I'm not a very smiley person, and lately I've noticed that when I do smile, my face sometimes feels like I haven't smiled in a long time. I've been trying to remember to smile more, even just walking down the street. At first I felt a bit silly, but I quickly realized that no one minds if you're looking happy. I also try to give a real smile whenever I interact with （v.互動）someone -- buying a cup of coffee, checking in at the gym, going through security before going up to an office.

 

Facial expressions（n.面部表情） don't merely reflect（v.反映,，表現(xiàn)）emotions; they also influence emotions. In facial feedback, studies show, the mere act of smiling makes people happier -- even when they smile mechanically（adv.機械地）, as I'm doing, or when they're asked not to smile but rather to contract specific facial muscles.

 

Random（adj.隨意的，無目的性的） smiling is an example of my resolution（n.決心） to act the way I want to feel: while people suppose that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. So by acting happier, I should feel happier. And you know, I think I do. "Sometimes your joy is the source（n. 源泉）of your smile," Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, "but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

 

Also, because of emotional contagion（n.傳染）, people often mimic（v.模仿） the faces of people they see. One reason that people are attracted to happy people is that they catch that happiness themselves.

 

      我不是一個很愛微笑的人,，然而近來我感覺到,，當我微笑的時候，我的臉似乎很久沒有笑過了,。我試圖讓自己記得更多地去微笑,，即使僅僅是在街上走著的時候也讓自己牢記這一點。起初,，我覺得自己有點兒傻,，但很快我就意識到，如果我看起來很快樂,，沒人會介意,。在與別人打交道的時候——比如買一杯咖啡，在體育館結(jié)帳,，進入辦公樓前通過安檢的時候,，我都真誠的微笑。 

 

 

      面部的表情不僅僅反映人的情緒,，還能影響人的情緒,。研究表明，對于面部表情,，僅僅是微笑的動作,，即使是像我做的一樣——那般機械的微笑，也能使人更快樂,。即使是讓人們不要微笑,，只不過是收縮特定的面部肌肉也是同樣的結(jié)果。

 

 

      無目的微笑不過是我決心去做的一個例子而已,，我想去證明一點：如果人們假定情緒能影響行為,，反過來，行為也能影響人的情緒,。所以,，表現(xiàn)的更快樂,，就能感到更快樂。正如大家所知,，也正如我所做的那樣,。Tich Nhat Hanh  告訴我們：“有些時候，你的快樂是你微笑的源泉,，而有些時候,，你的微笑也能是你快樂的源泉?！?

 

 

      更進一步地說,，人的情緒具有傳染性，我們所看到的人的面部表情常常是假裝出來的,。有些人更多地快樂的一個原因是他們自己抓住了快樂本身。