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4th March, 2025

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Peace begins with a smile.

Mother Teresa

When you look at a person who always has a frown on its face, the adjectives your mind will create about them are often in a negative tone, examples are hostile, furious, unwelcoming etc. A smiling person we consider to be friendly, happy and often times more trustworthy.

For that reason, if we are “at war” with someone, if we had a big fight or disagreement, the best way to approach a peace offering is with a genuine smile on your face. Such smiles will immediately indicate a good intention and willingness to improve your relationship.

Numerous research(mostly on primates) has found that smiling is a submissive sign and with it primates express themselves as not a threat and from that follows that through smiling primates establish cooperation between each other. Similar effect can be applied to humans. If you’ve ever watched some videos on body language or watched the show “Lie to me” you are familiar with what I’m talking about here.

So by smiling you really will trigger a response in others that will make them more likely to cooperate with you.

One of my favorite books I’ve ever read is about body language called “The definitive book of body language” by Allan and Barbara Pease. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend it, after reading it you really start seeing a world with a whole new set of eyes, you start noticing a wide array of subtle body language cues and it’s a lot of fun(not to mention very useful).

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    Luce

    Love how you are staying true to yourself and your values regarding the political correctness and I 100% agree with everything stated.

    The addition of news articles and books? Very cool, gotta admit, keep ’em coming.

    Also, it is amazing to hear from a young person that having family young is not bad or terrible. Usually people complaining about starting your family young are the people who started their families at an older age (how is that for being politically correct? Telling “my” story when you haven’t been in my shoes. Anywho…).

    And what you said – the biggest problem is people not being willing to sacrifice themselves for others and greater good. (Well, guess Who sacrificed Themselves for the greater good?) People are not able to love anymore. That is the definition of love – to sacrifice your needs for the needs of the other person. Venerable Fulton Sheen said that for Jesus it is more painful the sheer ignorance of people [to each other] than His Passion. Let that sink in for a moment.

    We are becoming way too selfish, way too self obsessed and way to prideful as a society and that is costing us greatly. (I have a problem with that too, don’t get me wrong, but with the help of Jesus Christ, I’m working on it).

    On that note, I hope that everyone that may find this, have a blessed Lent. I wish all of you peace and perseverance in decisions that you made for this season that is upon us!

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