Super Soul Special: Shawn Achor: The Life-Altering Power of a Positive Mind
Oprah's Super Soul
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I'm Not Smiling, but I Can't Stop Myself
If you put me into an f mri brain scan, scan my brain while i'm smilng, small parts of my brain will show activation. Before i can stop myself, my brain drops a neral chemical called dopmean into my system which raises my levels of happiness enjoyment. When those mirror neurons activate, they say, shon, you're smiling, but i'm not smiling. You're smiling. What's happening there is their mirror norons, or fighting against our motor norons. Your brain already thinks you're smiling. Its like, what's he problem here? Face. If you don't believe me, this is one of the experiments you can try out yourself
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