Feb. 5 - Big Smiles

Day 36 of a year of Kindness 

I made 25 people smile. I gave a kindness presentation in Guilford, Conn. It was a cold night, school was cancelled because of an impending storm, and people still showed up! I confessed that I had been too busy to do my act of kindness today. So, I asked them to smile for this selfie and then I would have made lots of people smile! They were so nice and it made me smile to meet such wonderful people. 

Science of kindness: Research shows that smiling can help make you feel happy. The physical act of smiling activates pathways in your brain that influence your emotional state—meaning that by adopting a happy facial expression, you can "trick" your mind into entering a state of happiness. Of course, their smiles were genuine. Also, teaching people about kindness is kind (according to my own research).#kindnessmatters #kindness #kindnessiscontagious @10kindnessclub #GuilfordYouthMentoring #GuilfordfreeLibrary