Tricks to provoke Positive Emotions
10 Clever Tricks to Trigger Positive Emotions Here are 10 positive-action exercises to try: 1. Feeling Happy There is more to lifting your mood than forcing your face into a brief, unfeeling smile that finishes in the blink of an eye. Instead: Relax the muscles in your forehead and cheeks, and let your mouth drop slightly open. Contract the muscles near the corners of your mouth, drawing them back toward your ears. Make the smile as wide as possible and extend your eyebrow muscles slightly upward. Hold the resulting expression for about 20 seconds. Try to incorporate this mood-brightening exercise into your daily routine by, for example, smiling just before you answer the telephone or setting a reminder on your computer. 2. Moving On Struggling to get over an upsetting choice you had to make? Researcher Xiuping Li from the National University of Singapore Business School asked every participant in a learn about to write down a recent decis...