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How to smile
when greeting
Naturally
1) Remember
pleasing experiences that you have experienced with the person. Have you
already gone out together? Have you told jokes? Discovered things in
common? 2) Think
about how the person treated and greeted you in other occasions. Some
people seem to go around with the purpose of getting a smile of anyone
that pass near. If
you have this kind of joyful memories, you can be sure, you will smile
with the whole face, and not only with the teeth. One
may argue: there’s not enough time to do this. All right. The ideal
situation is to do it with the characteristic quickness of the things we
do well, like talking. The solution to this is mental rehearsal.
Practice the strategy a few times in imagination, with several people
and in varied situations, generating internal experiences that are going
to serve as references to your brain later (do once now to test the
strategy!). And
if you can't remember any joyful experiences with a specific person, I suggest
that you smile to him or her only if your goal is to make glum
expressions open! V. V. Vilela Editor
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Have
you already passed by someone and were greeted with a
happy-and-entire-face smile? Is it a pleasure, isn’t it? Perhaps you
want to do the same, but without taking the risk to appear you are
forcing. This can be easy, since you use an appropriate thinking
strategy. The secret (or at least one of them) is what you think as soon
as you identify the person as an acquaintance. Our suggestions for this
moment: 
