The Healing Power of
Your Smile
All healing
begins inside your body and we are blessed with a wonderful tool for healing
“our smile”. When you smile hormones are released creating a relaxing state of being. Even if
you fake your smile endorphins will be released and your mood will change. Try
it now fake a smile hold it for a few seconds and take note how you feel. If
you are frighten or nervous a smile will allow you to calm down; sometimes this
happens involuntarily.
Smiling allows
the muscles in the face to send signals to the brain that all is well. The
brain will then send relaxing signals along the body’s nervous system. After
taking a hard blow to the head, a fighter will often smile to regain focus.
When I give Ki Energy stress management treatments at our Ki Center; I often
suggest for clients to smile while receiving the treatment. Smiling during
meditation allows for an enhance sense of oneness; it can also be very
Therapeutic.
The Inner
Smile is an ancient Taoist healing technique that allows the healing power of a
smile to give a person the ability to self-heal internally. Taoist master
Mantak Chia explains this technique very well in the “Chi Nei Tsang” his
internal organs Chi massage manual; when he writes: “The Inner Smile is a
powerful relaxation technique which begins at mid-eyebrow and eyes. It utilizes
the expanding energy of happiness as a language to communicate with the
internal organs of the body”.
Master Chia
goes on to say: “By learning to smile inwardly to the organs and glands, the
body will feel loved and appreciated”. At the Ki Center we teach a Korean
Qigong exercise called Heaven and Earth. The technique allows the student to
focus on internal healing by visualizing and smiling at all of the internal
organs in the body.
If you have
an injury or soreness on any part of your body, focus on that area and smile at
it. If you continue to do this, you will assist in your internal healing
process. As many of you know, I have first had experience on the healing power
of smiling at internal injuries; it worked for me. We might not realize the
healing power of our smile but it is very real it works and it is very easy to
do.
Smiling can
also be contagious, if you smile at someone long enough they will smile back
sometimes unknowingly. The smile can not only be used as a tool for
self-healing, it can also be used as a tool to heal others. A smile can be very
helpful in changing the mood of another.
One should
also be aware that not all smiling faces have a foundation of love. Sometimes a
smile can be used to manipulate. More often than not the energy of a smile can
be healing. The next time you feel a need to change your mood smile; even if
you feel you have nothing to smile about. The healing power of your smile is
very powerful learn to use it to improve the quality of your life.