Kundalini Awakening: The Value of a Smile for the Brain and Nervous System

Part of my Kundalini Grounding and Integration guide · Teachings by Guru Sanju

Healing Through the Energetic Mastery Method (EMM)

The Forgotten Smile in Kundalini Awakening

Kundalini awakening is one of the most powerful transformations a human being can experience. It is the ignition of hidden energy within, a sacred fire that rises through the spine, burning away karmas, conditioning, and illusions. But along with this profound rebirth often comes a heavy side-effect: seriousness.

For many seekers, once Kundalini is awakened, the lightness of life disappears. The person becomes grave, contemplative, withdrawn, almost frozen in their demeanor. I have seen this in countless students. They have not smiled for years, sometimes even for decades. When I ask them, “When was the last time you truly smiled?” they cannot remember.

Why does this happen? The reason lies in the natural biofeedback system of the brain and nervous system.

The body continuously communicates with the brain. When you smile, your nervous system tells the brain that you are safe, harmonious, and in balance. But when you stop smiling, your nervous system gives the opposite message: that something is wrong, that you are in danger, that life is not worth rejoicing in. Over time, this lack of positive feedback activates the freeze mode of the nervous system. The body begins to live permanently in defense.

This is why so many on the Kundalini path appear serious, tense, and locked away from joy.

The Instinctive Brain and the Neural Pathway of Smiling

It is important to understand that your brain is evolutionary and instinctive. The neural pathway of smiling is already written within your nervous system. It is not something you need to create; it is already there.

But the brain functions like a muscle. If you do not use a pathway, it becomes weaker. If you do not smile for months, years, or decades, the brain simply forgets how to use the smile pathway. It closes down the circuitry.

Then, when you want to smile, you cannot. It feels unnatural, foreign, even forced. Many of my students report this: “Guruji, I cannot smile. I try, but it doesn’t come.”

This is not because they lack joy. It is because the nervous system has forgotten the movement. The solution, therefore, is to re-teach the nervous system the art of smiling.

Teaching the Brain to Smile Again

If you are one of those who has lost touch with the natural smile, you can bring it back. It requires patience, practice, and the right technique. What follows is a method from the Energetic Mastery Method (EMM), designed specifically to awaken the smile pathway in your brain.

Step 1: Stretch the Smile Muscles

First, stretch the muscles around your mouth. Pull your jaw slightly apart and expose your teeth. Even if it feels mechanical, hold the shape of a smile. Remember, the body gives feedback to the brain. By making the form, you awaken the signal.

Step 2: Use the Power of Vowels

Now, support the smile with sound. Speak the five vowels clearly and strongly: A, E, I, O, U.

Say them with me:
A… E… I… O… U.

Repeat several times, exaggerating the movements of your lips and jaw. Allow the mouth to open wide, the muscles to stretch, and the tongue to participate. This simple exercise retrains the mouth to move in ways that naturally lead to a smile.

Step 3: Extend into a Smile

Once you have loosened the muscles with vowels, allow the posture to turn into a smile. Do not wait for a reason. Simply stretch the lips and let the smile appear. If laughter comes, allow it.

Remember this secret:

• When you are happy, you smile.
• When you smile, you become happy.

It works both ways. By practicing the smile physically, you create happiness energetically.

Step 4: The Mirror Practice

Stand in front of a mirror. Look at yourself with a serious expression. Feel how heavy it is. Then, slowly stretch your lips into a smile. Teach your brain through this reflection.

I tell my students, “Imagine I am your mirror. When you see me smile, copy it. Let the nervous system re-learn through imitation.”

At first, force the seriousness. Refuse to smile. Notice how unnatural it feels. Then let the laughter arise from the resistance itself. This laughter is healing. It shows the nervous system is remembering the forgotten pathway.

Why the Smile is Medicine for the Nervous System

Your nervous system is not concerned with philosophy, Kundalini, or metaphysics. It understands only signals of safety and danger. When you smile, it receives the signal of safety. The muscles around the mouth tell the brain: “I am safe. I am free. Life is harmonious.”

When you do not smile, the opposite message is given: “I am unsafe. Life is heavy. Danger surrounds me.”

Therefore, smiling is not just an emotion; it is medicine. It shifts the entire physiology of the body.

Studies in neuroscience confirm this, but long before science, the sages of India knew it. That is why they created yogic laughter, smiling meditations, and expressions of joy during prayer. Smiling changes brain chemistry, balances the nervous system, and heals the trauma frozen within the body.

Smiling Through Kundalini’s Fire

Kundalini awakening is not meant to be endured in constant seriousness. It is the journey of the phoenix—the burning away of karmas, the rising into a new life. And what is the essence of a new life? Celebration.

When the old self dies and the new self is born, should we not smile? Should we not laugh at the beauty of creation?

Say this to yourself:
“I have a good life ahead. Let me pass through the turmoils smilingly. Let me rise through the challenges with laughter in my heart.”

The smile becomes your ally. Each time you practice it, you teach the nervous system that you are alive, safe, and free.

The Energetic Mastery Method Approach

What I have shared here is only a glimpse of the Energetic Mastery Method. There are hundreds of techniques, each designed to awaken your energy, heal your nervous system, and stabilize your Kundalini journey.

This particular method—the Smile Method—is among the simplest yet most powerful. It requires no tools, no outer conditions, only your willingness to participate.

Every time you smile, you:

• Awaken the frozen pathways of the nervous system.
• Send biofeedback to the brain that life is safe.
• Release the body from trauma’s grip.
• Invite natural laughter, which floods the system with healing energy.

The more you practice, the more natural it becomes. Soon, your smile will no longer be mechanical. It will arise spontaneously, like sunlight after rain.

Living as the Phoenix

Kundalini does not want you to become a statue of seriousness. It wants you to become a phoenix—vibrant, alive, radiant, free. To live in this way, you must embrace joy.

Smiling is the first step. Laughter is the next. Once these two are awakened, you begin to live as life itself: flowing, expanding, rejoicing.

When people around you try to make you serious, smile at them. Laugh gently, even playfully. Teach your nervous system again and again that life is not a prison but a celebration.

Closing Guidance

As one who has gone through the highest levels of Kundalini awakening, I tell you this: seriousness is not a sign of spirituality. Joy is. Laughter is. Smiling is.

Your brain and nervous system do not understand Kundalini, chakras, or enlightenment. They understand only biofeedback. Therefore, give them the simplest, purest feedback: a smile.

Tell your body: Life is good. I am safe. I am transforming. I rejoice in this awakening.

Keep smiling with me. Keep laughing with me. And if you wish me to work with you directly, connect with my team. Together, we will guide your nervous system back to harmony through the Energetic Mastery Method.

Thank you.

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