This is a qigong based meditation for cleansing your five organ systems.
If you can feel the organs or energies,
That's great,
But it's not necessary.
Just visualize as best you can.
Your intention will find its way to the right place.
Start with a strong inhalation in,
Then exhale with gravity.
One more time,
Strong inhalation,
Then exhale.
Release it all to the earth.
Now allow your breath to become softer and more silent.
Allow yourself to use less effort in your inhalations.
Allow yourself to release more slowly and gently in your exhalations.
And notice how you can breathe with as little effort as possible.
In this way,
You'll find the exact rhythm that matches your body.
As you breathe ever more gently and effortlessly,
Remember what it feels like to smile.
You know the feeling of smiling,
That warm,
Uplifting feeling.
You know how it feels on your face.
You also know how it feels inside of your body.
You know how good it feels to receive a genuine smile from another.
So you also know how to smile inwardly to yourself.
Your inner smile can heal your body and uplift your spirit.
So take a moment while breathing gently and easily to smile inwardly towards yourself.
And notice how good that feels.
Now imagine the color green,
A healthy,
Natural green,
Like forest leaves in the spring.
Let this green energy merge with your inner smile to become a smiling green energy.
And let your attention carry this green,
Smiling energy over to your liver on the right side of your body.
If you can feel your liver,
That's great.
If not,
Just do your best to imagine the triangle-shaped organ on your right side.
Let this green,
Smiling energy fill your liver with a healing love.
Continue breathing gently,
Easily,
And effortlessly.
And thank your liver for its service to you,
Purifying your blood,
Storing energy and vitamins.
Your liver wants the best for you,
So you also want the best for your liver.
With each gentle inhale,
More green energy enters and fills your liver.
With each exhale,
Your liver releases whatever it doesn't need.
Continue breathing gently and easily in and out of your liver.
Now we're going to share this healing energy with your liver's partner,
Your gallbladder.
If your liver is yin,
Your gallbladder is yang.
Allow this same green,
Smiling energy to fill the pear-shaped organ that is your gallbladder.
Continue breathing and smiling inwards,
Letting this healing energy do what it wants to do.
Now imagine the color red,
A robust,
Vibrant,
Warming red.
And shift your attention and your smile to your heart.
Continue breathing gently and effortlessly.
And notice if you can pay enough attention to feel your heart beating inside of your chest.
Smile this red,
Healing energy towards your heart,
This muscle that never stops working for you.
Let this warm,
Red energy fill your heart organ as it pumps your healthy,
Vibrant blood,
Circulating energy throughout your body.
Bathe your heart in this red,
Smiling energy.
And see if you can make your heart's job a little easier,
A little more pleasurable,
As you breathe even more effortlessly.
See if your heart can also relax.
At least for the next few minutes,
There's nowhere either of you have to go,
So you might as well enjoy this moment with each other.
Allow your heart to feel what it wants to feel,
Be it love,
Passion,
Joy,
Or any emotion.
Now share this red,
Smiling energy with your heart's young companion,
Your small intestine.
Allow the red,
Warming energy to travel down and fill your intestines inside of your belly.
Thank your small intestine for absorbing nutrients for you.
This is also where you store your fire.
With each easy and gentle breath,
You fan the flames,
Allowing your inner fire to keep you warm.
Take another moment,
Enjoying this red energy,
And smile towards your fire organs,
Your heart,
And your small intestine.
Now imagine the color yellow,
An afternoon sunshine yellow,
An earthy,
Grounding yellow.
And take this yellow,
Smiling energy,
And send it to your spleen on your left side,
And your pancreas,
Which is attached.
Bathe your spleen and pancreas in this yellow,
Earthy energy.
Thank these organs for cleansing your blood and balancing your glucose levels.
Whether you can feel them or not,
Visualize sending love to your yin,
Earth organs.
Now share this healing,
Earthy,
Yellow energy with your stomach.
Let your inner smile fill your stomach.
Line the walls of your stomach with a soft and gentle love.
Imagine warm,
Yellow sunshine warming your earth organs inside of your body,
Your spleen,
Pancreas,
And your stomach.
Keep breathing gently and easily so you can soak all the sunshine in.
Now imagine the color white,
A clean,
Pure white,
Like that of a bright and fluffy cloud.
Breathe in this purifying white.
Enjoy the smell and maybe even the taste of this white,
Smiling energy as it enters your lungs.
When you exhale,
Let go of any darkness that was trapped within you.
And when you inhale,
Let your lungs fill with this clean,
White energy.
Continue breathing,
Allowing your inner smile to fill out your lungs.
Notice if simply through this intention,
It can begin to feel better and better to breathe.
Maybe the love you're sending your lungs will make the air feel sweeter.
Maybe the love you're sending your lungs allows your lungs to better enjoy their job.
Expanding with every gentle inhale,
Releasing with every gentle exhale.
Now share this expansive,
White energy with your large intestine.
Smile at this organ,
The lower part of your torso.
Continue breathing gently,
Filling your large intestine with the same healing love.
This purifying,
White,
Smiling energy that heals and cleanses this organ.
Take a moment to enjoy this purifying,
White energy in your lungs and large intestine.
Finally,
Imagine the color blue,
A deep,
Dark blue,
Like the ocean at night.
And direct your inner smile to your kidneys,
This pair of all-important organs in your lower to mid-back.
Allow the deep,
Dark blue energy to fill your kidneys like ocean waves.
Your kidneys deal with your water.
They're also believed to store your life essence.
Take an extra moment to love your kidneys.
Nourish them with this smiling blue ocean energy.
Breathe in and out of your kidneys so you can support them in supporting you.
Now share this dark blue energy with your bladder.
Most of the time when we feel our bladder,
It's not with happiness.
So take this moment to feel or simply imagine your bladder in this relaxed state.
Let this blue ocean energy heal your bladder.
And take another moment to feel your water organs,
Your kidneys and bladder.
Let them wash in the blue ocean energy,
In the water energy.
Love them and thank them for what they do for you.
Finally,
Expand your awareness to the whole of your body.
Let go of the colors and specific energies and instead return to the original inner smile that you've been cultivating.
Allow this inner smile to wash over your entire being and notice how good it feels.
Notice how good it feels to have a body.
Notice how good it feels to have this team of organs supporting you.
And see as you go about the rest of your day if you can keep a little bit of attention on smiling love to your organs.
And if you do,
You may notice your organs smiling back at you.
