Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence -

Often, when we’re really struggling, the only way to find compassion for ourselves is by reaching out towards a loving awareness that is great enough to offer comfort and safety to our wounded self.

When we feel held by a caring presence, by something larger than our small frightened self, we begin to find space in our heart for the difficult currents of our life, and for the lives of others. The suffering that might have seemed “too much” can now awaken us to the sweetness of compassion.

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0:00.0	The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.7	To access more of my meditations or reflections, or to join my email list, please visit tarabrock.com.
0:30.0	So our practice today is a version of taking refuge in the beloved.
0:44.4	There's a value, a wisdom, an intelligence to reaching out at times, to reaching out to
0:52.2	others, and when we're meditating, to reaching out to what seems to be beyond us.
0:59.0	So that's the practice.
1:07.0	Taking some moments to feel as much as you can, your senses open and awake.
1:25.6	To feel the fullness of aliveness, your body.
1:42.2	Experience the heart area and the state of your heart right now.
1:51.7	Your mind state might be here just to recognize without any judgment how it is right now.
2:16.3	You might scan and sense if there's some place, part of you, that is asking for attention,
2:25.5	for healing.
2:29.9	Some place of doubt are fear.
2:44.4	Some place of vulnerability, of separation.
2:56.6	If you happen to be sitting here and feeling utterly at one with the universe, you can still
3:01.0	do this practice.
3:05.8	If you find in your body and your heart some place of vulnerability, you'd like to bring
3:11.5	some healing to, take some moments to deepen your attention there.
3:18.9	It's fine to allow whatever background story wraps around it, the story that's kind of
3:29.5	a portal to what's going on.
3:38.4	It might be a story that has to do with relationship with others where you feel separate, whether
3:45.5	there's been pain, hurt caused either by you or towards you.
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