How to Practice Your Inner Smile
We tend to think of smiling as what we do in response to something that pleases us, such as a funny joke. But smiling can be proactive as well as reactive. This is what the Taoist Inner Smile is all about. It’s a kind of “fake it until you make it” strategy, in which smiling is used to induce the internal environment that typically results from experiencing something pleasant.
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