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Tara Brach

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:05.7

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

0:35.7

We'll start our time together with the meditation.

0:46.7

And the title of this meditation is Being a Kind Witness.

0:55.4

And this particular meditation just defines a posture that supports you and lets you feel stable,

1:07.1

lets you feel safe.

1:09.3

You might sense a groundedness, kind of like a mountain, really connected to the earth

1:15.8

and yet open.

1:20.5

As you'd like, you might let the eyes either be closed or downcast so your attention

1:25.8

can be inward.

1:27.8

You can feel awake at ease.

1:37.6

You might become aware of this body breathing.

1:44.2

And perhaps extend the breath so it's a long deep breath and then a slow release of the

1:53.6

breath and feel the sensations of the earth as it leaves the nostrils.

2:01.8

And another long deep breath, a slow out breath, smooth even release.

2:16.4

One more time, inhale deeply.

2:23.3

Release the breath slowly, letting go, relaxing outward, then allowing the breath that

2:33.2

come back into its natural rhythm.

2:35.8

And sensing that you can relax with the movement of the breath.

2:45.4

Feel the presence that's right here.

2:54.0

Deepening that presence by scanning through the body and noticing where there might be

2:59.6

some habitual tightness or tension.

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