Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30) - This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the senses, the more we discover the alert inner stillness that is our true home.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:07.4 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | The most direct portal to awake awareness is through the senses. |
| 0:52.6 | You can scan through our body and wake up the senses. |
| 0:58.2 | The attitude that supports it is one of real friendliness and interest. |
| 1:04.3 | So in that spirit you might visualize a smile, the curve of a smile spreading through space. |
| 1:13.6 | You might imagine a great blue vast, endlessly vast sky filled with the curve of a smile. |
| 1:31.1 | Sense the openness, the receptivity, and then let your mind merge with that open sky of |
| 1:39.6 | awareness. |
| 1:41.1 | So your whole mind is filled with the brightness, the welcome, the openness of a smile. |
| 1:59.6 | You might soften the eyes and sense the smile spreading right through the eyes, lifting |
| 2:05.5 | up the outer corners. |
| 2:11.1 | The brows smooth. |
| 2:20.9 | You might sense the slight smile at the mouth. |
| 2:26.3 | You might imagine the inside of the mouth smiling, and opening to the sensations in the |
| 2:35.8 | mouth by relaxing the tongue, letting it fill the lower palate, relaxing right down to |
| 2:45.9 | the root of the tongue, opening to the sensations that fill the whole mouth. |
| 2:56.5 | The gums, the teeth, the lips, the tongue. |
| 3:13.2 | Sensing the whole face alive with sensation, still sensing that smile at the eyes, soft eyes, |
| 3:22.7 | smile at the mouth. |
| 3:32.7 | Tangling, vibrating warmth, pulsing. |
| 3:46.2 | You might visualize and feel the curve of a smile through the throat area, with the throat |
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