[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Check out some of the youtubes on laughing yoga they are a real hoot. This is my fave: http://youtu.be/31TTcjYw0hQ

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: Check out some of the youtubes on laughing yoga they are a real hoot. This is my fave: http://youtu.be/31TTcjYw0hQ

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-12 Thread Alex Stanley
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: Skipping past the icky image of me surfing porn, this lead me to what might become the only response I will deliver in the future to any haters. (It is not visual porn but is embedded in a porn page.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
Gothcha Any chance you can also delete your response post which clips my post without context? Thanks. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stanley@... wrote:

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-12 Thread curtisdeltablues
Thanks Alex, for the link and the redo! Great video. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys wholesome family entertainment.Research has shown that kids laugh up to 400 times a day while adults have an average of 17 laughs. This video should up those numbers considerably. --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: From one of the TED talks, a series of amazing scientific facts about the human smile. Did you know that your smile can predict how long you live, or the length and happiness of your marriage? Did you know that one smile

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread zarzari_786
Well, if I want to see myself smile, I just look into the mirror and turn my head upside down. :-(-: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: From one of the TED talks, a series of amazing

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, zarzari_786 no_reply@... wrote: Well, if I want to see myself smile, I just look into the mirror and turn my head upside down. :-(-: I practice random acts of weirdness. [http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/c97e8d808a5a012ee3c400163e41dd5b] --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread Susan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb no_reply@ wrote: From one of the TED talks, a series of amazing scientific facts about the human smile. Did you know that your smile can predict how long you live, or

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread curtisdeltablues
This is very interesting to me also Barry. I've been doing some research on laughing yoga with similar positive results. Our neurology can be trigger from either direction, inner or outer with similar physical effects. Check out some of the youtubes on laughing yoga they are a real hoot. It

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread turquoiseb
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: This is very interesting to me also Barry. I've been doing some research on laughing yoga with similar positive results. Our neurology can be trigger from either direction, inner or outer with similar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@... wrote: This is very interesting to me also Barry. I've been doing some research on laughing yoga with similar positive results. Our neurology can be trigger from either direction, inner or outer with similar

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: snip Even forced laughter is said to have positive effects, according to ayurveda. One of Chopra's exercises from the good ole days was to use different syllables to produce specific beneficial effects. Ha-ha-ha,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread Vaj
On Dec 11, 2011, at 10:08 AM, sparaig wrote: There's an entire tradition that relates every syllable in sanskrit to some part of the body in some therapeutic way. I don't recall which syllable relates to the knee, but apparently tradition holds that there is one. Cha-ching.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread sparaig
I agree that the first 3 examples are purely physical or at least could be. There's also always the possibility that some arbitrary syllable takes advantage of some hardwired connection in the brain so that vocalizing that sound will produce activity in the brain in close proximity to the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread John
There's also a meditation technique mentioned by a famous Buddhist monk that includes smiling during the breathing process. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig LEnglish5@... wrote: I agree that the first 3 examples are purely physical or at least could be. There's also always the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread Emily Reyn
From: turquoiseb no_re...@yahoogroups.com To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 5:55 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling

2011-12-11 Thread turquoiseb
] Re: Fascinating Facts About Smiles - mindful smiling   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltablues@ wrote: This is very interesting to me also Barry.  I've been doing some research on laughing yoga with similar positive results.  Our neurology