Lovingly Smiling

     One of the fastest and easiest ways to put love into action for most people is through using a loving smile. Let me show you how it works.

     I would ask you to sit up straight and proud. Make yourself comfortable that way. Now slow your breathing just a little and breathe deep and strong. Concentrate on something that makes you feel love. Smile really big and make yourself feel happy and loving. Imagine what a person in a state of love looks like and make yourself look that way. Or go back into the memory of your life and remember a time in which you felt a lot of love. Maybe you have a lot of love for your mate, or a child, or maybe a pet. Relive that experience in your mind and smile really big. Make yourself feel as much love as you can.

     Now, without changing anything about your physiology, don't change your posture, the way you are sitting or breathing, don't change the smile on your face in any way, see if you can make yourself feel sad or angry.

     Isn't that incredible? You can't do it! No matter how hard you try to feel sad or angry, if your physiology is happy and loving, you can't do it. Your inability to feel unloving when you are presenting a loving smile and physiology, is a metaphysical principle of life. It just works that way.

     This insight is so profound and it is an incredible spiritual tool. It is spiritual because all you have to do to feel and use love, is open your heart and make yourself lovingly smile.

     When you lovingly smile you are shining; you are radiating love from within you in every direction and it affects everyone and everything around you. That is so important for you to understand that I am going to say it again, when you lovingly smile you are radiating love in every direction and it affects everyone and everything around you.

     I am sure that you have had this experience. You are sitting in a room full of people and someone walks into the room who is really happy. She is beaming from ear to ear and her happiness radiates throughout the whole room. Everyone starts smiling just from seeing her happiness. Well, now that person can be you. See how many rooms you can light up with your loving energy, your radiant smile.

     You can lovingly smile and make yourself feel any type of loving feeling. You can smile and make yourself feel wonder, excitement, silliness, and peace. I want you to try this for a moment. Think of what a person that is in a state of peace looks like. Now, make yourself look that way, and make yourself feel peace. Now let's try a couple more. Think of what some one looks like when they are elated. Try to make yourself look that way. Sit up strong and proud, speed up your breathing a little, smile and make yourself feel elation. Isn't that an amazing feeling? Smile and make yourself feel silly. Make yourself laugh and make anyone around you laugh. Have you ever thought of God as being silly? Where do you think laughter comes from? Being silly can be a lot of fun!

     So once again, you can feel any quality of love just by making yourself smile from your heart. I urge you to experience it for the rest of your life!

     A Challenging Human Condition

     Now before I go on, there is a human condition that I would like to address here. A small number of people do not have the ability to feel love or, if they start to feel love, the feeling is immediately followed by a feeling of hurt, or fear, or dread, anger, rage, or deep sadness. Some of these people have been suffering with this condition their whole lives, some have grown this way from harboring unloving beliefs, and others, the condition has been created from some kind of traumatic experience or a series of traumatic experiences. If you have such a condition and find that lovingly smiling or at least trying to lovingly smile makes you uncomfortable, the understanding of how to use Loving Sounds and Loving Intentions ( the second and forth section of this site) will enable you to be able to put love into action, so that you can eventually become more comfortable feeling love.

     For now, I would like you to take a moment to imagine what feeling love all of the time, would do for you. Think about how many areas of your life you could light up with love by lovingly smiling. How would constantly feeling love for your mate, your children, your parents, your friends, change your relationships? How would constantly feeling love for your work, for the people at work, for anyone you may have been having trouble with; how would it change where you work? How about spending time with yourself? Think of how wonderful you could make yourself feel all the time if you could feel love constantly. Isn't this an exciting thought? (You will create a very nice feeling for yourself if you take two or three minutes to imagine these feelings.)

     Be Proactive

     You are probably accustomed to smiling as a REACTION to experiences that make you feel good, or that make you feel love. The tool of the loving smile let’s you choose to PROACTIVELY enrich and empower your life with love. When you choose love, your love radiates in every direction and you grace everyone and everything in your presence.

     Proactively choosing to feel and use love adds a whole new dimension to your life. Feeling love is a decision you make. You can choose to add love into any unloving area of your life. It gives you the ability to feel you have control of your life. This is very empowering. Gaining the ability to add love to all areas of your life which feel unloving, produces a miracle. You will be able to create incredible changes in your life, and people who use this are going to help bring extraordinary changes to our planet. And there's more!

