A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (2019-12-18)

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (2019-12-18) - A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and to feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart.

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0:00.0	I'd like to invite you to sense what it means to you to arrive in the presence.
0:21.1	You may take a few long deep breaths and just feel the movement of the breath collecting
0:32.5	your attention.
0:43.1	Letting the breath resume in a natural rhythm.
0:50.4	Let your senses be awake.
0:52.4	You're listening to the sounds around you.
1:03.0	Listening inward so that you're listening to and feeling the body.
1:08.6	And as you do, you might notice where the place is in you that might want to let go a
1:14.2	little bit right now.
1:17.9	Maybe there can be some loosening and softening in the shoulders.
1:26.9	Maybe you can soften your hands.
1:34.3	Next down through the belly.
1:40.1	You can feel the breath deep into the torso.
1:43.6	You can become aware of sensations throughout your body.
1:51.6	You're listening to and feeling the whole moment.
2:09.8	Gently bringing your attention to the area around the heart.
2:16.0	You can feel the heart whatever mood is here.
2:22.9	Also listening inwardly for whatever longing, sensing your intention for being here, for
2:30.1	coming to practice, to explore mindfulness and compassion.
2:51.5	And sensing now the quality of presence that's right here.
3:01.5	Noticing the difference between right now and perhaps when you first arrived.
3:09.8	There's more of that quality of hearingness.
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