Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (25:06 min.)

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender attention – and including the background sounds. Not pushing away anything – a very open and relaxed, receptive attention.

Sensing what’s actually happening in this moment – perhaps the sensations of the breath, the other sensations through the body, the play of light and dark in the eyes, sounds… Closing by sensing all in the foreground and in the background – that alert inner stillness, that light of awareness, that which is our deepest, formless nature.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:10.0	please visit Tararock.com. Mm-mm-mm-mm.
0:25.0	Mm-mm-mm.
0:27.0	Mm-mm.
0:30.0	Mm-mmhmm.
0:35.0	Mm-mm.
0:37.0	Mm-hmm. coming into silence and take a few moments to make whatever adjustments you'd like in your sitting posture so that you're sitting
0:57.0	in a way that allows you to be upright that
1:05.0	you're just something tall but not tense or something tall but not tense or stiff
1:13.2	and then see if in the midst of that tallness
1:17.0	you can find a balance and an ease. Let the attention come to the breath and we'll take a few long deep breaths together to collect,
1:38.4	to arrive more fully.
1:39.7	So inhaling deeply now, filling the lungs.
1:46.9	And then a slow exhale, slow enough
1:49.6	so you can be conscious of the sensations
1:52.4	of releasing the breath.
1:59.0	And then inhaling again, filling the lungs,
2:01.7	filling the chest.
2:05.6	When you're full, hold the breath for just a moment.
2:08.2	You might stretch the shoulders back and down a bit
2:11.1	to open the chest a little more, holding, and then again a slow out breath, slowly
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