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The best medicine for healing the emotional and
spiritual “insult” of our current pandemic
Of all the tools in positive psychology’s toolbox, smiling is perhaps the easiest to perform, the quickest acting, and the most effective in bringing about the tremendously uplifting effects discovered by positive psychology research… and one that is sorely needed throughout this ugly pandemic.
Day OneWhen I smile, I remember my spiritual strengths. God has invested “power and might” in me uniquely. My job is to come to a clearer understanding of these most purposeful strengths and to do my very best to express them out to the world. Smiling gives me pause to remember that indeed I have been endowed by God; I have been given God’s “power and might” right here right now. Smiling serves as my behavioral cue that I am continuously called to “be” in my spiritual strengths – to immerse myself in them and to saturate my personality with them. A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, Washington Irving From: my book: |