Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace and Freedom (2017-05-10)

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🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace and Freedom (2017-05-10) - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presence is the gateway to deep peace and inner freedom.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.9	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.4	Let yourself be aware of this body sitting here breathing.
0:39.2	And gently extend the in-breath.
0:43.8	So you breathe in and fill the chest and the lungs.
0:47.0	So it's a long, deep, full in-breath.
0:53.8	And then let the out-breath be very slow.
0:56.8	Slow enough you can feel the sensations of releasing the breath as it goes out.
1:07.1	And again, a full, deep in-breath.
1:16.8	And a very slow release.
1:20.3	Let it go, relaxing outward.
1:24.6	Releasing.
1:27.0	And again, a nice full in-breath.
1:29.1	You might count to five slowly with the in-breath.
1:40.1	And matching it with the out-breath, counting to five slowly letting go.
1:47.1	And continuing breathing in a nice full in-breath.
1:53.1	So the in-breath and the out-breath are matched.
1:59.1	And there's not a pause between fully filling up on the in-breath.
2:05.1	And that slow release with the out-breath.
2:16.1	Keeping the attention with the flow of the breath.
2:40.1	You might sense when you're breathing in that you're opening fully to receive even on a cellular level.
2:51.1	And with the out-breath, a full releasing.
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