Purpose: This is an informative speech, and its purpose is to enlighten the audience about the importance of a smile and the role it plays in their lives.
Thesis: Smile is vital to our health and social life.
Introduction
- Do you know that forcing yourself to smile can boost your mood? If you are experiencing a terrible day, just try to force a smile, and that false smile will finally turn into a real one.
- Many people do have a clear understanding about the importance of smiling to their lives.
- Smiling has numerous health benefits including relieving stress, reducing pain and boosting one’s immune system.
- In the speech, I will articulate the benefits of smiling to our mental and physical health and the benefits to our social life.
Body
- Smiling has a great significance on one’s health.
- Smiling helps in reducing stress in a human’s body.
- Smiling affects a number of muscles in the body thus making you feel joyful by reducing tension in the body
- A study done by the Kansas State University, revealed that people who smiled while undertaking strenuous tasks, could easily cope with stress compared to those maintained neutral expressions
- Smiling helps in relieving pain.
- Smiling triggers the brain to produce pain relieving chemicals known as endorphins.
- A study done published by the Journal of Pain showed that patients who frowned while undergoing painful procedures felt more pain compared to those who smiled.
- Smiling helps in boosting one’s immunity system.
- The European Heart Journal report revealed that people who smile often have a lower chance of getting heart disease compared to those who frown often.
Transition: Now that we have known the health benefits of smiling, I will now discuss some interesting facts about smiling.
- There are a number of captivating facts about smiling.
- Smiling makes an individual look pretty and more attractive.
- Orbit Complete did a study, and the results revealed that 69% of men find smiling women more attractive.
- There exists 19 types of smiles, which express different types of emotions, and this means that smiling gives us 19 ways of expressing ourselves (Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology)
- Smiling employees have a higher chance of getting promoted in their workplaces because a smile portrays confidence.
Transition: I will discuss the social benefits of smiling.
- Smiling has a number of social benefits apart from influencing your mood.
- A smile expresses trustworthiness, openness and acceptance.
- A genuine smile helps in making someone approachable.
- Smiling expresses joy, pleasure and satisfaction.
- During social events, people will always smile to show that they are enjoying themselves.
- Smiling boosts your mood and morale when you do something embarrassing or a mistake and it also show that you are sorry, and it was not intentional.
Transition: Now that we are now conversant with the importance of smiling in our lives, I will now make conclusion.
Conclusion
- Smiling is an uncomplicated activity which is vital in our lives because it has numerous physical, health and social benefits.
- Besides, it has It does not matter whether you have a perfect smile or not, the most vital thing is how we feel after smiling.
Bibliography
Lopez, Shane J. The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology.Chichester, U.K: Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2009. Internet resource.
Manstead, A S. R. Psychology of Emotions. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2008. Print.
Naini, Farhad B. Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis.Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
