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The Transactional ‘Smile’ Rules

Are you like Pollyanna – and find a ‘silver-lining’ in every cloud,
or closely resemble the Fortune 500 CEO who finds a disruptive ‘cloud’
in every silver-lining? Celebrate or criticize?

One is your ‘dominant’ state-of-mind and rules your life’s decisions.
The answer is your map of the territory – and often tilts decisions to
success and even – long-life.

Smiling

How many types of smiles are there?

1. Raising the sides of your ‘mouth’ – called the ‘Pan-American’ smile, named
after the stewardesses on the now defunct airline.

2. Squeezing the sides of your ‘eyes’, and called the ‘signal’ smile.

3. Tightening and uplifting the right-side of your mouth and right-eye
simultaneously, and called the ‘smarmy’ smile.

4. The ‘Duchenne-Smile’: simultaneously raising both-sides of your mouth and
crinkling both-sides of your eyes into a full-fledge smile.

The ‘Duchenne (Do-shen) Smile’ is named for the French scientist who
researched the physiology of smiling for thirty-years, and in 1862 published “The Mechanics of Facial Expression”. It is the Duchenne-Smile that is the
genuine, authentic and echt-smile that affects the emotions of other people - and often leads to success and enhanced health.

It requires the use of the muscles on both sides of your eyes – called the
Pars Lateralis facial muscles, in addition to the muscles on the lateral-
sides of your mouth.

Endorphins

Only one of the four smiles causes a cascade of endorphins – the brain-juice of
pleasure that accompanies sex, success and peak-experiences – to flow.
Endorphins are peptides resembling opiates that flow to reduce stress and
pain by producing the emotion of pleasure, joy and happiness.

The word – endorphin – links endogenous (within), and morphine (the drug).
Endorphins are our natural high – our brain-morphine, and they flow when
we feel good about ourselves and accomplishments. These brain-chemicals
spike us with a lightning-bolt as a reward , and keep us coming-back for more.

Do we study, practice and rehearse for ‘success’ itself, or for the emotions and
feelings of getting an ‘A’ from the instructor, the promotion from the CEO, or a
kiss from that significant-other?
Do endorphins flow because we imagine the reaction of meaningful-others, or
exclusively from the ritualistic reward? We want-and-need our natural high.

Consider the intentional flashing of your Duchenne-Smile as a precursor and
trigger (cue), for the cascade of endorphins. Do-it-and-they-will – come!.

Law of As-If

In 1896 Professor William James at Harvard, a physician and scientist, proposed
his principle of As-If. He suggested that if we acted as-if, thought-and-believed
as-if, and emotionally-felt as-if, and simultaneously – mentally-visualized
(imagined), as-if we were already the recipient of our goal (burning-desire),
our mind would lead-us to our desired-target.

For the next seventy-five years only the gullible and the ‘gullor’ (trickster),
subscribed to the Law of As-If.
It was another professor at Harvard – Stephen Kosslyn – thirty years ago who
popularized the “Reality Simulation Principle”, based on the scientific evidence
that two-thirds of the same brain modules are involved in mental-imagery – as
well-as visual-perception.

“…the same objects seen in a mental image can have the same impact on the
mind and body that the actual-object would have. My notion is that once the
brain systems are engaged, they don’t know where the impetus came from.”

Dr. Kosslyn went on to describe how mental-practice – imagining doing
something - recruits most of the brain mechanisms that would guide the same
nerves and muscles used in physical-practice.

In the 21st century, many golf – tennis – and football professionals, even Nascar
drivers, invoke the law of As-If imagining - in addition to their physical hours
on the field or track. These pros credit ‘as-if’ imaging with influencing their
athletic and financial success.

It was the use of fMRIs (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) scans, starting
in the 1990s, that validated the Law of As-If (Reality-Simulation-Principle), from
soft to a hard-science. These brain-scans indicate that the same nerves and
muscles are indeed activated during mental-visualization – as during physical-
practice on-the-field.

Health and Wealth

Do these identical principles apply to our goals of personal-growth and the
attainment of our burning-desires?
Is our state-of-mind, (attitude), the glue of critical-mass - leading to our chain-
reaction of accomplishment?

Can the As-If Principle-and-visualizations - help activate the healing-process
of body and mind?

Will it turn mediocre-students into “A” scholars with incredible long-term
memories?

Initial research is extremely promising and we recommend you create your
own ‘as-if’ experiments for acing exams - presentations and winning- interviews

Certain Wall Street executives of our acquaintance use ‘as-of’ imaging – for
to earn wads of filthy-lucre, promotions and to cement relationships.
The step-by-step process is held under the seal-of-confidentiality.

Is the creative-element the visualization or the physical and mental
transformation of acting-feeling-believing-thinking as-if we were successful?

What we do know is that - you are the Boss of You!

Mind Experiments

What if you spent five-minutes daily in meditative-relaxation and mentally
visualized in as great detail as possible – in living color – the career – home –
relationship of your dreams?

