Smile From Within

It is a practice of smiling inward rather than at anyone. You imagine golden light from a sunrise or sunset on your face, lifting the corners of your mouth slightly and creating a smiling feeling between your eyes. The idea offered here is that this smile signals your body to settle and lift your inner state.

It is the exhale part of the breath. You breathe in golden light through the nose, then breathe out through the mouth while picturing cloudy gray energy leaving and going down to the earth to be recycled. The image is of clearing old thoughts and old ways of thinking to make room for creativity and intuition.

It starts at your face and fills the whole head. Then it moves down the back of the head through the spine to the sacrum, spreads like electricity to the fingertips and toes, and loosens the muscles like warm oil. Finally you smile it into your heart center, and from there out through the arms and legs.

The heart is where the practice turns toward self-love. You fill the heart center with loving, compassionate energy and turn it inward as gratitude. On the exhale you release old emotional energy that feels limiting, so kindness and compassion can emerge naturally.

Near the end, you choose any spot in your body that could use attention and fill it with golden light. Exhaling cloudy gray energy as you do so, you rest in the feeling of being immersed in light. Treat it as an act of care and gratitude, not a treatment.

The closing words invite you to take that smiling energy and light into the rest of your day. After the final slow breaths, you can recall the soft lift at the corners of your mouth and the golden glow whenever you need to reset.