Today's Meditation:

"Step 1: Relax.  Whenever you are sitting with nothing to do, relax your lower jaw, and let your mouth open, just slightly.  Start breathing from the mouth, but not deeply. Just let the body breathe. So it becomes more and more shallow. When you feel that the breath has become very shallow, and your mouth is open, and your jaw relaxed, your whole body will feel relaxed. 

Step 2: Allow an inner smile. Now, start feeling a smile begin to grow. Not on your face, necessarily, but all over your being. It is an existential smile, that spreads inside you from your belly. It is a smile, not a laugh. So it is very soft and delicate. Like a little rosebud opening in the belly. It's fragrant spreading all over the body. Once you have known what the smile is, you can remain happy for 24 hours. And whenever you feel that you are missing that happiness, just close your eyes and catch hold of that smile again. And it will be there. It is always there."
-Osho, The Orange Book

Today's Practice:
Just take a little moment. Eyes open, and breathe into your heart. Just little, short, shallow, open mouth breaths. Try it right now.  Feel that energy?!  Let that smile grow. Stay with the smile.  Live today as that smile. And like you already know, every time you notice that you've forgotten, you can close your eyes for a couple of seconds (like a reset button) and come right back to It. Take those breaths, smile from the inside-out, and you're back on the Throne!

Bonus Practice:
Watch yourself practicing the short, shallow, open mouth breaths. Be the Loving space for the breathing and the smiling to happen in, rather than being the breather or the smiler.  Be the formless, impersonal, boundless, undivided, invisible Love instead of the 'practicer'. ;)

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