Meditation: Breath by Breath - Relaxing with Our Life (19:04 min.)

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve as an anchor when the mind gets lost in thoughts. As we settle with the breath as a home base, we find we can then open to the changing waves of experience with increasing balance, clarity and ease.

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0:00.0	Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.
0:11.3	Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing
0:17.8	to our world.
0:24.4	You can learn more or support this offering by visiting tarabrock.com,
0:27.1	where you can also join our email list.
0:32.5	Now, let's explore together
0:34.7	the many ways we can live
0:36.7	from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.
0:45.3	Namaste.
0:48.2	Namaste. The guidelines for a sitting posture are to sit upright and sit tall,
1:20.6	in a way to really support being alert, being awake. And then the other guideline is to be at ease.
1:32.3	So in that tallness, to see if you can let whatever can relax,
1:37.3	relax.
1:39.3	So this is to be alert and relaxed.
1:43.3	Feel your body breathing. So this is to be alert and relaxed.
1:48.0	Feel your body breathing.
1:54.0	You might become aware of the breath at the heart.
2:06.6	Feeling the presence that's here. Awake, aware.
2:12.6	And asking yourself, what is my deepest intention for practice right now?
2:24.3	This is an inquiry of what really matters to you.
2:33.3	Is it to relax? of what really matters to you.
2:39.0	Is it to relax, to open your heart,
	...

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