{"id":19580,"date":"2025-09-16T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=19580"},"modified":"2025-09-16T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:29:34","slug":"facial-expressions-may-affect-your-mood-so-say-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/16\/facial-expressions-may-affect-your-mood-so-say-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial Expressions May Affect Your Mood So\u2026 Say Cheese!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe that something as simple as flexing your facial muscles into a smile can provide instant health benefits? Numerous studies show a connection between facial expressions and mood.<\/p>\n<p>Even when frowns are prevented from occurring with a cosmetic procedure, studies have concluded that the inability to frown actually improved a subject\u2019s mood and decreased\u00a0<a href=\"\/recommends\/MindSoothe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">symptoms of depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Eric Finzi, a medical director and president of Chevy Chase Cosmetic Center in Chevy Chase, Md., and Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery Associates in Greenbelt, Md., theorizes that the reason for this is the constant feedback going on between facial expression muscles and the brain.<\/p>\n<p>A paper published by the Journal of Dermatologic Surgery in 2006 reported on a small pilot study conducted by Dr. Eric Finzi which found nine of 10 depressed patients recovered from their symptoms after receiving a cosmetic procedure which paralyzed the muscles between the eyebrows. Shockingly, this was nearly twice the success rate of\u00a0<a href=\"\/recommends\/MindSoothe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">anti-depressants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that cosmetic procedures should be the new cure for depression? Absolutely not! But it does indicate that there are ways other than with prescription medications to improve and balance your moods and stress levels, such as with herbal and homeopathic remedies.<\/p>\n<p>So, can we train our facial muscles to smile instead of frowning? The answer is yes. \u201cWe have a lot of control over our moods,\u201d says William Fleeson, associate professor of psychology at Wake Forest University, who has shown in studies that subjects are actually able to change the expression of basic personality traits on demand and lift their spirits in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling and deep breathing when faced with difficulties and times of stress are a great way to neutralize negative thoughts that can make matters even worse. Many people don\u2019t even realize they frown and sometimes even stop breathing normally when under stress.<\/p>\n<p>When we are nervous or anxious, breathing usually becomes shallow. 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Numerous studies show a connection between facial expressions and mood. Even when frowns are prevented from occurring with a cosmetic procedure, studies have concluded that the inability to frown actually improved a subject\u2019s mood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety-depression-stress","category-general-health-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}