Inner Smile

Energy practice

I. BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY

A. Low quality energy is converted into high quality energy

In Taoism, we view negative emotions as low quality energy. Many people spend their lives irritated, sad, depressed, fearful, anxious, and other types of negative energy. These energies are the cause of chronic illness and silently drain our basic life force.
The Inner Smile is a sincere smile to all parts of the body, including all organs, glands and muscles, as well as the nervous system. It produces high quality energy that can heal, and over time it is converted into even higher quality energy.
A sincere smile sends loving energy that has the power to warm and heal. Just remember a time when you were upset or physically ill and someone, perhaps even a stranger, smiled sincerely at you - and suddenly you felt better.
Norman Casips, managing editor of the Saturday Review, writes in Anatomy of a Disease that he cured himself of a rare connective tissue disease by watching old Marx Brothers films. One of my students cured herself of breast cancer by constantly practicing Inner Smile to the area that was sick.
In ancient China, the Tao Masters discovered the power of the energy of a smile. They practiced Inner Smile to ourselves. It moved Qi energy and formed a flow of high quality Qi, thereby achieving health, happiness and longevity. Smile to oneself resembles the enjoyment of love, and love can restore and rejuvenate.
Inner Smile directs smiling energy to our organs and glands, which are so necessary for life. Ironically, although we often pay great attention to our appearance, very few of us know what the internal organs and glands look like, where they are located and what their functions are. Moreover, we are insensitive to the subtle warnings they send to us when we mistreat them by following poor diets and leading unhealthy lifestyles. We are like a manager who never pays attention to his subordinates and is very surprised when something happens.
If we get to know our organs and glands, understand what they do and learn to listen to their signals, they will reward us with a state of peace and vitality.

B. Beneficial or harmful emanations

Inner Smile most effective for neutralizing the effects of stress. In our modern society, we spend millions of dollars to find ways to relieve stress. Often these remedies provide only partial or temporary relief.
Inner Smile is closely connected with the thymus and increases the functional activity of this gland. In the Taoist system, the thymus gland is the seat of beautiful light, love and the life force of Di-energy.
When we are under the influence of emotional stress, the thymus gland is the first to be damaged. The book Your Body Doesn't Lie by Dr. John Dimopde presents research that shows that the thymus gland plays the role of a master regulator that directs the flow of vital and healing energies in the body.
Sir McFarlan Burner, a Nobel laureate from Australia, formulated a theory of cancer in which he suggested that increasing the functional activity of the thymus gland could lead to the possibility of avoiding cancer.
One type of cell that is produced in the thymus is T cells. The function of T cells is to recognize abnormal cells and eliminate them. Of the millions of cells that are produced every day, some are abnormal. If T cells are not activated by thymus hormone, the abnormal cells will continue to multiply and develop into clinical cancer.
Therefore, the thymus gland plays key role in preventing cancer throughout adult life. In applied kinesiology, there is a way to determine whether the thymus gland is healthy or weakened, for which Inner Smile It has great importance.
Try this test with your partner: touch the area of ​​the thymus gland, which is located at the point where the second rib joins the chest bone below the throat. For the first time, your partner should not smile and should allow the facial muscles and corners of the mouth to droop. Let him extend one arm to the side, and at this time you try to press on it from above to lower it down. Then try to do the same, but your partner should smile at the same time, and see the difference. This shows that when you smile, you activate the thymus (Fig. VUZ and VU4).

Rice. VU-3. The facial expression in this drawing will increase the energy.

Rice. VU4. The facial expression in this picture may be lowering your energy levels.

Taoist legends say that when you smile, your organs release beautiful emanations that nourish the entire body. When you are irritated, afraid or stressed, they form harmful emanations that block energy channels, enter the organs, causing loss of appetite, indigestion, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, insomnia and negative emotions.
Smiling to your organs, you cause them to enlarge, become soft and moist, and thus function more efficiently. As a result, the liver, for example, has more space to store nutrients and detoxify harmful substances.
Practice Inner Smile start with the eyes. They are connected to the autonomic nervous system, which regulates the function of organs and glands. The eyes are the first to receive emotional signals and sometimes cause the organs and glands to speed up their response to stress or danger (the “fight or flight” response) and relax when the critical situation passes.
Ideally, the eyes maintain a calm and balanced level of response. Therefore, simply by relaxing your eyes, you can relax your entire body and thus free up your energy for functioning.

B. The process of learning through the Inner Smile

When you are stressed, overly emotional, or spend your life in a state of irritation or fear, your organs become blocked and your level of performance decreases. A lot of energy is wasted, you become dull, lose vitality and mobility. It becomes difficult for you to learn, to come up with new ideas, but even if you try to learn something, the essence of the subject will not be remembered and you will not be able to understand it. In the Tao system, we believe that our organs, senses or body parts are involved in the process of learning.
When you smile at your organs, sensations and glands, you establish a connection with them and can be in good contact with them.
When you are in a state of stress or fear, all organs and sensations are blocked. For example, when you don't love someone, your body doesn't want to accept that person and thus won't want to receive their experiences and take in their ideas.

1. Main sources of hearing energy
The main sources of auditory energy are the kidneys and their associated organ, the bladder. For example, when your kidneys are functioning well, you are more alert and therefore learn more easily. The work of the kidneys is related to the work of the ears. The auditory sense - hearing - is necessary when studying. When your kidneys are healthy, your hearing acuity increases, making the learning process easier.
The bladder helps in removing toxic fluid, which helps cleanse the blood and allow fluids to flow smoothly. If the bladder is damaged, the functioning of the kidneys is also impaired.

2. The main sources of speech energy
The main sources of speech energy are the heart and its associated organ, the small intestine. The heart provides the inspiration for learning and is the seat of joy. Without a passion or drive to learn, the learning process would be difficult. The secret to learning is joy, pleasure and enjoyment. When these factors are present, your entire body will receive what you learn.
The heart is also the place of respect and honor. When you are respected, your heart is open. The tongue is connected to the heart, and when this connection is there and working, you can begin to receive and program your mind little by little and in parts, internalizing what you have learned.
The small intestine helps your learning ability. When you have problems with your small intestine, your heart function may be affected. In most cases, in order to learn something new, we need time to absorb it in all our systems.

3. Main sources of vision energy
The main sources of visual energy are the liver and its associated organ, the gallbladder. When your liver is in good functional condition, you will be able to be more persistent, decisive, and delve deeper into what you are learning. The eyes are the passageway to the liver. When the liver is weak or diseased, or when you are stressed or irritable, you are unable to make decisions and your vision will be impaired, making it difficult for your brain to analyze what you see and perceive. A healthy bladder will also help you make decisions easier.

