Description
The basic format of considering a smile is easy to perceive. By coupling the movement of your breath with the form of a smile, you create a working energy field you can feel as a sensation where ever you are focusing in your body. As you inhale you will feel an increase of tension as the form of the working smile “stretches” that part of your body out. As you exhale the tension will release as the tissues relax.
By repeating this simple breath-style fulcrum several times as directed, this meditation offers you a simple and effective way of clearing stress and excess emotional tension in your body. As an example, the associated emotion of the liver is anger. Over time, old events of anger can get buried in the energetic density of the liver beneath the level of consciousness. By expanding and stretching the energetic field of the liver out in this way, these old stresses and tensions can release and dissipate resulting in a clearer and healthier field within your body. This inner healing will be reflected in an increased sense of wellness and positive changes in behaviour.
For those not familiar with Zero Balancing, or “ZB” as it is commonly called, it is a mind-bodywork developed in the early 1970s by Dr Frederick “Fritz” Smith MD. It is predicated on the understanding that energy or “chi” exists in our bodies with its own anatomy and functionality, and critically, its own very specific relationship with our body structures. To explain this principle further, consider the metaphor of a sail boat with the wind representing energy, and the sail structure. By using “ZB Touch” a skilled form of touch using a working energy field or fulcrum as a tool, Zero Balancing invites your body to find a new internal equilibrium between these two forces of energy and structure, in the same way a skilled sailor knows how to reorientate the sail to tack into the wind to gain the maximum advantage.
Furthermore, we know energy moves in the form of a wave. It only takes a little stretch of the imagination to see the form or structure of a smile as being half of a sine wave. From this perspective the “Inner Smile” as used as a working tool in this meditation, is actually a structure with has an inherent energy form. This provides the working fulcrum we can create and control in different parts of our bodies to suit.
To make this even more meaningful and effective, the form of this Taoist meditation is based on the model of the 5-Elements as described in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this model the world is considered in terms of five seasons each with a specific timing, colour, sound, emotion, organ or function of the body. As an example, for the season of spring, the element is wood, the colour is green and we work with the liver, gall bladder, eyes, muscle ligament and tendons. Within the Sheng Cycle, wood/spring sits between winter (the element of water which feeds it) and is the mother of summer (the element of fire).
A typical single meditation cycle with three “Inner Smile” breath variations through each of your organs takes just over 20 minutes. It is recommended this mediation is practised daily in either a sitting position or lying down: you be the judge of what is most comfortable. If you have the time, you might consider repeating this single meditation cycle three times in one sitting as the opportunity to clear at much deeper levels beyond your day-to day known world are very rewarding.
We hope you enjoy exploring your inner world and wish you great health and happiness.
The Zero Balancing Touch Foundation
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