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Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (2018-01-31)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring the gap between thoughts. By opening beyond the veil of thinking, we discover the Beingness that is home.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:08.6

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

0:30.0

As you come into stillness, you might sense the breath at the heart.

0:38.5

You can just kind of breathe in and out of your heart.

0:51.7

We open with a simple inquiry or reflection on intention.

0:59.5

To the invitations to sense what your deepest intention is right now for practicing meditation.

1:13.2

What is it that really matters to you that you feel most sincere about?

1:29.0

Your body breathing.

1:39.0

And gently scanning through the body, waking up from the inside out, relaxing from the

1:47.3

inside out.

1:50.4

You might begin by bringing the attention to the region of the eyes, softening the eyes.

2:02.8

Smiling into the eyes is if you can feel the outer corners lifted.

2:11.2

The brow smooth.

2:16.4

Starting that same slight smile, spread through the lips.

2:23.2

You might even sense the inside of the mouth smiling.

2:29.4

This sends a message through the vagal nerve to the whole nervous system to relax, fight,

2:37.7

freeze to just allow us to be at more at ease.

2:49.9

You might let the tongue fill lower palate, fill the root of the tongue relaxed.

3:03.4

The eyes are smiling, mouth open to feel the face, all the sensations and the face simultaneously,

3:14.1

the tingling and vibrating there.

3:29.7

Starting the shoulders to relax back and down, some falling away from the neck.

3:39.9

Fill the shoulders with awareness so you can feel from the inside out the life that's

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