4. The main sources of energy for assimilation of what is being studied
The main sources of such energy are the spleen and stomach. The spleen gives a good feeling of inclusion. It is connected to the mouth and draws the energy of speech, voice, into understanding what you are learning.
The stomach is connected to the spleen. When your stomach is healthy, you may be more receptive to new thoughts, ideas and methods. Once you accept them as your own, you will want to learn new things in more economical ways.

5. The main sources of energies of smell and touch
The main sources of the energies of smell and touch are the lungs and large intestine. The lungs are associated with good intentions, and the nose and skin are the passages to them. They are involved in the sense of movement, skin sensitivity and touch, thus increasing the perception of your surroundings, and therefore your ability to learn increases enormously.
The colon is involved in cleansing and releasing, which makes you more open, physically and mentally. When you are constipated, you are closed, you do not accept new ideas and do not want to change anything. Even if success requires small changes, some students are reluctant to change old ways or ideas. The large intestine is connected to the lungs and helps strengthen their function.

6. Adrenal energy gives you the desire to learn.
The adrenal glands give you vitality and warm energy, or the yang energy of the kidneys. It energizes you and gives you the desire to learn. Without vital energy, you will feel lazy, sleepy and completely lacking in desire to study.

7. The Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands Contribute to Energy of Expression
The thyroid and parathyroid glands will help you increase your ability to express your opinions and experiences so that all the senses can be involved in the learning process.

8. Thymus helps the immune system
The thymus gland is the seat of energy and helps us strengthen our immune system. It produces energy in the form of enthusiasm and thus gives you the strength and energy to learn.

9. The energy of the genital organs increases the creative power
The genitals are a place of storage of energy for creation. When you don't have enough sexual energy, you won't work as productively and will stick to old, ineffective methods. When you learn how to smile and increase your sexual energy, you will have the energy to solve your problems in Everyday life.

10. The spine is the center of communication
The spine is the seat of control and the center of communication. Finding out how to send Smile into the spinal column, and by relaxing it, you increase your power of communication; you will know how to communicate what you have learned through the spine to the organs so that they have a new, more efficient way of functioning in your system. The spine also knows how to regulate the energy network.

11. Super Study Guide
A. Constant Smile while studying. Smile individual parts and organs of the body that are immune to new things. For example, if the heart does not want to perceive and be open, smiling at it will give a feeling of joy and pleasure from studying. If too much irritation has accumulated in the liver, which limits vision. Smiling towards her will improve it.
6. Allow your hands, feet, head, chest, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, tongue, anus, etc. to be actively involved in the learning process. For example, if you are learning a new computer, allow yourself to act or imagine that you are the computer. Look inside and try to understand it; use your hands, eyes, ears and everything else and let them be in contact with everything you want to learn.
V. Smile your feelings, allow yourself to be open to them and feel the light and joy of learning. Let them be involved in the learning process. Start with vision; then move on to hearing, smelling, moving and tasting. Imagine or assume that you are going to teach your vision what it looks like, your hearing - how it is heard, your sense of smell - how it smells, introduce your tactile senses to how it feels, your taste - what it tastes like.
d. Use metaphors in your daily life that you know or use them as much as possible. For example, that you are a gardener or like a flower, and you will be able to communicate with the thing that you know as if you are a gardener or a flower. Or, if you are an animal lover, imagine that the objects you are studying, animals and their properties, are the characteristics of the animal.
d. Imagine your whole self in your studies. Check your entire system - your senses, your organs, your arms, your hands, etc. Smile at them; tell them you love them and want to use them.

D. Increasing personal power through the Inner Smile

1. Smile is the most powerful energy of personal power. Sincere Smile your organs will contribute to their strength to generate and flow a flow of energy to your senses, especially the eyes. The eyes are connected to all organs of the body. One day you will learn how to send energy to all your organs. Imagine we have 63 trillion cells. Each cell produces a very small amount of energy. But multiplied by 63 trillion, the energy becomes enormous. When you are relaxed and calm, you smile, you can keep your energy levels high and you will always be ready to take action. Energy level is usually the key.
2. When your energy level increases, you will have more energy to improve your skills, you will be able to act more flexibly, you will know better what you want and how to achieve it.
3. Smile at your genitals. You will have higher levels of sexual energy and more personal power. When the amount of sexual energy decreases, so does personal power. Practice how to preserve and increase sexual energy by recycling it. Advertised foods and drugs may increase sexual potency, but they only work for a short period of time, if at all. They do not increase energy and have a short-term effect. Knowing how to cultivate sexual energy is a major source of strength.

II. Preparing for the Inner Smile

A. The practice should begin at least an hour after eating.
B. Find a quiet place. When you start practicing, turn off your phone. Later you will be able to practice anywhere, in any noise, but for now you need to limit distractions in order to focus your inner attention.
B. Dress warmly enough to stay warm. Do not wear tight clothing or a belt. Take off your glasses and watch.
D. Sit comfortably on the edge of a chair on your “sit bones.” The genitals should not be restricted in any way, as they are an important energy center. This means that if you are a man, your scrotum should hang freely over the edge of the chair. If you are a woman and practice naked, you should cover your genitals with clothing to prevent energy from escaping through them.
D. Legs should be hip-width apart and feet firmly touching the floor.
E. Sit comfortably, slightly arch and relax your shoulders and tuck your chin.
G. Place your hands comfortably on your knees, right palm on top of your left. You may feel that it will be more comfortable for your back and shoulders if you raise the level of your arms, placing them on a pad.
3. Breathe normally. Close your eyes. When you concentrate, your breath should be soft, long and smooth. After a while you will forget about how you breathe. Then focusing on the breath will only distract your mind, which should be concentrating on directing the energy to the right places. There are thousands of ways of esoteric breathing; you can spend your whole life doing them, but you will not accumulate a lasting store of energy.
I. Tongue position: The tongue serves as a bridge for the two canals. Its function is to regulate and connect the energies of the thymus and pituitary glands, and it can bring the left and right energies of the brain into balance. There are three positions for the tongue. At the beginning of practice, place your tongue where it is comfortable. If it is uncomfortable for you to touch your palate, place it near your teeth.

