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Quiet Moments with Your Inner Smile

By Renee Takacs 

During the winter months, I hope you’ll consider allowing quiet moments for listening to your heart and soul’s truth—deeply listening. The external world will keep rolling out manipulating, fearful, false messages and images, but when connecting and aligning with higher wisdom, the power of love and discernment, instead of fear, can guide you with grace and ease.

Ultimately, learning how to love yourself fully and unconditionally, is what this journey is about. In the intuitive sessions I’ve held over the past thirty years, the bottom line has been about deprogramming people, including myself, from all of the fear-based messages and resulting behaviors.

We live in a veiled world at this time in human history where attention and effort are required to remember who we are and where we come from. We’re also receiving more and more light code activations than ever before with stepped-up opportunities for spiritual awakening and claiming spiritual abilities like intuition and telepathy.

Joy and the Inner Smile

During a recent yoga class that my husband and I attended, the teacher focused on the theme of joy and the Inner smile. This message spoke to me given all of the extra planning, activities, and some frantic feelings I felt during this holiday season—and I rediscovered my joyful, inner smile.

The Concept of the Inner Smile

The concept of the Inner smile comes from Thich Nhat Hanh who was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. He passed in 2022 and was known as a peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher:

To meditate well, we have to smile, a lot… I always say that a smile can be a practice, a kind of yoga practice. Yoga of the mouth: you just smile even if you don’t feel joy and you’ll see after you smile that you’ll feel differently. Sometimes the mind takes the initiative and sometimes you have to allow the body to take the initiative. Sometimes the spirit leads, and sometimes the body can lead.  -Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Breathing In, I Smile, Breathing Out, I Can Release

The excerpted statements below are from Thich Nhat Hanh’s twenty-two-minute talk about breathing and the Inner smile,

• Breathing should be pleasant and bring us joy.
• If you don’t know what to do at that moment, the right thing to do is to go back to your breathing and enjoy your breathing because your breathing is enjoyable.
• Breathe in such a way you enjoy your in breath and out breath.
  It’s a simple exercise, and you can realize miracles. The quality of your breathing will increase by itself. The breath becomes deeper naturally without creating an intention to do it, more harmonious, calmer, a more pleasant feeling in body and consciousness.
• Breathing in, I smile. Breathing out, I can release.
• I establish myself in the present. Breathing out, I know this is a wonderful moment.

This simple practice nourishes joy and happiness, and heals wounds in the body and soul.

Hanh’s Short poem to practice anytime anywhere, while driving, washing dishes, or riding a bus:

In out, deep slow,

calm ease, smile release,

present moment,

wonderful moment.

I trust that this reminder of your Inner smile will assist you by slowing down and going within. May your Inner smile meditation and breathing practice serve you in calming and restorative ways during 2025 and always.