Join "The Smile Revolution"2008-07-05T09:23:27Zhttp://thesmilerevolution.com/atom.aspxQuick BlogSmile Incessantlytag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-04-27:c412ad8a-e13d-441a-8c49-cc1184541264Mindy Fradkin2008-04-27T13:25:52Z2008-04-27T13:18:00ZThis is from Ann Stevens, Thought for the Day.
We all know and remember a smiley person-someone whose heart seems to radiate through their teeth. And when they do, notice how its almost impossible not to smile back...unless you are feeling very, very grumpy! So, if you don't feel a smile coming on..why not do it anyway. Not only does it transform your inner chemical production and create "happy hormones", but when people are at the other end of your smile, they smile back (well most do). And if you really don't feel like smiling genuinely at life, the universe and everybody- fake it until you make it! relax7.com]]>A Smiletag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-04-25:5ab1575f-c5dc-4c4a-a977-964459c4db80Mindy Fradkin2008-04-25T12:31:37Z2008-04-25T12:30:00Z "A smile is a direct achievement."]]>Pete Seegertag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-03-20:6d39ceb9-8f3a-45eb-a025-57ddac34955dMindy Fradkin2008-03-20T01:00:46Z2008-03-20T00:54:00ZPete Seeger said this recently to me when I asked him to talk about The Smile Revolution. "The Agricultural Revolution took thousands of years, The Industrial Revolution took hundreds of years, The Information Revolution is taking decades, but if we use it and use the brains God gave us, we may, this century see The Smile Revolution, or the Rainbow Revolution or the Great Turning."]]>Pangeadaytag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-03-13:9847f824-95b2-43ea-8982-52404177bee0Mindy Fradkin2008-03-13T13:51:14Z2008-03-13T13:49:00Z Please check this out! I found it in Oprah's Magazine. It looks amazing.]]>The Smile Revolution Radio with Mindy Smiletag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-03-12:e19000ed-4e05-4df3-9457-b74bb8f3a819Mindy Fradkin2008-03-18T14:53:16Z2008-03-12T22:03:00Z
Laura Moliter, guest
]]>Irish Blessingtag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-03-12:216f9ca1-3612-4db9-802f-0e8c0aed643dMindy Fradkin2008-03-12T21:39:32Z2008-03-12T21:37:00Z"May you always have these blessings- A soft breeze when summer comes- A warm fireside in winter- And always the warm, soft SMILE of a friend."]]>Bill Keanetag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-03-08:bb997e5e-3427-406a-b333-e3688b43b3c7Mindy Fradkin2008-03-08T14:07:17Z2008-03-08T14:03:00Z"A hug is a boomerang. You get it back right away."
A smile is as well! Try it.
Some people say that if they see me not smiling, they don't understand. Its about giving and receiving smiles. Sometimes, I need you to smile at ME, to remind me. We all need to awaken out of dark thinking at times. Mindy Smile]]>John Quincy Adamstag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-02-26:99cad971-6d05-4866-9d10-51aea6f4c4d2Mindy Fradkin2008-02-26T11:06:01Z2008-02-26T11:02:00Z"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." John Adams
Truly great what he said. Let us dare to SMILE in this era that we live in. That is revolutionary. We are having an awakening now. Can you feel it? This is the year...Mindy Smile ]]>Elder's Message of the Daytag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-02-22:8319fb18-d25d-46bf-9523-a9c4fabbd863Mindy Fradkin2008-02-22T12:13:45Z2008-02-22T12:02:00Z"Laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P.Aitken, CHIPPEWA
Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh.
Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.
Humor is natural to everyone. Mindy Smile]]>The Smile Revolutiontag:thesmilerevolution.com,2008-02-20:ce3b3442-4098-425c-a29c-03ea1ab3f5bdMindy Fradkin2008-02-20T14:08:54Z2008-02-20T01:09:00ZWords and music by Victorio Roland Mousaa and Mindy Smile Fradkin Mousaa
" I walked around the corner, and passed a grin to my friends, They all smiled and then I realized, I passed it on to them.
The people who saw us all started smiling at my friends, then we all soon realized we passed it on to them.
Yes, a simple smile will do, around the world then back to you it's called The Smile Revolution, that goes around the world and then comes back to you.
The news reporters with their camera's turned and all smiled with us, the people in the town saw, then all started smiling with us.
The national news saw us smiling then forgot their problems in the cities they started reporting smiles throughout the nation all over our countries.
Yes, a simple smile will do, around the world then back to you Its called The Smile Revolution, that goes around the world and then comes back to you."
]]>Love is Lonely in Crowdstag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-11-22:bc9e98d7-2726-414e-bde4-64c7e441dd0cMindy Fradkin2007-11-22T01:46:48Z2007-11-22T01:36:00ZThis is from Albert Schweitzer's book, The Spiritual Life. Written in 1947.