III. PRACTICE

A. Send a Smile to the organs from top to bottom along the front line of the body

1. Relax your forehead. You may imagine that you have met someone you love or seen something beautiful. Feel the smiling energy in your eyes.
2. Then allow the smiling energy to move to the point between the eyebrows. Let it move to your nose and flow down your cheeks. Feel how it relaxes the skin of your face, then penetrates deeper into the facial muscles; feel how it warms your entire face. Let it flow into your mouth, slightly lift the corners of your lips. Let it flow over your tongue. Fill the tip of your tongue with it. Touch your tongue to your upper gum and leave it there for the rest of your practice. This will connect the two main energy channels” Managerial and Functional. Move the smiling energy into your jaws. Feel the release of tension that is usually present there.
3. The smile penetrates your neck and throat, where tension is also usually felt. After all, the neck is a constriction, although it is the main passage for most body systems. Air, food, blood, hormones, and nervous system signals move up and down the neck. When we are under stress, all systems are in overdrive; a “plug” forms in the neck due to their increased functional activity, and we feel numbness in the neck. Be like the masters of the Tao and think of your neck as the neck of a turtle - let it hide under its shell and rest from the burden of constantly holding your heavy head. Smile at your neck and feel the energy flow into your throat and relieve tension.
4. Smile at the front of your neck, where the thyroid and parathyroid glands are located. This is the seat of speech energy, and when it is blocked, the flow of Qi cannot flow. When it is tense and leans back, you cannot express your thoughts well. You will be afraid to speak in front of people, you will be faint-hearted, and you will have difficulty communicating. Smile at the thyroid gland and feel the throat opening up like a flower bud.
5. Allow the energy of the Smile to move down to the thymus gland - the place of love, fire, the seat of Qi and the place of healing energy. Smile at him, feel that he has become soft and moist. Feel that it is growing, that it is like a bud and is gradually blooming. Feel the aroma of warm energy and healing chi that then flows to the heart.
6. Allow the smiling energy to flow to your heart, which is located on the left side of your chest, about the size of your fist. The heart is the seat of love, the place of compassion, the place of true respect and joy. Feel your heart like a gradually blossoming bud. Send fragrant warm Qi - the energy of love, joy and compassion, which spreads from the pulsating heart to all organs. Let the energy of a Smile fill your heart with joy. Thank your heart for its constant and important pumping job to move blood at normal pressure throughout your body. Feel open and relaxed to make it easier for him to work.
7. Move the Smile and joyful energy from the heart to the lungs. Smile at every cell in your lungs. Thank your lungs for their wonderful job of supplying oxygen to your entire body and ridding it of carbon dioxide. Feel that your lungs have become soft, moist, like a sponge. Feel a slight tingle of energy in them. Smile deep into your lungs and your sadness and depression will disappear. Fill your lungs with the aroma of goodwill, which includes love, compassion and joy of the heart. Allow the smiling energy of joy, love and goodwill to move down to the liver.
8. Smile at your liver, a large organ located on your right side at the edge of your ribs. Thank it for its amazing involvement in the process of food digestion - processing, storing and releasing nutrients - and for its work in detoxifying harmful substances. Feel how it becomes soft and moist. Smile again and send a Smile into the liver. Try to see irritation and a hot temper in the liver. Smiling, take them away and place joy, love, compassion there. Warm Qi promotes the formation of kindness, a natural quality of the liver. When the liver is filled with it, it will flow to the kidneys and adrenal glands.
9. Move the smiling energy into your kidneys, which are located at the back, on either side of your spine, under the bottom of your ribs. Thank them for their work in filtering the blood, eliminating waste products, and maintaining hydration. Feel them become cool, fresh and clean. Smile at your adrenal glands, which are at the top of your kidneys. They produce adrenaline in “fight or flight” situations and some other hormones. Your adrenal glands may thank you by sending you a little extra boost of energy. Smile again, let the Smile penetrate inside the kidneys. Try to see and feel if there is fear in them. Smile at them warmly, joyfully, lovingly, kindly, and your fear will disappear. Allow kindness, the natural property of the kidneys, to enter and fill them, and once filled, flow further to the pancreas and spleen.
10. Smile at your pancreas and spleen. First, smile at your pancreas, which is located in the middle and left above your waist. Thank it for producing insulin to regulate blood sugar and enzymes to digest food. Then smile at your stomach, which is located at the bottom edge of your ribs on the left side. Thank him for the formation of ordinary antibodies against ordinary diseases. Feel how it becomes softer and freer. Smile again to the stomach and pancreas; feel and try to see if there is anxiety hidden within them. Allow the warmth of joy, kindness, goodwill and peace to dispel your anxiety. The smile of the virtue of the stomach - honesty - fills it and moves down to the bladder and genital area.
11. Bring the smiling energy down to the genital area in the lower abdomen. For women, this area is called the “Ovarian Palace.” It is located between the ovaries three inches below the navel. Smile at the ovaries, uterus and vagina. In men, this area is called the “Sperm Palace”. It is located one and a half inches above the base of the penis in the area of ​​the prostate and male gonads (testes). Thank them for hormones and the formation of sexual energy. Allow love, joy, kindness and peace to enter the genitals so that you will have the power to overcome and limit uncontrollable sexual desires. You will be in control of your sexual activities, not them of you. Sexual energy is the basic energy of life.
12. Return to your eyes. Quickly smile at all your organs in the front of your body, checking each one to see if there is any tension remaining. Smile until the tension disappears.

B. Smile at the digestive system from top to bottom - down the midline

1. Feel even more smiling energy in your eyes. Let it flow down into your mouth. Feel your tongue, collect some saliva by rotating your tongue in your mouth. Touch the tip of your tongue to the top of your mouth, tense your neck muscles and swallow quickly and vigorously all the saliva, making the usual swallowing sound. With an Inner Smile, follow the path of saliva down the esophagus into the stomach, located at the lower left edge of the ribs. Thank it for its important job in liquefying and digesting your food. Feel increasing peace and contentment. Promise your stomach that you will only give it good food.
2. Smile at the small intestines—the duodenum, small intestine, and ileum—which are located in the center of the abdominal cavity. Their length in adults is about seven meters. Thank them for absorbing nutrients to support your health and vitality.
3. Smile at the large intestine - the ascending colon, which begins on the right side of the shin bone, goes up under the right lobe of the liver; the transverse colon, which runs down from the right side of the liver, crossing abdominal cavity, under the left lower end of the stomach; the descending colon, which goes down through the left side of the lumbar region; The sigmoid colon, which is usually located between the pelvis, rectum and anus. The length of the large intestine is about 1.5 meters. Thank it for removing waste and for making you feel clean, fresh and open. Smile at him, feel him become warm, clean, satisfied and calm.

