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Smiles Without Endorphins. Smile Without Orbicularis Oculi Muscles (around the eyes)

What is a smile? Importance? Effects? Leads?

Muhammad Touqeer
8 min readMar 2, 2022
Orbicularis Oculi Muscles

Moebius Syndrome: Is a paralysis of the sixth and seventh pair of cranial nerves. The seventh pair controls facial expression.

Smile involves the orbicularis oculi muscles around the eyes, which means you did release endorphins.

Endorphins are released when we grin. They provide us joy. They bring joy to others. Our basotemporal lobes are active when we perceive smiles and duplicate what we observe.

Smiles are contagious. Everybody likes smiles.

Does everybody like smiles.??

Sincere Smile

Duchenne marker

The contraction of the orbicularis oculi, known as the Duchenne marker, lifts the cheeks, pushes the skin surrounding the eye towards the eye socket, narrowing the eye-opening, bagging or wrinkling the skin below the eye, and causes crows’ feet.

The zygomatic major muscles, which elevate the corners of the mouth, are contracted in all smiles. However, in a Duchenne smile, the orbicularis oculi contracts, even more, crumpling the skin around the eyes into crows’ feet.

The Duchenne smile is named after Guillaume Duchenne, a French anatomist who studied many different expressions of emotion, focusing on the smile of pure enjoyment. He identified the facial movements that make this smile different from other types of smiles.

Human smiles can be genuine, easily recognised by most observers as a “Duchenne smile.” In contrast, “non-Duchenne smiles” appear in the mouth but not the eyes and are recognised as non-genuine, often polite smiles

We produce endorphins. They make us and others happy. When we perceive smiles, our basotemporal lobes are activated, and we reproduce what we see.

Fake Smile

Smiles Without Endorphins

There is no involvement of the orbicularis oculi muscles around the eyes in a fake smile, which means we didn’t release endorphins. Are smiles contagious? If yes, undoubtedly, Fake Smiles are not.

IF someone thinks a smile can impact positively, you should work on your empathy emotion because that will let you feel other persons’ feelings, then you can get endorphins in real-time. You will be able to feel your orbicularis oculi muscles around the eyes; you can easily feel the difference between the real and fake feel of the smile.

It must be very important to you if you think it’s worth the risk of phoney/artificial sensitivity throughout your false portrayal of feeling.

Laughing on the inside(Rephrased)

On the outside, I’m giggling.

I’m so in love that I’m crying on the inside.

They see me at all hours of the day and night.

I’m having a terrible time.

They have no idea what I’m going through.

On the outside, I’m giggling.

I’m so in love that I’m crying on the inside.

Nobody realises it’s merely a posture.

Pretending I’m pleased we’re not together.

My eyes, on the other hand, are dry when I cry…

Oh, the tears in my eyes, oh, the tears in my heart, oh, the tears in my heart

Can’t we makeup, my heart?

Since the fade of our relationship,

All I feel is abandoned and loss.

On the outside, I’m giggling.

I’m so in love that I’m crying on the inside.

On the outside, I’m giggling.

On the inside, I’m crying…

Do you want to be a comedian?

I have a tremendous sense of humour; wherever I go, I spread laughter.

People always get my jokes. My jokes are always understood.

I’m absolutely very lucky. Yeah. That was a joke.

NO, there is nothing like that, and it’s okay for me because I’m not a comedian. Should I go for elective surgery?

No worries, it is a straightforward procedure…

The surgeons will be taking two slivers of muscle from my thighs, along with their nerves and blood supply, and transplanting them into my cheeks.

You’ll have to wait a long time to be able to smile freely again, perhaps three months.

So, what do you say? Are you up for this(for me)?

If I think it’s worth the danger of dying during elective surgery, it must be because people enjoy your humour.

Is surgery too risky? The possible consequences are embolism, bleeding, collateral paralysis, asymmetry, brain injury, and stroke.

It’s also costly and medically pointless.

Sincere Silence vs Fake Smile, which one is more Honest?

When you have nothing valuable to say, Silence is the best option. Silence is a skill; people consider speaking well as a skill, but that is not the whole thing, and remaining in Silence make it compete for skill.

We are expected to have an open and honest discussion with people. Always seeking a positive but unsincere image is not the right choice.

Not everyone will accept us no matter what you do; there will always be those who will not accept our uniqueness at any cost, and on the other hand, there will always be those who will accept us without pretending. And ultimately you will find good ones. Care for those who accept you with all your uniqueness.

No fake promises are required, no fictionary comparison, not so many acceptance rules to make others happy all the time; let live what you are. And you are so much more.

Possible Acceptance Sign.

