Secret of inner smile

In this article, we'll explore a centuries-old practice that was recently updated through extensive scientific research at the HeartMath® Institute. This approach is "inner smile." It is an effective way to reduce stress, improve health and immune response, stay calm in confusion, and combine with intrinsic clarity and intuitive guidance.

Although the HeartMath® Institute did not call their technique a heartfelt smile [they call it HeartMath® and call it a "core emotion"], as a teacher of a meditation style with a deep inner smile, I realized the basics. Similarities to these methods. The basis of inner smile is positive self-acceptance, gratitude, care and trust. In qigong ["chee-gung"] or energy meditation, we do this through the whole body, and HeartMath® discovers the power of focusing on your heart as you develop these feelings.

Here are some of the benefits of Inner Smiling. It lowers your blood pressure, calms your nervous system, improves hormone balance, improves your brain function, and gives positive well-being. These effects begin by balancing the heart rhythm. This facilitates coherent brain waves and integrated brain function. A heart-rending smile will also bring your parasympathetic nervous system online, which is your relaxation and recovery model.

When your "relaxation response" is active, your muscle tension will drop, your digestive system will receive more blood, and your immune system will get the energy you need to operate at the highest level. Your higher level brain function will also be online. This contrasts with when you feel fear and stress, which actually shuts down your advanced brain function. When your body relaxes, you reduce stress hormones, cortisol production, and increase DHEA production, which regulates your body's ability to heal and repair itself.

Great thing!

So how do you practice your inner smile?

Here are four simple steps:

1. Close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths.

2. Imagine that you are focusing and breathing through your heart and breathing.

3. Accept, appreciate, grateful and caring, smile into your heart.

4. Imagine and feel your inner smile expand from your heart to inject every cell in your body.

To help you create a heartfelt smile throughout your heart and body, you can bring something you care about unconditionally [such as a parent, spouse, child or pet] to your head. Or recall what you like to do or make people smile. Bring your gratitude to these people, pets or events to your heart and send them to your entire body.

If you find this challenge from the start, you may spend a little time focusing on breathing deeply through your heart. Let any tension or irritating feeling dissolve in your breath. Then, imagine that you appreciate it with little effort or just accept yourself and anything that happens unconditionally. Thanks for "what is it."

Simply applying a mixture of smiles on your lips is enough to bring your inner smile into your body. Inner smile is the gateway to feel the inner essence and change life from the inside out.

Enjoy your practice!

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