B. Smile at the spine from top to bottom - along the back line.

1. Focus your attention on your eyes again.
2. Send a Smile with your eyes inside your body; collect the Smile energy in the third eye area (between the eyebrows). With your inner vision, direct your Smile three to four inches deep, towards the pituitary gland, feel how the pituitary gland is blooming. Direct the Smile with your eyes to the third ventricle (third section, place of power of nervous energy, most powerful place). Feel how this place expands, becomes bright, filled with golden light that illuminates the entire brain. Smile at the thalamus, where a sincere and big Smile will be formed. Smile at the pineal gland, feel how this tiny gland gradually enlarges. Direct the clear and bright gaze of your eyes to the left area of ​​​​the brain. Move it back, concentrate on the left hemisphere of the brain, then the right, and then the spine. This will help balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain and strengthen the nervous system
3. Direct your inner smiling gaze down to the midbrain. Feel how it expands and becomes soft. Then move down to the pons and medulla oblongata and to the spinal cord, starting with the spinal column at the base of the skull. Move the light of the Inner Smile, which carries the energy of love down into each vertebra and disc. Count every vertebra and disc you smile at: the seven cervical (neck) vertebrae, the twelve thoracic vertebrae, the five lumbar (lower back) vertebrae, the sacrum and the tailbone. Feel your spinal cord and back become flexible and comfortable. Feel the discs become soft and the spinal cord enlarge and lengthen, making you taller.
4. Return to your eyes and send a Smile quickly down the back line of your back. Your whole body should feel relaxed. Exercises for the back line increase the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and calm the nervous system. Smiling to the discs keeps the latter from deforming due to stress, when they cannot fully withstand the pressure and weight of the body. With the help of a Smile sent to the spine, you can get rid of back pain or prevent it.

D. Smile down all the lines of your body.

Again, start with the eyes.
Direct your gaze Inner Smile. Smile quickly down the front line of your body. Follow the smiling energy down the midline and then down the back line of the body. When you gain experience, you can smile downwards on all three lines at the same time, all the organs and the spine.
Now feel the energy flowing down your body as if it were a waterfall - a waterfall of smiles, joy and love. Feel like you love and appreciate your entire body. How wonderful!

D. Energy storage Smiles in the navel area

1. It is very important to keep the smiling energy in the navel area at the end of the practice. Most of the painful effects of meditation are caused by excess energy in the head or heart. The navel area can safely manage the increasing energy reserve generated by the Inner Smile.
2. To collect the Smile energy, concentrate on the navel area, which is approximately an inch and a half deep into your body. Then mentally move the energy in an outward spiral around your navel 36 times; at the same time, do not rise above the diaphragm and do not fall below the pubic bone.
Women begin to move in a counterclockwise spiral, and men clockwise. Then do 24 reverse spiral movements and return the energy back to the navel. The first few times, you can use your index finger to guide the movement. Now the energy is securely stored in the navel area. From now on, it is always available whenever you need it and can be used in any part of your body. Thus, you have now completed the Inner Smile technique.

E. Practice the technique daily.

Try to practice the Inner Smile technique every day as soon as you wake up. This will strengthen you for the whole day. If you love your body, you will love other people more and be more effective at work.
One day you will learn how to do it and begin to practice it as regularly as possible. If you have little time, do it quickly, in a few minutes.

G. A smile eliminates negative emotions

1. Practice the technique during times of stress, irritation, fear or depression. Smile at those parts of your body that feel tension and pressure, and you will gradually feel how the negative energy is transformed into the positive force of life energy. The energy expenditure caused by negative emotions will be transformed into positive energy and vitality.
2. Smile will drive away negative emotions. The energy of a smile can transform the energy of stress and emotions such as anger, irritation, fear into vital energy, so smile as much as possible.
3. Smile will drive away pain and illness. If you feel pain and ailment in any part of your body, in any of your organs, smile at these parts of the body, hold the Smile in them a little longer, talk to them, get an answer from them until you see that they become softer, more open, or that their color has changed from dark to light.

Mantak Chia is the creator of the system known as the Universal Tao and the founder and director of the Center for Healing Tao in New York.

Taoist Master Mantek Chia was born in Bangkok in 1944. At the age of six, he received his first initiation from Buddhist monks. While still a schoolboy, he learned martial arts, taiji chuan and aikido. His craving for Taoist practices led him to the famous Taoist master Yi Yen (White Cloud), who lived in the mountains near Hong Kong. Master Yi Yen became the main teacher of Master Mantak Chia, from him he learned to transmit the energy of life force through his hands, direct energy along the Microcosmic orbit and open Six special channels, he mastered the technique of Fusion of the Five Elements, the practice of Internal Alchemy. It was Master Yi Yen who authorized Manteca Chia to transmit the teachings to his students. Later, Mantek Chia studied in Singapore with teacher Meudji kundalini yoga and Taoist yoga - Tao-yin, as well as the practice of “Buddha Palm”. Soon he learned to remove energy blocks, both in himself and in his students and patients.

Mantak Chia later studied with Master Pan Yu, who created a synthesis of the teachings of Taoism, Buddhism and Zen Buddhism, and with Master Cheng Yao-Long, who also created a new system that combined Thai boxing with kung fu. From Teacher Pan Yu, the master learned about the exchange of yin and yang energies between a man and a woman, and also received techniques to prevent aging and destruction of the body. Teacher Cheng Yao-Lung taught Mantak Chia the secret Shaolin methods of working with internal energy and the Neigong technique, or bone marrow cleansing and tendon renewal.

Master Chia later studied Western medical science and anatomy for two years to better understand the mechanisms behind the workings of the healing energy of the Tao. Using his knowledge of the complete system of Taoism as a basis and supplementing it with what he learned from other teachings, Mantak Chia developed the Universal Tao System and began to teach other people based on it. Then, to help himself, he trained other teachers and founded the Garden of Tao in Thailand. He developed the “Healing Tao System”, which is now taught in many cities in the United States, Canada and Europe.

The Taoist practice of the Inner Smile strengthens the energy of the internal organs and glands of our body, our entire life force in general, calms and focuses our “heart mind” (Sheng). It makes us more aware of our body and our inner being because we learn to communicate with our internal organs, glands, spine and other specific areas of our body, as well as with our soul. Taoists discovered that consciousness is located not only in our brain, but also in all vital organs, and in a more subtle sense, in every cell of our body.

