This is a meditation I call the Smile Bank – literally 15 minutes where your goal is to think of things you have experienced recently that make you smile. Through this, you will strengthen neurons and pathways that will make it easier in the future to recognize opportunities to smile, storing them for future meditations, and making you smile more. This helps elevate your mood via neurotransmitters, vagal tone. It alleviate stress and has other benefits like better more grey matter in the brain! Think of it like lifting a heavy weight to train your mind.

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