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The Inner Smile - Mantak Chia

Reference: Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality, by Mantak Chia, Publisher - Healing Tao Books.

“The Inner Smile is the most effective way in counteracting the stresses in our life.” The Inner Smile has a close relationship with our thymus gland, and will increase the activity of this energy, immune gland. Stress contracts the energy of the thymus.

Taoist sages say that when you smile, your organs release a honey-like secretion which nourishes the whole body, whereas angry and fearful thoughts and emotions create poisons which block energy pathways and affect the health of our organs and our body as a whole.

“The smile is the most powerful energy of personal power.”

Because of our busy lifestyles, we can do this while driving, sitting in the office, or standing waiting in line. If you are in the privacy of your own home, sit in a comfortable position, close your eyes while being conscious of your breath. Doing this as a daily practice ensures more balance in our emotions and improved health.

Inner Smile Exercise

Place your tongue on the floor of your mouth.

Relax your forehead, and feel smiling energy to your eyes. ( You can even imagine happy faces in your eyes.)

Bring the energy between the brows, flowing down your nose and cheeks like melting honey.

Continue to flow it to your facial muscles, your jaws, your teeth, relaxing and warming your face.

Bring your tongue to the roof of your mouth for the rest of the exercise.

Smile to your neck and throat, particularly to the tight muscles and to the thyroid and parathyroid glands at the front notch of the throat allowing your expression of self and communication to open up.

Flow the smiling energy to your heart, opening up the energies of love and compassion.

Smile to the lungs, filling them with life-sustaining oxygen, pushing away the depression, sadness grief and filling them with peacefulness and ease.

Smile to your liver, below your right breast, thanking it for its many jobs of transforming food into useable form and breaking down toxins to be released. With the smile energy, melt away anger, frustration, resentment and vengefulness. Allow transformation to come in.

Smile to your kidneys and adrenals. Let that warm light transform fear and anxiety into assurance and trust. Warm them up with your smile.

Let the smile splash to your spleen and pancreas on the left side, under the rib cage. The spleen is a vital part of the immune system. The pancreas is responsible for insulin production for blood sugar metabolism and pancreatic enzymes for digestion. Let these organs expand with light as you feel more gentle and kind, knowing you can bring more sweetness into your life.

Smile into the lower abdomen, the reproductive organs. Smile to these organs to bring balance to your sexual energy, to bring vitality and passion into all areas of your life.

Smile to your digestive system, while swallowing. Follow with your smile down the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine. With each organ, feel the gratitude for its dedication and hard work. Feel the tension relax throughout these organs. Sense the feeling of safety and security as we “let go”.

Bring your attention to your eyes again, and bring your consciousness to the pituitary gland behind the bridge of the nose. Smile to this gland and feel it “blossom”.

Smile to your pineal gland in the centre of your brain, lighting it up like a light bulb.

Move your smile to the third ventricle. Imagine you know where it is. See it as a geode, a cave-like room filled with crystals. Smile to this chamber, the powerhouse of the nervous system.

Smile to the thalamus, the relay station of the brain.

Let your mental eyes move back and forth with their smile between the left and right brain, and cerebellum at the back, integrating the brain hemispheres.

Bring your smile to the mid-brain, down the brainstem, to the base of the skull. Continue your smile all the way down the vertebrae, feeling them relax yet strengthen. Allow your spine to expand and lengthen.

Return to the eyes and swoop down your midline with a smile and back up again. Repeat the same with your spin, down your head to your tailbone and back up again. Feel the energy come up like a fountain.

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