The Relationship Of Cheerfulness And The Body - Deepstash

The Relationship Of Cheerfulness And The Body

Medical thought and practice aside, it is clear that cheerfulness is deeply linked to the body, and, in particular, the face. Indeed, it begins in the face and moves inward. As the French writer Germaine de Staël pointed out at the beginning of the 19th century, when you take on a cheerful expression, no matter what the state of your soul, your cheerfulness moves into the self: “the facial expression penetrates, bit by bit, what one experiences.” The interior of the self is changed by the power of cheer.

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A cheery mood, we might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise.

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