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Meditation: Awakening the Heart - Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (2016-03-02)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Awakening the Heart - Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (2016-03-02) -

Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover deep communion through offering and letting in love.

"To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten." Arne Garborg

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:11.1

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

0:30.0

We'll close with a meditation that to me is the most powerful training in Bodhicitta

0:58.8

in a very immediate way, learning to offer that loving and receive it.

1:07.7

Take a moment to sit however you're most comfortable, close your eyes, take a nice full deep

1:14.5

breath, inhale and exhale.

1:29.8

Let the breathing be felt at the heart.

1:40.1

You might imagine a smile spreading through your heart.

1:46.9

A smile that allows you to sense the space that's there.

1:53.6

Not to cover over, but just to have room for whatever you're feeling right now.

2:06.9

And sense if there's any part of your being right now that is needing attention, needing

2:13.8

kindness, needing care.

2:22.5

We can scan and notice most of us, we move through the day and we don't recognize that

2:27.9

there are places in us that are feeling anxious or lonely.

2:37.8

Sad, upset off balance.

2:44.9

Just notice what might want attention.

2:59.9

And you might gently put your hand on your heart and feel that you're beginning to offer

3:04.9

just from your own highest, wisest, kindness being attention, presence, kindness.

3:20.4

You might vary the touch so it feels tender, light, real.

3:30.9

Let's see if you can invite the energy of this universe that is intrinsically kind and

3:36.1

loving right here.

3:40.4

Just ask for and invite that love to be flowing and bathing through your hand and to your

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