With last week's blog I mentioned a meditation that Michellie and I used to help calm her fears of the future. I am happy to report that she is still feeling calm and confident about her future without cancer. I am adding the meditation for others to use. It is very powerful and can move heaven and earth for you if you open your heart to it. This meditation I put into words, but the inspiration is from Qi Gong and several different writers and their techniques with it. Please let me know if the earth moves under your feet when you use it and Bless You for taking the power to heal from within!
Meditation for The Inner Smile
This meditation can be utilized as its own exercise with some quiet meditative time lying in a quiet place. Or, at the beginning of a movement class this can be used to center the mind and coordinate the mind/body experience for an activity. If this is the case, the body can be seated on a chair with the sits bones close to the front of the chair, the feet firmly planted on the floor and the spine held straight and open. The hands can be palm up on the knees, or palm up in the lap.
Begin The Inner Smile focusing on the eyes. With the eyes closed, one can send an internal smile to the eyes. The eyes are linked to the entire nervous system. When they calm and relax, the parasympathetic nervous system can find security in self acceptance and the acceptance of others. Love can find a way to be reflected in the body both personally and from others. The sympathetic nervous system which is our instinctual safety net of fight or flight in the face of danger, also relaxes to allow the tendon guard reflex system to reduce tension in the body and free up the body for movement, openness and possibility.
Once the eyes have been able to shift into this calming state and we can use pathways in the body to begin feeling our expression of love with an internal dance of energy lines. The effects of this dance are more profoundly felt if the eyes remain closed and one imagines the dance of love and light to pass through each point in the body. Breathe will be instinctual and not consciously controlled, but will remain relatively deep while the body is feeling the effects of this visualization.
From the eyes, dance the energy from the front of the face, down the neck to the heart. The heart leads us into the circulatory system and the music in us can be reflected in the blood circulating throughout the body and then returning to the heart. Take time as the energy pathways are explored through the circulatory system. Feel the blood circulate from the heart to the toes and back again. Feel the blood circulate from the heart to the fingers and back again. Feel the blood circle the center of the body and nourish the organs it feeds. Return the blood to the heart to be cleansed and replenished to go again.
Imagine the pathway leading into the lungs and filling up each bronchi. Breath in fresh, clean air and feel the body receive the oxygen this breathe provides. Then feel the body release its toxins in the carbon dioxide and feel the body release this into the universe as you breathe out and empty the lungs. As the lungs are refilled, imagine the inner smile filling the lungs with white light and possibility.
Follow from the lungs to the internal organs. Beginning with the liver, expand and feel the love enter this organ. Provide healing color and energy to detox the entire organ and release the toxins from its holding space. Feel the liver change color and texture and gain a level of confidence for its important role in protecting the body. Leaving the liver, send the inner smile to the kidneys where the same cleansing can happen. Feel the texture of the organ change and become lighter. Feel the kidneys abilities to filter out the toxins that arrive there and release those toxins to the universe. On top of the kidneys are the adrenals. Know that the adrenals perform incredible tasks to support the stresses that we have in our lives. Feel the adrenals open and accept support to be free to perform as they need, feel the light and love energize their space. The pancreas and then the spleen will follow with a vibrant pathway of energy that links up all of the systems with oxygenated blood and healing light. Feel the inner smile fill up your organs with amazing potential and unlimited resources for health and wellness. Return the smile to your eyes and feel the connection between all of these systems.
The Middle Part of the body follows the digestive tract. From the smile in the eyes, follow a pathway into the mouth. The light will fill up the tongue, the gums, and the teeth to provide strength and protection in this most precious energy space. Feel the light expand and move the line of light to travel down the esophagus to the stomach. The juices and the lining of the stomach are clear and fluid. The light protects the stomach and fills up the space with healing light. From there the line can pass to the small intestine, providing loving energy to each villi in the lining. Following this pathway, proceed to the large intestine to expand and support this nourishing part of the digestive tract. And, finally lead the inner smile down to the rectum. Swallowing saliva with this line of smiling will change the integrity of the fluids that pass through these areas of the body. Take time to swallow, release and feel the digestive tract change with each breathe and line of light traveling down its pathway.
The spine dance begins at the back of the eyes with the inner smile passing through the cranial bones, around the brain tissue and down the brain stem. Feel the lightness and the acceptance within the cranial cavity as the inner smile fills up this space. The smile then passes through each vertebrae of the spine from top to bottom, with a light shining at each point as the smile travels down to the coccyx. Feel the smile at the top of the spine, feel it flow down the neck to the shoulders. Feel the smile continue down past the shoulder blades to the center of the back, into the small of the back, into the pelvic girdle. Feel the pelvic cavity light up as the lights shine all the way to the tailbone.
Return to the eyes. Reflect the changes in your body. Follow a pathway to your heart and from your heart travel down any pathway you wish to follow the lines of the lymphatic system. This pathway is similar to the blood and veins and the pathways of the circulatory system, but it has its own pathways and systems. Take time around the neck, the lungs, the heart, the breasts, the pelvic cavity and across the hips. Travel down the outside of the right leg, and up the outside of the left leg. Travel down the inside of the right legs and then up the inside of the left leg and return to the heart. Gather any toxins that may be hiding in these pathways and bring them with your smile back from your heart to your breath. With a deep breath let them go as you exhale. Draw in light and love with the next breathe and breath out the toxins one more time.
Once you have filled the body with the inner smile. Take a few moments to breathe and reflect on any space in the body that feels it needs more. Bring the smile from the eyes on a pathway to this space and fill it with light, love and acceptance. Once the body feels it has reached its capacity for love, allow the love and light to spread over the body. Feel the eyes light up and glow as the body shines for others to see in its glory. When you are complete with these thoughts, bring the palms of the hands together in front of the belly button and then bring them up to the brow. Finish with a prayer, an affirmation or by calling Namasthe to the universe. Open the eyes and enjoy the glow and warmth the inner smile has provided.
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