Meditation exercise: the secret smile

The Secret Smile is one of Dr. Glenn Morris’s exercises and he wrote it down in his book. Pathnotes of an American Ninja Master. Those of us who teach his martial arts form, Hoshinjutsu, also teach this regularly in our classes. This is actually a pretty easy exercise and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Energy flows better through a relaxed and happy body and you should get used to making this a regular part of your practice.

Choose the meditation position you prefer. Take time to do the grounding exercise and relax your breathing. Put a smile on your face and keep it there.

To start the Secret Smile, first squeeze your toes as hard as possible, until it starts to hurt. Relax them and feel the feeling that follows a kind of relaxed, happy, happy not being squeezed tight. Bring that feeling up through your feet, then up your ankles, and then along your calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Feel the muscles relax as you do this. Draw the sensation up the spine and over the head to the point where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Mix the feeling of relaxation with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it slide down your body relaxing you as you go.

Think of a time when you did something right. It can be any event you want, but think of a time when you did something really well and everyone knew about it. Delete the event and keep the feeling. Bring that feeling to your toes and then pull that feeling up through your feet, then up through your ankles, and up along your calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Draw the sensation up the spine and over the head to the point where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Mix the good, competent feeling with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it trickle down your body, charging you with the good feeling as you go. Let it mix with the first one.

Think of a time when you laughed, a good deep laugh that you couldn’t control or stop. Now get the reason out of the laughter, but keep the feeling. Bring that feeling of laughter all the way to your toes and then carry that laughter through your feet, then to your ankles and calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Draw the sensation up the spine and over the head to the point where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Mix the feeling of joy and laughter with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it run down your body feeling your body laugh as you go. Let it mix with the others.

Think of a time when you were in love, really, completely, 100%, madly in love. Take out the person or persons. Bring that feeling down to your toes and then pull it up through your feet, then up through your ankles, and up through your calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Draw the sensation up the spine and over the head to the point where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Mix the sensation of love with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it fall through your body, charging you with complete and unconditional love. Let it mix with the others.

Think of the best orgasm you have ever had. Take the person or people out and just keep the feeling of orgasm. Bring that feeling to your toes and then pull that feeling up through your feet, then up through your ankles, and up along your calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Draw the sensation up the spine and over the head to the point where the tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth. Mix the sensation with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it trickle down your body, charging you with the good feeling as you go. Let it mix with the others.

Feel the combination of the energies now and feel the combined energies swirling at your feet. Bring the sensations up to your toes and then pull that sensation up through your feet, then up through your ankles, and up through your calves. Feel it rise onto your knees, then onto your thighs and hips. Feel the happy, relaxed, loving and competent sexual energy as it flows up your spine and over your head and down to the point where your tongue touches the roof of the mouth just behind your front teeth. Mix the combined sensations with the saliva in your mouth and then swallow it and feel it fall through your body and then let it flow to the top of your head, then down to your feet.

Play around with this for a bit, run it as often as you can. This is how you must feel all the time; relaxed, happy, loved and sexy. As you get better at this, you will be able to run it continuously.

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