     How It Works

     Here is how a loving smile works. Each of us has a spiritual body with seven major centers or chakras. The heart center, which is located around the general area of the physical heart, is a center that we can consciously control. The heart center gives us the ability to feel love or the reverse of love. If your heart center is open, you can feel love. If your heart center is closed, you feel the reverse of love. Each quality of love has a reversed quality -- happy - sad, fulfilled - bored, confident - afraid, peaceful - angry, excited - depressed, and so on. And so when your heart is open, you feel the loving qualities that produce loving feelings, and when your heart is closed, you feel the reversed qualities that produce unloving feelings.

     If your heart center is open, you will be feeling love and smiling. If your heart center is closed, you will harbor unloving feelings and you will not be smiling. I want you to think about this for a moment because it is important for you make the connection that lovingly smiling is the only way to know your heart center is open. If you look at a person in any state of love, what is the first thing you notice about his face? He will be smiling, right? It is important that you establish a loving smile as the key to knowing that your heart is open. This is important to understand in regards to your praying, your meditation, when you are working, when you are communicating, when you are playing. If you are intentionally lovingly smiling in those moments, then you are proactively empowering those moments with love. This is how to use the power of love to light up your life. The bigger and stronger your smile is, the more love you will be able to feel and use in those moments.

     Now I know what you are thinking. You're thinking, you mean I'm supposed to walk around all of the time with a big smile on my face? ABSOLUTELY! Then you're thinking, what will people think? I'll tell you what they'll think. THEY'LL THINK YOU'RE HAPPY! What do you want them to think? You mean if I'm at work, I should smile all day long? YES! You mean if I'm driving in my car, I should be smiling all the time? YES! Washing the dishes? YES! When you lovingly smile you are radiating love in every direction and it changes everything about your life to love. Your loving energy helps you and everyone around you feel better. This is so powerful!

     I'm being lighthearted about this because I'm trying to help you relax about the idea of letting go and smiling around your friends and people you don't know. It is natural for people to have fears about smiling, especially if they fear how they look when they are smiling. Please understand that if your heart is open when you smile, the radiance of love makes you look beautiful. If you have challenges with your teeth, or your face, or you feel shy, you still look beautiful when your heart is open and you are smiling. If someone around you responds differently, that is her ignorance. You will never have control over what other people think, so be courageous and let people see your smile and know your heart.     

     This being said, there is actually another function of the heart that you can use for healing in which you proactively keep your heart open in order to feel pain that is within you. When you are engaged in healing rituals and actions it is very healthy to learn how to keep your heart open in order to feel the pain that is within you so that you can release the emotional turmoil brought on by traumatic experiences. Learning to keep your heart open all of the time is an act of will. Learning to keep your heart open all of the time will make the healing process much more powerful and less painful because you will have more control and strength.

     Understanding A State Of Love In People

     In classes I have taught, I have had people tell me that they have had bad experiences with people who smile a plastic smile, that they have felt used and deceived by these people. Obviously, those plastic-smiling people's hearts were closed. Now that you understand how the spiritual heart works, it becomes easier to tell if people's hearts are open by simply watching them. Any person in a state of love will appear relaxed and comfortable, and if you concentrate on watching and feeling their energy, you will actually be able to feel their love, if your heart is open. If someone is smiling and you can't feel love from him, you might want to be careful about trusting him.

     Furthermore, because of the negative experiences of dealing with people who use a plastic smile, I have had students who were afraid to smile themselves. They were afraid that people would think badly of them. If you have a fear like this, remember that you can't control what anybody thinks. So here again, it would be good for you to be courageous, to move through your fear and smile anyhow. The benefits of lovingly smiling far exceed living in fear. Even if you feel at times that your smile feels or appears plastic, if you have the intention to be in a loving state, you are trying to put love into action. This is very honorable because any time you intentionally act or react in the most loving manner you can, you are doing your best.

     Here is an example of Senja learning to use a loving smile to heal a challenge. Senja had a fear of communicating with people one on one, face to face. He had had this fear for as long as he could remember. When he talked with someone, he habitually frowned at the person he was talking to because of his fear. Upon learning about the power of using a loving smile, he committed to trying to lovingly smile whenever he talked with someone. At first, trying to smile while communicating was quite challenging because his habit of fear was so strong. In the beginning when he was trying to smile, he felt like his smile was plastic because he was not feeling love when he was communicating. But he noticed that people seemed to like talking with him more when he was smiling at them. This gave him confidence to practice lovingly smiling when he was communicating and, after a short time, Senja became comfortable talking with people.

