Chapter III
Secret of the Inner Smile
Once you’ve created a quiet, calming external atmosphere you
must establish that same quiet and calm within yourself. If the room
is conducive to meditating, but your jaw clenched, your neck stiff,
shoulders tense, your back stiff, your stomach upset, you will not
be able to circulate the chi energy and complete the microcosmic
orbit.
A relaxed mental attitude and the thirty-six deep abdominal
breaths will help to calm your mind and begin to relax your body.
But to achieve full calmness means more than simply relaxing tense
muscles and jittery nerves. To gain a deep and lasting state of
relaxation requires that we develop a feeling of peace in our inner-
most parts. Only when our vital organs like the heart, lungs, liver,
kidney and stomach, nervous system and circulatory system are
feeling relaxed, can we psychologically feel serene. To reach these
organs, the ancient Taoist masters discovered a simple secret,
the “inner smile”.Fig. 3.1 An Inner smile radiates powerful healing energy.Chapter III