We are all expressing happiness and sadness in the same way. We are all smiling using the same muscle, there is a universal look for happiness, power, dominance, agility, strength, wisdom.

So just by the looks of one body, gesture, and muscle contraction you can say so many things.

What is a smile? if not a contraction of particular muscles, when you feel dominated, you tend to get smaller so your body flexes, becoming smaller. When you dominate you have your chest open, you are walking with a straight back, full of confidence, and is not even important what other believes, if you believe it yourself. They will just act to the vibe you are sending. All the postures in yoga, you can fake them until your mind believes them.

You become happiness just by feeling a back-bend, forward bend, a sun salutation.

So feelings can be express just by muscle contraction.

Everybody when is happy wants to jump up in the air, scream, raise the hands, share this happiness with someone else. You feel like something inside of you is expanding. Your soul wants to explode. And that is his only desire, like the universe, expansion is their nature.

If the soul feels trap, it will not feel good. How do you feel as a prisoner? Or when somebody tells you what to do?

Just remember when you were a child and your parents where stopping you from doing things, from exploring, from expanding your soul. You were outraged, starting crying, yelling, because someone put rules, someone put a cage to your soul, someone is telling you there are limits.

When you experience happiness, your cells are so energized that you feel you can run for miles. But the idea of expansion is interesting, why do you feel you have to create space? And for who? Didn’t yoga learn from this feeling, and created posture so the soul may walk freely through your body.

We still follow some universal rules. For me yoga is the science that studied how to bring your body and mind to their full potential.

For me happiness is extension, your body gets bigger, you expand, you are flexible, a flexibility in the body and mind. Being sad, you are exactly the opposite you are stiff, your range of motion is reduced, you are lacking strength and energy.

And isn’t it when you feel stiff, you feel like your energy is being absorbed in the body in those points? And as you open those energy channels, you just start feeling better, is like someone has blocked the energy trough specific points.

The same thing are happening with emotions, feelings, they are rising or depleting the energy of the body. How do you feel after sitting to much? How do you feel after a yoga class?

So yoga for me are just the means to use specific muscles that creates happiness in the body, creates awareness of the body. When somebody is smiling, just by looking at that you are smiling also, you feel the energy rise. This is another example that we are all connected, we feel just by looking at others, we can feel a small sensation of what they are feeling.

Let s try kindness, respecting the opinions of other, take joy in our differences, be more sociable, smile more, and if you are not doing it for you, do it for others.

Say a hello, say a bless you, make people feel they are not alone. The hardest thing to bear on this earth is the feeling of a lonely soul that no one cares about your existence. Everything is easier to bear when you feel there is someone supporting you, even if you were in hell just having someone next to you, give you strength to go on.

Wish you all a beautiful weekend. Change the world by small gesture of kindness each time, a situation is given to you.

God bless you ! Namaste … 

My God is too big to fit in one religion.