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Smile!
You’ll feel Better
By
Marjorie Ingall
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As
the song says, smiling when you' re feeling blue appears to put
you in a rosy mood. At least that's the theory set forth by Robert
B. Zajonc, Ph.D.,director of
the
lnstitute
for Social
Research
at
the University
of
Michigan.
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When
you smile, two things
happen: You
breathe through your
nose, and you
exert pressure on the veins in your face.
Both of these activitie reslut
in cooler
blood entering
the region of the
brain known as the
hypothalamus -which,
Zajonc believes,
causes the release of
chemicals that can suppress pain
and/or help
you feel better. When
you breathe through your nose,
you bring
cool air into your nasal
passages, which cools the
veins and the blood
flowing through them. And when you use the "smile
muscles" at the corners
of your mouth, you change |
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the
direction of
the blood flow
inside your face in such a way that it causes the temperature
of the blood to drop.
Cooling the blood may also inhibit the release of
serotonin, thought to be related to depression, and promote the
release of endorphins, which suppress pain and give you a lift.
All this may be one reason we enjoy kissing so much.
Notes Zajonc, "When you kiss, you have to breathe through
your nose, because your mouth is otherwise occupied.
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