"From a feeling of embarassment, we hesitate to approach a stranger. The fear of being repulsed is the cause of a great deal of coldness in the world; when we seem indifferent we are often merely timid. The adventurous soul must break that barrier, resolving in advance not to mind a rebuff. If we dare with wisdom, always maintaining a certain reserve in our approach, we find that when we open ourselves we open doors in others.
Especially in great cities do the doors of the heart need to be opened. Love is always lonely in crowds. Country and village people know each other and realize some mutual dependence, but the inhabitants of cities are strangers who pass without salute-so isolated, so separate, often so lost and despairing. What a stupendous opportunity is waiting there for men and women who are willing to be simply human!
Begin anywhere-in office, factory, subway. There may have been SMILES across a streetcar aisle that stayed the purpose of a suicide. Often a friendly glance is like a single ray of sunshine, piercing a darkness we ourselves may not dream is there."
]]>The Smile Revolution Radiotag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-11-18:d3bbf755-15e8-4cb0-9652-06c2292a4c3fMindy Fradkin2007-11-18T01:41:56Z2007-11-18T01:35:00ZI met a listener from my radio show, that is on Sundays at 3:30pm, 1490 am Kingston, New York, and episodes can be heard at radioshow.thesmilerevolution.com. I don't have current ones up. They are still good as the ideas that are shared are there. Thanks for your patience.
The author chooses to be anonymous.
"Your show is very uplifting. I keep tuned in til the end of the show. You remind me of the importance of giving a smile and that you are sure to get it back. You make people feel that life is worth living, and that they are not alone. You're willing to share ideas that are helpful to others, encouraging people that life can be good and if we are willing to choose a simple smile that life can be brighter."
]]>The Value of a Smiletag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-10-11:206e451a-efe7-4e1c-af42-5c4ecadea208Mindy Fradkin2007-10-13T18:12:23Z2007-10-11T19:08:00ZEsther Francis wrote this when she was inspired by my invitation to be on The Smile Revolution Radio Show.
The Value of a Smile
"A smile is a blessing, a benediction, a gentle breeze--an energy wash that is friendly and warm.
When a "passer-by" on the street smiles at me I feel welcomed, as if that person is affirming my presence on the planet.
A smile is the silent sign-language that says that life is good, you are good and I am good, no matter what is happening.
A smile is a sun that pierces through clouds of discouragement and brings a hug without arms.
When I smile I feel so good, it's as if my entire being is made lighter and lifted by the corners of my mouth as they rise.
A smile is easy and costs nothing but its value is immeasurable.
Yesterday I made a decision to notice smiles in the course of my day. I discovered that most of my smiles came about when I passed or saw other human beings.
A smile is a welcome, an embrace, a generous flowering of heart, conveyed effortlessly and joyously.
Smiles sweep away the clutter of a worried mind.
Smiles are like stars bringing light to darkness. Imagine our universe, its millions of galaxies, each shining with millions of smile-light.
My imagination makes me smile when I'm playful and happy. When I allow it to dwell on what I'm afraid of my smile disappears. All I need to do to find it again is to re-direct my imagination to anything marvelous, delightful or delicious that makes me smile. Gratitude is a grace that restores my smile. Thanks for family and friends, food and beauty, all the blessings in my life I can so easily forget to appreciate. I'm smiling now as I realize that I need to remember and realize this!"
Esther Francis, copyright 10/10/07 www.estherfrancis.com]]>The Smile Revolution Radiotag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-10-06:72977584-f5b6-499a-8b49-cf36961cdbd0Mindy Fradkin2007-10-07T18:15:54Z2007-10-06T15:01:00ZThis is from The Poughkeepsie Journal, September 6, 2007. This is the oldest newspaper in New York State, published in 1785.
"It all starts simply yet powerfully with a smile." That's the philosophy of Woodstock radio show host Mindy "Smile" Fradkin-Mousaa, founder of The Smile Revolution. She proposes that we awaken humanity to the need to be more kind and selfless. "We truly can change the world one smile at a time," she claims weekly on her Sunday 3:30pm WKNY radio show, 1490 am. Her guests stars have included Richie Havens, Pete Seeger, Buffy St. Marie, and Arlo Guthrie, all who are involved in uplifting projects. Tom Pacheco, a Woodstock based musician has also been a recent guest. Mindy promotes inspiring authors, musicians and artists. She plans her show around a weekly theme such as forgiveness, gratitude, compassion etc. "I play smile songs," she says, " and have smile and other inspired quotes on the air."
Tune in during September, and you can catch a dialogue with author Neale Donald Walsch, writer of Conversations with God, on September 16th and with David Amram,internationally known composer, musician and author(who wrote the score for the movies, Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate) on September 30.
Mindy, also known as The Mad Hattress, and The Princess of Wow,(www.theprincessofwow.com) is a hat designer extraordinaire, as well as a radio show host, performer, blogger, spiritual healer and a writer. She has been featured on "Good Day New York" and The New York Times, as well as other magazines, newspapers and news shows. The Mission of The Smile Revolution is to raise conscious awareness to the healing power of a smile.
