Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We deepen the intention to befriend and relax with whatever arises moment-to-moment, letting life be just as it is. We offer a brief lovingkindness reflection, sensing our heart and mind, and offering whatever wish most resonates right now to ourselves and others.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:05.6 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:35.6 | You might close your eyes and then from the inside out make those subtle shifts and sitting |
| 0:48.9 | so that your posture is upright. |
| 0:52.4 | Place your sitting tall, sitting in a balanced way and since possibility of relaxing in this |
| 1:06.1 | uprightness, just see what will naturally let go and soften and be more at ease. |
| 1:20.6 | As you come into stillness, you might let the attention move to the heart area. |
| 1:29.2 | Just fill your breath at your heart. |
| 1:36.7 | Very simple inquiry. |
| 1:39.3 | What is it that brings you here tonight? |
| 1:42.8 | Really? |
| 1:43.8 | What is your intention? |
| 1:58.8 | And as you check for the quality of sincerity, because the more you feel sincere about your |
| 2:07.0 | intention, the more you know you're really contacting your heart. |
| 2:12.7 | What really matters? |
| 2:28.8 | We open together as community with a very simple chant. |
| 2:32.1 | The mantra Om is the mantra of connectedness. |
| 2:36.1 | You might want to bring the palms together to deepen that sense of heart connection. |
| 2:40.2 | We'll chant three times. |
| 2:44.3 | Please inhale deeply. |
| 3:44.3 | The two wings of a full attention are the wing of mindfulness of recognizing what's |
| 4:03.6 | happening right here in this moment. |
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