Q : Namaskar Gurumaa, I have a very strange problem. I smile without any reason. When I face anyone I automatically smile mildly. I tried a lot to stop it but this trial was not of much avail. Actually, I am working at a public dealing counter where I have to work in front of lot of public. Here this problem of smiling starts. I am very depressed. Please tell me how can I deal with this smiling problem?
Neetu Singh
Answer Neetu, when you smile artificially and automatically, for how long can you put up an act? Smile must come from your heart.
As you are at a public dealing counter, you have to smile for your clients and for all those individuals with whom you interact. Smile has become a duty for you, it is not a heartfelt smile. It is but obvious that you are tired of the drama of smiling everyday.
What I can suggest you, is to learn to love yourself and learn to be meditative. This will bring out so much of happiness in your heart that your smiling will no more be mild, it will not be automatic, you will bring it out consciously.
When you use the word automatic, it means that you are more of robot and less of a human being. Every human being goes through varied colors of emotions but because your job is to smile all the time, so smiling too has a become part of your duty. So this duty has made you robotic but, this robot has a mind and this mind is bored and exhausted from these plastic automatic smiles of duty.
Just reverse the whole procedure. Convert your robotic mind into a natural mind and you’ll lose your job by not smiling. I can always say that don't smile if you don’t feel like but I don't want you to loose your job in these days of recession. So it is better for you to learn more and more ways of keeping yourself happy all the time.
Gurumaa
