Comments on: [Audio] Instantly Increase Your Happiness With This Easy Zen Technique

By: Niklas

Niklas — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 18:59:38 +0000

I just started to get the hang of smiling from the heart and atm i try to practice it as a often as i can during the day. I guess its many levels of this skill and the benefits, and i just started to peel of the 1st layer, What i notice so far is the moneky mind calms down and i feel more present, but the biggest thing is i start to yawn when i practice it. Not sure why but i do…..

🙂 with a smile from the heart
/Niklas from Sweden

By: Darryl

Darryl — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 23:42:23 +0000

Like Inner Smile, one in the same me thinks and it’s wonderful!

By: Santiago arcon carballo ( oak chest)

Santiago arcon carballo ( oak chest) — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 05:45:43 +0000

I knew this one, just happened to me and a friend of mine when we were young and went to climb a little mountain 4 am after having half acid each. It wasnt the drug but the whole setting of time, place and people made it happen and last until at least i got back to city, abd forgot quite soon. One gets to understand the nature will and to be humble but able to choose to be vain, at a price of course. Then well , got bigger and identified with my projection more and more to become more like a ghost than a living being. But now i feel slowly coming back, thanks for this joy. I remembered that everyone, especially homeless people realised of the state and really wanted to “test” me or maybe just get a little energy wich i gave, but there are too many of those around here, also i became progresively vain or to say it otherwise, the form progresively replaced the ritual. I feel it would be way more easy to smile with the heart in the nature or a little town, altbough i believe the ritual isnt affected by anything in particular as its everything or anything compromised in such act. Also there is a posibilitt we are talking about different things! Anyway thanks for the sensation and memorie, hopefully (def not ready yet) i ll remember the lesson until i have a full day of smiling to start, really miss those, wish you peace!

By: Jennifer P Fife

Jennifer P Fife — Sat, 02 May 2020 14:55:48 +0000

I feel this! My fiancee calls me a happy girl, and I think this is what he is seeing in me. Sometimes I don’t feel so happy, I have borderline personality disorder, but I truly “try” to stop and smile and take in all of the beauty around me, in physical form, with my senses, smelling a horse, hearing a bird, the deliciousness of a grapefruit, the feel of the earth on my feet, the presence of relationship with animals… I shouldn’t say “try”, I just Do. Even to watch a wasp crawl up and run his little tentacles together like he’s excited about where he’s going…. Anything can make me smile from the heart 💓

By: Sifu Anthony Korahais

Sifu Anthony Korahais — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:40:09 +0000

In reply to Sue Kranz. I like that quote, but I'm not 100% sure that the Buddha said it. Anyway, it's good advice!

By: Sue Kranz

Sue Kranz — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 12:20:12 +0000

Thank you for your passion and generosity of heart, spirit, and practice!

I strongly resonate with your story, and as well as the above reader/writer stories.

Many years ago I saw a poster in my Sangha’s meditation room that quoted the Buddha:

“Is your smile the source of your joy? or
Is your joy the source of your smile?”

I never forgot this and have practiced the half-smile practice for years. I found that your exploration of “smiling from the heart” and the above-guided meditation deepens my heartfelt sense of the power of this practice!

Sue

By: Sifu Anthony Korahais

Sifu Anthony Korahais — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:50:18 +0000

In reply to Priscilla Peck. Glad it was helpful! To be clear, I did not invent "smiling from the heart". It's an ancient technique.

By: Priscilla Peck

Priscilla Peck — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:29:31 +0000

Hi Sifu,
I have been exploring Qi Gong for the past 4 years and recently enrolled on a correspondence course here in the UK, as all the other courses here are so expensive to attend, literally works out at thousands of pounds!
I’m a Hatha Yoga Teacher and have loved my yoga practice for over 30 years, but when I found Qi Gong it was like ‘coming home’ again; the practice dovetails so well with my yoga. Also I’m now over 60, ( with a brain of a 35 year old), but Qi Gong seems to loosen all the ‘cranky, creaky’ parts of the body and especially helps me mentally deal with daily stress, anxieties and sometimes sadness.
I only found your link and website recently, but I love your words and descriptions, this one ‘Smile from the Heart’ particularly struck a chord with me and I just wanted to write and thank you for your inspiration. I will continue with my studies and research, but will always be following you now as your words really resonate with my thoughts and understanding.
Once again thankyou and Namaste
Priscilla (from the UK)

By: Preben

Preben — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:29:05 +0000

This is such a gentle “exercise” and full of ease. It really is a tool to melt you into the Universal Heart.
I might be late to the (comment/reply) party, but I would like to share my best insight to this meditation.
I too struggled with depression, and I had a deep hatred for myself. I didn’t want to move on in this life anymore… I tried, and I tried and I tried. I was so forceful in everything I did. Not knowing what this really did, I moved further and further away from inclusion, immersion, totality. Togetherness…
I tried to reach the ultimate through ego, through effort. Through Fighting.
I became an Island. An isolated, dry, love-less and lonely island.
It suddenly came to me one day, that I became open. Receptive. Effortless…
I don’t know where it came from, or why it came at that time, but it was nearly at the brink of my own self-destruction. I couldn’t live with myself anymore.

Now, when I tune into my heart, and merge with that effortless, beautiful silent gem, I forget myself.
I disappear, and I find myself…

It’s so ironic, isn’t it? When I am not, I am.
When I am not, the birds are singing, the mountains are smiling. The clouds are waving, and the flowers are shining. The world, this gem of wonder is smiling at me, to me, through me. Out of me. Inside of me. Once this portal has somehow been entered, there is no how, there is no “technique”. There just is, isness. Totality. It becomes transparently clear, that this is me. That this is my natural self and being.
Forget this not, my friends. The effortless dimension of your being is forever yours, and forever is there for you. It is you! The mind sneaks back, has to define how, to structure it somehow and know it intellectually. This again creates the dreadful feeling of separation, of HOW! How to reach it.
Melt… Melt and let go. Forget yourself, and merge in the ocean of the Beloved.

“A knife can cut many things, but it cannot cut itself”
You cannot perceive the self, you can only be the self.
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Ooops, this went on too long… It felt good to just let my heart pour out and go on by itself.
Thank you, Anthony, for this incredible article. It stirred up my heart again, with truth and ecstatic well-being and joy. Thank you.
Love you all.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 19:50:08 +0000

Sifu, I was feeling really angry and stressed out just now. So I searched on “depression” and “qi gong” and found your site. I’ve been seeing a Qi Gong teacher for four years for physical problems, but I’m bipolar, so I have recurring deep, crippling depressions. I’m not in a depression right now, but I’ve been having a terrible day.

When I read what you had to say about Smiling from the Heart, I just instantly did it. I sent my intention from my brain down to my heart and said, “Hi heart! Let’s smile!” And my heart and brain hugged each other. Big smile! Ahhhhhh…. Thank you so much!!!