Guest guest Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 The Power of Your Smile It’s been shown that laughter is healthful, and let’s look at this: Simply putting a smile on your face has a therapeutic value. It need not be backed by a positive, happy attitude – it can be a “forced” mechanical smile. John Diamond, MD, did a lot of work in kinesiology. He wrote "Your Body Doesn't Lie" - published by Warner Communications - I wrote the Forward to the book. He found that smiling stimulated acupuncture points that had the effect of balancing the activity between the two brain hemispheres. Usually, people have dominance in one or the other cerebral hemisphere, but when there's energy balance between the two, one's resistive capacity is increased. He claims that one's balance and 'creativity' is amplified . . . and so is one's immune system, etc. In our dental practice, even when we treated lower teeth, we put cotton rolls adjacent to the upper molars to actually stimulate these acupuncture-sensitive points - to give patients feelings of calmness. It worked nicely! Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM jmittelman For free sample of The Holistic Dental Digest PLUS, reply with your street or pob address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 And, even people without teeth, or dentures, can smile. Good little post. And, if you have a hard time smiling, just go find a baby somewhere, and see mama getting him/her pleased. Watch the face of the baby and when he/she smiles, you'll probably smile too. Long way around to establish a new habit if for some of us it is actually new. - Jerome Mittelman dentalwizard ; Dra.alternacare ; DrClark ; mercury fillings fillings ; Mercury Forums Forums ; pralt-discuss group ; a.health & healing healing Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:55 PM Your Smile The Power of Your Smile It’s been shown that laughter is healthful, and let’s look at this: Simply putting a smile on your face has a therapeutic value. It need not be backed by a positive, happy attitude – it can be a “forced” mechanical smile. John Diamond, MD, did a lot of work in kinesiology. He wrote "Your Body Doesn't Lie" - published by Warner Communications - I wrote the Forward to the book. He found that smiling stimulated acupuncture points that had the effect of balancing the activity between the two brain hemispheres. Usually, people have dominance in one or the other cerebral hemisphere, but when there's energy balance between the two, one's resistive capacity is increased. He claims that one's balance and 'creativity' is amplified . . . and so is one's immune system, etc. In our dental practice, even when we treated lower teeth, we put cotton rolls adjacent to the upper molars to actually stimulate these acupuncture-sensitive points - to give patients feelings of calmness. It worked nicely! Jerry Mittelman, DDS, FAPM jmittelman (AT) nyc (DOT) rr.com For free sample of The Holistic Dental Digest PLUS, reply with your street or pob address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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