Re: About Smile Meditation

Diane,
thank you sooo much for this smile meditation and the joy and peace you bring with it.

Serendipitously I downloaded an interesting free ebook yesterday by Michael Winn named  “Way of the Inner Smile - Self Acceptance - Tao Path to Inner Peace”.



An alternative Guided Inner Smile meditation he suggests:

The Inner Smile is a simple, effortless Daoist (Taoist) meditation on how to live with an open heart. You can practice it sitting quietly, or while engaged in everyday activities. The Inner Smile challenges us, in a series of “smiling baby steps”, to unconditionally accept every aspect of our body, mind, and spirit.
 
Preparation: Actualize a Receptive Natural Space
Use Positive Memory: Supercharge your Mind Space

Yin Practice:
Step 1: Smile into the three brains
Step 2: Smile to the heart and vital organ spirits
Step 3: Smile to the spine & nervous system 
Step 4: Smile, swallow to bowels & sexual organs
Step 5: Smile to bones, blood, flesh, & cells
Step 6a: Smile, dissolve your entire physical body
Step 6b: Smile, dissolve beyond the body
 
Yang Practice:
Smile into your Aura
Smile into the Room
Smile to a Friend
Smile to a Difficult Relationship
Smile to your Local Community
Smile to Planet Earth
Smile to Sun and Stars
Smile to the Dark Ocean Beyond the Stars
Allow Yourself to Feel the Return Smiling Wave
Gather the Wave of Smiling Chi inside your Body


Here are several quotes from it:

“Winn reports that far more important than any of his worldly doings  and wanderings is his practice of the Inner Smile - the path of the soul accepting its body and destiny. He feels his greatest accomplishment  will be to share with the reader the simple and profound joy of the soul's inner smile.”

“I offer Supreme Ultimate thanks to the Tao, for making the Inner
Smile the true response to getting the Cosmic Joke.” :)


“The ability of this smiling infant to swim underwater totally free of all fear of drowning is akin our innate ability to smile and float in the sea of our Original Energy… ”

 You can download the Inner smile book here if you want. Keep smiling… :)