Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15)

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15) - Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing the breath as a home base. By gathering and collecting the attention, the mind can settle and allow for a relaxed, wakeful presence.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:10.2	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:40.2	Let the attention gently scan through your body.
0:58.4	Just to notice if there's any part of you that wants to let go a little right now, any
1:03.8	part of the body that's in some way tense, tight, holding.
1:23.9	See if it's possible to relax in the shoulder area.
1:30.9	My place you're awareness inside the shoulders and just let whatever tightness is there float
1:39.6	in awareness.
1:42.6	See if there's a natural loosening releasing.
2:00.8	Let the hands rest in an easy and effortless way.
2:09.1	You might soften the hands and again having the awareness on the inside, just feel the
2:17.4	life that's there.
2:30.2	Let there be an openness to the chest.
2:34.0	I'm feeling the area of the heart again from the inside out, feeling the sensations there.
2:58.7	Losing and relaxing through the abdominal area and let this next in breath be received
3:11.6	in a softening belly.
3:14.2	This breath and now this one.
3:24.4	Losing if there's any reaction in the body.
3:37.1	Continue and just scan down the body.
3:44.2	The air of the sensations in the pelvic region.
3:56.9	The air of the places of pressure warmth where there's contact, your hands on your thighs,
4:06.6	your bottom on the cushion or chair, your feet on the floor.
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