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Tara Brach

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness - This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:07.7

To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.

0:30.0

Letting the attention collect with the awareness of the breath, you might extend the in-breath

0:51.8

with the sound, so this long and deep inhale and feeling the chest in the lungs, and

0:59.5

then a slow out breath about the same length as the in-breath releasing slowly,

1:12.6

and a nice long in breath, and breathing out a slow out breath, continuing in this

1:25.5

way with an extended in-breath and out-breath, matching the lengths of the breaths,

1:31.0

not pausing in between.

2:01.0

Slow, long deep breath, the in-breath and the out-breath matched, no pausing, relaxed

2:22.6

and present with the breath.

2:52.6

When you breathe in, making sure you fill the chest in lungs, and with the out-breath

3:17.6

slow enough, you can feel the sensations of the breath as it leaves the nostrils.

3:47.6

Slow, long deep breath, the in-breath, the in-breath, the in-breath, the in-breath,

4:02.6

the in-breath and out-breath.

4:33.0

And now allowing the breath to resume in its natural rhythm,

4:38.6

sensing the possibility of simply relaxing as the breath comes in,

4:45.4

opening to receive the breath, and relaxing with the out-breath,

4:52.0

surrendering, releasing, letting go.

5:32.6

Still aware of the breath you might also scan through the body,

5:48.2

and notice if there's any areas of particular tightness or contraction,

5:55.4

places in the body that want to relax a bit more, release.

6:02.4

Putting the awareness go to those regions,

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