Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - 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.
"Little breath breathe me gently, row me, for I am the river I am learning to cross." – W.S. Merwin
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:06.7 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit tarabrock.com. I'm Oh Oh |
| 0:24.6 | Oh |
| 0:27.6 | Oh Let yourself be aware of this body sitting here breathing. |
| 0:50.3 | And gently extend the in-breath. |
| 0:57.5 | So you breathe in and fill the chest and the lungs so it's a long, deep, full in breath. |
| 1:07.5 | And then let the out-breath be very slow, slow enough so you can feel the sensations |
| 1:13.1 | of releasing the breath as it goes out. |
| 1:20.6 | And again, a full deep in-breath. |
| 1:40.6 | And a very slow release, letting go, relaxing outward, releasing. And again, a nice full in-breath, you might count to five slowly with the in-breath. |
| 1:49.9 | And matching it with the out-breath, counting to five, slowly letting go. |
| 1:59.0 | And continuing in the breath, slowly letting go. |
| 2:07.6 | And continuing, breathing in, nice full in breath. |
| 2:15.6 | So the in-breadth and the out-breadth are matched and there's not a pause between, |
| 2:44.3 | fully filling up on the in-breath and that slow release with the flow of the breath. You might sense when you're breathing in that you're opening fully to receive, even |
| 2:52.8 | on a cellular level. |
| 2:58.3 | And with the out breath, full releasing, letting go into the universe around you, relaxing |
| 3:06.3 | outward. Staying connected with the in breath, filling the chest and the lungs. |
| 4:00.3 | A slow conscious release with the out breath, letting go, letting go. And that gently allowing the breath to resume into its natural rhythm, yet still resting |
| 4:55.6 | with the breath, relaxing with the breath. Letting the breath be in the foreground, |
| 5:09.0 | and yet aware of the sounds around you, |
| 5:17.0 | other sensations in the body, aware of the quality, aware of the quality |
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