One Exercise You Don't Need

With all the emphasis on getting exercise and staying healthy we might be surprised to hear a caution against exercise. But there is one exercise that we perform way to much and it has no benefit whatever. As a matter of fact it negatively affects us and all who are around us. That exercise is frowning. It actually takes fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown. So, in this case the fewer muscles that get exercised the better. Here is a little essay about smiling that I think you will find useful.

A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. ~Author Unknown

Proverbs 17:22 says, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." One may conclude that constant frowning which is the evidence of a broken spirit will dry us up emotionally and spiritually. On the other hand that dried up condition may be healed with the medicine of laughter and smiling. Give out the medicine of a smile today.