When we feel happy, we smile. New research indicates the opposite is true, too — posing our muscles in a smile brightens our mood.

 

It’s everywhere you look these days, doom and gloom, and the world is falling apart.  It’s on the television, social media, newspapers, magazines, and on the lips of just about everyone you meet, from your best friend to the gentlemen in the checkout line at the grocery store.  

 

They’re all talking about how the economy is tanking, out-of-control immigration, scary pandemics, rising homelessness, increasing government overreach, and people hating each other for the political party they support, the religion they choose, and the car they drive.