This gentle and nurturing meditation invites you to draw inward and awaken a deeper sense of peace and joy. Settle in and release into:
Mindful Breathwork: Calming breathing to soothe your mind and body with each inhale and exhale.
Compassionate Presence: Hold space for any disturbances with compassion, allowing peace and joy to unfold naturally within you.
Softening the Heart: Imagine the soothing color green, resonating with the heart chakra, and let it gently open and soften your heart center.
Inner Smile: Experience the profound warmth of a gentle smile, letting it touch not just your lips but also your eyes, mind, and heart, filling you with tranquility.
Mantra Meditation: Find some silence with the beautiful Sanskrit mantra, "Loka Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu" – May all beings everywhere be happy and free – to extend peace and happiness to all.
Allow this meditation to awaken inner peace and joy for yourself and all beings by nurturing the joy and love within you and sharing it with the world.
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Transcripts
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Welcome to a smiling meditation to awaken deeper peace and joy.
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My name is Linda Orsini, and I would like to guide you into
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this gentle meditation to bring a soft smile to your lips, your
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eyes and your heart as you settle into this moment, let's
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connect with our breath so just taking a deep inhale through the
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nose and exhale, sighing the breath out through the mouth,
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just slowly settling in here, allowing the inhales to be full
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and the exhales to be a deep releasing, a deep letting go, as
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we slowly move into awakening a natural joy that resides within
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you, just allowing you to experience a sense of warmth and
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happiness from the inside out. So if there's something that is
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disturbing you, whether it's a feeling, a sensation, or
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something going on in your life, just become present to it here
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in this moment, noticing it without judgment. And then let's
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hold compassion for that feeling, thought or sensation.
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The purpose of this meditation is not to dismiss what's going
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on around us, but to really hold space with compassion such
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tender compassion, and then allow peace and joy to slowly
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unfold. So let's take another deep inhale through the nose and
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exhale side out through the mouth,
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as you slowly begin to melt into This moment, allow your whole
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physical body to soften and release any tension in the face,
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in the shoulders, in the stomach and in your legs, breathe into
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any spaces that may feel tight or constricted, and not just in
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your muscles, but even perhaps in your heart. Allow your heart
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to soften here and to soften the heart feel and notice your
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breath here. Feel and notice the energy between the breaths, that
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vital life force, energy that allows you to breathe in and
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breathe out, breathing in and breathing out. And maybe you
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would like to invite the color green, the chakra, color of the
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heart here, just into your heart center, a beautiful shade of
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green that resonates deeply with you
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and as you bring attention to Your Heart Center, noticing and
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allowing yourself to become even more fully present into this
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moment, allowing yourself to soften, Creating space, creating
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a sense of peace and calm and
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and with the heart soft, let's begin here by imagining a soft,
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gentle smile spreading across your lips, not forcing. It in
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any way, but just allowing it to come naturally, feel the breath
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as the corners of your mouth lift, allowing this very soft
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and small action to create a gentle, soft shift within a
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ripple of a new perspective, a new sense of holding space where
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your outer smile can begin to nurture your inner self, your
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heart space, your sense of self compassion, allowing your
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thoughts to slowly shift and transform into a sense of deeper
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peace and stillness and
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and as you breathe into the slightly lifted edges of your
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lips, bring Your attention to your eyes, and even though your
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eyes are softly closed, picture and imagine a warm, kind smile
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in your eyes,
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where the Smile at the edges of your mouth radiate upward into
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your eyes.
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Feel the muscles around your eyes soften, allowing any
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tension to just slip away with both the edges of your lips
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lifted upward and the corners of your eyes softened, allow these
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muscles to slowly release and open The inner self, like
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turning a frown upside down and with each breath, let this
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gentle smile melt away any tightness or strain that has
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been clenching In your heart. Allow this shift in energy as
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you shift your physical body into a sense of greater joy and
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peace to slowly unfold, allowing it to just happen naturally,
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without any force.
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And then take a deep inhale through your nose, and as you
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exhale the breath to the edges of your mouth and the corners of
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your eyes, gently shift your attention to your mind and
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imagine a smile within your thoughts lighting up your mental
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space with a sense of warmth, sense of kindness and even some
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clarity if a thought passes through your mind, imagine
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placing a smile stamp on each thought as it slowly drifts away
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and with each thought that arises, allow a gentle smile to
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unfold in your mind with the understanding that this too
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shall pass, letting whatever is arising drift out of your
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consciousness, as Pima shodran says, You are the sky.
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Everything else is just the weather.
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Allow yourself to turn inward to be the sky and let everything
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else just. Like the transient weather
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coming and going while you stay grounded in that internal smile
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within your mind, within your thoughts, lighting and warming
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up that mental space, as Buddha said, the mind Is everything,
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what you think you become. And then finally coming full circle,
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returning to your heart, imagine a radiant smile shining from
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your heart, filling your entire being with warmth, with love and
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with gentle tenderness. They say the longest distance traveled is
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from the head to the heart, but here allow the eyes and the lips
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to bridge that distance, feeling and noticing a gentle smile at
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your Heart Center as a gift to your inner self and knowing and
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feeling that whatever is going on in your life, the most
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lasting, true and purest thing is the love that lives within us
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and
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breathing in and breathing out of the heart center as you
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exhale, continuing to allow everything To soften, allow the
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lips, the eyes, the mind and your heart to become present in
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this moment with a gentle softness. It's about trusting
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and surrendering, trusting and surrendering,
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feeling the breath at your heart center with a softness that
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brings a smile to the edges of your mouth, the edges and
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corners of your eyes, into your mind and into Your heart,
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allowing that radiating green light to radiate outwards so
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that everything lifts naturally,
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breathing softly here into that essence of peace, of joy that a
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smile brings,
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and if it resonates, maybe gently, bringing one or both
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hands to your heart center and breathing here, feeling the
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energy behind your breath, knowing that whatever We
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cultivate within radiates outwards. There is a traditional
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Sanskrit mantra, and it goes like this, loka samista, Suki no
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bhavantu,
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meaning may all beings everywhere be happy and free.
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Loka, samista, Suki no and. Pavantu, may our thoughts words
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and actions contribute to the happiness and freedom for all.
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Loka samista, sukino avantu,
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and radiating that interconnectedness between us,
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allowing the joy and peace and freedom that resides within us
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to radiate out to all beings,
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and as you slowly continue to breathe here into this mantra,
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let's allow just two or three minutes to breathe here into
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this silence, into this intention that we are creating
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our own sense of peace and joy and sending that out to all
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beings To feel the essence of happiness, freedom and Joy. You.
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Loka, samista, Suki no bhavantu, You,
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taking a deep inhale through The nose and exhaling it out through
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the mouth,
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slowly coming back into this present moment as you breathe
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into this space, allow this meditation halo of peace to
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radiate around you, nurturing the joy you've awakened within,
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and then Allow this meditation Halo to expand outward into your
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consciousness and touching every part of your being, and then
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sending it out to all beings,
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allowing. Smiling sense of meditation to awaken inner peace
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and joy, to be the energy that guides you as you move forward,
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helping you to remember and embrace your inner joy,
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compassion and love,
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knowing this inner light is always there, ready to support
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and uplift you whenever you need it, always wishing you great
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peace, joy, love and light from my heart to yours. Namaste.
