8. Laugh

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When we’re happy, we smile and sometimes laugh.

It works the other way around, when we smile or laugh, we become happier.

Our emotion leads to our movement.

• When you’re excited, you might dance.
• When you’re feeling upset, you cry.
• When you’re pissed, you flip the table (please don’t).

The counterintuitive truth is this — our movement leads to our emotion too.

• When you’re dancing like nobody is watching, you feel that you’re the happiest person in the world.
• When you’re crying alone unstoppable, you dwell on how unfortunate and helplessness you are.
• After you flipped the table, you start fighting with the person who pissed you off.

Our movement is the magnifier and amplifier of our emotion, but it is also a diminishing tool of your emotion.

So, the next time when you find yourself feeling pumped and excited, laugh out loud and dance like crazy. And the next time when you find yourself dwelling on the negative emotions, say Cheese.

We can’t control our emotions, but we can manage it by controlling our movement.

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Footnotes

I write longer articles about strategic thinking and performance improvement on DeanYeong.com. You can download my book about hacking your habits here.