As taught by Master Mantak Chia, Universal Healing Tao Center and Tao Garden Thailand

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In the Taoist tradition, positive and negative emotions are associated with the internal organs. One of the keys to good health is to become aware of the emotional energies that reside in the organs and to transform the negative emotional energies into positive virtues.

Taoists believe that we are all born with the virtues of love, gentleness, kindness, respect, honesty, fairness, justice, and righteousness.

In Tao, “emotional intelligence” is a process of recognizing emotions by their effects on the body and employing exercises that transform the negative emotions into a positive life force, or Chi.

Two important exercises are the “Inner Smile” and the “Six Healing Sounds” techniques, as taught by Master Mantak Chia.

Taoists learned the relationships between emotional energies and organ systems over centuries of study and meditation. They developed methods to transform negative into positive emotions from their practical and intuitive understanding of the human body.

Many Taoist insights are supported by observations and evidence from modern psychology and medicine. 

The five major organ systems and their associated emotions and properties.

  1. The heart is associated with the negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation strongly influence the heart’s rhythm and relationship to the body’s physiological systems (see www.heartmath.org).
  2. The lungs are associated with the negative emotions of sadness and depression and the positive virtues of courage and righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by physical depression and the collapse of the chest and lungs.
  1. The kidneys are associated with the negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness. Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of the kidneys. When stimulated by the body’s fight-or-flight response, the adrenal glands secret adrenalin, and noradrenalin.
  2. The liver is associated with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid availability of metabolic energy stores in the body.
  3. The stomach/spleen are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the “butterflies” and “knots” in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to a network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system (Gershon, 1998). 

The Inner Smile and Six Healing Sounds exercise direct our attention to the body’s organs and associated qualities. We successively visualize each organ, cleansing the organ and transforming negative emotional energies into positive virtues.

Our organs store emotional garbage to clear up inner clutter; Mantak Chia recommends first smiling to major organs to detoxify negative emotions.

This “refines and recycles harmful energy into healing energy,” says Mantak Chia. Our organs work hard to maintain our homeostasis so that we can thank them with an inner smile.

The specific order for the inner smile follows the organ cycle of creation. The inner smile can be practiced at any time and for any duration.

Familiarize yourself with the major organs’ location before the practice to establish a strong mental connection with them.

You may feel more in touch with your organs if you place your hands over them as you send your smile as well as visualize them.

Feel the grateful response from your organs as they release blockages and receive loving energy.

Open your eyes if you choose to make the healing sounds, then close them to resume.

Doing The Inner Smile Video

To clear your negative emotions, follow these simple Inner Smile Steps-

  1. Begin by closing your eyes and relaxing your whole body. Breath slowly and smoothly, letting go of the exhalation.
  2.  Smooth facial muscles and focus attention on the third eye.
  3. Feel inner joy. Visualizing a peaceful scene, a smiling baby, or your smiling face may evoke this feeling.
  4. Gather this bliss behind your eyes and watch it internally as it travels down your body.
  5. Let the smiling energy flow like a sweet stream down your nose to wash over your lips.
  6. Raise the corners of your mouth slightly in a sublime inner smile. Simultaneously feel this soften your eyes.
  7. Place the tongue behind the teeth to connect the energy circuit for the practice.
  8. Relax your jaw.
  9. Swallow your saliva, feel your throat open, and relax as you smile at your voice box. Thank them for giving you the power of balance and speech.
  10. Visualize your thymus like a blossoming flower and smile at it, thanks to strong immunity and healing energy.
  11. Let the smile radiate to the happiness center of your heart. Feel your heart soften and fill with red love nectar. Release cruelty, harshness, hastiness, impatience, and hurt from the heart on the exhalation. You can also say Haaw to release negativity. Send a smiling love letter to your open heart. Thank it for giving you compassion, kindness, joy, and good circulation.
  12. Gather the loving energy from the heart and spread it to your lovely lungs. Sense every cell relax as it releases grief and depression, exhaling the sound Sssss. You can also visualize them as glowing white wings carrying you to your higher mission. Swelling with smiling sap, let your spongy lungs soak up joy, love, and courage. Thank them for oxygenating your body.
  13. Smile to your liver as it emanates a forest green hue, releasing grey murky light on the exhalation. Release anger and resentment with the sound Shhh. On the smiling inhalation, absorb kindness, forgiveness, and acceptance. Thank the liver for its role in assimilation, metabolism, and purification.
  14. Send pure smiling streams to your stomach, pancreas, and spleen.
    Visualize these organs basking in a golden yellow light as they relax to release worry and anxiety while exhaling the sound Huuuu. Feel faith, fairness and present-minded consciousness saturate this region. Thank the organs for maintaining healthy digestion, immunity, and blood sugar levels.
  15. Keeping your body relaxed, send a loving smile to the kidneys. Visualize them like deep blue ears, releasing fear and stress from them whilst exhaling the sound Choo. Smile to them as they fill with soothing security, wisdom, and calm. Thank them and the adrenals for filtering blood, balancing water, and increasing stress resistance. Strong kidneys also give us the willpower to act on our convictions.
  16. Smile to your orgasmic sexual area. Fill it with tender loving energy, appreciating the pleasure and power it gives you. Thank it for producing hormones that nourish the mind and body.
  17. To finish, smile up your spine, washing the whole body with golden nectar flowing from each vertebra through the nervous system, bone marrow, bones, muscles, skin, and hair.
  18. The smiling waterfall rises to your crown, showering your whole body in smiling ecstasy.
  19. Allow the energy to flow back down behind your eyes and pool into your naval.
  20. To complete the practice, spiral energy around your navel. Men place their palms left over right and spiral clockwise 36 times whilst women place their palms right over left and spiral counterclockwise 36 times. Next, reverse the direction and spiral back 24 times. By storing the smiling energy in the navel, you will avoid accumulating excess heat in the head or heart.

Mantak Chia also teaches special postures to cleanse each organ.

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