Anatomy of a Smile
Smiling helps to communicate many emotions: love,
happiness and pride. Some biologists even say
that they have traced the smile back to apes and
monkeys. The smile portrayed by those apes and
monkeys was a type of smile to show enemies
they were harmless.
Personally, I have two favorite smiles. One with dimples
and the other known as a Duchenne smile.
The smile with dimples is because my son has
dimples or as one boy in kinder garden called him, “
the boy with holes in his face.” The Duchenne smile
is the smile that involves the eyes. Yes, this smile gives us crows feet but to me crows feet means that we smile
and laugh so hard that our whole face gets involved-our smile shows in our eyes.
The muscles of a smile sound so important too. The zygomaticus major and zygomaticus minor will raise the lips
to cause big, true smiles.
Change the world and your day-smile,
Forever Smiling,
Colleen
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Smile/Winter Blues
February 2009
Smile/Winter Blues
February 2009
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Is the Season Getting You Down? Article and photo courtesy ABMP
Shine the Light on Winter Blues
In northern climates when the heavy snows fall and the sun moves south, many
people find their moods shift from upbeat to downright depressed. The severe form
of winter depression--called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD--affects at least
two million North Americans. Another thirty-nine million experience milder
symptoms of moodiness and extended sleep patterns that somewhat resemble
hibernation.
Overeating, sleeping for prolonged periods, mood swings, carbohydrate cravings,
and weight gain during winter months may be more than just symptoms of cabin
fever. They can suggest a biochemical reaction caused by a lack of exposure to
sunlight.
Like all living things, we humans are sensitive to the seasons and sunlight. We
secrete a hormone called melatonin, which helps us sleep at night and stay awake
during the day. Melatonin production is directly linked to sun exposure. So, as the
days get shorter during the winter, our bodies produce more and more melatonin
and we can literally feel like going into a cave and hibernating.
Many SAD sufferers manage their seasonal depression with daily exposure to
full-spectrum lamps or light boxes. By getting daily doses of natural light, they can
fool their brains into thinking it's summertime, and their need to sleep decreases.
Recent research shows that timing these light therapy sessions to our natural
biological clocks is even more beneficial than usage during the day. Exposure to
natural spectrum bright light for thirty minutes on awakening is twice as effective as
evening sessions, and one study found this practice actually had an 80 percent
chance of sending SAD into remission.
If winter blues are getting to you, consider investing in a full spectrum lamp and
use it first thing in the morning--because SAD is for the bears.