     So anytime your intention is to be loving, if you are practicing smiling and your smile does not feel loving, keep practicing. It is only a matter of time before the loving feeling will accompany your smile.

     Your Focus Attracts Your Experience

     When you choose to lovingly smile, moment by moment, day by day, your life can change in phenomenal ways. One of the reasons for this is that choosing to create a state of love will determine what you focus your attention on. People who normally live with their hearts open most of the time have a completely different view of life compared to people who live with their hearts closed. People who live with their hearts closed see life through a veil of fear, anger, hatred, frustration or depression. They will tend to focus on the negative aspects of life. People who live with their hearts open tend to see the positive side of things. When you focus on the positive aspects of life, you can face your challenges and still feel good, make good decisions, and be aware of the miracle of life that is taking place before you.

     You will also find the nature of your focus will determine the nature of your experience. If you are focusing on the reversed aspects of your life (reversed from love), if you are seeing life through a veil of anger or depression or sadness, then this will be the experience that you are going to attract to you. You attract it like a magnet. And if you focus on the positive aspects of your life, if you see life through a veil of love, if you see life as exciting and joyous, you will attract that kind of experience to you.

     Michael Zumpano

     Here is the testimony of Michael Zumpano, which will give you an example of how powerful changing a negative focus to a loving focus can be. This experience took place in the year 2000.

     My name is Michael Zumpano and I am the CEO of one of the top five nutrition companies in America. Today we reach 35 countries with our products, and you will find our products in grocery stores, health food stores, and thousands of others retail outlets across the country and around the world.

     For the last four years my business has been spiraling downwards. We went through several private investors, four changes in management, and a half a dozen business plans. During that time, three different banks foreclosed on us. The banks and the IRS were fighting over our house at one point. Everything was going wrong and the stress was indescribable. I developed deep furrows in my brow and I felt like a heavy weight was pressing on my shoulders all the time. It was affecting my relationship with my family. The stress was telling on all of us.

     Finally one year ago, I broke out with shingles on my face and in my eye. Now just to put that in perspective, about 30% of people who have ocular shingles, die from brain infections or suicide. The rest live with excruciating pain for a number of years. My pain was so bad at times that I would just lie down and cry for hours. The doctor put me on narcotics that were so strong and addicting, that they are only used with terminally ill patients, who sometimes find it impossible to quit the addiction. This destroyed my ability to think clearly; yet I still had to work everyday, sometimes fifteen hours a day with no vacation, no breaks. We were hotly pursued by problems that could have made my family homeless. I couldn't accept it, so I added stress to stress and played the role of a victim.

     One night Keith was at my house listening to a recap of my day. My brow was furrowed as usual. I am sure I had the look of a man in front of a firing squad. Just then my daughter walked into the room. I smiled and called her over and she sat with me and talked about her day. After she left, I looked back at Keith. His mouth was open. He said, "Mike do you realize what just happened? A minute ago you looked like a man who could jump off a bridge, but when your daughter walked in, it was like night and day. You loosened up and smiled and talked to her as if you didn't have a care in the world." I said something like, "I love my daughter." And Keith said, "No Mike, you opened your heart." Then Keith thought for a minute and he said, "Did you ever love your company like that?" I almost broke out into tears. My little company was like a child to me. My family and I struggled to help it grow and get it on its feet. Everything we owned, everything we had, every place we had ever traveled was somehow linked to our little sick company. We went through many good times and bad times together, but I always thought I loved it, until recently. Something had happened. My heart had snapped shut. My company floundered. Now I truly hated it. Truly, I couldn't stand to think about it. As I was thinking about this I heard Keith say, " What child could thrive if it knew its own father hated it?" Then Keith showed me how my hate was killing my company. He then showed me how to open my heart and love my life. He stood up and said, "After I leave spend a half hour remembering why you love your company. Smile and open your heart while you are doing it.

     ”What did I have to lose? I did what Keith said.

     About an hour after Keith left, one of my R&D co-workers called me on the phone. He was out of breath as he described a conversation he had just finished with a famous Russian chemistry researcher. This researcher had found a natural compound that we had been searching for, for over four years. Even better, he was going to be at a symposium the next day in Las Vegas. We hopped a flight in the morning. We made a deal with him and four months later, we had created our most profitable product.

     But even before this product was launched, my company became profitable. In fact that very month distributors all around the world began calling me and asking me, "What are you guys doing? Your products are just flying off the shelf!" Since then, every month has been profitable and our company is healthy again.

