Smiling makes you happy research into botox shows

[Celebration]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7849905/Smiling-makes-you-happy-research-into-botox-shows.html

Researchers have discovered that being unable to smile when you are happy feeds back to the brain reducing the intensity of feeling.

Botox, used to fight facial wrinkles, is made of an extremely toxic protein called Botulinum toxin that temporarily paralyses the muscles that cause creases.
That means no lines, but also no moving of the muscles at all which often makes faces look frozen.

Now the lack of facial expressions may influence emotional experiences as well, the research found.

A person with limited ability to make facial expressions was found to also have a limited ability to feel emotions.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Guess this songwriter knew what of he spoke...

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=244766


Gray skies are gonna clear up,
Put on a happy face;
Brush off the clouds and cheer up,
Put on a happy face.
Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy,
It's not your style;
You'll look so good that you'll be glad
Ya' decide to smile!
Pick out a pleasant outlook,
Stick out that noble chin;
Wipe off that "full of doubt" look,
Slap on a happy grin!
And spread sunshine all over the place,
Just put on a happy face!
Put on a happy face
Put on a happy face
And if you're feeling cross and bitterish
Don't sit and whine
Think of banana split and licorice
And you'll feel fine
I knew a girl so glooming
She'd never laugh or sing
She wouldn't listen to me
Now she's a mean old thing
So spread sunshine all over the place
Just put on a happy face
So, put on a happy face

[Celebration]

2. yep!

Sometimes the artists and dreamers know it before the scientists.

"When you're smiling, when you're smiling
The whole world smiles with you."

"Smile though your heart is aching;
Smile even though it's breaking.
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by.
If you smile through your fear and sorrow,
Smile and maybe tomorrow,
You'll see the sun come shining through for you.

Light up your face with gladness,
Hide every trace of sadness.
Although a tear may be ever so near,
That's the time you must keep on trying,
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile,
If you just smile.

That's the time you must keep on trying,
Smile, what's the use of crying?
You'll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile."

[Arkansas Granny]

3. A happy face is even evident in your voice. A tip I learned very early

is to smile when you answer the phone. The person on the other end can "hear" your smile even though they can't see it.

[rucognizant]

4. And it spreads.............

The people they are interacting with are left clueless, in the dark, as to their intentions......WAIT A MOMENT!
Isn't AUTISM........in part, the inability to read facial expressions in communication?
Could this be linked to the increase in that disease?