Meditation: A Listening Presence with Smile Body Scan (2016-11-10)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Meditation: A Listening Presence with Smile Body Scan (2016-11-10) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies, filling them with the image of a smile. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence and peace.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:08.8 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | As you're arriving sensing yourself here, you might open the sense doors to sound and begin with listening. |
| 1:01.0 | If you can listen in a global way, just taking everything in evenly. |
| 1:09.0 | Noticing with listening that receptivity, that there's not much to do, as this sounds are just known spontaneously. |
| 1:40.0 | Just letting sounds wash through. |
| 1:53.0 | Sensing the space that they're happening in. |
| 2:04.0 | So, right from the start, you can sense that kind of receptive presence, listening presence. |
| 2:25.0 | You can bring that listening receptivity to a scanning through the body, receiving sensations in that same way as you receive sounds. |
| 2:40.0 | You might soften the eyes, even since that smile that can spread through the eyes, uplifting the corners, letting the brow be smooth. |
| 3:06.0 | And just receiving sensations in the region of the eyes. |
| 3:22.0 | Slightly smild the mouth, with the inside of the mouth smile. |
| 3:39.0 | Feeling and receiving the aliveness there. |
| 3:57.0 | Feeling the shoulders relaxed back and down. |
| 4:13.0 | Opening to the life, the aliveness, the sensations that are there. |
| 4:34.0 | And softening the hands. |
| 4:42.0 | Feeling from the inside out. |
| 4:46.0 | Again, it's as if you're listening to and feeling aliveness. |
| 5:07.0 | Nothing going to be an openness to the chest. |
| 5:14.0 | You might even smile into the heart, sense a smile spreading through the heart area. |
| 5:32.0 | From the inside out, feeling, receiving the experience of the heart region. |
| 6:00.0 | Loosening, softening the belly. |
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