The daily practice of the Inner Smile provides us with time to look within ourselves, to maintain connection with our internal organs, our chi, our breath and emotions. This enables us to notice any problems as they arise and helps us balance our emotions and virtues.

Three lines of the Inner Smile

A. Smile to the Internal Organs: Front Line

1. Eyebrow Point: Relax your forehead and become aware of the smiling energy that gathers in front of your eyes in the form of golden light. Imagine the feeling that comes over you when you enter a beautiful garden. As you feel this, imagine your own smiling face right in front of you. Feel the energy of your Smile shining like the sun. Collect this radiation in a spiral to the point between your eyebrows, drawing energy through this point and closed eyes, stimulating the pituitary gland.

← Smile along the front line

2. Face: Continue to draw the energy of the Smile to the point between the eyebrows; Feel the Third Eye expanding. Allow the Chi to flow through your nose and cheeks. Feel how it relaxes your skin, muscles and warms your face from the inside. Allow a smile to flow into your mouth by slightly lifting the corners of your lips. Feel the smiling energy flowing into your tongue and move your tongue in a circle to stimulate the flow of saliva. When you feel saliva filling, swallow it. Touch your tongue to the upper palate and leave it in this position until the end of the practice (by doing this you will connect the Main and Functional channels, which are the two main conductors of energy in our body). Swallow the saliva, passing it to the thymus gland, heart and further down. Feel how the energy of the Smile flows into your cheekbones, freeing them from any tension. Open your mouth slightly, separating your teeth but maintaining the position of your tongue on the roof of your mouth.

3. Neck and Throat: Smile at your neck and throat. Allow your neck to settle a little and take a break from holding your head. Smile at the thyroid and parathyroid glands, located at the front of your neck. Feel how the energy releases all tension and your throat opens like a beautiful flower bud.

4. Throat and sternum: When there is a lot of saliva, swallow it in the direction of the organs you are smiling at. Allow the energy of the Smile to flow into the thymus gland, located between the throat and sternum. Feel it expand, releasing warm, fragrant, smiling energy towards your heart.

5. Heart: The heart is the size of a fist and is located behind the sternum, slightly to the left of center. Smile at your heart and thank it for circulating blood in your body. Feel how it relaxes and it becomes easier for it to work. Let the energy of a Smile fill your heart with love. Feel how intolerance and temper transform into joy and respect. Love, joy, respect and unconditional compassion come from the heart. Feel these virtues radiating to all the internal organs, glands and throughout the body.

6. Lungs: Smile at every cell in your lungs and thank them for breathing in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. Feel how they soften and become more spongy and moist, filled with the energy of a Smile. Feel how the virtues of the heart (love and joy) breathe the energy of a smile into the lungs, how it transforms any sadness and depression into virtue and courage.

7. Liver: Smile into your liver, which is located on the right side at the base of your rib cage. Give thanks for the role it plays in digestion, processing, storage and release of nutrients and elimination of various toxins. Feel how it becomes softer and its moisture increases. Allow the energy of the Smile, saturated with the virtues of the heart and lungs (love, joy, virtue, courage), to transform all the anger accumulated by the liver into kindness.

8. Pancreas and Spleen: Smile into your pancreas at the base of your chest on the left. Thank it for producing insulin, which regulates blood sugar, and enzymes for digesting food. Smile at your spleen, located behind your pancreas at the same level on the left. Thank her for producing antibodies that defeat various diseases. Smiling into your spleen and pancreas, feel all worries being transformed into fearlessness by the energy of the Smile, filled with the virtues of the heart, lungs and liver.

9. Kidneys: Bring the Smile energy to your kidneys, located on either side of your back in the lower part of your chest at the level of your lower back. Thank them for filtering your blood, ridding it of waste, and keeping your body hydrated. Feel them become cooler, fresher and cleaner. Smile at your adrenal glands, which sit above your kidneys; they produce adrenaline and other hormones. Feel how all fears are transformed into the virtue of gentleness with the help of the energy of Smile and other virtues already accumulated.

10. Genitals: Direct the energy of the Smile down to the genital area. In women, this area is known as the “Ovarian Palace,” and is located three inches below the navel, midway between the ovaries. Smile and direct the accumulated energy in a spiral into the ovaries, uterus and vagina. Thank your ovaries for producing hormones and providing you with sexual energy. Bring the generalized energy of Smile, Virtue and Sexuality up to the navel and twist at this point.

In men, the genital area is known as the “Sperm Palace,” and is located one and a half inches above the base of the penis in the prostate area. Smile and direct the accumulated energies into a spiral down into the prostate and testicles.

Thank them for producing hormones and providing you with sexual energy. Direct the generalized energy of Smile, virtue and sexuality up to the navel and twist at this point.

Note: As you return the energy to the navel for storage, mentally create a spiral motion to concentrate and hold it there. Rotation creates a suction of energy like a vacuum.

11. Eyes: Return your attention to your eyes. Quickly smile down into your organs along the front line, checking each one for any residual tension. Smile at every tension until it dissolves.

B. Smile along the digestive tract: Midline.

1. Stomach: Again become aware of the Smile energy in your eyes and between your eyebrows and allow it to flow directly into your mouth. Become aware of your tongue and rotate it to produce saliva. Place your tongue on the upper palate, tense your neck muscles, and quickly swallow saliva forcefully, making a swallowing sound. With your Inner Smile, follow the movement of saliva down the esophagus to the stomach, located on the left side of the chest. Thank your stomach for digesting your food and feel it relax and become energized.

2. Small Intestine: Smile into the small intestine in the middle of your upper abdomen. Thank it for absorbing nutrients.

3. Large Intestine: Smile into the large intestine, which surrounds the small intestine on top and on both sides, and into the rectum. Thank the large intestine for removing all unnecessary things from the body.

4. Bladder and Urethra: Direct the Smile energy into the bladder, which is located just behind the pubic bone, and into the urethra. Thank these organs for collecting and eliminating urine.

5. Eyes: Bring your attention back to your eyes. Smile quickly down the midline, checking to see if there is any remaining tension anywhere. Smile at this tension until it dissolves.

