There are eight ways to practice the attribute of humility and each corresponds to a place on the body.
The third practice is with one’s forehead, as he writes:
A person’s forehead should display no harshness. Your face should reflect willingness, acceptance, pleasantry.
When I was a child a girl’s forehead was the place where you debated with your friends and mom, bangs or a center part. Then as my own daughters became teens, they spoke a lot about eyebrows. Unruly, uni-brow, bushy, plucked, waxed, thin line, severely arched, slightly curved, or groomed like Brooke Shields. Then, as the years passed, I somehow stopped looking at eyebrows started looking at hairlines. Receded or simply disappearing hairlines seem to have less judgment than comb-overs. And then there is always the question, is the thinness from illness or age.
But now, right now, I understand that the space above my eyes tells a story to the world. In the lines of your forehead is an expression of your spirit. Worried, concerned, deep in thought, content, angry.
This may sound silly, but try this – all day, while in conversation, at the computer, sitting quietly, while arguing, when being criticized or engaging, notice the space above your brow. Change it and see how it changes the dynamic of your day. What tales lay in the lines of your forehead. What is the expression of humility?