Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07)

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07) - Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice then extends to mindfully include all sounds, sensations, and feelings; and when difficult experience arises, to intentionally offer care. We close with an offering of loving kindness to our own being, to others who are suffering and to all life everywhere.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Feel your body sitting here breathing.
0:50.9	And in the quietness, you might begin listening to your heart.
1:00.4	The inquiry is, what really brings you here right now?
1:06.2	What is it that you really wish for?
1:11.8	How might meditation really serve you in a deep way?
1:19.2	So listen inwardly for your intention and practice right now.
1:35.3	Listen to what feels most sincere.
1:38.9	That's a sign of connecting with your deeper purpose, sincerity.
1:54.6	The atmosphere that really holds our meditation is one of loving presence, of kindness.
2:04.2	And you can begin to establish that with the image of a smile.
2:10.9	And you might sense a smile spreading through your eyes right now, softening your eyes.
2:19.8	Maybe sensing the outer corners lifted slightly, letting the brow be smooth, perhaps noticing
2:31.1	the little bit of a flashing light and dark, fluttering, more sensitivity in the region
2:41.9	of the eyes.
2:45.5	The eyes are soft.
2:47.7	And then in the same way, bringing a slight smile to the lips.
2:54.3	You can feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:59.4	And then Master Tiktok Han calls this smile yoga, because it sends a message to our whole
3:07.6	nervous system that it can relax that fight, flight trees.
3:14.6	It opens us to ease and benevolence.
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