Just a soft smile and a few minutes of breath can shift your mood, lower stress, and deepen your sense of connection.How To Do This Practice: <ol>
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Settle In: Find a comfortable seat, rest your hands gently, and soften your gaze or close your eyes.</li>
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Breathe and Soften: Take a few slow, deep breaths. In through the nose, out through the mouth, relaxing your face, jaw, and neck.</li>
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Form a Gentle Smile: Let a soft, effortless smile form at the corners of your mouth. Think of something or someone that makes you smile.</li>
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Turn the Smile Inward: Imagine that smile radiating inside your body, through your face, throat, and chest.</li>
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Send the Smile Through Your Body: With each breath, guide the smile to your heart, lungs, digestive system, and spine, acknowledging and appreciating each part.</li>
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Close Gently: Let the smile spread throughout your whole body, take one final deep breath, and slowly open your eyes, carrying the smile into the rest of your day.</li>
</ol>Scroll down for a transcription of this episode.Today’s Happiness Break Guide:DACHER KELTNER is the host of The Science of Happiness podcast and is a co-instructor of the Greater Good Science Center’s popular online course of the same name. He’s also a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.Related Happiness Break episodes:Take a Break With Our Loving-Kindness Meditation: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2kr4fjz5">https://tinyurl.com/2kr4fjz5</a>A Meditation on Original Love: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/5u298cv4">https://tinyurl.com/5u298cv4</a>Embodying Resilience: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/46383mhx">https://tinyurl.com/46383mhx</a>Related Science of Happiness episodes:Are You Remembering the Good Times: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/483bkk2h">https://tinyurl.com/483bkk2h</a>Make Uncertainty Part of the Process: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/234u5ds7">https://tinyurl.com/234u5ds7</a>Why We Should Seek Beauty: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yn7ry59j">https://tinyurl.com/yn7ry59j</a>Follow us on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/scienceofhappinesspod/">@ScienceOfHappinessPod</a>We’d love to hear about your experience with this practice! Share your thoughts at happinesspod@berkeley.edu or use the hashtag #happinesspod. Find us on Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap">https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap</a>Help us share Happiness Break! Leave a 5-star review and share this link:<a href="https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap"> https://tinyurl.com/2p9h5aap</a>Transcription: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/s4wk4x4y">https://tinyurl.com/s4wk4x4y</a>

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