Welcome to the Healing Smile Meditation.
Take a moment to find a comfortable position,
Either lying down or sitting upright.
Feel your body resting on the earth.
This meditation allows us to witness the healing power within by creating a smile from our heart and using its energy to cleanse and replenish our body.
To begin,
Bring your attention to your heart center in the middle of your chest.
Breathe from here in and out through your skin,
Filling this area with energy.
Now allow your consciousness to fall further inward into your heart to a place of rest.
As you rest here,
Allow a memory or image to come to your mind that brings you happiness.
It could be a place that you have visited,
A person or animal that you love,
Or an experience that you have had.
As you see this image in your mind,
Allow the feeling of it to form a gentle smile on your face.
Now give attention to your smile and allow the image to fade as you fully notice the warmth that the smile creates.
We will use this energy to fill our yin organs and all of our cells,
But first we will send it to our brow point between our eyebrows,
Which is a potent point in our energy body,
Which supports our nervous and endocrine systems and helps to calm the mind.
From there we will guide it down into our torso.
From the smile,
Take a deep breath and send the energy on the exhale to the brow point.
Repeat this again,
Inhale the smile and send the energy to the brow point.
Now remain here and breathe,
Filling the brow with the smile.
Notice the brow filling with light,
Like a bowl filling with warm liquid.
Now place your tongue on the roof of your mouth,
Just behind your front teeth,
In order to better flow the energy down into the torso.
From your brow,
Inhale and on the exhale allow the smile to spill over like a waterfall,
Down into your heart,
Just off to the left side of your chest.
Breathe here,
Filling the heart with your smile.
Become aware of how your heart feels as you pay attention to it in this way.
Now from your heart,
Inhale and on the exhale send the smile to your lungs on both sides of your chest.
Now breathe here,
Filling every cell with warm energy.
Notice how the lungs respond to your attention.
Now from here,
Inhale and exhale to the liver on the right side of your torso,
Toward the base of your rib cage.
Feel the liver as you breathe,
Cleansing out stagnation and replenishing it with light.
Notice the awareness of your liver as you attend to it.
Now from your liver,
Inhale and send the smile to your two kidneys in the lower back area,
One on each side of your spine.
Feel the kidneys as you breathe.
Notice how they feel as you smile at them.
From here,
Inhale and send the smile to your spleen on the left side of your torso.
Inhale and exhale,
Filling this organ with light.
Be aware of the effect of your attention on the spleen.
Now send the smile to your navel,
Your energetic center.
Breathe here,
Filling this area with light.
Allow the light here to grow and brighten,
Like a star shining out.
Now allow it to expand even further,
Filling every cell of your body.
Notice yourself resting here,
Enveloped by the energy of your smile.
Inhale and exhale,
Filling this organ with light.
Now allow the smile on your face to dissipate and your tongue to disconnect from the roof of your mouth.
Notice how you feel now that your organs and cells have received your healing smile.
Begin to become aware of your physical nature and the weight of it on the earth.
Feel every part of your body from your feet all the way to the top of your head and back down again.
Open your eyes when you feel ready and radiate your smile out to the world.
