Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:08 min)

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over, we become familiar with the reality that is truly our home.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.1	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock.com. In the stillness, we're in the stillness we will breathe together,
0:43.3	gathering our attention, collecting with the breath,
0:47.3	begin in with a very long, deep in breath,
0:51.3	inhaling, filling the chest and the lungs.
0:58.9	And then a very slow out breath, slow enough so you can feel the sensations as you
1:04.4	release them.
1:13.6	And again, a long, deep in breath. And a very slow, conscious out breath, releasing outward, letting go, letting go, letting go, letting go.
1:32.6	And again, breathing in fully, filling the chest and the lungs.
1:40.5	A slow, long out breath.
1:45.0	Breathing in, long, deep in breath.
1:56.0	A slow out breath, feeling that when you release the breath you can soften down
2:08.5	the whole length of the body, letting go, letting go.
2:14.7	And then allowing the breath to resume in its natural rhythm.
2:20.3	Relaxing with the inflow, relaxing with the outflow,
2:32.3	just noticing the quality of presence. and relaxing with the outflow.
2:40.0	Just noticing the quality of presence that's right here. Deepening this presence as we scan through the body, beginning with the region of the eyes,
3:01.6	just softening the eyes, noticing the sensations, quivering, trembling, lights flashing,
3:14.3	lights flashing, vibration in the whole area of the eyes, letting the eyes.
3:28.0	Letting the jaw be unhinged, slight smile at the mouth.
3:34.0	Feeling the tongue right down to the root of the tongue,
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