Guided Meditation: Choosing Living Presence

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🗓️ 4 October 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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2013-10-02 - Guided Meditation: Choosing Living Presence

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0:00.0	So please, if you will, close your eyes and with your eyes closed, adjust your posture
0:13.0	so that you find your way into sitting upright.
0:20.0	There's a quality of sitting tall and alert.
0:26.0	And notice what you can relax in the posture.
0:33.0	Optimally we want the sitting posture to support the inner qualities of being awake and at ease.
0:45.0	Awake and at ease.
0:51.0	Let's breathe together, collecting the attention, inhaling deeply.
0:55.0	More of a fullness to the in-breath than normal, breathing in.
1:02.0	And a slow out breath.
1:05.0	Slow, slow release.
1:07.0	Letting go.
1:09.0	Letting go.
1:12.0	And then again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and lungs.
1:19.0	You might even hold for a moment to feel the fullness, the chest open, the shoulders back.
1:26.0	And then a slow out breath.
1:29.0	Slow enough so you can feel the sensations of releasing the breath.
1:36.0	And inhaling again.
1:42.0	Filling the lungs and then a slow out breath, softening down the length of the body, releasing.
1:51.0	Letting go.
1:54.0	Letting go.
1:57.0	And then allowing the breath to resume its natural rhythm.
2:05.0	Sense the quality of presence with the breath, allowing intimate awake.
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