Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.

Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

to our world.

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.

Namaste.

Namaste. Let me have the eyes close, and feeling the movement of the breath and perhaps sensing the breath

at the heart, as if you could breathe in and out of your heart.

Taking these moments to listen and sense what your intention is right now for your practice, for meditating.

It's really the question, what does my heart really long for? What most matters? matters. And the way you know you've connected with your heart is there can be a quality of sincerity, kind of innocence.

One of the most powerful pathways to presence is awakening through the body, inhabiting

these bodies with awareness.

You might begin by gently scanning through your body and noticing if there's any areas

of really obvious tension or tightness, sense what

wants to let go a little. Sometimes around the eyes you can feel a tightness and just by

smiling into the eyes there can be a softening and a relaxing, a smoothing

of the brow.

You can relax the habitual tightening of a jaw with similarly a slight smile.

For many of us, there's a chronic tension in the shoulders.

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