Awaken Peace and Joy with a Smile from the Heart - Meditation #9

Welcome to a smiling meditation to awaken deeper peace and joy.

My name is Linda Orsini, and I would like to guide you into

this gentle meditation to bring a soft smile to your lips, your

eyes and your heart as you settle into this moment, let's

connect with our breath so just taking a deep inhale through the

nose and exhale, sighing the breath out through the mouth,

just slowly settling in here, allowing the inhales to be full

and the exhales to be a deep releasing, a deep letting go, as

we slowly move into awakening a natural joy that resides within

you, just allowing you to experience a sense of warmth and

happiness from the inside out. So if there's something that is

disturbing you, whether it's a feeling, a sensation, or

something going on in your life, just become present to it here

in this moment, noticing it without judgment. And then let's

hold compassion for that feeling, thought or sensation.

The purpose of this meditation is not to dismiss what's going

on around us, but to really hold space with compassion such

tender compassion, and then allow peace and joy to slowly

unfold. So let's take another deep inhale through the nose and

exhale side out through the mouth,

as you slowly begin to melt into This moment, allow your whole

physical body to soften and release any tension in the face,

in the shoulders, in the stomach and in your legs, breathe into

any spaces that may feel tight or constricted, and not just in

your muscles, but even perhaps in your heart. Allow your heart

to soften here and to soften the heart feel and notice your

breath here. Feel and notice the energy between the breaths, that

vital life force, energy that allows you to breathe in and

breathe out, breathing in and breathing out. And maybe you

would like to invite the color green, the chakra, color of the

heart here, just into your heart center, a beautiful shade of

green that resonates deeply with you

and as you bring attention to Your Heart Center, noticing and

allowing yourself to become even more fully present into this

moment, allowing yourself to soften, Creating space, creating

a sense of peace and calm and

and with the heart soft, let's begin here by imagining a soft,

gentle smile spreading across your lips, not forcing. It in

any way, but just allowing it to come naturally, feel the breath

as the corners of your mouth lift, allowing this very soft

and small action to create a gentle, soft shift within a

ripple of a new perspective, a new sense of holding space where

your outer smile can begin to nurture your inner self, your

heart space, your sense of self compassion, allowing your

thoughts to slowly shift and transform into a sense of deeper

peace and stillness and

and as you breathe into the slightly lifted edges of your

lips, bring Your attention to your eyes, and even though your

eyes are softly closed, picture and imagine a warm, kind smile

in your eyes,

where the Smile at the edges of your mouth radiate upward into

your eyes.

Feel the muscles around your eyes soften, allowing any

tension to just slip away with both the edges of your lips

lifted upward and the corners of your eyes softened, allow these

muscles to slowly release and open The inner self, like

turning a frown upside down and with each breath, let this

gentle smile melt away any tightness or strain that has

been clenching In your heart. Allow this shift in energy as

you shift your physical body into a sense of greater joy and

peace to slowly unfold, allowing it to just happen naturally,

without any force.

And then take a deep inhale through your nose, and as you

exhale the breath to the edges of your mouth and the corners of

your eyes, gently shift your attention to your mind and

imagine a smile within your thoughts lighting up your mental

space with a sense of warmth, sense of kindness and even some

clarity if a thought passes through your mind, imagine

placing a smile stamp on each thought as it slowly drifts away

and with each thought that arises, allow a gentle smile to

unfold in your mind with the understanding that this too

shall pass, letting whatever is arising drift out of your

consciousness, as Pima shodran says, You are the sky.

Everything else is just the weather.

Allow yourself to turn inward to be the sky and let everything

else just. Like the transient weather

coming and going while you stay grounded in that internal smile

within your mind, within your thoughts, lighting and warming

up that mental space, as Buddha said, the mind Is everything,

what you think you become. And then finally coming full circle,

returning to your heart, imagine a radiant smile shining from

your heart, filling your entire being with warmth, with love and

with gentle tenderness. They say the longest distance traveled is

from the head to the heart, but here allow the eyes and the lips

to bridge that distance, feeling and noticing a gentle smile at

your Heart Center as a gift to your inner self and knowing and

feeling that whatever is going on in your life, the most

lasting, true and purest thing is the love that lives within us

and

breathing in and breathing out of the heart center as you

exhale, continuing to allow everything To soften, allow the

lips, the eyes, the mind and your heart to become present in

this moment with a gentle softness. It's about trusting

and surrendering, trusting and surrendering,

feeling the breath at your heart center with a softness that

brings a smile to the edges of your mouth, the edges and

corners of your eyes, into your mind and into Your heart,

allowing that radiating green light to radiate outwards so

that everything lifts naturally,

breathing softly here into that essence of peace, of joy that a

smile brings,

and if it resonates, maybe gently, bringing one or both

hands to your heart center and breathing here, feeling the

energy behind your breath, knowing that whatever We

cultivate within radiates outwards. There is a traditional

Sanskrit mantra, and it goes like this, loka samista, Suki no

bhavantu,

meaning may all beings everywhere be happy and free.

Loka, samista, Suki no and. Pavantu, may our thoughts words

and actions contribute to the happiness and freedom for all.

Loka samista, sukino avantu,

and radiating that interconnectedness between us,

allowing the joy and peace and freedom that resides within us

to radiate out to all beings,

and as you slowly continue to breathe here into this mantra,

let's allow just two or three minutes to breathe here into

this silence, into this intention that we are creating

our own sense of peace and joy and sending that out to all

beings To feel the essence of happiness, freedom and Joy. You.

Loka, samista, Suki no bhavantu, You,

taking a deep inhale through The nose and exhaling it out through

the mouth,

slowly coming back into this present moment as you breathe

into this space, allow this meditation halo of peace to

radiate around you, nurturing the joy you've awakened within,

and then Allow this meditation Halo to expand outward into your

consciousness and touching every part of your being, and then

sending it out to all beings,

allowing. Smiling sense of meditation to awaken inner peace

and joy, to be the energy that guides you as you move forward,

helping you to remember and embrace your inner joy,

compassion and love,

knowing this inner light is always there, ready to support

and uplift you whenever you need it, always wishing you great

peace, joy, love and light from my heart to yours. Namaste.