     Four months ago, I was very close to dying. In three weeks I was free from the pain and to my doctors' amazement, my shingles healed in six weeks. Today I am off narcotics, and my company is thriving. All of these incredible changes are due to my learning how to love my company and my life.

     This inspiring story shows how your focus can change your life. Imagine what Michael was going through. For sixteen years Michael had enjoyed a healthy, profitable business but for the past four years his company had been losing money. He had to lay off a lot of his employees; many of them were his friends. He didn't have money to pay his suppliers, to fix equipment, to advertise, or to research new products. Most of his people had taken a cut in pay and some were working ten to fourteen hours a day. Through all of the stress, Michael was unknowingly hating his business. Every day the hate in Michael's heart moved him to focus on the negative aspects of his business. Every challenge that came to him he saw through the eyes of hate and frustration, and each challenge seemed to support the reason he hated his business. Each challenge was just another problem stacked up on the huge list of problems he already had. As his hate grew stronger and stronger, his hate drew his problems to him like a magnet. His problems multiplied and became more stressful every day. His frustration and hate was killing his business.

      The moment he changed his heart, opening it and loving his business, his focus changed to seeing the positive side of each challenge. Suddenly each challenge became an opportunity to make his business better. Each challenge became a way for him to discover how to put more love into his business. He started drawing positive experiences to him like a magnet. The effects of Michael loving his company were so profound and so powerful that it was felt all around the world. People suddenly started buying his products again, all around the world. When Michael opened his heart to his company, he tapped into the power of love, and the love changed his business.

     Today when Michael has a challenge, he gets excited about it. The bigger the challenge is, the more excited he gets because Michael knows that something wonderful is going to come out of it! What a difference! What you focus on in your life and the type of experience you draw to yourself, has everything to do with the state of your heart! Is your heart open? Are you lovingly smiling? Are you seeing the positive aspects of life and embracing your challenges? Are you tapping into the power of love? Or is your heart closed and are you focused on the negative aspects of your life?

     The Challenge Phenomenon

     I have a challenge for you. The challenge is for you to try to lovingly smile for the next half hour. Do you think you could do it? I will tell you now that most people would have quite a time holding a loving smile that long. Some people can do it, but most people would be very challenged to go for the whole half an hour.

     Why is that? Why is it hard for most of us to smile for long periods of time? Why is it hard for most of us to feel love for extended amounts of time? Why can’t we feel love all of the time? Well, that is probably the question of all questions. The philosophical answer will be the subject for another chapter soon to come on this website, but the practical answer is, most of us have a difficult time trying to feel love for extended amounts of time because of the ways we were programmed as children by our parents, families, piers, and societies. Most of us were raised to think, act and react in unloving ways to many different kinds of situations in our lives. (fear of communicating, comparing ourselves to others, there’s never enough, I’m not good enough, etc.) Some of the unloving programming we received as children is as strong as instinct. So to put it simply, we find it difficult to feel love for extended amounts of time because we are used to being in unloving states of mind and are somewhat comfortable with that. When a person starts to fill her life with love, she will naturally become more aware of her unloving programming, because there is more light to see with, so to speak.

     I am going to talk about this phenomenon many times throughout these chapters so I would like to give it a name. I will call it the Challenge Phenomenon. When I talk about the Challenge Phenomenon, I will be referring to the phenomenon that when you add love into your life, it enables you to see, feel, and oftentimes experience the unloving parts of your programming. This phenomenon is a natural occurrence from learning to open your heart. If you are aware that it is going to happen, then you are putting yourself in a position to understand your experience.

     Why would a person want to become aware of her unloving programming? Because it is her unloving programming that guides her to think, act and react in unloving ways, which is the cause of many different kinds of pain and dis-ease. Seeing, feeling and experiencing the results of her unloving programming is not always a pleasant experience but it is a necessary one if she is to learn how to live in love. Becoming aware of her unloving programming gives her a choice to change her programming if she desires which will enable her to experience more love in her life.

     The most wonderful part about this process is that when you add more love into your life and it enables you to see, feel and experience your unloving programming, you will also have more love within you to help you change and heal your programming. (I love this part!)

