Smiling into your body

Please sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes.
Take a few deep breaths, and with each outbreath let go of all the stuff you were concerned with today.
Let it flow out with the breathe and enjoy the inner stillness that follows:-

direct your attention to the inner space where you can feel your body expanding and contracting. Allow the body to relax into that space of awareness.
Do you know which organs are in that area?

Can you feel your lungs expanding and contracting.
Allowing the fresh air in , taking in oxygen to the blood vessels and then emptying the old air out again.
We do this the whole day, day after day, without even noticing it much.
With the next inbreath can you send a warm thank you smile into your lungs?

Try to feel, where your heart is. Even if you don;'t know much about anatomy you will know where the center of your chest is?
where does it feel like the center?
Is there any pulsing? Is it warm or cold there?
Does it feel open or rather tense?

Just reflect for a moment what your heart is doing for you now as the center of your life force.
With your inbreath send a smile into your heart and when you breath out let the breath radiate from your heart into all directions sending smiles to everybody around you.
We can connect with our hearts especially in silence.

Now try to connect with your stomach. Can you feel your stomach? Its is where your breakfast is right now. Does it feel comfortable there or rather heavy or empty if you did not have breakfast?
With the next inbreath send a big smile to your stomach a kind of appreciation because it helps with digesting the good we eat.

What else is in that area where you can feel the body expanding and contacting, ribs, liver, spine?
Try to make a feeling a connection with these other parts of the body which are all doing their best to support your life.
Take a deep breath into that organ and make space there and don't forget to send a smile of thank you to them to let then know how much you value their support and how much you care about them.

just do it for yourself in silence take your time and if you have finished stay with the attention focused on your breathing body and space.

And at last open your attention out to the whole space of awareness.
That is the space of the Buddha- mind.
The space behind thought.
The space from where all sense impressions arise.
The space into which they cease.
With the next inbreath let a big thank you smile expand into this silence.