Smile For Health Happiness & Holiness- Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

stop what you're doing right now and smile even if you don't feel like it did you know that when you smile it releases dopamine it's not that when you're happy you smile if you smile it will make you happy so you'll say what should i be happy about whole world is upside down i'm restricted to my home i'm worried what will be did you know that being happy actually sets us free through we can get out of whatever bind we're in it doesn't necessarily make the problems go away but it gives us the strength and the courage to be able to handle it says when you have little it eliminates it means when you have less even when you have less find a way to be basima find a way to be happy this is our mission to mandate as jews if to us hashem to always serve hashem with joy and if we don't he holds us accountable why is god visited upon us because we've lost our joy for life our simcha mitzvah when we're doing a mitzvah with a smile with enthusiasm with happiness with joy the rambam says doing a mitzvah with simcha is it's very hard but it's necessary writes that independent of the mitzvah there is a second parallel mitzvah to do a mitzvah basiimha don't discharge it don't just finish it like it's an obligation and a burden do it with a smile do it with joy hassam silva says something amazing when a person turns bar mitzvah mitzvah the night they come of age 12 or 13 what's the very first myths for their commandment some say kabbalah accepting the yoke of heaven reciting shema others have all other suggestions for impressions writes the first mitzvah is to be similar moment you turn 12 the moment you turn 13 what does it mean to be a god though put a smile on your face look at your life and don't see what's missing see what's there not what you don't have what you do have don't see the challenges see the brachas the blessings see the opportunities and there's something to smile about harvard researcher nicholas curstakis proved that just like when one person yawns or sneezes it's contagious and causes others in the room to younger sneeze when one person smiles it makes other people smile put a smile on your face your face is a rosh has a problem it's a public place even when you don't feel like it because basim it'll take us out of our problems even when we have less if we smile we'll feel like we have more be joyous today