Loving Heart

The heart pumps blood and chi energy through your veins and

arteries. But in Taoist yoga the heart, along with the kidneys, is the

main transformer of chi energy. This means that the heart is capable

of both increasing your available chi and raising the quality of

its energy to a more refined level.

The arteries are said to belong to yang energy and the veins to

yin energy. The arteries therefore have a positive charge and the

veins a negative one. When you smile and fill your heart with love

you increase the rate of blood circulation and with it the exchange

of yin and yang chi in the bloodstream. So smile into your heart

and feel the loving energy of the smile spread throughout your circulatory

system.

If you can use the smile and microcosmic orbit to aid the chi

flow, the heart will work less. The smile from the eyes and the

brain will help to circulate the chi energy and thus aid the blood to

flow fully and freely while the heart relaxes. In conjunction with the

proper diet and exercise, the likelihood of getting heart disease will

be greatly reduced.

Feel the stream of relaxation flow down and spread from your

face and neck into your heart. You will sense the heart to be cool

and calm, and at the same time feel its physical substance. People

who are nervous or who anger quickly often experience pain and

tense feelings in and about the heart. Extending the smile relieves

stored tension and enables a new kind of functioning to take place.

Fill your heart with love. Let your heart be your “sweetheart”.