  • Their Behavior Noticeably Changes When You’re Around
  • People Listen To What You’re Saying
  • They Keep Making Eye Contact
  • People Ask You Lots Of Questions
  • They Move Into Your Line Of Sight
  • They’re Constantly Joking Around With You
  • They’re the first to comment on your photos.
  • They’re Full Of Good Banter
  • They Fidget, Especially In Suggestive Ways
  • Their Body Is Pointed In Your Direction

Some people are not always so open up for feelings, so there are some other Possible Considerations.

  • Not Making Eye Contact is also a Sign Of Respect In Islam. Sometimes Religions Rules dominate the Psychological rule of behaviour.
  • Also, Not Move Into Your Line Of Sight is a Sign Of Respect In Islam and other religions.
  • So same with, Their Body Is Pointed In Your Direction.

Still, people like you accept you.

Is a smile is the only thing that draws others' attention?

“Attention seeking” is often regarded as a negative trait. The word conveys something petty, selfish, and a little crazy when applied to a youngster who throws a tantrum, a Facebook friend who shares a picture of their new BMW, or a coworker whose description of their recent cold equals the most graphic depictions of the bubonic plague.

Seeking attention is that important?

Adult attention-seeking conduct is a conscious or unconscious attempt to earn affirmation or appreciation by becoming the centre of attention.

Humans are hardwired to pay attention. From our earliest childhood rememberings to our current well-being, we rely on others’ attention to meet practical and emotional demands essential to our survival and psychological well-being. “We need attention almost as much as food and warmth,” writes Oliver Burkeman. In reality, the desire for attention is at the root of many of our everyday actions.

Examples of this type of behaviour:

By highlighting accomplishments and seeking affirmation, you can fish for compliments or be contentious to elicit a response. People try exaggerating and embellishing stories to earn sympathy or praise. Some persons claim to be unable to perform anything for someone to teach, assist, or observe the attempt.

Are you really want to disclose your emotions?

Ref My Silent Article….

Arguments: 1-People should be allowed to read your emotions; that’s what you do with friends.

Counter Argument: 1-I don’t want to be more approachable, and I prefer people not to read my emotions.

They’re mine. They’re personal.

Smiles are overvalued.

Some studies support that.

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Association For Psychological Science

From: NPR

The Science Of Smiles, Real And Fake

The idea that you can smile your way to happiness has been around for a long time.

Charles Darwin was one of the first to propose what has now been known as the “facial feedback hypothesis” by current scientists. That is, adjusting your facial expression can increase or even transform your emotion. Smiling can make you happier while frowning might make you sadder or angrier.

Nat King Cole and Dick Van Dyke both sang about the occurrence. It’s still covered in psychology classes today.

However, experts are now discovering that this phenomenon is more complex than previously imagined, according to a recent study that examined nearly 50 years of data, including the findings of almost 300 studies evaluating the facial feedback theory, smiling increases happiness by only a tiny amount.

Conclusion: Only a bit. (smiles are overvalued)

Of course, there are also studies that don’t support that.

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Are Smiles Contagious?

There is frequently a link between the viewer’s perception of an emotionally expressive face and their facial response in human communication. While functional imaging approaches have been used to study the perception and creation of facial expressions individually, no research has been done on their interplay. The presentation of emotionally expressive faces was linked with the instruction to react with preset and assigned facial movements. To evaluate healthy subjects, fMRI was used in an event-related design.

They were asked to simultaneously shift the corners of their mouths either (a) upwards or (b) downwards, or © to remain motionless while looking at happy, sad, or neutral faces. An MR-compatible video camera was used to record the subjects’ facial movements. Incongruent scenarios (e.g., showing a smiling face with upward trends) decreased movement latencies, while in non-congruent ones, they were delayed.

Dissonant more than congruent stimuli activated the inferior prefrontal cortex and the somatomotor cortex bilaterally. The congruent condition, particularly when seeing a happy face, started the medial basotemporal lobes (hippocampus, amygdala, parahippocampal region). We hypothesise that this region facilitates congruent facial movements when an emotionally expressive face is perceived and part of a non-volitional dynamic facial movement system.

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Hypothesis Graph

“Smile! Everyone in the room feels better since they are smiling with you, consciously or unconsciously. An instinct for facial mimicry allows us to empathise with and understand the feelings of others, according to growing research.”

Rather than putting all your efforts into mastering all types of smiles, we should focus on our personal growth and character building.

One day we can perform our duties to make this world a better place where pretending and faking emotions would not be the only measures.

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Muhammad Touqeer
Muhammad Touqeer

Written by Muhammad Touqeer

A versatile writer who tackles any subject with curiosity, insight, and originality. Constantly looking for new challenges to write about.

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