Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is to notice when the mind becomes distracted, and gently return to our breath and senses. This helps the mind to become increasingly settled, calm and clear. We close with a short heart blessing.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:08.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	As you let your attention go inward, you might ask yourself a very simple question, and that
0:54.8	is, what is most important to me?
0:59.4	What is it that brings me to practice right now?
1:03.5	This is really what is your heart long for?
1:16.5	Take some moments to send your deep intention, take some kind of inter-listening, where you
1:26.2	feel most sincere and feel your heart with its wisher prayer that may these moments of
1:37.3	practice serve awakening or freedom, touching peace, working with fear, feeling more at home
1:47.7	and myself, opening my heart.
2:01.0	In the quietness, gently scanning through the body and noticing if there is any obvious
2:08.2	areas of tightness or tension.
2:16.1	Take some moments to allow yourself to soften.
2:25.6	It can help to pay attention to the area of the eyes, softening the eyes and all those
2:32.0	micro muscles around the eyes, letting the brow be smooth.
2:45.0	And hinge the jaw, perhaps allowing a very slight smile to spread across the lips.
2:58.9	Lowing the shoulders to relax back and down a bit, and feeling from the inside whatever
3:07.6	tightness or tension might be there, just allowing it to float a bit in awareness, to naturally
3:19.7	soften, loosen.
3:45.3	Let the hands rest in a very easy, effortless way, softening the hands, noticing from the inside
3:58.1	out the aliveness that's there, and softening again, sensing how when you relax you can
4:16.4	connect with a lot more aliveness.
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