To help bring smiles to more folks, Mindy entertains for venues from senior homes to Bar Mitzvahs and other private and public events. To find out more about the power of smiles, go to www.thesmilerevolution.com or e-mail her at mindy@thesmilerevolution.com.]]>The Smile Revolution Radiotag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-10-06:df36720c-9739-4250-858a-f2fb653280b7Mindy Fradkin2007-10-06T15:01:14Z2007-10-06T14:56:00ZThis is from a listener who chooses to be anonymous.
"You feel life can be wounding and to have a place to step out to feel rejuvinated and that the world is an ok place, happens when you listen to your radio show (The Smile Revolution Radio). Mindy Smile is a champion of the human spirit."
radioshow.thesmilerevolution.com
WKNY 1490 am Kingston, New York Sundays at 3:30pm for one hour
]]>Laura Moliter's philosophytag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-09-22:4fd75f3f-b6bf-4ff8-a646-2a3c475f9f18Mindy Fradkin2007-12-20T13:12:01Z2007-09-22T15:43:00ZLaura Moliter, spiritual healer, author, poet and singer/songwriter, www.beingfreenow.com, sent this to me yesterday...
"I was discussing my philosophy on living with a friend of mine. He grabbed a quote off his desk and said he had just received this and thought it articulated what I believe about life. He was right. I loved it and wanted to share it with my Smile Revolution friends."
"The master in the ART of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is WORKING or playing.
To him he's always doing both."
--James Michener (excerpt from the Rules of the Red Rubber Ball by Kevin Carroll) ]]>Be FREEtag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-09-17:9f1c723f-2592-4066-b82b-4b3450b064c0Mindy Fradkin2007-09-17T01:45:13Z2007-09-17T01:30:00ZThis was written about 200 years ago. It was handed to me on the week that I got married.
"Nothing is more damaging than depression. Depression is the cause of all kinds of ills, including sickness and disease. When you are happy, come what may, you are free. Your mind will be settled and you will understand things clearly. Try and turn your very depression and worry into joy. If you really set your mind to it you will find that even amidst the worst troubles and suffering, there is an opening you can use to convert all the depression into joy."
1. SMILE. Most people are full of pain and worry and all kinds of troubles. But when you come to them with a smiling face, you can literally give them life.
2. Make it a habit to always sing a happy song. It will send joy into your soul.
3. Judge others favorably. You may see much that is bad in them. Still, search out their good points.
4. Judge yourself favorably. Sift through for your good points and take joy in them.
5. Don't despair. If you believe you can damage, believe you can repair.
6. Ask God to help you understand why you came into this world and how you can fulfill your purpose.
7. Give some charity. Charity brings peace.
8. Tell the truth. Truth brings peace.
"...and know that in life one has to pass over a very narrow bridge. The main thing is not to be afraid."
Rebbe Nachman]]>A smiletag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-08-28:4f099576-914f-4bdf-9d48-0e7c61d0df0dMindy Fradkin2007-10-07T15:06:06Z2007-08-28T10:49:00Z"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(she) can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he(she) can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, 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(she) who has no more to give."
Anonymous]]>Chief Seattletag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-08-16:2a659ade-7d85-4f79-8e07-cbcd937c52e4Mindy Fradkin2007-08-18T22:13:35Z2007-08-16T08:31:00ZI found this from an e-mail I receive..this is the website.www.intenders.org.
Chief Seattle said," My brother, I tell you true. If all who see the Earth as being poisoned would, instead, give more attention to seeing the Earth clean and vibrant, then, very soon, your Earth would be cleansed.
If all who see their nation's leaders as misguided or uncaring would, instead, give more time to seeing themselves being represented by responsible, caring leaders who stand firm for the highest good of all, then, very soon, you would have good leadership.
If all who see their spouses or family members as troublesome or unloving would, instead, give more thought to seeing their loved ones as the shining children of God that they are, then, very soon, all challenged relationships would be renewed and love rekindled.
If all who see themselves as sick or poor or weak of heart or undeserving would, instead give more energy to seeing themselves as healthy, abundant, empowered, worthy. and lifted up, then, very soon, they would experience all of the good things that life has to offer.
Each problem, seen from the positive side, always turns into a blessing.
Each sorrow leads you to your joy. Each doubt-to your knowing. Each lack-to your abundance. Each debt-to your freedom. Each act of anger-to your love. Each act of war-to your peace. Each journey through darkness-into the light."
I have abbreviated this..for the blog.
Behind every tear..there is a smile waiting to reveal itself...Mindy "Smile"]]>Love notetag:thesmilerevolution.com,2007-07-07:7d791eda-c9e0-4a0c-9995-61f70e9b9efaMindy Fradkin2007-07-07T05:03:00Z2007-07-07T05:03:00ZScott and Shannon Peck
"With every thought, word and action you create unity or separation."
Action step "See how much unity you can create today in three ways. Your thoughts, your words, your actions."
Laura Moliter, guest