{"id":22069,"date":"2020-09-15T08:28:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=22069"},"modified":"2020-09-15T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T08:28:37","slug":"simply-smiling-may-boost-your-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=22069","title":{"rendered":"Simply Smiling May Boost Your Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FRIDAY, Sept. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n

Smiling can trick your mind into being more positive, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of South Australia found that the simple act of moving your facial muscles into a smile can make you view the world more positively.<\/p>\n

“When your muscles say you’re happy, you’re more likely to see the world around you in a positive way,” said lead researcher Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, a human and artificial cognition expert at the university.<\/p>\n

He and his colleagues studied how people interpret various images of facial and bodily expressions that range from happy to sad, based on whether or not they were smiling themselves.<\/p>\n

The study involved 256 volunteers from Japan, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Participants were asked to hold a pen between their teeth<\/a>, an act that forces facial muscles to replicate the motions of a smile.<\/p>\n

They were then shown images of facial expressions that ranged from frowning to smiling, and videos of a person walking<\/a> in different positions, ranging from “sad walking<\/a>” to “happy walking.”<\/p>\n

The participants viewed each image or video with and without a pen in their teeth<\/a>, and then evaluated if the evoked emotion was “happy” or “sad.”<\/p>\n

The researchers observed that the participants were more likely to view a broader range of the images and videos as “happy” when smiling themselves.<\/p>\n

“In our research, we found that when you forcefully practice smiling, it stimulates the amygdala — the emotional center of the brain — which releases neurotransmitters to encourage an emotionally positive state,” Marmolejo-Ramos said in a university news release.<\/p>\n

The results suggest that everyone, and particularly those suffering from mental health<\/a> issues like anxiety<\/a> and depression<\/a>, may benefit from the simple act of smiling.<\/p>\n

“For mental health<\/a>, this has interesting implications. If we can trick the brain into perceiving stimuli as ‘happy,’ then we can potentially use this mechanism to help boost mental health,” Marmolejo-Ramos said. “A ‘fake it till you make it’ approach could have more credit than we expect.”<\/p>\n

The study was published recently in the journal Experimental Psychology<\/i>.<\/p>\n

— Serena McNiff<\/p>\n

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