Smile Plus

Children pointing to smiles.jpg A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the face. Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, sociability, happiness, or amusement, Smiling is an act of universality, something that is understood by everyone, irrespective of culture, race, or religion; it is one of the greatest equalizers internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have also shown that smiling is a means of communication throughout the world.

It can communicate feelings such as: love and happiness. Between six and eight weeks, most babies begin to exhibit what are called ‘"social smiles’", meaning that the baby will smile at his/her caregivers or in response to stimuli. Most babies laugh between three and four months.

The children of India today are all smiles, for are smiling. polio that affected millions of children at a time has officially been kicked out of India on January 13, 2012! Having been a citizen who was part of Polio Plus as well, I am a proud and smiling citizen; happy,proud, and smiling. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. The idea of the smile as the greatest means of business interactions has also been well documented. “Service with a Smil",”is a dictum that has always been at the core of businesses since the beginning of the 1900s. Research continually proves that this is true; smiling really does increase attractiveness and likability. People who tend to smile produce what is called ‘the effect’, which correlates with greater trust, greater financial earnings, and increased interpersonal cooperation. In a time of increased stress due to cutbacks, high debt, and familial anxietiesy stress, employees are often required to work with a distressed public. However, a smile tends to convey respect, patience, empathy, hospitality and compassion. For example, when an employee smiles at a stressed customer, and exhibits excellent listening skills, mostly, there is a report of total satisfaction. Research also reports that people receive more help when they smile. Even the smile of a total stranger produces more ‘“Good Samaritan’” effects on the receiver. When you smile, even memory retrieval of your name too is enhanced, as is shown in neuroscience research.

True happiness lies in serving others and putting a smile on their faces. People smile when they are happy—both emotionally and physically, and are full of the promise of well-being.happy: full of life and wellbeing: physically, mentally and emotionally. How lovely it would be to inhabit planet Earth asvisit Planet Earth, if it was the land of a 7 billion smiles. But with the population of our beautiful planet increasing geometrically, so many of the denizens of earth have so little to smile about………

Statistics show that over 38,000 children die every day, due to totally preventable reasons;, over 1.4 million babies die as infants and 250,000 women die at childbirth or barely survive as they deliver half a dozen babies, strugglingthey struggle to keep alive. Over a billion of the poorest people live on less than a dollar a day. Mostly, Mother Earth is not able to bear the burden of so many people and the terrific pace at which their numbers are growing.

Let us put smiles on the faces of the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Try and please come up with ideas that could help prevent, 55 million unintended pregnancies,.Aan idea that could help prevents the birth of children whose parents cannot look after them. If we succeed, over 22 million abortions wouldn’t take place, 140,000 mothers could stay alive and 1.4 million babies wouldn’t die shortly after being bornbirth. Let us save lives and make other people smile for sheer happiness.

Smile with happiness.