A Week Of Peace - Day 1: Smile

A Week of Peace is 7 days of Peacebeams taking you on a journey through mind, body, time, and space. This meditation brings the user into breath and heart coherence, using the smile as the activation for opening the heart. Smiling allows you to connect to your capacity for wishing unrestricted good for yourself and others, before beaming that peaceful energy into the world. This Peacebeam practice can be used individually but is recommended as one of the 7-day consecutive meditation series.

Transcript

Welcome to Peacebeam.

Let's begin.

Eyes open or eyes closed,

Whichever is appropriate for you,

Wherever you are.

Step one,

Notice.

Shift your focus from up in your head down into your heart or emotional center,

The center of your chest.

Bring that image to mind and stay with it.

Bring your attention to that place.

If you want to,

You can place your hand there or just imagine it.

And now check in.

How do you feel?

Try and pinpoint the emotion.

No judgment.

Just notice.

Observe.

Step two,

Breathe.

Now bring your attention to your breath.

Notice it flowing in and out.

Continue breathing normally,

But now a little deeper.

Extend your inhale and your exhale just a little.

So that you're breathing more deeply,

But at your own pace.

This should be comfortable and easy.

Peace beaming is about ease.

Now imagine that your breath is going in and out through your heart,

Through the center of your chest and stay with that image.

In and out.

And now you should feel an ease start to arrive as your physiology moves into neutral.

Step three,

Activate.

Today we're going to use your smile as the activation.

Whenever we smile,

We activate a flood of feel good chemicals in our brain.

Dopamine,

Endorphins,

Serotonin relax our minds and our bodies and it lowers our heart rate.

It is also contagious.

We are wired to smile back at a smiling face.

And so we unconsciously create a symbiotic relationship that allows two smilers to release feel good chemicals.

And so it goes on.

So now as you're listening,

Smile and really make it a huge smile.

And don't be self conscious.

This is good for you and good for everybody around you.

Step four,

Peace beam.

Now we take that positive feeling,

That beautiful smile,

Calm and ease that you have accessed and intend for it to be for everybody's benefit today.

For you,

The people around you,

The people you interact with.

To peace beam is to wish unconditionally and from the deepest part of your being unrestricted good for yourself and others.

Today to anchor the practice,

Let everybody you meet be touched by the warmth of your smile.

Have a beautiful day.

We'll be back with you tomorrow.

Reviews

Thank you I love that I can feel your smile in this little meditation x

I love this! It is difficult sometimes to smile, don’t really know why. But definitely going to make a real effort to bring it on much more often. Soothing, peaceful guidance. 🙏🏼

What a lovely feeling to breathe through the heart then smile .. I really felt a shift.

A lovely meditation to start the day, thank you 🙏🏻

I love this little morning ritual. I'm still smiling and my anxiety has been vanquished! Thank you 🙏

Great practice! Very relaxing, quick and beautiful! Excited to start this serie with Peacebeam (they never disappoint me! 🌈💜

So precious, I’ll be returning to this for sure. Thank you!

Love this and The Difference You Make series. Sending unrestricted good and a smile.😁🙏🏼

How inspirational for me on this beautiful morning. Thank you Peace Beam.

This is a lovely meditation. My only disappointment is the abrupt ending…. Perhaps consider letting the music carry over for a few more seconds and come to a more natural stop.

I found the meditation to be very peaceful and calming. Thank you 🙏🏾☀️

Love Peacebeam’s meditations ….and such a beautiful voice! Thank you 🙏🏻💖

Beautiful meditation to start the day with joy! Thank you 🙏🏾💜✨

Great start to my day and wonderful reminder that smiling can light up the world. 😃🙏

The smile was just what I needed and the physical reaction was incredible and tangible ❤️🙏🏻😁 thank you x

Wow, that was amazing. I felt a lot of anxiety before and I definitely feel better now. Thank you !

Thank you for the warmth of your smile that radiated through this meditation.😊

A calming positive way to start the day in a good frame of mind. Thank you, Peacebeam!

Keep coming back to this ❤️ made me smile and think of my love 😁

Smiling , love this simple mood changing action that we can do and it also can change another’s mood too