A smile changes everything, not just in your own life, but in the life of everyone who sees or hears your smile.
I'm Reverend Ali Bierman.
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Here's a song that's all about why you want to smile.
What does it mean?
It’s a golden thread
weaving the tapestry of life
It’s the harmony of a song
connecting heart to heart
eliminating strife
A smile says so simply
“You are seen.
You are loved just as you are.
I’m so glad you’re here.”
Come close to me, my dear one.
Let is share only love and joy.
Speak only with kindness
It’s connecting heart-to-heart.
And even in times of dreary darkness
you can always find the Light
Know it’s always there.
You will always in all ways see
what you expect to see
You will always in all ways see
what you expect to be possible
Always! In all ways!
You create the blinders
limiting your vision.
You create the blinders
narrowing your world
Until you choose to see
differently.
That’s when your world
opens completely
To all potentialities
all across the spectrum
Of possibilities.
You are in charge of you!
Always have been
always will be
Take it on. Take it on.
The choice is yours.
InJoy! In Joy! Enjoy!
The thing is, a smile connects you to other people.
A smile connects you to yourself, to your inner self, to who you really are.
Whatever you're doing right now, just sit up straight, stand up straight, and just smile.
Smiling means your whole body.
It's not just what you do with your lips, or your cheeks, or your eyes, and your eyebrows go up, and your forehead goes up.
But your whole body is now free, and it's taking in oxygen, and that's your life force.
Smiles change everything in your world.
More than that, smile changes others in your world.
When you want to meet somebody, what's the first thing you do?
You look at them, they smile.
And you smile when you say hi.
You do, don't you?
If you're going to be grumpy, they're not going to be interested in looking back at you or greeting you or getting to know you.
A smile opens you to possibilities that you may have overlooked before because you let yourself be curled up, shy, afraid.
By the way, an aside here, people talk about the fact that they're introverts.
Introvert absolutely does not mean shy.
Shy is shy.
Being afraid of people, being afraid to look at people, being afraid for people to see you, that's shy.
That's not introvert.
Introverted means you need time alone to recoup your energy.
An extrovert needs to be with other people to get charged.
An introvert, and I know, because I've been an introvert all my life, I love to be out there, I love to be with people, I love to teach live classes, but then I'll get drained and I just need to be alone and quiet to recoup my energy.
So please stop telling people you're an introvert, because in fact you're shy.
How are you going to get over being shy?
You're going to smile at people.
I spent a lot of my life being shy, and my mom would introduce me as a shy kid.
Other people introduced me as something I was shy.
Guess what I did?
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
I was shy until one day I realized, man, I'm missing out on a lot of fun relationships, on a lot of fun activities.
This shy stuff, that's not feeling good.
That's not nourishing my spirit.
That's when I started smiling.
Now, when somebody's shy, the telltale sign is they can't meet you eye to eye, and when you're smiling, they'll look away.
That's somebody who's shy.
But you know what?
Keep smiling anyway.
You don't have to say anything.
Certainly don't pressure them.
But if you smile at somebody often enough, they'll know you're safe.
They'll know it's okay.
They'll look you in the eye.
And maybe, eventually, they'll smile back at you.
Speaking of somebody who is shy and decided they want to be shy anymore and choosing to smile until it became an automatic habit, I'm coming from a place of fact from experience when I tell you the smile opens your world to all possibilities, to all the things you don't even know are possible for you.
Because you, maybe because of others telling you that, but you are believing it, you're taking it on.
Why would you take on negative, limiting experiences?
Other people in your environment are not you, and they're not living your life.
And you, only you, get to choose your life and your own.
You alone create the blinders that limit your vision, and you alone create that narrow lens.
Your blinders of what you can see in your world - you're missing all the stuff that's out there beyond.
It's a lot there.
And in all ways, every way possible, you can experience the possibilities and potentialities that you were not until now open to knowing, to feeling, to seeing, tasting, touching, smelling.
Just a thought ran through my head.
I eat differently.
I guess I always have.
And I've had people look at what I was eating and saying it was weird.
Well, that's the same stuff that 40, 50 years ago, people were telling me, boy, you eat weird or that's yucky what you're eating.
And every place you go, every grocery store, the mainstream grocery stores, the restaurants, every place eats like I do.
Mostly. There are some things I won't go near, but mostly the way I eat, the way I always ate, was never weird.
It's what felt good. It's what kept me and my family healthy.
So do what feels right to you. And if other people think you're weird, you know what? You're just ahead of your time. You're open to infinite possibilities. You see the potentials out there that everybody else is just missing.
Thank you again for joining me here today.
I am Rev. Ali Bierman and this is the Let's Get Metaphysical Show.
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There's nothing in your life that's happening out there. Nothing.
It's all happening inside there. (Points to heart.)
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