Creating a smiling body.
Smiling is miraculous.
It takes far less effort and far less facial muscles to smile than to frown or even just be without a smile.
Your whole face,
Your whole body lights up whenever you smile.
Go ahead and see.
Bring a big smile to your lips and see how you feel.
This big smile on your lips also has a partner inside you,
An inner smile that's always there in you.
You just have to know how to find and use it.
This inner smile is one of the great secrets of martial arts,
Tai chi,
And qigong.
Focusing on the inner smile in the lower abdomen,
The dantian,
Located about two inches below your navel.
With practice,
You'll be able to focus on and feel the bliss,
The joy of this inner smile at any time.
An inner smile instantly can change how you respond to events in your life that may be causing you to do something other than smile.
So let's practice inner smiling.
Sit quietly.
Take several deep relaxing breaths through your nose.
Rub the palms of your hands together real fast and create some heat,
Some warmth.
Rub them,
Rub them,
Rub them.
Get that heat,
Get that energy going.
Now place one palm on each side of your face and start making circles outward with them,
Massaging your face with this warming energy.
Ah,
Your jaw,
Cheeks,
Forehead,
And skin on your face feel so relaxed.
Now imagine or see an inner smile in your stomach just below your navel.
This is where the inner smile lives inside your body.
It's always there and very powerful.
You can send it with your mind anywhere in your body to feel joyful and blissful.
As you see this inner smile in your stomach,
Let it smile on your lips too.
Smile.
Keep this smile on your lips as you move the inner smile to every part of your body now.
Can you feel how bright your eyes are when your lips are smiling?
Smiles on your lips create eyes that are joyful and full of light.
They even look like big pools of colored love.
Imagine your eyes are smiling.
Imagine your eyes are smiles.
Can you feel how plump and happy your cheeks are when you're smiling?
How about seeing smiles inside your cheeks?
Imagine your ears and nose are big smiles too.
And how about seeing a big smile right smack dab in the middle of your forehead?
And how about a big smile for your brain?
It deserves a smile for all the work it does.
See this inner smile in your throat and your neck.
How would your voice express this inner smile?
Smile in your throat and let out whatever sound you feel like right now.
See and feel this inner smile in your heart.
Imagine it's glowing so bright that it lights up and shines right through your chest.
This smile is like a light switch that turns the healthy energy of your body on.
Imagine your back and spine are a big smile turned on its side.
See that smile stretching all the way from the base of your tailbone all the way up to the top of your head.
Imagine and see smiles in your shoulders,
In your upper arms,
In your elbows,
In your forearms,
And in your wrists.
Imagine there are smiles in the palm of your hands and on the pad of each thumb and finger.
Now hold your hands up and out with your palms up and send these smiles to everyone in the world.
Smiles melt hearts.
Smiles soothe minds.
A smile really is worth more than a zillion words.
Smiles are love.
Smiles are love.
Now imagine smiles in your buttocks and the calves,
The upper part of your legs.
See big smiles on the front and back of each knee.
See huge smiles running down your lower legs too.
See smiles on your ankles,
The inside and outside of your ankles.
Feel and see big smiles in the soles of your feet and on the pad,
The tip of each and every toe.
Wow!
Your whole body is glowing with smiles,
Beaming with love light,
And you did this all by yourself.
You created these great feelings all by yourself without any help.
See how powerful you are?
You can make yourself feel good at any time.
It's your choice.
You can smile or not smile.
What do you choose?
And remember,
Anything that is keeping you from smiling is not really you.
You are laughter.
You are love.
You are light.
You are infinite energy.
You are so beautiful.
Experience yourself for who you really are.
Wake up and smile,
Smile,
Smile.
