Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body sitting here. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what's happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention.

We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that's here – our senses awake… in wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, open.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit
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0:52.0	Mm-mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm. I'd like to invite you to take a moment to really settle in, just be aware of inviting yourself into presence. You might close your eyes or lower your gaze and as you turn
0:57.1	your attention inward, notice what's here, notice what's happening. Let the intention be to be awake and relaxed.
1:07.0	And as you close your eyes and come into stillness, you might take a few very conscious, long, deep breaths.
1:19.0	So let's inhale deeply together and expand it in, inhaling, and then a slow out breath.
1:29.6	Slow enough so you can feel the sensations of letting go.
1:33.0	Releasing, releasing, letting go.
1:36.0	That's it.
1:38.0	And then again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest,
1:41.0	filling the lungs, exaggerate like a full full breath and then a slow out breath,
1:50.0	slowly releasing letting go, letting go.
1:56.0	One more time, inhaling deeply.
2:02.0	And a gentle, slow release softening down the length of the body letting go, letting go.
2:10.0	And then as the breath... letting go.
2:19.1	And then as the breath comes back into a natural rhythm,
2:22.3	just notice the possibility of relaxing, relaxing with the inflow,
2:27.0	relaxing with the outflow. And notice the quality of presence that it doesn't take much to experience yourself as more here. And bring your presence, your attention to the heart.
2:59.9	And just sense whatever mood is with you tonight, the state of your heart right now.
3:08.6	You might feel a mood of anxiety or tiredness, stress, openness, curiosity, sorrow, cheerfulness.
3:27.2	Just sense what's here.
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