Embracing Life With A Smile

This meditation invites you to rest in the gentle image and feeling of a smile, inspired by the compassionate Buddha’s serene expression. Meditating with the spirit of a smile helps relax our habitual “fight or flight” response and reconnects us with the spaciousness and love at our core.

As you imagine a soft smile spreading through your eyes, lips, and heart, tension dissolves and ease arises. Even difficult emotions are held with kindness and acceptance. By returning to the smile throughout the practice, you nurture radical acceptance, openness, and unconditional friendliness toward your own experience.

Reviews

Love. I was able to sustain the breath focus while adding in that feeling of a smile.❤️

Thanks, I have noticed the smile is powerful and it just feels good!
Thank you for this affirmation.

Beautiful

Had no idea my whole body could smile. Thank you for guiding me this beautiful place

I was so scared of this. So resistant. I don’t even know why I chose to try it. I rarely laugh or even smile genuinely anymore. This felt completely forced and inauthentic. At the start my body and soul were screaming not to do it. I was so surprised at the end to discover just how much I needed to move through this, and how deeply it was not even about my face.
Thank you