Facial expression can control mood, so when a person walks around with a permanent frown, he attracts negative emotions. Psychologists have been talking about this for a long time and urge every day to sincerely smile at your own reflection in the mirror. It is known that a smile appears on the face as a reaction of facial muscles to brain commands. So, when the muscles of a smile are deliberately "turned on", a signal is sent to the brain that promotes the production of hormones of happiness. Accordingly, negative emotions provoke the production of stress hormones. Learn how to surround yourself with only positive emotions and finally kick-start the “happiness” chemistry.
The following basic human emotions stand out:
- joy;
- sadness;
- disgust;
- fear;
- Angry.
Remarkably, the spontaneous sincere expression of basic emotions is regulated by the brain's limbic system, which governs subconscious, instinctive behavior. In the case when a person makes deliberate movements with facial muscles, the motor cortex of the brain is activated, which is responsible for controlling all voluntary muscle movements.
Basic emotions affect the body's chemistry, therefore, the production of happiness hormones is triggered by positive ones, and by negative ones – stress. Take a look at the – there are much more negative emotions, so you need to be able to sincerely rejoice.
If some emotion stays with a person for a long time, it is imprinted on his face with characteristic expressions. Face – the mask of all our past experience. It is enough to look at the faces of passers-by on the street to understand how strongly emotions affect the appearance: clenched teeth, frown forehead, wrinkled nose, pursed lips. Throughout the time that a person wears such a mask, the production of appropriate hormones continues in his body. In this regard, you should often catch your eye on your reflection in order to catch the mask and consciously change it.
So, let's figure out how to learn to control emotions on the face.
How to influence emotions through facial muscles
Animosity is easier to infect than joy, so when you're around a gloomy person, you pick up his mood and facial expression. In the company of a cheerful and smiling person, it is only possible to recharge with positive, which is also reflected in facial expressions. It's not for nothing that everyone avoids grouches and gloomy people, but to make a good impression on people they give them a smile.
- Engage the right facial muscles
To start the production of happiness hormones, you need to use the right facial muscles: the zygomatic muscle associated with the corners of the mouth and the circular muscles of the eyes. With such a smile, the corners of the mouth diverge to the sides and up, and rays form in the corners of the eyes – this is the real basic emotion of joy.
False smiles include sarcastic, when only one corner of the mouth is involved, as well as a rejection smile, characterized by pursing the lips and stretching the corners to the sides. In this regard, when improving your mood with such an emotion on your face, be sure to make sure that the right facial muscles are involved.
- Use eco-lifting
During eco-lifting, different groups of facial muscles are worked out. Due to this, the usual facial expression is “turned off”, which allows you to influence emotions through the muscles. It’s great if you study in a group, because this will allow you to recharge with a general positive, but studying at home is also quite effective.
Using eco-lifting, it is possible to prolong the youthfulness of the face and, through the manifestation of positive emotions on the face, get rid of negative feelings and relax.
Cheerful people always attract others, so to expand your circle of friends, make new friends or find a soul mate, you should smile sincerely at people as often as possible and frown less.
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