A smile elicits wonderful qualities: understanding, acceptance, patience. It affirms goodness, recognizes beauty, and pulls in wisdom as it lingers and tinctures the connections it has made.
The very fact that you can always offer a smile, to yourself or to someone else, celebrates a fundamental freedom that we all possess: the freedom to choose how to respond to a situation. It’s your life. It’s your experience. Choose to express the brightness of your being with a smile.
Happy meditating.
Note: Should you want to meditate with any given week’s theme more than three times a week, you could certainly repeat a current meditation or you can access meditations from previous rounds under the “Practice of Living Awareness”tab in the menu bar of the blog. You’ll see a “Previous Rounds” sub-menu; there are plenty there. You could also search in the footer by looking for dropdown box that says “Looking for meditations on a particular week’s theme?” Clicking the theme you’d like will reveal a slew of meditations. And lastly, there’s the website. We’ve got an entire round, all 14 weeks of meditation recordings and insightful thoughts about each of the 14 weeks. You can find that HERE.
Each round offers a slightly different approach to the practice. Dive in!