883: Smile It Can Boost Your Happiness
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the value of smiling for mental health and stress and anxiety reduction. An article is referenced which cites a number of peer reviewed studies that lend support to the physiological benefits of smiling. Listen in to learn more about why smiling is good for your overall wellness and how to take advantage today!
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A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.
-Dalai Lama
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them from life. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.9 | In today's episode, I am asking you to smile because it can boost your happiness, and |
| 0:51.8 | I know that the more happiness that you are able to glean throughout the day, the more |
| 0:59.0 | your nervous system is going to be able to see that you're okay and that it can stand |
| 1:05.6 | down and it doesn't have to be quite so ready to pounce, to save you and keep you safe |
| 1:13.8 | and alive. |
| 1:15.2 | You can stop scanning the horizon for a moment when you are happy. |
| 1:19.8 | So I found an article on nice news. |
| 1:23.6 | If you haven't ever checked out nice news, they're not related to ACP here in any way, but |
| 1:29.6 | I do like reading some of the articles that they post, and this author, Alison, Alexi, |
| 1:37.7 | wrote an article entitled, How Simply Smiling Can Boost Your Happiness According to Science. |
| 1:45.2 | I will put a link to the nice news article in the show notes and I will be sure to do that |
| 1:52.5 | this time. |
| 1:53.5 | Sometimes, once or twice, I think I may have missed getting the link in there, but I will |
| 1:58.5 | make sure that it is there. |
| 2:01.1 | And I want to talk about this because we want to physically do anything we can to help |
| 2:09.8 | our nervous system understand that we're okay. |
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