INNER SMILE MEDITATION
The Zero Balancing Touch Foundation has generously given every one of us free access (until July 31st) to a very special meditation recorded by Dr. Fritz Smith, Zero Balancing’s founder, that has been circulated only in the Zero Balancing community for years. Of course the hope now is that sharing this detailed, powerful meditation will serve to help the health of everyone as we go through this challenging time together.
Click to stream it - IMPORTANT - please read what’s below if you have not done this meditation before.
A little explanation.
In this meditation, you will hear references to bringing in a smile and a color to various parts and functions of your body and/or mind – for instance, “into your heart bring in the red color and a smile.”
Some background to the relevance of the smile here. In Zero Balancing, we use a term “fulcrum”, instead of “technique”. This is meant to indicate that we provide through touch an opportunity, as does a fulcrum, to move or balance something. In Zero Balancing we use touch fulcrums to create better balance and enhanced health in the body, mind and spirit. A characteristic of Zero Balancing fulcrums is that they do not pull or press into the body in straight lines. Nature, is not organized primarily in straight lines - everywhere you look there are more or less gentle curves. So, by introducing gentle curves into the body, slightly curved tractions, pressure points, and long strokes engaging soft tissue, we are communicating with the person more in the “language” of nature, engaging them more naturally.
A smile is a real or imagined form that has an inherent curve. Think about the movement of the diaphragm. Inhale and your diaphragm moves down almost like the lower lip in a smile and when you exhale the diaphragms rises up again. So, when in this meditation, we say bring in the inner smile, it can be helpful to visualize a deepening and shallowing movement like the diaphragm makes going up and down in breathing. In this meditation we bring that visualized movement “into” a particular organ, physiological or even psychological function. It is helpful to try to “feel” this movement, not just visualize it. Often you can indeed feel the up and down movement created by breath almost anywhere in your body.
The colors referred to correspond to the colors Chinese medicine associates with certain organs and elements. And in the ending segments of the meditation, Fritz goes further beyond the body imagery – using the imagery of chakras and psycho-spiritual aspects of the person.
May we use the “Inner Smile” to lift our spirits, induce a higher level of health and mindfulness, spreading inspiration and peace throughout every corner of the world!
Dr. Fritz Smith, founder of Zero Balancing