Smile inside🔗

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

Once an Hindu movie star who had attended one of the meditation programs asked me a very funny question.

He asked me, Swamiji, how do you manage to keep smiling all day? Doesn't it make you tired?

I was shocked!

It was the first time I had heard of anyone feeling tired because of smiling!

Then he explained that when he is shooting, he has to plaster a smile on his face for hours, it made him really tired.

Naturally, the facial muscles begin to hurt if you force them into one position like that. Not only the face, the whole body can get exhausted if we make a continuous effort to smile when we don't feel like it.

At least, this person was doing it for his films. We do this even in real life!

Most of the time, we smile only with our lips. Very rarely does the smile come from inside us. Actually, faking a smile all the time can be more stressful than just being normal (i.e. grumpy!)

So when you're tired from all the false smiling, unwind with a real smile – from inside.