Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Befriending Your Inner 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 then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing with whatever arises, letting life be just as it is. The underlying intention is to regard all experience with a clear, interested and friendly attention. The gift is a homecoming to our naturally loving presence.

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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.
0:30.0	The mood of meditation is one of a friendliness, kindness.
0:51.0	We can establish that mood through our whole body, first by imagining and sensing a wide
0:58.2	open sky that's filled with the curve of a smile.
1:04.4	Just imagine that, an open vast sky and a smile spreading through that sky, illuminating,
1:16.1	sensing the receptivity of a smile.
1:23.4	Letting your mind merge with that open sky so you can sense that smile spreading through
1:35.4	and filling and lightening up your whole mind.
1:48.0	Feeling the eyes smiling, the outer corners of the eyes lifted up, so that smile spreads
1:58.4	through the eyes and you can feel all the sensations of the eyes floating.
2:11.1	Light and dark tingling vibrating, letting the brow be smooth.
2:23.7	Sense a slight but real smile also at the lips.
2:31.3	Sense the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:37.3	The eyes are soft and smiling, the mouth smiling.
2:45.4	Notice that the tongue can spread naturally, filling the lower palate.
2:51.1	You can relax the tongue down to the root.
3:00.2	You might become aware of all the sensations in the mouth, the teeth, the gums, the lips,
3:07.6	the tongue.
3:11.9	Feeling and vibrating in space.
3:26.9	The eyes are soft, smiling, the mouth.
3:34.9	You might visualize and sense the curve of a smile spreading through the area of the heart,
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