world. December really can be your lucky month, since The Secret will be sent to you along with some other wonderful spiritual cinema movies when you sign up for a free one trial of the Spiritual Cinema Circle this month!
Wishing you the merriest December ever! Cynthia Sue Larson cynthia@realityshifters.com
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August 2008 
I don't know if you are familiar with Tony Robbins…I attended a weekend of his early Unlimited Power tour, avec a firewalk. He created a presentation of NLP, neuro-linguistic programming (how we communicate with ourselves, basically.) He had a similar technique which I think he called acting 'as if' you can do or be something, and the mind takes over and creates that. Like your smiling therapy, paste the smile on, and create the scenario, and the results follow.
If I am misrepresenting what Robbins outlined, please don't sue me. That weekend was VERY expensive already. ;)