The Anatomy of Body Language Flirting: Tips for a First Date with Your Smile and Laughter

Dating Advice and Tips:   Body Language Flirting for a First Date with Your Smile and Laughter

Jazz Legend Louis Armstrong serenaded us with, “When you’re smiling the whole world smiles with you…” Psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Ultrecht have conducted scientific research about smiling and how people respond to it.

Flirting Smiling Laughing Woman with Man on Romantic First Date
Flirting Smiling Laughing Woman with Man on Romantic First Date

The professors found that the mere SEEING of someone else’s smile, like seeing a frown and seeing a YAWN actually TRIGGERS our own facial muscle mirroring response to want to return in kind.  When WE SEE a smile, WE WANT to smile, too.  It’s the old Monkey See, Monkey Do response.  Parents of babies and young children know the fun of playing facial emotion mirroring games with their youngsters.  Your smile actually elicits the smile of others.  When we smile, we trigger HAPPY FEEL GOOD hormones to be released in the brain.  And then we associate all of that Happiness with the one we are looking at which just could be you!  When you are flirting to attract the romantic interest of other singles, all that happiness and feel good feelings are associated with you.  Same thing on a first date.

Smiling and laughing are essential components of Body Language Flirting.  And you want to include YOUR smiling and YOUR laughing so that your flirting takes on YOUR style of EXPRESSING YOUR uniqueness.  The more you share and express your own uniqueness, the more You ATTRACT and MAGNETIZE people to you with the MAGNETIC POWER of YOUR essence.  That way the people who are then attracted to you are drawn to YOU and well-suited to YOU.

You communicate your radiant health in your smile with your good grooming, brushed and flossed teeth, bleached teeth, and breath mints.  Evolutionary psychology studies show that we desire and are attracted to POTENTIAL MATES who show and display attributes of GOOD HEATH.  Your healthy smile communicates that.  As you share your smile, you additional pique their interest.

Do go ahead and play with your smile.

  • Your Mona Lisa Smile.
  • Your Sparkling Smile.
  • Your Demure Smile.
  • Your head tilted down, looking up from under your eyelashes Smile.

Being playful and expressing your sense of fun is attractive for both single men and single women.  Single women report that they want to date men with a sense of humor and who can make them laugh.  When you express this in your unique body language flirting style, you attract great singles to you.  Then you go on better first dates and enjoy more fun second dates.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

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April Braswell is internationally recognized as America's Midlife Dating and Relationship Mentor and the award winning expert columnist at DatingAdvice.com. Bringing over 40 years of Sales and Marketing expertise, April is a the trusted Small Business Consultant and Coach to Leading Executives and Emerging Leaders. Author of best seller, Get Swipe Right. April coaches marriage-minded men and women to find and attract love, your best life partner. Life Love Love relationship. Love after 40 and 50. Photos appear by licenses with iStock. All rights reserved.

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  1. Hi April, your dating blog is top notch. Keep on blogging! The good dates will follow, keep writing about your experiences and we should all pull together.

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