Smile More – Be Happy – Live Longer!

Would you like to increase your “Happiness Factor,” quickly and easily?

... you can add 7 years to your life simply by smiling more? 

I recently found this article in the “Underground Health Reporter” and even though there is no mention of brainwave function or Healing Spectrums, it provides yet another reason why the Healing Spectrums Method and Coherence Activations can be a boon for a healthier, happier, and longer life.

University brainwave studies have shown that the Healing Spectrums Sessions, Self-treatment Method, Practitioners Method, and Coherence Activations produce unique brainwave functions that not only activate and accelerate your body’s natural healing and regenerative processes, but also can increase your brain’s ability to produce the more rare “Gamma” brainwave function.

And here is where the “Happiness Factor” comes in!

Aside from the brain being able to process information/data at a super-high rate of speed, other research has shown that people who exhibit the capacity to produce Gamma brainwaves all have a specific characteristic that we all desire: Greater happiness! They are just happier, laugh and smile more, don’t sweat the small stuff, and experience greater ease and fulfillment in life.

So enjoy the following article, smile more, and let us know if you would like to know more about how the Healing Spectrums sessions and programs can help you experience greater health, happiness, and well-being in your life.

The Underground Health Reporter Article:

Have you ever been advised to fake it until you make it?  When it comes to smiling, this advice is scientifically proven to be on the mark.  The simple fact is, smiling extends your lifespan.

     Today’s cutting-edge research on this matter was born with one of Charles Darwin’s lesser-known theories.  Darwin claimed that the mere act of smiling can make us feel better.  Just as feeling happy causes us to smile, proposed Darwin, so does smiling can cause us to feel happy.

Almost a century and a half later, scientists at Wayne State University proved that Darwin was right.  But the truth was even better.  The researchers found that smiling not only improves your mood, but can also potentially lengthen your life.

Wayne State’s Breakthrough Study 

For the study, the team analyzed players’ smiles on 1952 baseball cards, and found that the size of a player’s smile could predict the length of that player’s life.  Players who grinned lived an average of 79.9 years, whereas those who did not smile at all lived only 72.9 years.  Thats a difference of 7 years!

The Fort Wayne study did not explore the biological connections between bigger smiles and longer lives, but the therapeutic benefits of smiling have been well-documented elsewhere.  Research links smiling to a variety of positive outcomes, including…

 

 

• Lower levels of stress hormones like cortisol, adrenaline, and dopamine
• Increased levels of endorphins and other mood-enhancing hormones
• Normalized blood pressure
• Improved health overall

The Astonishing Power of a Smile 

According to a study carried out in the United Kingdom, you don’t even need to be the one smiling to benefit.  Scientists from Hewlett Packard used an electromagnetic brain scan machine and a heart-rate monitor to detect the “mood-boosting values” of different kinds of stimuli.  For the tests, 109 volunteers were subjected to three kinds of stimuli: 

 

• They were shown photos of friends, family, and loved ones
• They were given chocolate to eat
• They were given cash

Smiling faces in the photographs had far and away the most potent influence of participants’ moods.  “Participants who were shown a child’s smile experienced the same level of stimulation as they would have from eating 2,000 bars of chocolate,” the authors stated.  In terms of money, it would cost you $25,000 to buy the same amount of happiness generated by a child’s smile.

“The powerful emotions triggered when someone important in our lives smiles at us and we smile back changes our brain chemistry,” commented Dr. David Lewis, psychologist and author of The Secret Language of Success, who analyzed the tests.  Lewis also highlighted the importance of sincerity. Participants detected fake smiles, which had the opposite effect on mood.

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The Underground Health Reporter is a website that offers health tips and reports that you may find useful in your quest for living a healthy, happy life. Thomas Gates and Healing Spectrums for Health and Wholeness is not affiliated with the Underground Health Reporter and does not endorse or promote any products represented by the Underground Health Reporter.

 

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