Focus on a smile and laugh out loud

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
-- R. N. Chamfort --

Start by calling on Reiki to show you the meaning of joy.

If you've been given the symbols then draw the Power symbol, then the Emotional symbol in front of you, saying their mantra three times. Visualise walking right into them so that they encompasses you, hold the intention that you will be enabled to find joy and to find reasons to laugh out loud. Smile now! yes broadly and with feeling, relax into this facial expression and enjoy its comforting embrace.

See if you can go a step further and laugh out loud, right now.

Just for today, at least once, hold a smile on your face with mindfulness. Focus on joy. Relax and use this time to notice those things around you that make you happy.

This week in our office I was able, through this practice, to notice that one of my colleagues chats away to himself while he works, he's not aware of it but it makes me smile because its an individual characteristic of someone special in our team.

I also noticed that one of our staff circles the office regularly to visit the chocolate tin! that made me smile more.

I smiled when I went running last night and watched people passing with the same puzzled look on their faces as I used to have, when I was thinking 'haven't they got anything better to do in this hurrendous weather, why do they put themselves through it!' now I know what a buzz it is and how good it makes them feel. This made me laugh out loud.

Try and cultivate this experience into a practice of laughing out loud. Reiki is about experiencing healing and there is nothing more healing than experiencing joy and laughter.