What if you ‘simultaneously’ - think, believe, act and feel
as-if you already own these tangible and intangible goals?

Would your mood, attitude and state-of-mind improve? Would you
stand-taller, wear a Duchenne-smile on your face, and see opportunities and
dare - where others fear-to-tread?

N.B. Our ‘mood’ changes how we evaluate existing circumstances, people,
and what is possible, and-subject to our influence and persuasion.

There is now replicated scientific-proof that these practices offer your brain a
roadmap to follow - causing significant improvements in your emotional-
intelligence. Some believe these brain-experiments act like a traffic-cop and
push-traffic to track your burning-desires through cues and triggers.

The Impact of the Duchenne-Smile and As-If

Can you flash your Duchenne-Smile for 15 seconds at-a-time?

Test it – only one-in-one-hundred - have the DWE – Directed Willful Effort –
the power of your mental-force – to practice the Duchenne-Smile for even
half-minute.

Remember – though smiling is an involuntary emotion, choosing
to voluntarily manufacture your Duchenne-Smile – produces positive results
in our body and mind, and influences and persuades others to our ideas.

This behavior links us with the Law of Liking, and shifts our brain
from Beta cycles-per-second - to Alpha Hz.. The result is a release of stress,
excitement of our immune-system, and a personal mood-change and one that
affects all our relationships.

Hundreds of graduates who daily - invoke the influence of the Duchenne-Smile
would ‘not-leave-home-without-it’.

The resultant release of endorphins can enhance your health by energizing your
immune-system, and some believe enhance your life-span. Your authentic-smile
absolutely will change your mood, and state-of-mind and for students – improve
your memory, concentration and concentration.

Your homework is to flash your echt-smile during the course of your day.
When? On wakening – arriving at your office – prior to lunch – at 3 p.m.,
and prior to sleep.

How long?
Ten-seconds is good – fifteen-second – magnificent – and twenty-
seconds – can be life-changing.

Some who have gone on a regimen of ‘Duchenne-Smiling’ – report virtual
instantaneous improvement at school, the workplace and in relationships.
Others report that daily practice of both the righteous ‘smile,’ and the activation
of the ‘As-If’ principle and visualization - for a few minutes daily - for 21 days –
produces results so extraordinary - they are fearful of sharing the knowledge
with us and others.

Too far-fetched? We suggest all true contrarians conduct their own
mind-experiments - and then decide.

It Works Because

Our research indicates that part of influencing and persuading your brain
to search-out the target-goals of your burning-desires - is produced by our
ability to create positive expectations and trust-in-the-unfolding. It is a
temporary suspension of negative-prediction and skepticism

There is one requirement – we must focus our attention-span. We all
have the volition to decide in favor of delayed-gratification, and ignore our desire
for immediate-gratification. The Law of 21 requires a break-in period of change,
and we must decide to practice for twenty-one consecutive days.

Those of us with impatience – some wrongly call it limited attention-span - require
some assistance in conjuring the benefits that turn-on our dedicated-efforts.
Find your ‘burning-desires’, and visualize how you would feel with that new
promotion – magnificent-residence – emotional-relationship. It’s your choice to
to do the same behaviors while expecting a different-result or to add new-
strategies to your repertoire – for improved potentialities.

Another Strategy For Positive Personal-Growth

Have you heard of Nostril-Cross-Laterals?

It entails balancing our left and right-brains (hemispheres) in order to remove
100% dominance by our left-brain. This exercise releases stress and focuses
powerful concentration for learning at-school and at-the-office.

The formula is inhaling in six (6) short breaths to fill your lungs; holding your
breath for a count of one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, and three-one-
thousand; and exhaling your breath - in six (6) short-releases - and ‘alternate’.

It starts with your left forefinger closing-off your left-nostril and inhaling-
holding-exhaling, through your right-nostril six-three-six- and alternate.

It continues with your right forefinger closing off your right-nostril, and inhaling-
holding-exhaling exclusively through your left-nostril six-three-six – and
alternate. Alternating results in a balance of your left and right hemispheres.

Those who use Nostril-Cross-Laterals daily for 2-3 minutes at a time –
twice-a-day – report deep relaxation, a reduction of stress, and improvement
in their cognitive-undertakings at school and career.

Creativity-Intuition and Brilliance

Nostril-Cross-Laterals positively affect our breathing-patterns, heart-beat, blood-
circulation, and excites our immune-system. It is capable of releasing a flood of the
peptide – endorphins - to create a mental and physical reward – a sense of
pleasure.

When we get a reward - feel pleasure – we tend to produce peak-performances. We
recommend using the reward of pleasure - as a cue and trigger-mechanism for
future success.

Does it work because of curiosity – added to a withdrawal of skepticism?

Do you have to understand the Placebo-Effect - for it to advance healing?

If you are of a scientific-bent – test one - or all ‘three’ SpeedBraining strategies.

Coda: “What your inner eye sees – your brain is bound to – believe.
What your brain produces as a feeling – your mind is bound to - attract.”

copyright © 2004
H. Bernard Wechsler
www. speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org