     The way that people experience the Challenge Phenomenon is different for everybody. Many people become very excited about the wonder of being able to add love into their lives through lovingly smiling and so they find themselves smiling all of the time. There are basically two different kinds of results when this happens. Some people find that they are able to experience more love than they ever have before and the love carries into all areas of there lives which enables them to see, feel and experience their unloving programming, their unloving challenges slowly, and make changes accordingly. Others find that as soon as they start adding love into their lives, their challenges seem to surface almost immediately. If you find your experience to be more like the second kind of results, it may help you to add love into your life a little bit at a time. You may want to add a loving smile here and there within your life and take from two to six weeks before you are smiling all of the time.

     Using Love To Make Changes

     Now that you have gained the understanding of how to add love into your life, you now have the ability to change any unloving way of thinking, acting or reacting that you choose.

     Jake used lovingly smiling to change an unloving habit:

     When Jake found out about lovingly smiling, he decided to start filling his life with love, and he concentrated on smiling as much as he could. At first it was a little difficult to remember to lovingly smile all the time, but he was determined. After a few weeks he became pretty good at it. As he began filling his life with love day by day, he became aware of how often he drove angrily, almost as if he were hoping for someone to cut him off. Jake had never noticed this before because he was comfortable being in his unloving state of consciousness. But now that he was filling his life with love, he was becoming more conscious of his unloving habits, beliefs, thoughts, actions and reactions. The love he felt gave him a different perspective. He was feeling a lot of love, but when he got into his car he could feel his loving feeling start to fade to anger. He also realized that whenever people cut him off and he yelled at them, it drained his energy. He had never realized that before either. In the past he had never felt the drain for a similar reason, he was always in his comfortable unloving state of consciousness. Jake also realized he had no control over the people who cut him off, and that meant he was giving his energy away to people he had no control over. That didn't seem very smart to him, so he used his desire to get smarter as an incentive, as a reason for him to heal his anger. He embraced his challenge.

     Jake started paying particular attention to lovingly smiling when he got into his car. It was challenging at first, but the more he tried the easier it got. The most challenging part was when someone cut him off. Then he would have to use all his will power to keep from thinking bad thoughts about the person and to keep from yelling at them. Right at that point is where Jake started to heal his anger. The first time he accomplished it, it was really hard, but each time after that, it became easier and easier to calm his anger. He even started to look forward to the challenge of not letting himself act or think angrily when someone cut him off. After a while, he found that he never got angry. He would send each driver loving thoughts, wishing them peace and happiness.

     This story contains the essence of how adding love to your life can give you a new perspective of your life. Can you see how, for Jake, the awareness that he was driving angrily was made possible by the love he received from lovingly smiling as much as he could? (Any time you add love to your life, your spiritual body actually grows bigger, which will enable you to have a different perspective.) The added love gave him the ability to feel his unloving habits. The extra love that Jake felt made him more aware of what was not loving in his life. In this case it was the negative habit of driving angrily and of getting angry with people who cut him off. Jake chose to see the reversed experiences (reversed from peace) of getting angry while driving as a challenge. This enabled him to embrace the challenge, learn from the challenge, and heal his habit of getting angry.

     Now imagine how Jake felt driving after he had completely healed his habit of driving angry. He was able to drive in a wonderful state of peace. And how would the people around him feel? If you can see how Jake changing his habit of anger would make our world a better place to live, then you can understand how you and I can help to create world peace. Each one of us is first responsible for creating peace within ourselves.

     Jake also became more intelligent from healing his habit of anger. When the old Jake drove down the road and someone cut him off, without even thinking he would yell, "Hey, what are you doing, you stupid, stupid, stupid!" Again he's driving and someone cuts him off and he yells, "Hey you stupid man, get a license, learn how to drive!" Now the new Jake is driving in a state of peace and do you know what he finds? He rarely gets cut off by anyone. Why is that? Because we draw to ourselves experiences that support the state of our hearts. Everything we experience is a mirror of what we harbor in our hearts. If we present a loving state, like a magnet, we attract to ourselves loving experiences. If someone did cut Jake off, he would smile at them, and send them loving thoughts for their safety and bless them for the challenge for helping him learn to stay in a loving state. So Jake went from causing people to feel hurt and angry, from spreading hate and conflict, to spreading love and peace all around him. Jake became more intelligent by healing his habit of anger. This type of intelligence is what creates loving wisdom.

