Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22)

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22) - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and in widening circles, to our world.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:08.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:38.4	Letting the hands be relaxed, you might place the palms in your lap or fingers into
0:50.5	lace or palms down on the thighs.
0:57.6	This meditation as we enter the New Year is a heart practice, awakening, loving presence.
1:07.4	We begin this heart practice by bringing a caring attention to our body.
1:14.0	You might sense where there are any areas of tightness or tension.
1:20.2	Just offer yourself that gift of letting go a little, softening, relaxing.
1:40.1	Let the image and sense of a smile fill the sky with this image of a great open sky and
1:51.7	just letting a smile spread through it, visualizing it, sensing it.
2:02.0	Then let that smile spread through the eyes so that the mind is filled with a smile, the
2:08.9	mind merging with that sky and the eyes are smiling.
2:14.7	The outer corners lifted a bit, softening the flesh around the eyes, the brow smooth.
2:28.2	Feeling that same slight smile at the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:41.4	Once how that smile can help connect to a mood or spirit of friendliness, benevolence,
2:58.8	kindness, the eyes are smiling, the mouth.
3:05.7	You might smile into the heart, sensing a smile spreading through the heart, visualizing
3:12.6	it, feeling it.
3:14.4	It's not to cover over anything, but just to make room for what's here.
3:29.0	Feeling that atmosphere and sense of a smile wide and outward and outward so that the shoulders
3:35.9	are free to relax some, to fall away from the neck.
3:42.8	You can see if you can feel from the inside out the aliveness in the shoulders, tingling
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