← Smile along the midline of the digestive tract

B. Smile along the Spine: Back line.

1. Eyes: Bring your attention back to the eyes and draw even more energy through the eyes and between the eyebrows.
2. Glands of the brain: Activate the secretion of saliva and swallow it by pressing upward with the tongue, directing the energy to the brain. Draw the energy of the Smile through the eyes and between the eyebrows.
Smile into the Pituitary Gland, which is located three to four inches behind the eyebrows. Feel the pituitary gland blossom. Smile at the Thalamus, which is located directly above the spinal cord, slightly behind and above the Pituitary Gland, and the Hypothalamus, located at the base of the third ventricle of the brain. Smile at the pineal gland, located just below the crown point. Feel these glands taking shape and enlarging. Smile into the left and right hemispheres of your brain to balance and nourish them.
3. Spinal Column: Smile into the midbrain, cerebellum and first cervical vertebra at the base of the skull. Send loving energy down through all the vertebrae to the base of the spine. (The vertebrae that make up the spinal column: seven cervical, twelve thoracic, five lumbar; base of the spine: sacrum and coccyx). The discs between each vertebra soften and the spine widens and lengthens. Your back should feel free and comfortable.
4. Back Line: Return your attention to your eyes and quickly smile down along the back line. This exercise significantly increases the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and calms the nervous system. Your whole body will feel relaxed.

Smile along the back lineSmile to the brain

D. Smile down the whole body.

Whole Body: Start again with the eyes and quickly move the Inner Smile down the front, middle and back lines. If you already have experience with this practice, smile down three lines at the same time, becoming aware of the internal organs and spine. Feel how the energy spreads along the entire length of your body like a waterfall of love and peace. Feel the relaxation in the muscles, skin and bones throughout your body.

D. Collecting and storing energy in the navel

To complete the practice, it is very important to retain the accumulated energies in the navel. If there is too much Qi left in the head or heart. then this will be the cause of most of the adverse effects of meditation. Drawing energy into the navel to store it safely can prevent such problems. To gather energy, concentrate on the navel area about an inch and a half inside the body. Then begin to mentally rotate the energy, moving in a diverging spiral with each turn until you have completed 36 cycles. Do not go beyond the diaphragm and pubic bone. Finally, gather the energy back into the navel for 24 cycles.

Men: Cover the navel with both palms, left on top of right. Start rotating clockwise 36 times.

Women: Cover the navel with both palms, the right one on top of the left one. Start rotating counterclockwise 36 times.

Men and women: Then reverse direction and rotate the spiral toward the navel 24 times (men rotate counterclockwise; women rotate clockwise). Move closer to your navel with each wrap. With this you complete the inner Smile and you should feel an increase in the flow of your Chi.

Energizing Inner Smile

We start smiling into the bladder, uterus, ovaries, testicles and prostate because it creates a lot of energy.

Rock slightly.

Smile into the bladder, uterus, ovaries, testicles and prostate. Imagine these organs and connect with them. Feel their connection to the brain, and how their energy rises up the spine to nourish the brain. Imagine a big blue ocean and a fire burning underneath it. Watch the beautiful blue light evaporate from the ocean.

Smile at the kidneys. Smile this beautiful blue light into the bladder, uterus, ovaries or testicles and prostate, and into the kidneys, bringing peace to the kidneys. Feel how these organs are filled with blue light. Allow this blue light, softness and calmness to flow throughout the body, especially into the liver. Feel how it energizes your liver.

Smile into your liver. Imagine your liver and connect with it. Imagine the sun shining in the forest. Watch the green light. Smile with this green Universal light and kindness into your liver. Feel your liver fill with green light. Allow it to radiate to all organs, especially the heart. Feel the green light filling your heart with energy.

Smile in your heart. Imagine your heart and connect with it. Become aware of the red light, like a sunset over the oceans. Smile this red light into your heart with love, patience and inner joy. Feel your heart fill with red light and love. Allow them to radiate from the heart throughout the body, especially into the stomach, spleen and pancreas. Feel the red light filling these organs with energy.

Smile into the stomach, spleen and pancreas. Imagine these organs and connect with them. Imagine the beautiful clear rays of late summer sun, golden light full of balance and harmony. Smile this golden light into the stomach, spleen and pancreas. Feel peace, serenity and centeredness. Allow this golden light to radiate throughout your body, especially into your lungs. Feel the golden yellow light filling your lungs with energy.

The cycle of creation

Smile into your lungs. Imagine them and connect with them. Feel fresh clean White light high mountains Smile this light into your lungs, nose, skin and small intestines. Allow it to radiate throughout the body, especially to the kidneys.

Do two more rounds of this Inner Smile cycle. Then collect the Smile energy in the bladder, uterus or prostate and allow this energy to rise up the spine into the brain. Hold the energy there. Feel how this Smile energy fills the brain, spine, nerves and all organs and glands with energy, how muscles connect with nerves. Rest. Concentrate on the energy in your brain and back. Feel the energy in the brain and the expanding consciousness.

An Inner Smile that relaxes and balances emotions.

We usually start with the heart, since the heart produces many strong emotions, especially love and hate. When you start smiling at your heart, sometimes hatred or irritability may appear. If you can continue to smile at your heart, you will feel that inner joy, love and happiness will begin to grow in your heart much more easily. If people do not feel love, inner joy and happiness, nothing can make them happy.

There is nothing wrong with negative emotions as long as you are aware of them and know how to transform them. This will help prevent blockage of energy in the organs. You need to be able to find balance.

Emotions such as hatred, anger, irritability, fear will always arise. You need to observe, be aware of them and constantly work with them so that they do not grow excessively and block the energy in the internal organs and other parts of your body.

If you continue to do the Inner Smile and Six Healing Sounds meditations and develop the energy of virtues (pure light) in the organs of your body, eventually there will be no room left for these negative energies (emotions).

Gently rock your body, especially your spine.

Practice

Smile to your heart. Feel the love, inner joy and happiness in your heart. Expand this love and happiness into the Universe and multiply it. Continue to expand unconditional love, inner joy and happiness from your heart to the Universe and feel it return multiplied to your heart with red light. Allow this light to shine into all the organs of your body like sunlight. If hatred arises, keep smiling, sending love and happiness to that feeling, and soon it will turn into the energy of love and happiness.

Smile into the stomach, spleen and pancreas. Observe the restlessness within them. Breathe in golden yellow light, a sense of openness and fearlessness that matches the earth's energy, harmony and centeredness. Accept your worries and balance them with the virtues of openness, fearlessness and centeredness.

Smile into your lungs. Observe all the sadness accumulated in them. Inhale the pure white light and courage that matches the energy of the metal. Accept your sadness and balance it with courage.

