This morning as I sat smiling back at Jeremy and Heather’s beautiful and smiling faces shining from the desktop of my computer, I was fully aware, yet again, of how a smile translates into all these wonderful sensations in the body.
The head feels happy, the eyes rejoice in contentment and delight, the nose breathes easy, the mouth relaxes into warmth, the neck settles into its proper place atop the shoulders that are now enjoying a sense of true alignment in the whole scheme of the body. The ears are smiling their own little ear smile in anticipation of the melody of laughter that they are sure is yet to come.
The arms rest with hands on lap, an expectant tingle of imminent embrace running their length into fingers that rest in keen awareness of their essential purpose in a hug’s enfoldment.
Then, of course the heart, held by gently inhaling lungs, sits at ease in the gratitude of this smile radiating down and through it into all the organs of the body. The liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the intestines, the upper and lower energy centers, the male and female organs, the organs of elimination, every cell in the body, ALL breathe a huge sigh of contentment, of well being, and a renewed consciousness that all is right with the world and their place in it.
The hips, the thighs, the knees, the calves, the ankles, the feet and the toes, feeling the warmth of this smile, simply rest in its radiance, grateful for the sense of rightness of place that shines upon them.The skin breathing in the wonder of its essential nature, relaxes onto the muscles held strong in the acknowledgement of their life long purpose, as they gracefully embrace the bones that rejoice with satisfaction in the wisdom of their crucial function.
In that one simple action of upturned lips, a myriad of possibilities awaken. And, that is only the beginning. As that smile, now an entity unto itself, moves from the face, it sends waves of warmth, love, delight, joy, preciousness and connection rippling out into the world to be received with known and unknown effects.
Do Jeremy and Heather feel me smiling at them from afar each morning and every time I open my computer? Do Bonnie, Kelly and Jessica in Taiwan feel the warmth of my
smile as I think of them and all the adventures we have had? Does Uday’s little daughter, Tara, in India, catch the ray of delight I send her way each time I gaze at a new photo of her? I sit here smiling at you now. Can you feel it? I send you love in those little waves that come from the heart and my upturning lips. May Life smile warmly on you today, Emily
Emily A. Easton © 2009
