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There is some wonderful information about “The Smiling Inner Heart of our Energy Body” at www.freedomhealthrecovery.com/smile.html.
Smiling is miraculous. It takes far less effort and far less facial muscles to smile than to frown or just be without a smile. Don’t you feel your whole face light up whenever you smile? Have you ever seen pictures or been in the presence of saints and fully realized Masters? Their smile is ever present, even when they’re not smiling. You can see they have touched a happiness, actually a bliss, deep inside themselves that is always there.
And that inner smile is always there in you too! You just have to know how to access it. It’s one of the great secrets of t’ai chi—focusing on the inner smile in the lower abdomen (the T’an T’ien located about 2 inches below the navel). With practice, you’ll be able to focus on this inner smile at any time and thereby instantly change how you mentally, emotionally, and physically are processing specific events in your life that may be temporarily causing you to do something other than smile.
Sit quietly. Take several deep relaxing breaths through your nose. Rub your palms together and create some warmth. Place one palm on each side of your face and start making circles outward with them, massaging your face. Then, consciously relax your forehead, eyebrows, and skin. Imagine an inner smile deep in your abdomen. Allow this smile to move up through your heart and throat into your face. Let this “happy feeling” smile into your lips, eyes, cheeks, and forehead. This smile will activate the thymus gland which in turn strengthens the immune system. Continue smiling into your body and become aware of more and more parts smiling and smiling.
Keep smiling.
The physical act of smiling can reach and dissolve unwanted patterns that have frustrated other forms of therapy, if done with proper focus. See more about this at the website referenced above. And remember, anything that is keeping you from smiling is not really you. You are laughter. You are love. You are light. You are energy. It’s time you experience yourself for who you really are. It’s time to wake up and smile!
The Light of Smiles by Paramahansa Yogananda, an affirmation to meditate, dwell on, and practice every day!
“I will light the match of smiles. My gloom veil will disappear. I shall behold my soul in the light of my smiles, hidden behind the accumulated darkness of ages. When I find myself, I shall race through all hearts with the torch of my soul-smiles. My heart will smile first, then my eyes and my face. Every body-part will shine in the light of smiles.
I will run amid the thickets of melancholy hearts and make a bonfire of all sorrows. I am the irresistible fire of smiles. I will fan myself with the breeze of God-joy and blaze my way through the darkness of all minds. My smiles will convey His smiles and whoever meets me will catch a whiff of my divine joy. I will carry fragrant purifying torches of smiles for all hearts.”