Smile into your kidneys and bladder. Observe any fear within them. Let the sun shine over the ocean, producing blue light. Breathe in this blue light, softness and peace corresponding to the energy of water. Accept your fear and balance it with gentleness and peace.

Smile into your liver. Observe any anger, resentment, and frustration in your liver. Let the sun shine over the forest, producing green light. Breathe in this green light, kindness and generosity that matches the energy of the tree. Accept your anger and balance it with kindness and generosity.

Do two more rounds of this Inner Smile cycle, relaxing and balancing emotions, transforming “negative emotions” into the energy of virtue.

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In Taoism, we view negative emotions as low quality energy. Many people spend their lives irritated, sad, depressed, fearful, anxious, and other types of negative energy. These energies are the cause of chronic diseases and silently drain our basic life force...

Mantak Chia

Inner Smile

Energy practice

I. BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY

A. Low quality energy is converted into high quality energy

In Taoism, we view negative emotions as low quality energy. Many people spend their lives irritated, sad, depressed, fearful, anxious, and other types of negative energy. These energies are the cause of chronic illness and silently drain our basic life force.

The Inner Smile is a sincere smile to all parts of the body, including all organs, glands and muscles, as well as the nervous system. It produces high quality energy that can heal, and over time it is converted into even higher quality energy.

A sincere smile sends loving energy that has the power to warm and heal. Just remember a time when you were upset or physically ill and someone, perhaps even a stranger, smiled sincerely at you - and suddenly you felt better.

Norman Casips, managing editor of the Saturday Review, writes in Anatomy of a Disease that he cured himself of a rare connective tissue disease by watching old Marx Brothers films. One of my students cured herself of breast cancer by constantly practicing Inner Smile to the area that was sick.

In ancient China, the Tao Masters discovered the power of the energy of a smile. They practiced Inner Smile to ourselves. It moved Qi energy and formed a flow of high quality Qi, thereby achieving health, happiness and longevity. Smile to oneself resembles the enjoyment of love, and love can restore and rejuvenate.

Inner Smile directs smiling energy to our organs and glands, which are so necessary for life. Ironically, although we often pay great attention to our appearance, very few of us know what the internal organs and glands look like, where they are located and what their functions are. Moreover, we are insensitive to the subtle warnings they send to us when we mistreat them by following poor diets and leading unhealthy lifestyles. We are like a manager who never pays attention to his subordinates and is very surprised when something happens.

If we get to know our organs and glands, understand what they do and learn to listen to their signals, they will reward us with a state of peace and vitality.

B. Beneficial or harmful emanations

Inner Smile most effective for neutralizing the effects of stress. In our modern society, we spend millions of dollars to find ways to relieve stress. Often these remedies provide only partial or temporary relief.

There is hardly a Russian school of female Taoist practices that would not offer its followers an “ancient Chinese practice” with a strange non-Taoist name “Inner Smile”. Why not Taoist? Because even if we assume that this is a practice from the arsenal of some Chinese school of internal style qigong, which works, first of all, with the internal state, then the question arises, what does a smile have to do with it?

Adherents of the internal qigong traditions do not work with emotions or with facial muscle movements, which are indirect confirmation of a state of pleasure and joy. Their main tool is chi energy. By the way, there is no concept of “smile energy” or “anger energy”, just as, strictly speaking, there is no concept of “sexual energy”. All these terms were invented by popularizers of Taoist practices for greater simplicity and clarity for European followers of complex Chinese philosophy.

If we assume that the “Inner Smile” practice is used by supporters of the external style of qigong, which involves physical exercise as a way to change the energy state, then the word “internal” would not be in the name. The trainer would suggest stretching the lips in the same way as smiling people usually do, but would not place emphasis on the movement of energy in the internal organ system.

To put it simply, the name “Inner Smile” can baffle any ethnic Chinese and raises doubts as to whether the practice is of Chinese origin. Rather, we are dealing with a paradox: usually European goods are counterfeited in China, but it is quite possible that Europeans have learned to imitate Chinese practices!

I first became acquainted with this practice in Manteca Chia's book "". Until I became a student of the ethnic Chinese, Tao Master Ji Xiaogang, I did not have the slightest doubt that everything described in the book was the Chinese truth. However, the deeper I plunged into learning from the Master, the more obvious it became: something is wrong with these inner smiles!

When I opened the book again, I found another name on the title page next to the name Manteca Chia - Rachel Carlton Abrams. It turned out that

co-author of a brilliant popularizer, or even the sole author of a best-selling book on which the Mantek Chia brand stands, is a doctor of medicine, a family practitioner specializing in the field of alternative medicine, as well as women's health and sexuality. Now some things become more clear!

What is the essence of this exercise? Readers of the book are asked to close their eyes, imagine a smiling face opposite them, and smile back. Then you need to feel how the energy of love penetrates through the third eye. And then you need to direct this energy to different organs. In essence, it is not so difficult if a person feels at least a little the movement of energy.

The author prefaces the description of the technique with several guidelines: “a smile can become a powerful means of internal healing” and “even smiling, no matter what, you can improve your mood.” The following is the purpose of the practice:- “to cultivate in ourselves that feeling of love that we usually experience when we see a small child, a favorite animal, or admiring a picturesque sunset.” We will not discuss in detail the dubiousness of the idea that love is a state that is achieved as a result of education or self-education. There is no point in saying that not everyone smiles at the sight of a child or an animal, much less a sunset.

Let's assume that Inner Smile actually helps those who practice this technique improve their condition. But I want to understand What does this practice look like in the Chinese version!

I asked Master Ji to type the characters corresponding to the concept of “Inner Smile” into the Chinese search engine. The master wrote several versions, but nothing similar to the Chinese classical qigong was found. The Chinese Internet stubbornly insisted that a smile has nothing to do with the skill of energy management, and qigong is translated exactly like this: “qi” is energy, “gong” is skill. The Chinese need nothing but energy and the body to work with energy.. All exercises that use the phrase “imagine” and ask you to visualize the process of energy movement are a typical European trick. I asked the mentor what he thought about this practice, and the Master replied: “Most likely, it’s just a psychological technique.”

It seemed to me that the secret of the famous exercise had already been almost solved; all that remained was to find out what principle underlies it. So I turned to a psychotherapist friend for help.

Eureka! We found the source from which the creators of “Inner Smile” drew inspiration! Turns out, in the history of psychology there was the organic theory of James-Lange. The authors of the theory argued that emotional sensations are a manifestation of functional changes in the body. That is, under the influence of external stimuli, changes occur inside first, and only then does emotion appear. “We are sad because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble.” Following the logic of this theory, if you make facial movements corresponding to a smile, after a while a state of joy will arise.

