Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (2017-12-06)

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🗓️ 7 December 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (2017-12-06) - Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with accessing the receptivity of a smile, awakening through the body and opening the senses. We then sense the background of awareness and relax back to inhabit that wholeness. When the mind is distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back, and the essential practice is non-doing, allowing life to be just as it is.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	You might sense from the inside out the sitting posture.
0:36.0	You just feel a quality of uprightness to help you with really being awake and at ease relaxed.
0:54.3	You might become aware of the breath as it flows in and out of the heart.
1:01.7	Incidentally, that your attention comes to the area of the heart.
1:09.8	We begin with a reflection on intention, what your intention is for practice right now.
1:20.1	This is a deep question of what brings us here, what really matters to us most.
1:28.4	So just listen inwardly in sense what you feel most sincere about.
1:50.0	When we sense our shared intention that our practice might wake up our hearts and minds
1:58.6	in a way that ripples out and really brings more peace and understanding, love and freedom
2:06.1	to all beings.
2:16.1	You might let your practice be held in a atmosphere of kindness and care by visualizing the
2:27.5	curve of a smile.
2:29.0	You might sense why it opens space and sensing the curve of a smile spreading through it.
2:41.2	You could create open sky filled with that receptivity of a smile and then let the
2:50.0	smile merge with the mind.
2:53.2	So the mind is filled with the illumination and warmth of a smile.
3:09.7	Feeling the eyes soften and smiling into the eyes.
3:15.4	So the outer corners lift some and the brow be smooth.
3:27.0	Very soft eyes.
3:31.9	Feeling the smile at the mouth.
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