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Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:46 min)

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Tara Brach

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous system, and then invites a relaxed presence with the breath and sensation that open us to the “universe breathing.” Resting in awareness, we realize the wakefulness, peace and vitality of pure presence.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:04.1

To access more of my meditations or join my email list,

0:07.9

please visit tarabrock.com. And this And this In the stillness, aware of this body breathing.

0:47.1

Very consciously extending and deepening the breath.

0:56.2

So the in-brath is full and deep filling the chest and lungs, breathing in.

1:04.4

And then a slow-out breath, slow enough so you can feel the sensations as they leave

1:10.6

the nostrils, releasing the breath,

1:13.6

releasing, letting go.

1:16.6

And then a nice, full deep in breath again, breathing in.

1:24.6

Felling up and then a slow out breath, Very aware with the out breath of letting go.

1:30.3

Relaxing outward, releasing.

1:35.3

And again a nice deep, full in-breath.

1:40.3

Filling the lungs and a conscious slow-out breath, releasing, letting go, continuing in this rhythm

1:58.2

of breathing in and filling yourself with the breath.

2:06.5

And then a slow out breath, very consciously slow so there's a sense of the relaxing

2:12.4

outward, the releasing as you release the breath.

2:47.0

Aware of the sensations of filling up and of releasing. When you notice the mind has drifted, just gently come back to the in-breath or the out-breath.

3:30.0

It can be a relaxing open to receive with the in breath, and a relaxing and releasing with the out breath. I'm I'm I'm

3:41.6

I'm

3:43.6

I'm

3:44.6

I'm Thank you. See if you can sense with the in-breath that you're filling not just your chest and your lungs,

4:24.8

but all the cells in your body, expanding, receiving, even the spaces between the cells, filling up, opening up.

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