Smile Meditation

A practice to generate thoughts and feelings of happiness. Get comfortable and simply smile.

Transcript

Mindful smile exercise.

Ding!

Sit in a really nice warm and cosy place where you feel safe and comfortable.

Take a few moments to stretch your arms and as you do so,

Gently smile.

Come back to a relaxed,

Seated posture or any other posture that feels right for you.

Gently close your eyes and hold that gentle smile on your face even if you don't actually feel happy or smiley at the moment.

Enjoy the feeling of each in and out breath.

Imagine your breath has a quality of happiness within it.

With each in breath,

You're breathing in the quality of a smile.

As you breathe in,

Say to yourself,

Breathing in,

I calm my body and mind.

As you breathe out,

Say to yourself,

Breathing out,

I smile.

While you continue this exercise,

Simply say to yourself,

Breathing on each in breath and smiling on each out breath.

The process may feel fake,

Contrived or maybe even uncomfortable or it may feel great.

Either way,

I invite you to persevere for a few minutes to see what happens.

Breathing,

Smiling,

Kind,

Kindly bring your attention back each time it wonders,

Which it naturally will do.

Seeing if you can find any pleasure in the act of breathing itself and allowing that pleasure to gently express itself in your smile.

Each in breath,

Calming your body and mind.

Each out breath,

A sense of rest,

Rejuvenation,

Cultivating peace in your heart.

And when you're ready,

Gently bringing this exercise to a close.

But perhaps holding that gentle smile as you go about any other activities that you need to do.

Reviews

Big smiles all around :D
Thank you Shamash, as always a beautifully guided meditation!

Excellent meditation and soothing voice. Merci 🙏🏻

Thanks Shamash! Very nice to pause and chill on a long and busy train journey. Still smiling!

Shamash - that was awesome! I recently completed your class & this reinforced the kind-fullness focus of the training. This meditation really got me to smile, I even had a full joyful laugh when completed letting go of pent up emotions.

What a difference a smile makes, AMAZING!

Awesome. Soothing and relaxing. You are a great teacher!

So calming, just right, will be keeping the gentle smile whenever I remember!

Thanks shamash! 😊😊😊

Simple but effective thank you

Thank you . Wishing no one ever lose their smile :-)

Lovely! Appreciate the slow-paced, spacious presentation. Reminds me of Thich Nhat Hanh's half-smile practice. Sweet way to start the day. Thank you ~

Very nice. Gentle, effective.

Easy reminder to smile

Simple smiling meditation mind wandered a bit he seemed to know exactly when to. One back in and help guide the mind back. Highly recommend

This is new favorite

Perfect start to a day, or during the day if you need to get calm and refocus. Thank you.

Very Nice! Just smile ;-)