Taoists have found out that, due to the strong negative emotions that we know as "stress", the body tightens, thus overheating the internal organs. In turn, the increased temperature intensifies the strong negative emotions and their repetition. This forms a circle. Other factors that intensify the negative emotions include bad posture of the body when some of the organs are pressed and unhealthy eating.
Taoists have also found out that each emotion is associated with a specific organ in our body. We know from experience that strong emotions can be the cause of a heart attack or ulcers. In each culture, the heart is associated with hatred ("I hate you with all my heart") but it is also associated with love ("I love you with all my heart"). Everyone you ask will indicate the heart as the centre of love rather than the kidney, for example. The spleen (hence the stomach and pancreas) is associated with anxiety which causes ulcers whereas the positive emotion is honesty.
The lungs are associated with sadness (when one is sad, he or she sighs; deep sadness can lead to loss of will to live) and the positive feeling is courage. Martial arts have long known this and that is why the fighters learn how to breathe properly in order to become as brave as tigers. When the kidneys are not functioning properly, they cause fear (adrenaline from the adrenal glands) and, when balanced, they are a source of tenderness. The liver is the seat of anger (alcohol dulls the anger but at a high price) and generates kindness when balanced.
Heart: hatred <- > love
Spleen: anxiety <- > honesty
Lungs: sadness <- > courage
Kidneys: fear <- > tenderness
Liver: anger <- > kindness
The "inner smile" uses the power of smile, making it more powerful and directing it inside us to transform the negative emotions into positive ones. Have you noticed that when you are smiling at someone, you can make him or she smile too? We feel better when someone smiles at us too.
Here is a very easy way to practise the inner smile: smile as if you are smiling at a loved one. Breathe in and direct the feeling of smile inside you, allowing the light and warmth of the smile to gradually slacken the muscles of your face, head, neck, shoulders and let it go down your body. If you lose the feeling, you can smile again with your mouth and eyes and continue from the point you have reached before that. It is better to allow the inner smile to go deep inside your body, because the most difficult thing is to realize and remove the stress that rests deeper inside us. Its influence can last long after we have been under stress and after we have even forgotten about it.
Events which have left deep marks in one’s mind in childhood, for example, and which have provoked strong negative emotions sink deep inside the person, affecting his or her life even though the person does not remember the specific event. It is very important not only to recognize that negative energy but also to transform the energy of the trauma into positive energy, after which it will not affect you any longer.
On a daily level, the inner smile is a great way to start your day and finish it. If you do this exercise in the morning, you will be in a good mood during the day. If you do it in the evening, it will transform the negative emotions of the day and you will have a nice, restful sleep. If you "process" the emotions in this way they will not stay inside you and will not harm you; moreover, you will have at your disposal the additional energy obtained through the "recycling" of the negative emotions.
The six healing sounds complement the "inner smile". They are used to remove the heat and toxins from the body. Taoists believe that many of the needless and waste substances, instead of being discarded, remain inside us because of the strong negative emotions. The reason is again the tightening of the body due to stress. Moreover, every sound is a vibration and Taoists have found out that this vibration has a positive influence on the appropriate internal organ.
Lung’s sound: SSSSSSSSSSSSS
Kidney’s sound: CHUUUUUUUUUUUU
Liver’s sound: SHSHSHSHSHSHSH
Heart’s sound: HAAAAAAAAAA
Spleen’s sound: HUUUUUUUU (from the throat)
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