     Reversals

     Now that you understand that when you feel your life with love it enables you to see your unloving programming, I would like to address the results of your unloving programming. Simply put, if you look back and observe your life, you may find that your life was filled with reversed ideas (reversed from love), reversed ways of thinking, reversed ways of acting and reacting, reversed attitudes, habits, addictions and obsessions, all of which create unloving feelings and experiences. We will call all of these "reversals". They come in many different sizes and shapes. Some examples of reversals are, habitually judging people, biting your fingernails, shouting at your children when they do something wrong, feeling sad if your mate doesn't pay enough attention to you, fearing you're not going to have enough money to pay your bills, being obsessed with eating sweets, being addicted to taking drugs, or continually worrying about the state of our planet. These reversals create our challenges.

     A Learning Process

     Every time you change or heal a reversal, you become more intelligent, mindfully stronger, and wiser. This is a learning process, which is made possible by understanding the power of love and filling your life with it.

     Let me show you how powerful it can be. Remember Michael Zumpano's story:

     For four years Michael's company was spiraling downward, losing money almost every month. Michael's hate for his company was drawing reversed experiences to him like a magnet. Michael tried different business plans, different management techniques, and hiring more knowledgeable people, but nothing worked. He was trying to change his business by looking outside of himself to make the changes.

     Michael saw that his hate was killing his company. He opened his heart and started loving everything about his company and his life, the same way he loved his daughter. Take a time in your life in which you were able to feel a lot of love and practice creating that powerful feeling of love for all things and circumstances, all the time. Almost within the moment that Michael changed his heart, the love he engaged within himself started changing everything about his life. Michael's company pulled a profit the first month Michael moved his heart to love.

     Now watch this! This is absolutely amazing! Michael's company sells nutrition products. This means that the company makes a little profit from every sale. His company does millions of dollars of business a year. In order for them to pull a profit, hundreds of thousands of people would have to purchase products all around the world. Within two weeks of Michael opening his heart, distributors from all over the world started calling and asking, "What the heck did you guys do? Your products are just disappearing off the shelves." Michael's company has pulled an ever-expanding profit every month since that first month. (This went on for eight months.)

     What this shows us, is that Michael opening his heart affected hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. How could this happen? How could one person's heart affect people around the world?

     How Energy Works

     We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having a human experience. We are living in a world of energy. Our world appears to be solid. If you run into a wall, the solidity of the wall will stop you, that is for sure. But according to quantum physics, our whole existence is played out in fields of energy. YOU affect EVERYTHING around you by the way YOU think, act and react moment by moment.

     If you throw a pebble into a lake that is perfectly calm, you will be able to watch the ripples expand to every shore of that lake, no matter how big the lake is. You are like the pebble in the lake. You are an energy source. Your thoughts and actions are putting energy into motion, and your thoughts and actions affect everyone around the world, just like the pebble in the lake. If your thoughts and actions are loving, you are helping to create peace in our world. If your thoughts and actions are unloving, you are adding to the energy that creates chaos and confusion.

     When you understand that you have a choice, that you can proactively choose to love, you can play a major role in bringing peace to our planet.

     Michael's heart is no stronger than yours. Michael simply tapped into the power of love. When you choose to lovingly smile you are tapping into the power of love, and it changes the world.

     The reason that I have asked Michael to share his story is because he has a unique perspective on how his heart affects the planet. Many people don't know their hearts affect people on the other side of the world. But your heart does! Every time you choose to lovingly smile, every time you choose to open your heart, you send love in every direction, and it changes the world. Think about this. If Michael opening his heart affected people around the world in regards to his business, what do you think we could do, you and I, if we go into the business of world peace? Think about it! This is the power of living love! This is the power of engaging into the learning process brought about by adding love into your life moment by moment.

     Every moment that you engage love within you, affects people around the world immediately! Any time you are driving or riding in a car, you are provided with an opportunity to move love. Riding in a bus, provides an opportunity to lovingly smile. In a train or a plane? You can open your heart! You're in the shower, standing in line, cleaning your house, taking a walk; you can have fun! Someone is driving really slow in front of you and you can't get around him, you can smile. The bill was twice what you thought it would be - lovingly smile. You're on hold, you're tired, you're going to sleep – smile from your heart.

     Every moment you engage love within you, affects people all around the world lovingly!

     Do the world a wonderful service. Any time you can remember, lovingly smile. Smile for yourself and smile for the world.

     Healing Disease

     The focus to heal our planet is a playing field inside of our hearts. Every time you move to heal a reversal from your past, you make it possible for millions of people to heal the same reversal with much less effort than it took you. Think about that! Do you know the story of Roger Banister? Roger Banister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Before he did, it was considered impossible for a human to run that fast. The very next year over three hundred people beat the four-minute mile. What this shows is that every reversal you heal helps other people heal the same reversal more easily. Every moment you spend engaging love within yourself, brings all of mankind closer to living in peace and love.

