Smile Your Way to Consciousness, Smiling as a Profound Spiritual Practice
Hi, I’m Robin Wing with www.SecretWealthMastery.com and www.MagnetizeYourWealth.com
Have you ever noticed how the simplest things in life are the most extraordinary, the most meaningful, and the most beautiful?
I have a practice I want to share with you today, or actually remind you of,because you have all tried this before. It’s called SMILING!
Smiling is so extraordinary!
And let me point out that this is not about being fake. It’s not about not being present, or not being real. Because the most important thing is to be where you’re at, and who you are, in the moment. So you begin by acknowledging where you’re at. This is very, very important.
And then consciously, very consciously you smile. And see how immediately your energy begins to shift within your body and in your heart center. It’s very powerful. And then what happens is your emotions follow. It is a very profound spiritual experience.
Smiling is so powerful. At any moment in your day when you’re feeling depressed, or intense, or angry, or whatever you might be feeling, when you consciously remember and actually smile, it shifts your energy immediately.
To take it to the next level, if you have a mirror handy (you don’t want to do this while you’re driving!) try smiling while looking in your own eyes. It might feel quite uncomfortable at first if you’re not used to it. But it’s really about loving yourself ultimately, that’s what this whole practice is about.
And for you business minded people out there asking “Well how does this relate to my business?” it relates profoundly because your success in your business comes from the space from which you come from. People first and foremost want YOU. They want what YOU have to offer. They are attracted to YOU. And if they feel that they can resonate with you and feel that you inspire them and lift them up, then they will want to be part of whatever you’re doing. They’ll want to join you.
So I invite you to try it. Whenever you want, as much as you want!
Try smiling whenever you want to shift your energy. Feel what happens. Feel the miracle in this very simple God-given practice, this miracle called SMILING.
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Conscious Eating as a Profound Spiritual Practice, by Robin Wing
By Robin Wing with www.SecretWealthMastery.com and www.MagnetizeYourWealth.com
From heaven and earth we receive our food. Conscious, prayerful eating is a very beautiful way to practice yoga. When we eat with love, with bountiful appreciation, the process of eating itself becomes a spiritual practice.
Before we approach our food, we prepare ourselves. We are about to enter into a most spiritual experience. When time permits, we bathe, purifying ourselves physically, washing away mental and psychic tensions. We take a few minutes to breathe slow, soft, complete breaths. Gentle and light, we attune to our intrinsic calm and quietude. We become aware of our natural hunger, which stimulates and enlivens our digestion.
We approach our kitchen as we would a temple - a place of transformation. We walk slowly, contemplatively, our heart satiated with pure vibrations, thankful for this plentiful grace, for this special occasion to feed and nurture ourselves, our family, our friends. We communicate with our food, relishing its beauty, its color, its form. We chant, we sing, feeling joyous as we cook, opening to our full-flavored expression.
If our meal is being prepared for us, we acknowledge the love and energy that pours into this creation. We convey our appreciation with our whole being, through kind words, a smile, or the light in our eyes.
We sit in a space that is sacred to us, returning here each meal, sowing the seeds for an atmosphere that naturally and magnetically invites us into meditation. We recognize this as a place of sadhana, or spiritual practice.
We light a candle, place a flower on the table, or perform any rite or ritual that holds special meaning for us. We offer our food to the Divine, for his and her pleasure.
We may wish to eat alone, or in the company of loved ones - in complete silence, or with soft, uplifting music in the background.
Sitting with our food before us, we close our eyes. We meditate, and breathe a prayer of thanksgiving. This food beomes our beloved. We listen to her voice, sensing all the love that has gone into its fruition - the commitment and dedication of the farmers in the field, the gift of the five elements, the power and wisdom of the entire cosmos. As we inhale the aroma, our taste buds awaken, our salivary glands come alive, and fresh prana imbues all our senses.
This is a most sacred moment we are entering into. We relax into a worshipful mood. Our meditation and reverent attitude transforms and spiritualizes the food before we eat.
Finally the moment of our first mouthful arrives. As our taste buds make contact, we delight in the explosion of sensations, the exquisite taste. The first mouthful is so ecstatic. We savor it, allowing relaxation to spread throughout our body, releasing all subtle tensions. We receive the essence of our food, which is prana, which is love. We feel our energy rising upward. We enter into the experience of conscious eating.
Conscious, prayerful eating adds immensely to the pleasure and nourishment we receive from our food. Although natural, wholesome food is very important, more essential and life enhancing is the way we eat, which takes us beyond the physical realm altogether. Through this meditative mode of eating, we are enhancing the food value many times, and recharging our whole being, sanctifying it with spiritual energy.
As we eat, we remain in silence, letting go of all that lies outside us. With our eyes lightly closed, our body soft and open, we eat slowly, chewing our food thoroughly. When we chew well, consciously, we add an element to food that nature isn’t able to produce.
Breathing is also an essential ingredient. Chewing and breathing go hand in hand. They are united, inseparable. When we consciously breathe as we eat, we fan the fire of our digestion. We keep our energies flowing. The intention is to convert each morsel into its purest possible state by chewing thoroughly until it is liquid, breathing prana into it, and infusing it with our loving vibrations.
As we become more accustomed to this practice, we become more and more relaxed as we eat. Chewing slowly and sensuously, deep breaths begin to emerge spontaneously, without thought or effort.
Another way to further invoke and awaken the spirit of communion is to silently repeat mantra as we eat. The holy vibrations of the mantra are assimilated into our food and thus into every cell of our body, and every thought and image in our mind.
Periodically during our meal, we pause for a moment, tuning in to our body. Have we satisfied our hunger? Do we need more food? It’s not the quantity of food that nourishes us. It’s the quality, and the attitude with which we eat. We know that we are being nurtured in the very best way by eating consciously.
Upon completion, we become still. We end our dining experience with a final prayer of gratitude for this refreshing godsend of sustenance and new life. Sitting in meditation a few more moments, we receive the ultimate nourishment from our food, on every level. Balanced, light, and energized, we feel prana flowing through our body, coming to rest at our third eye, the seat of our conscious awareness.
As we slowly transition, rising up from our meal, we carry this sense of attunement, clarity, and self-mastery into our day, wherever we go, whatever we do.
Conscious eating is a natural delight; a celebration; a wonderful, simple, and luxurious pathway into nutritious and fertile lands, and into the sublime sweetness and richness of the yoga of love.
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Robin Wing, Founder & Director of the Mystical Yoga Institute, published author and musician, and former Director of Kripalu Yoga Teacher Trainings, has had the great fortune to live in spiritually charged yoga ashrams in the U.S. & India for over two decades & has studied very closely with great yoga masters from many traditions.
The primary focus of Robin’s study & practice continues to be immersed in the spiritual dimension of yoga & devotion, born from a tradition & lineage of masters that dates back thousands of years. Robin created Mystical Yoga from a strong intuitive calling to bring these ancient teachings of yoga into this modern age in a new and profound way.
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