But the most interesting thing, in my opinion, in this whole story is connection between psychology and Followers of the James-Lange organic theory are convinced that emotions are a consequence of changes at the level of the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is a section of the nervous system that regulates the activity of internal organs, endocrine and exocrine glands, blood and lymphatic vessels. Important parts of the autonomic system, the sympathetic and parasympathetic, are located in the spinal cord and brain. And from the Taoist point of view, the energy management system is located precisely in the brain and spinal cord! Therefore, in the Chinese philosophical system Wu Xing, which helps to work with energy, five emotions are associated with five dense and five hollow organs. However, the difference between the European and Chinese approaches is that in Taoist practice it is not customary to artificially evoke “ghosts of emotions” using facial movements. And to work correctly with energy, it is not at all necessary to smile; it is enough just to be able to direct the energy of the Sources into different energy channels.

And finally, the most important idea is about the role of a smile for energetic harmony. In the main Taoist book, Tao Te Ching, written by the great thinker Lao Tzu, it is written: “Man follows the laws of the Earth, the Earth follows the laws of Heaven, Heaven follows the laws of Tao, and Tao follows the laws of nature.” Taoists do not recognize any forced emotions and the cultivation of feelings. Feelings and emotions are what are formed as a result of natural processes. This is why a much more important practice can be to smile - only when you have a natural reason to smile! Be natural and healthy!

A. Low quality energy is converted into high quality energy

In Taoism, we view negative emotions as low quality energy. Many people spend their lives irritated, sad, depressed, fearful, anxious, and other types of negative energy. These energies are the cause of chronic illness and silently drain our basic life force.

The Inner Smile is a sincere smile to all parts of the body, including all organs, glands and muscles, as well as the nervous system. It produces high quality energy that can heal, and over time it is converted into even higher quality energy.

A sincere smile sends loving energy that has the power to warm and heal. Just remember a time when you were upset or physically ill and someone, perhaps even a stranger, smiled sincerely at you - and suddenly you felt better.

Norman Casips, managing editor of the Saturday Review, writes in Anatomy of a Disease that he cured himself of a rare connective tissue disease by watching old Marx Brothers films. One of my students cured herself of breast cancer by constantly practicing Inner Smile to the area that was sick.

In ancient China, the Tao Masters discovered the power of the energy of a smile. They practiced Inner Smile to ourselves. It moved Qi energy and formed a flow of high quality Qi, thereby achieving health, happiness and longevity. Smile to oneself resembles the enjoyment of love, and love can restore and rejuvenate.

Inner Smile directs smiling energy to our organs and glands, which are so necessary for life. Ironically, although we often pay great attention to our appearance, very few of us know what the internal organs and glands look like, where they are located and what their functions are. Moreover, we are insensitive to the subtle warnings they send to us when we mistreat them by following poor diets and leading unhealthy lifestyles. We are like a manager who never pays attention to his subordinates and is very surprised when something happens.

If we get to know our organs and glands, understand what they do and learn to listen to their signals, they will reward us with a state of peace and vitality.

B. Beneficial or harmful emanations

Inner Smile most effective for neutralizing the effects of stress. In our modern society, we spend millions of dollars to find ways to relieve stress. Often these remedies provide only partial or temporary relief.

Inner Smile is closely connected with the thymus and increases the functional activity of this gland. In the Taoist system, the thymus gland is the seat of beautiful light, love and the life force of Di-energy.

When we are under the influence of emotional stress, the thymus gland is the first to be damaged. The book Your Body Doesn't Lie by Dr. John Dimopde presents research that shows that the thymus gland plays the role of a master regulator that directs the flow of vital and healing energies in the body.

Sir McFarlan Burner, a Nobel laureate from Australia, formulated a theory of cancer in which he suggested that increasing the functional activity of the thymus gland could lead to the possibility of avoiding cancer.

One type of cell that is produced in the thymus is T cells. The function of T cells is to recognize abnormal cells and eliminate them. Of the millions of cells that are produced every day, some are abnormal. If T cells are not activated by thymus hormone, the abnormal cells will continue to multiply and develop into clinical cancer.

Therefore, the thymus gland plays a key role in preventing cancer throughout adult life. In applied kinesiology, there is a way to determine whether the thymus gland is healthy or weakened, for which Inner Smile is of great importance.

Try this test with your partner: touch the area of ​​the thymus gland, which is located at the point where the second rib joins the chest bone below the throat. For the first time, your partner should not smile and should allow the facial muscles and corners of the mouth to droop. Let him extend one arm to the side, and at this time you try to press on it from above to lower it down. Then try to do the same, but your partner should smile at the same time, and see the difference. This shows that when you smile, you activate the thymus (Fig. VUZ and VU4).

Rice. VU-3. The facial expression in this drawing will increase the energy.

Rice. VU4. The facial expression in this picture may be lowering your energy levels.

Taoist legends say that when you smile, your organs release beautiful emanations that nourish the entire body. When you are irritated, afraid or stressed, they form harmful emanations that block energy channels, enter the organs, causing loss of appetite, indigestion, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, insomnia and negative emotions.

Smiling to your organs, you cause them to enlarge, become soft and moist, and thus function more efficiently. As a result, the liver, for example, has more space to store nutrients and detoxify harmful substances.

Practice Inner Smile start with the eyes. They are connected to the autonomic nervous system, which regulates the function of organs and glands. The eyes are the first to receive emotional signals and sometimes cause the organs and glands to speed up their response to stress or danger (the “fight or flight” response) and relax when the critical situation passes.

Ideally, the eyes maintain a calm and balanced level of response. Therefore, simply by relaxing your eyes, you can relax your entire body and thus free up your energy for functioning.

B. The process of learning through the Inner Smile

When you are stressed, overly emotional, or spend your life in a state of irritation or fear, your organs become blocked and your level of performance decreases. A lot of energy is wasted, you become dull, lose vitality and mobility. It becomes difficult for you to learn, to come up with new ideas, but even if you try to learn something, the essence of the subject will not be remembered and you will not be able to understand it. In the Tao system, we believe that our organs, senses or body parts are involved in the process of learning.

When you smile at your organs, sensations and glands, you establish a connection with them and can be in good contact with them.

When you are in a state of stress or fear, all organs and sensations are blocked. For example, when you don't love someone, your body doesn't want to accept that person and thus won't want to receive their experiences and take in their ideas.

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