     Many times disease appears in people because they are continually and habitually thinking, acting and reacting in unloving ways, over and over again. The unloving energy eventually manifest as general pain, accidents, and disease. I believe that all disease is created by the accumulation of reversed energy in the body and that you can heal almost any disease by simply learning how to reverse the process, by learning to move love into the unloving areas of your life. Healing disease is a learning process.

     Michael Zumpano had contracted shingles from all the hatred he had generated and from trying to force his company to become profitable. He was on the heaviest narcotic pain-killers available. He was close to dying. His disease was so bad that he could not be in a room with a light on. When light hit his eyes, it would drop him to his knees in pain even when he was drugged to the max.
     
      Michael was able to heal the shingles in six weeks. He was able to heal from the physical dependency of the narcotics and completely change his life by proactively choosing to live in love. Isn't that incredible?

     Lovingly smiling is simple and powerful. It is a simple way to empower yourself with love. It can be used with most religious or spiritual beliefs and rituals. It empowers spiritual rituals incredibly. Now that this knowledge is present, you will be able to change your life and empower the world with love.

     Benefits

                    The ten benefits that you will gain from using a loving smile are as follows:

1. Engaging love enhances everything about your life. It enhances your meditations, prayers, studies, physical yoga, physical exercise, your work, and, all your relationships.

2. You have to think positively in order to proactively choose to love all the time. Positive thoughts manifest as a loving experience. It is like setting yourself up to receive a blessing in your life.

3. When a loving state becomes your normal state of being, when you can lovingly smile for long periods of time, you will be able to develop great compassion for your fellow beings. Think of it! If you were lovingly smiling and feeling love all of the time, how would you feel about other people? How would you feel about helping people feel better? I can tell you from experience that when you are feeling a lot of love, you want people all around you to feel a lot of love, too. It becomes important for you to be able to help other people feel good, and it feels so good to give to and serve others.

4. Love in and of itself is an energy source. When you feel love, you tap into abundant energy. Anthony Robbins is a great example of someone who has mastered the ability to empower himself with loving energy. Everywhere Anthony goes in his public or private life, he exudes enthusiasm. Look what he has done with his life. He has amassed incredible abundance. Look at how many people he has affected by setting an example of how to live a life to the fullest. He has tapped into the abundant energy of love and helped people change their lives all over the world. You too can tap into this abundant energy source so that you can feel energetic throughout your life, simply by learning to lovingly smile all of the time.

5. Living in love gives you a keen sense of knowing what is right or wrong. It enables you to know what is true. Your truth corresponds to your reality. The challenge for anyone seeking truth is that their reality can be perceived in many different ways. If your heart is open, you will see your reality through the eyes of love. Your reality will be peaceful, harmonious, loving, and fun. If your heart is closed, you will see your reality through the eyes of negativity. Your reality will look dark, lonely, frustrating, confusing, and boring. People living in a negative state will find that what appears to be true to them will align with their negativity, it will be distorted and confused. Therefore, it is important to understand that clarity and truth, can be found within loving consciousness. It is when a person perceives reality through the eyes of love that she will be able to see things clearly and to know truth.

Consciously living in love moment by moment, is the most powerful state that you can create for yourself in regard to knowing truth. It will empower you to be confident about making good decisions and taking action.

Parents will find this to be invaluable in raising children. Many of you who are parenting continually find yourselves in a position of uncertainty about what is the best way to think, act and react in different situations as parents. Aside from the fact that presenting a loving state around your children helps keep your children in a loving state, it will also help you understand the best decisions to make.

6. The act of lovingly smiling all the time as much as you can develops your awareness of the here and now, which helps you become conscious of what is going on in your mind. Now why is it important to become aware? Being aware of the here and now draws you into the wonder, the beauty, and the power of love that is always present. When you develop the habit of lovingly smiling as much as you can, day by day, this action will develop your awareness naturally. Awareness is a byproduct of trying to lovingly smile all the time. When you have the intent to lovingly smile, your mind is continually seeing the reasons to feel love all around you. The miracle of life presents you with thousands of reasons to feel love every moment. The constant creation of your mind and body, and all of the life around and within you, is a miracle. If your intent is to engage the love within you through lovingly smiling, you will be able to be aware of any of those reasons to feel love at any given moment.

