Gretchen Rubin: Back to the Basics of Happiness: Smile!
I'm not a very smiley person, and lately I've noticed that when I do smile, my face sometimes feels like I haven't smiled in a long time. I've been trying to remember to smile more, even just walking down the street. At first I felt a bit silly, but I quickly realized that no one minds if you're looking happy. I also try to give a real smile whenever I interact with （v.互动）someone -- buying a cup of coffee, checking in at the gym, going through security before going up to an office.
Facial expressions（n.面部表情） don't merely reflect（v.反映，表现）emotions; they also influence emotions. In facial feedback, studies show, the mere act of smiling makes people happier -- even when they smile mechanically（adv.机械地）, as I'm doing, or when they're asked not to smile but rather to contract specific facial muscles.
Random（adj.随意的，无目的性的） smiling is an example of my resolution（n.决心） to act the way I want to feel: while people suppose that feelings inspire actions, in fact, actions also inspire feelings. So by acting happier, I should feel happier. And you know, I think I do. "Sometimes your joy is the source（n. 源泉）of your smile," Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, "but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
Also, because of emotional contagion（n.传染）, people often mimic（v.模仿） the faces of people they see. One reason that people are attracted to happy people is that they catch that happiness themselves.
参考翻译：
我不是一个很爱微笑的人，然而近来我感觉到，当我微笑的时候，我的脸似乎很久没有笑过了。我试图让自己记得更多地去微笑，即使仅仅是在街上走着的时候也让自己牢记这一点。起初，我觉得自己有点儿傻，但很快我就意识到，如果我看起来很快乐，没人会介意。在与别人打交道的时候——比如买一杯咖啡，在体育馆结帐，进入办公楼前通过安检的时候，我都真诚的微笑。
面部的表情不仅仅反映人的情绪，还能影响人的情绪。研究表明，对于面部表情，仅仅是微笑的动作，即使是像我做的一样——那般机械的微笑，也能使人更快乐。即使是让人们不要微笑，只不过是收缩特定的面部肌肉也是同样的结果。
无目的微笑不过是我决心去做的一个例子而已，我想去证明一点：如果人们假定情绪能影响行为，反过来，行为也能影响人的情绪。所以，表现的更快乐，就能感到更快乐。正如大家所知，也正如我所做的那样。Tich Nhat Hanh 告诉我们：“有些时候，你的快乐是你微笑的源泉，而有些时候，你的微笑也能是你快乐的源泉。”
更进一步地说，人的情绪具有传染性，我们所看到的人的面部表情常常是假装出来的。有些人更多地快乐的一个原因是他们自己抓住了快乐本身。
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