Lovingly Smiling

By Keith Braselton

Did you know that there is a huge difference between feeling good and feeling love or loving? It is like the difference between thinking about being rich and being rich. There is really no comparison. Even so, many people spend most of their lives looking for a way to feel good instead of concentrating on the real thing, to feel love and to feel loved.

Have you ever stopped yourself to consider what you want most out of your life? Is it that house on the hill or is it to be happy moment by moment? Is it to experience love within you and all around you all of the time? Did you know that was possible?

Have you ever experienced love in a strong way? If you have experienced love in a strong way, was it valuable to you?

Just pondering over a loving experience for a few moments will bring a smile to your face. Would it be incredible for you to be able to create very loving experiences all of the time?

What would you be willing to do to make yourself feel love all of the time? Would you be willing to change a few things about your life? Would you be willing to do a little bit of work every day?

You can learn to use and feel love moment by moment. You can learn how to bring love out in you and learn how to put love into motion. It is profoundly simple. It does take a little work on your part, but if you're willing, you will love the results.

If you look at any person in any state of love, what is the first thing that you notice about them?

The person will look exactly like the manifestation of love they are experiencing, like the love they are putting into motion. Excited people look excited. A person in a state of passion looks passionate. A happy person looks happy. A common trait that you will notice in anyone who is in any state of love or experiencing any expression of love, is that they are smiling — all of them. You can use this knowledge to help yourself feel love. If you have the intention of feeling love, you can use a loving smile to engage the love that is within you and put it into motion at any time. (It is possible for a person to smile and not feel love. So when I talk about a loving smile, I am talking about smiling with the intention of feeling love, with your heart open.)

Lovingly smiling engages love within you.

You might say, "That's silly, it couldn't be that simple!" But wait; let me show you how powerful a loving smile can be. If you would like to learn how to feel love at any time and all of the time, then play along with me here for a moment and let us see if we can help you create a profound experience.

Make yourself feel ecstatically happy, totally fired up, amazed, extraordinarily wonderful. You are standing or sitting proud, chest out, face lifted up, smiling like crazy. You are breathing deep and strong. Jump up and down, yell and scream, "I feel good!" You are loving yourself and everything around you! You are excited! You are beaming! (When you are feeling absolutely wonderful, read on.)

Now, without changing anything about your physiology — do not change your posture, do not change your smiling beaming face, do not change your breathing — try to make yourself feel sad, angry, or hurt.

Isn't that amazing? No matter how hard you try, you cannot make yourself feel sad, angry, hurt or any other negative feeling when your physiology is loving or happy! That is very profound! What an incredible tool!

It also works in the opposite way!

Make yourself look as though you are sad. Bow your head, make your eyes and mouth look sad, make your breathing shallow and short, droop your shoulders, stare at the floor. You are so sad. Make yourself feel this sadness for a moment. (After you're sure you're in a sad state, then read on.)

Isn't it strange how much you have to work to make yourself feel sad?

Now, without changing your physiology in any way, try to feel any state or expression of love.

You can think about love and you can see love around you but you cannot feel love unless you are smiling. That is so incredible! You can use your physiology to change your state of being anytime and all of the time. It is possible for you to manifest any quality of love, happiness, ecstasy, wonder, passion, and so on, by changing your physiology to the desired quality of love, anytime.

This is the purpose of having free will. Free will gives us the choice to choose to be loving or not.

Lovingly smiling is the way to start any state of love. Try it. Lovingly smile and will yourself to feel excited. Smile and lovingly will yourself to feel peaceful, enthusiastic, wondrous. If you have the intention to feel love and put love into motion, the more you smile, the easier it gets. The more you smile, the better you feel. Just knowing that can empower you to want to smile more.

AND THAT IS HOW POWERFUL A SMILE CAN BE!

This is not a gimmick. The ability for you to feel love through lovingly smiling is metaphysically built right into you. It is built into your physiology. You can use your physiology at any time to help yourself achieve a loving smile.

If you were not aware of this profound understanding about love, then you have probably been lovingly smiling as a reaction to loving experiences in your life. Now that you understand, you can use lovingly smiling as a proactive tool to empower yourself with love any time you want. You have a choice. Learn to do that and you will be amazed at the changes that come over your life. You can use this tool to light up your life and the lives of others.

• You have to think positively in order to engage love all of the time. Thinking positively draws good energy. It helps create positive experiences in your life.
• Love in and of itself is an energy source. When you put love into motion on a regular basis, you tap into abundant energy. You have more energy for work and for play.
• Adding love into your life daily actually physically expands your spiritual aura. Spiritually you become bigger. This has many advantages. When your aura is filled with love it provides you with clarity to make decisions throughout your day. It changes the way you perceive your reality.
• When a loving state becomes your normal state of being, when you can lovingly smile through long periods of time, you will be able to develop incredible compassion for your fellow beings.
• Lovingly smiling moment by moment will help you develop the mindset to be a very giving person. Any time you give to other people, to life, to Mother Nature, you feel the love of giving and those to whom you give gain a benefit.
• For those of you on a spiritual path, it will help you to increase and enhance your prayers, studying, meditations, chanting, physical yoga, and your ability to relate to other people, to make each day a better day.
• The act of trying to lovingly smile all of the time helps you develop your awareness, the awareness of the here and now and the awareness of what is going on in your mind. You will start to become aware of your thought process and anything that might keep you from smiling or feeling love. This will help you learn more about who you are.
• The best part of all is that your relationship with life will become more than you ever dreamed possible! If you make being in love the most important thing in your life you can make your life magical!

You get all of that just from learning to lovingly smile moment by moment as much as you can. Experience it for yourself!

You can practice feeling love through all parts of your day. You can make yourself feel love at a stoplight, standing in a line, when you are on hold, during a conversation, when you are driving, anytime, anywhere. You can smile at everyone you meet. Smile at work, at school, at church, at home, in the shower, while you're getting your haircut, while you are washing the dishes.

It is your choice. You always have that choice.

Have you ever noticed when a person with a big smile on her face walks into a room of people, how it makes other people smile and how it just makes you feel good? That person could be you! That is so cool!

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