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Guided Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Presence

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Tara Brach

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🗓️ 27 July 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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2013-07-24 - Guided Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Presence

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0:00.0

Take a few moments to fuel your sitting posture from the inside out, so you make whatever

0:08.2

subtle adjustments will help you to sit in a way that's upright, so the posture supports

0:16.8

the quality of being awake, balanced, and it is. We'll start together just with the simplicity

0:29.8

of breathing consciously, taking a very long and deep and full in breath, and then a slow

0:41.4

out breath, very consciously releasing and feeling the sensations of letting go, and again inhaling

0:52.4

deeply, and a slow out breath, letting go, letting go, and once again inhaling deeply, filling

1:09.4

the lungs, filling the chest, holding for a moment, holding, feeling that fullness, and again

1:17.4

very slowly releasing the breath, softening down the length of the body, letting go, letting

1:26.9

go, letting the breath resume in its natural rhythm, feeling that increased presence, that awareness

1:41.9

that's attending with the in breath, a kind of inflating, opening, receiving, with the out breath

1:55.9

that they're releasing, settling, relaxing outward, and with this more collected

2:18.9

attention, bringing a quality of listening to your heart, sensing the state of your heart

2:25.9

right now, physically, emotionally, and as you listen and feel that part of your being

2:46.9

just a sense, what is it that matters to you, what brings you here tonight?

2:57.9

What is your intention?

3:07.9

Thank you for listening for the most true or sincere intention.

3:38.9

We'll bring that caring of the heart to the chanting, the mantra is simply Om, that mantra or a sound

3:48.9

current of connectedness. We'd like to bring the palms together so that you can chant from a quality of

3:57.9

care, of tenderness. We'll do three, three chanting together of own beginning by inhaling deeply.

4:27.9

Thank you very much.

4:57.9

Thank you very much.

5:27.9

And just to listen, sensing the space in the room, the sounds, the soft sounds that are right here.

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