Guided Meditation - A Forgiving Heart
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 28 November 2012
⏱️ 29 minutes
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2012-11-28 - Guided Meditation - A Forgiving Heart - Forgiveness is the letting go of armor we have erected around our heart. While forgiving is a life-long process, it can be engaged and deepened by practices such as the one offered here. The best attitude in approaching this meditation is one of gentleness and clear intention. Reflect on what matters to you, and then let go of any judgments or expectations as to how the meditation "should" unfold. Blessings! Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!
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| 0:00.0 | As a way of beginning today's reflection on the heart, just to invite you to bring |
| 0:10.6 | your attention, mindful attention to the heart area. |
| 0:15.2 | So you might feel the breath at the heart and just become aware of the state of your heart |
| 0:24.5 | right now. |
| 0:33.5 | And by state of the heart, I mean, but the felt sense there, direct experience of sensations |
| 0:46.2 | at the heart, perhaps in a defined mood, you might detect an openness or tightness, |
| 1:13.1 | from sensitive, see without adding any extra judgment just to notice how it is right now. |
| 1:38.4 | To continue the reflection by sensing how you are with yourself right now, how is your |
| 1:44.3 | heart relating to your own being? |
| 1:47.5 | Again, without adding judgment, just to notice, in a way it is your attitude toward your |
| 1:55.5 | own liveness, your own deeness, the quality of intimacy. |
| 2:15.5 | Extending the reflection to the relational field and just sensing how it is with others. |
| 2:41.8 | The felt sense or intimacy or sense of belonging are not belonging with those that are here. |
| 3:11.7 | You might allow a few key people from your life to come to mind, just sense in an intuitive |
| 3:19.8 | way, the degree of connectedness or separation. |
| 3:49.6 | One of the most powerful gateways to unconditional love is to begin to invest |
| 4:19.6 | a gate where we have created separation in our lives and to sense what allows us to include |
| 4:31.6 | others and the parts of our own being that we have been excluded from our hearts. |
| 4:44.3 | The language for this is forgiveness. |
| 4:47.8 | A forgiving heart is a heart that can let go of the armoring, the sustained separation. |
| 4:59.7 | So as we practice some of the forgiveness meditations today, it is important to know that |
| 5:08.5 | forgiving isn't in any way a process of saying, oh, what you did was okay, it's not a |
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