AARAVAM - E Magazine from JCI Arayankavu (April 2018)

touching), with palms facing up to open your awareness or palms facing down to calm the
mind. Now close your eyes. Do a body scan and relax any tension you may be holding. Let
exhale. Visualize shining green colour to the energy that is flowing
exhalation. Breathe and smile into these organs. Visualize the energy there as bright yellow with
peace. As you move the energy in the given order – the creation cycle – every cell is charged with
energy. The surplus energy is automatically conducted into the brain and the nerve cells. This
you?” His face radiated with happiness. "That is easy," he said. "Just give me your smiles. It
To begin, choose a quiet spot. Find a comfortable posture for meditation (seated on a Yoga
mat or in a chair). Place your hands on your knees in Jnana Mudra (index and thumb fingers
your spine rise from the root of the pelvis. Draw your chin slightly down and lengthen the
back of your neck. Become aware of the midpoint between your eyebrows through which you
will draw this abundant smiling energy in front of and around you. Let your forehead relax,
and allow the smiling energy accumulates at the mid-eyebrow [ bhru-madhya ]; it will
eventually overflow into your body.
Feel your abdomen rising and falling and the overflowing energy
gradually accumulates into your navel, which is the energy centre.
Let it flow in to your abdomen. Continue smiling into your navel.
As you exhale, bring your attention into the bladder. Visualize the
energy flowing there in bright orange colour. Let your awareness
stay there for a couple of breaths.
Move on to the right side of the body,to the liver on the next exhale
.Smile into your liver.Visualize energy in the form of a bright
sunlight flowing in to the liver with the inhalation. Continue this for
another three to four breaths. Now move to the heart on the next
to your heart while you continue to breath and smile. Stay there for
a couple of breaths as well.
Now let your awareness slowly glide down to your stomach, pancreas and spleen on the next
the qualities of warm soft earth. Continue to smile. Bring your awareness into your lungs. Lungs
denote the quality of the value, Peace. Inhale bright blue coloured energy into every cell as you
smile into them. Feel your lungs expand and become cool and pure helping you to find your
inner calm. Repeat this for a number of times of breaths.
On the next exhale, let your awareness go down to your kidneys. Visualise the energy in bright
yellowish orange colour. Go through the cycle of organs as explained for a few number of times.
When you finish, finally bring your awareness back to the navel where the energy is stored. As all
the internal tensions are dissolved by this practice the whole body becomes calm and filled with
harmonizes the brain, balances both hemisphere and provides healing effects on the organs.
Dalai Lama gave a teaching recently. The final question asked of him was, “What can we give to
makes me feel good when I see people smile at me. And if you smile at each other that would
also be very good. So please give me your smiles.”