I Like People Who Smile With Eyes

We are sure that in your entourage, you have people who smile at life and transmit their enthusiasm.

It is not easy to cultivate daily life with this optimism which sees things in their true reality.

To live is to move forward with calm and hope. This is why people who smile with their eyes transmit confidence. It is this simple wisdom that we should all learn.

People who smile sincerely

Smiling is the most powerful gesture socially and emotionally. It is a mode of language which does not need words.

If there’s anything to remember, it’s that you don’t just smile with your mouth.

• The look and the eyes are always the reflection of our feelings, and it is therefore in them that our will, our affects and our dreams are projected.
• We smile with our mouths, with our eyes and with our voices. There is no greater symbol to instill confidence than this simple and sincere gesture, thanks to which we transmit warmth to the people around us.
• Many studies also indicate that smiling improves our health. Such an elementary gesture represents the reflection of our evolution and of our social brain which knows how to build links with its peers.
• In addition, smiles help us:
  • Relieve stress
  • Strengthen the immune system
  • Regulate blood pressure
  • Elevate our endorphins (they work like natural pain relievers).

People who hide their sorrows when they smile

Sometimes the smiles aren’t completely genuine. We do not mean here that they hide bad feelings but that they serve as masks to hide sorrow or sadness.

In this case, the smile is an armor to show to the world, behind which we protect our own suffering.

Know that this smile that is neither sincere nor spontaneous, is known under the name of “smile of Duchenne”.

It is so called in honor of the French doctor Guillaume Duchenne, who has researched it and who explains how it forms on our face:

• Duchenne’s smile is a contraction of the major and minor zygomatic muscles in the mouth.
  It appears with a contraction of the cheeks and it produces wrinkles all around the eyes.
• On the other hand, the voluntary and sincere smile takes root in the motor cortex, and is activated in a conscious way.
  Thus, the smile involves the activation of many more muscles than in the Duchenne smile, which contains less movement and more rigidity.

It is obvious that not all smiles are genuine, and that many of them are only looking to betray or manipulate.

You should know that we all use this less sincere smile to appear “normal”, and not to make visible our sadnesses which, sometimes, undermine us.

Conclusions

If you really need to know whether a smile is genuine or not, just look at people’s eyes.

This is where genuine emotions are reflected. A face can be happy and hide an entire ocean of sorrow in its eyes.

This is something that we should always take into account.