7. Once again, the act of lovingly smiling all the time as much as you can develops your awareness of the here and now, which helps you become conscious of what is going on in your mind. Why is it important to know what is going on in your mind? Because awareness of what is going on in your mind, will draw you into any part of your life that you do not understand. It will help you find all your reversals.

Anytime you think, act or react in an unloving manner, you are creating pain for yourself. Remember that the heart center gives you the ability to feel love or the reverse of love. Anytime you feel the reverse of love, you are feeling different qualities of pain. Hate is a type of pain, anger is a type of pain, boredom, sadness, greed, jealousy, fear; they are all types of pain. As you become increasingly aware of what is going on in your mind you will gain the ability to be able to stay in a loving state more and more of the time, so that you can avoid pain. This will empower you. This means you will spend more time feeling good.

8. Remember when you were lovingly smiling and you tried to feel sadness or hurt and you couldn't do it? Well, let me show you how you can use this principle to your advantage. When you are going through your day trying to lovingly smile, and you feel your smile fade, right at that moment, you will have found a place in your life where you do not understand how to think act or react in love. You will have found a reversal. This is a wonderful thing to discover. You will be able to find all the reversals in your life, which will give you the advantage of being able to learn from them and heal them.

When Jake became aware of his anger habit, he was able to heal it so he could drive in peace. Michael used awareness of how his life was proceeding to change problems into challenges and challenges into blessings, so that he could love and nourish his company and his life back to health. So developing your awareness is very powerful, it will show you what is going on in your mind and how you are living your life.

9. If you take on the call to lovingly smile as much as you can, the added love you are engaging into your life actually makes your spiritual body bigger. This added love is what expands your consciousness and gives you a love reserve, so to speak. This love reserve feels good, and it enables you to have more love in your heart when times get challenging.

10. When you have spent a long time learning to live in a state of love and are good at it, you will have developed a strength of will that is priceless. Having the strength of will to keep your heart open for long periods of time gives you an ability to process deeply held unloving emotions. This is an advanced form of processing that enables you to access and heal deeply held emotions within your spiritual body by keeping your heart open while allowing yourself to feel them.

11. Expanding your spiritual body is how you come to know more of who you are and what is your potential. If you spend the rest of your life expanding your spiritual body, you will eventually become such a strong channel of love that the experience of ecstasy and bliss will be your normal day. You will be very wise and lovingly powerful. You will be free of disease. You will be living a magical life!

So these are some of the benefits you can gain by putting the loving smile to work.

     Still More Results

     Let me share with you what I've seen from people using these principles. I watched Michael turn his business around in a few moments of time. I've seen people find the job they have always wanted. I've seen people who are creating a disease, reverse the process and come to a complete healing, just through understanding how! I've seen people who have been using these techniques from Engage Love for three or four months develop some of the most intimate friendships they have ever known!

     And do you know the best part? I've seen people develop a one on one relationship with God in which God is communicating with them through their hearts and minds. In this relationship God has become their best friend and teacher. This is definitely the most impressive benefit that comes from the principles of Engage Love. Think about it! How would your life change if you could have a relationship with God in which God is talking with you all the time about anything you wish to talk about? You can ask God any question you want in regards to your spiritual advancement and understanding. God is helping you and guiding you. I have had a relationship like this with God for over twelve years, and I have been continually learning about the principles of Engage Love. Our relationship is extraordinary. The intimacy of our relationship never fails to fill me with awe and happiness. The name of the part of God that is communicating with me is Shilou and Shilou tells me he loves me everyday. There is actually a sensation that Shilou gives me that is him telling me he loves me. If you have the desire to create a two-way communication with God, your relationship with God will become more than you ever dreamed possible. Developing this communication is tapping into the enchantment and wonder of God.

     I would love to be able to share with you "how to communicate with God" but I do not have any of the information written. So at this time the only way to get this information from me is to arrange a one on one session or attend one of my classes. It really is an amazing relationship to add into your life.

     Also please remember that if you use any of the information about adding love into your life, that you make sure you are using the other two parts of the triad. Adding love without the actively using the other parts of the triad will eventually make your life more painful. This said, it is still very healthy to engage into proactively putting love into your life for a week or two just to see how fast the power of love can change and enhance your life.

     If this information moves you and you try it and see how much you can learn to love your life, please share this information with everyone you know. Every time another person starts choosing love, moment by moment, our world becomes more like the heaven that if is and it makes it easier for others to follow.

     So much love to you!

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