Article

Change Someone's Life Today. Smile

Topic: Adult and Senior DevelopmentBy Warren RedmanPublished Recently added

Legacy signals

Legacy popularity: 1,057 legacy views

We don’t always feel like smiling. Sometimes I find myself walking from my house a few blocks, my head full of thoughts about what I have been doing or am about to do, when I pass by somebody who smiles and nods a greeting. Almost instantly, my life in that moment is transformed. I start thinking instead about the smile I received, the place I am in, the delight of that instant of time that is the present. The next person I see gets a smile.

The transformative nature of that smile is unknown. All I know is that I received one and passed it on to another. I also know how my consciousness changed in that moment. What I don’t know is where the smile originated and where it will end up. The possibilities are mind-bending. The ability to change someone’s life, even for a few minutes so enormous that if we were to take it in we would smile at every person we ever saw on every occasion we saw them.

The fact remains that we don’t always feel like smiling, and that we are seldom conscious of the impact anyway. My intention is not to encourage a smile when one is not forthcoming; rather to make the point that whatever energy we put out – and a smile takes as much energy as a grimace – is contagious and is returned to us even though we might not recognize it.

In which case, the person’s life you could be changing is yours.

In Peace

Warren Redmannwww.EFitInstitute.com
1-866-310-3348(EFit)n

Article author

About the Author

Warren Redman trained in the UK as a psychotherapist, facilitator and coach and has developed his own unique style of Emotional Fitness Coaching. He is president of the Emotional Fitness Institute (formally the Centre for Inner Balancing), writing about, teaching and coaching people in Emotional Fitness. He is the author of fifteen books, including the Award-winning The 9 steps to Emotional Fitness, Achieving Personal Success and Recipes for Inner Peace. Find out more or subscribe to Equilibrium, a free e-zine, at www.EFitInstitute.comn

Further reading

Further Reading

4 total

Article

No more New Year’s resolutions!! No more thinking about projects to finish, exercise classes to start or diets to loose that same ten pounds. Baby Boomers, parents, career professionals; we all strive for better health, less stress, being more organized. A great solution for a Great New Year is to clear the air and to forget about you, start thinking about others. To do this, you have to put two things in place.

Related piece

Article

You’re thinking your life is wonderful, no current crisis is on the horizon, no big decisions to make, everything seems to be rocking along. Then, out of the blue, something happens in five minutes, your world is turned upside down, you have to make some instant decisions. Your ...

Related piece

Article

A common phrase used in Coaching and therapy is experiencing an “Ah Ha” moment. A thought occurs to you that shifts your universe, you get a different perspective. A basic value that you live by is changed or altered. Everything concerned with your life, relationships, faith or even who you think you are can be effected. It happens in an instant. The roller coaster just reached the top of the ride and then, you just took off! This was mine, yesterday.

Related piece

Article

So here we are once again celebrating Christmas. How fast this seems to come around, especially the older I get. Peace and Joy, these are the tools for a meaningful life. I wish you PEACE. Peace in your heart, with your families and friends. Peace in your mind, especially looking toward the future. I wish you JOY. Joy to continually fill your heart. Your mind thinking of joyful things to do with those you love and care about, giving you a reason to get up everyday. This is truly one of the secrets to creating the memories that slow down the passing of time.

Related piece