Maddie Posted November 3, 2021 1 hour ago, el_tortugo said:  Thanks for sharing this!  In your practice of this do you use visualization or is it more of a sensing/feeling energy or placing your center or being at each of those organs or regions? Or something else?     I actually do all the above. I will start with visualization but I wait until I actually start feeling something and then that's when things usually start happening. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vajra Fist Posted November 5, 2021 I've discovered recently how powerful smiling is, particularly in meditation.  Bhante Vimalaramsi, a Theravada teacher, believes that the fact that Buddha statues have a gentle smile is a practice clue. He has incorporated it into his metta practice, and I believe its also been picked up elsewhere of late by Thich Nhat Hanh and Leigh Brasington.  Some qigong practices like Spring Forest also emphasise practicing with a smile. I believe Chunyi Lin has even turned it into an acronym - Start My Internal Love Engine (SMILE). The childish part of me finds that hilarious  2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
