Practicing the Inner Smile

Hello all of you beautiful beings!

This post is dedicated to all of you seekers of practices to help you create and maintain feelings of well being for you and the people around you.

Today we will focus in the Taoistic meditation called "The Inner Smile". I learned this meditation from Grand Master Mantak Chia whom has dedicated his life to the spreading of these teachings for the well being of all.

This meditation is based in the 5 elements theory and is related to the main organs in the body; lungs, kidneys, liver, heart and spleen/pancreas. Under this tradition, the lungs color is white, the kidney's is dark deep blue, the liver is green, the heart is red and the spleen and pancreas is yellow.

To start this meditation, sit comfortably in a chair, spine straight, feet firmly on the ground, tuck your chin slightly and place the tip of your tongue on the upper palate right where the soft part of it starts. Breathe a few times letting go the stresses of the day and imagine a cosmic light above your head sparkling down to you and your head catching the sparkles which will fall down to your brain. From your brain go down through your spine imaging the sparkles illuminating and relaxing every single vertebra all the way down to your spine.

Come back to the cosmic light above your head and feel the sparkles again coming down to your head, this time let them go through your brain down to the pituitary gland to your eyes to your mouth and to cover the whole of your face, down to your throat, chest, stomach and solar plexus, lower abdomen, thighs, legs and down all the way to your feet until it connects with the earth, all of this while you smile to every part as it is visited by the cosmic light.

Come back one more time to the cosmic light above your head and feel the sparkles again coming down to your head and this time going to your lungs staying in them for a few moments smiling and bathing them with your imagination with a white light, the color of the lungs. Then go to your kidneys and bathe them in a dark blue light and smile. Next to the liver and bathe them in a green light, to the heart and bathe them in a red light and to the spleen pancreas and bathe them in a deep yellow light and again all of this while you smile to every part as it is visited by the cosmic light.

After finishing stay in silence a moment enjoying the relaxation that this meditation brings. To finalize it rub your belly, women put your left hand first and top it with the right, men do the opposite, women rub counter clockwise 36 times and clockwise 24, men do the opposite directions.

Let me know how it feels!

Namaste.