Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14)

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14) - This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The meditation ends with lovingkindness for ourselves and our world.

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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.
0:36.7	Allow your breath to lengthen.
0:46.3	Nice full in breath and full out breath.
0:50.9	And as you do that, sense that you're breathing in and out of your heart.
1:06.9	Become aware of your heart, what we might call the state of your heart.
1:11.9	This is whatever you feel in the heart area.
1:20.9	And with that kind of listening attention, listen for what your deepest intention is in
1:30.9	practicing meditation right now.
1:37.2	What is it your heart longs for?
1:40.0	What matters?
1:47.6	In the stillness, you might scan through your body and notice if there's any areas of
1:55.3	particular tightness or tension.
2:01.0	And since what might want to let go a little right now, you might want to soften and
2:19.0	smooth the brow, let the eyes be soft, and the jaws unhinged, sense the tongue filling
2:33.9	the lower palate, maybe a slight smile at the mouth.
2:45.4	You might allow the shoulders to fall away from the neck.
2:56.5	Just sense from the inside out, the shoulders, whatever you feel in terms of tightness or
3:02.8	tension.
3:04.1	And see if you can let it float a bit in awareness.
3:10.6	Slowly unpangle, loosen.
3:24.4	Softening the hands.
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