<p class="bodytext">If you know that smiling increases mood-enhancing hormones while decreasing stress-enhancing hormones, including cortisol, and adrenaline and that it also reduces overall blood pressure, we will understand how important it is to smile every day and very often.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A smile is worth a million dollars, but it doesn’t cost a cent” goes a saying. A smile’s worth was truly discovered by something so heartwarming as this story of a little girl:</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lethukukhanya Mjaji a 5-year-old girl from Albany, NY was walking back from school and went to buy a loaf of bread. Her uncle saw her and took a picture and video of this happy littlegirl carrying a loaf of Albany Bread that she just bought. While she was running home in the mud, he captured the genuine and innocent happiness on her face.</p>.5 reasons for prayers going unanswered.<p class="bodytext">The picture went viral, and the people said this is the kind of picture they would like to associate with their bread.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instantly the picture was all over billboards and on trucks inAlbany. Everyo ne felt joyful seeing her beautiful radiant smile,it warmed many South Africans for its pure and genuine quality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">People requested that a billboard be constructed with this beautiful picture. The City of Albany responded by contacting her family and with their consent, she became the “Bread Ambassador” for a while. She received a full scholarship for her education and her single mother got a new house too. No wonder, a smile can work wonders in so many ways!</p>.<p class="bodytext">“A SMILE is a light in the window of the face” and when you have a happy smile the muscles used in the face trigger your brain to produce more endorphins - the chemical that relieves pain and stress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It makes the darkest places bright and changes gloom to mirth / A smile is such a passing thing to bring such lasting pleasure; It eases up the load of care and rids the soul of dark despair/No one its worth can measure.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Let us make it a daily practice to ask ourselves – ‘did you smile today?’ Find reasons or create reasons to SMILE genuinely!</p>
<p class="bodytext">If you know that smiling increases mood-enhancing hormones while decreasing stress-enhancing hormones, including cortisol, and adrenaline and that it also reduces overall blood pressure, we will understand how important it is to smile every day and very often.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"A smile is worth a million dollars, but it doesn’t cost a cent” goes a saying. A smile’s worth was truly discovered by something so heartwarming as this story of a little girl:</p>.<p class="bodytext">Lethukukhanya Mjaji a 5-year-old girl from Albany, NY was walking back from school and went to buy a loaf of bread. Her uncle saw her and took a picture and video of this happy littlegirl carrying a loaf of Albany Bread that she just bought. While she was running home in the mud, he captured the genuine and innocent happiness on her face.</p>.5 reasons for prayers going unanswered.<p class="bodytext">The picture went viral, and the people said this is the kind of picture they would like to associate with their bread.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Instantly the picture was all over billboards and on trucks inAlbany. Everyo ne felt joyful seeing her beautiful radiant smile,it warmed many South Africans for its pure and genuine quality.</p>.<p class="bodytext">People requested that a billboard be constructed with this beautiful picture. The City of Albany responded by contacting her family and with their consent, she became the “Bread Ambassador” for a while. She received a full scholarship for her education and her single mother got a new house too. No wonder, a smile can work wonders in so many ways!</p>.<p class="bodytext">“A SMILE is a light in the window of the face” and when you have a happy smile the muscles used in the face trigger your brain to produce more endorphins - the chemical that relieves pain and stress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“It makes the darkest places bright and changes gloom to mirth / A smile is such a passing thing to bring such lasting pleasure; It eases up the load of care and rids the soul of dark despair/No one its worth can measure.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">Let us make it a daily practice to ask ourselves – ‘did you smile today?’ Find reasons or create reasons to SMILE genuinely!</p>