Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min.)

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation reconnects by opening all the senses, turning towards the awareness that is here, and resting in the awakened heartspace that includes and tenderly holds our moment to moment experience (a special favorite from the archives).

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.1	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock.com. And the stone In the stillness and the presence bring a gentle attention to the region of your brow,
0:48.3	the area of the eyes.
0:51.3	Let the eyes soften. let the brow be smooth.
1:00.3	Begin to notice as you relax and soften the energy and aliveness that's there. You might bring a slight smile to the mouth.
1:21.6	Let the tongue spread and fill the lower jaw.
1:31.3	Relax down to the root of the tongue.
1:56.0	And with a receptive presence, just to feel the sensations and the gums, the teeth, the lips. Let your awareness fill the shoulders.
2:00.0	And it helps to let the shoulders relax back and down
2:03.3	some, relax away from your shoulders and then feel them from the inside out.
2:15.4	You might sense a melting or dissolving, ice to water,
2:25.3	and water to gas.
2:32.3	Receiving the aliveness, the flow.
2:37.0	And if there's tightness or tension in the shoulders,
2:43.0	letting that float in awareness. allowing the hands to rest in an easy and effortless way
3:05.2	and explore softening the hands
3:08.1	and then feeling from the inside out
3:12.3	the aliveness, the movement of energy.
3:20.6	Soffening again, a receptive, intimate presence.
3:29.0	Let the chest area be open.
3:43.6	And see if you can fill the heart with awareness.
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