Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindful presence. We then include whatever is predominant, recognizing and allowing the changing flow. The blessing of this practice is simple and beautiful: We are learning to be here for our life.

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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. I'm closing your eyes, letting the attention go inward.
0:47.3	You might feel the movement of the breath at the heart.
0:53.3	So you just become aware of the breath at the heart.
0:59.0	So you just become aware of the area of the heart.
1:05.0	Now we start by bringing attention to the heart so that we can get in touch with our intention for being here.
1:11.6	You might want to just ask yourself,
1:14.6	what really brings me to meditation, to practice?
1:19.6	What is it that most matters to me?
1:22.6	A sense with a kind of sincerity what your heart longs for.
1:35.3	It might be that you're looking for more peace and ease.
1:40.3	Or maybe you really want a more open-hearted quality in your life, more intimacy.
1:49.0	And maybe a deeper realization of who you are, a kind of awakening.
1:59.0	A sense what matters.
2:05.6	The most direct gateway to a presence is to be awake in the senses, to listen, and to bring that listening attention right into
2:25.8	the body so that you're listening to the life of the body.
2:33.8	Scanning through the body, you might bring the attention to the area of the eyes and the brow.
2:41.0	Just soften the eyes.
2:46.0	You might imagine a smile spreading through the eyes so the outer corners are lifted up somewhat.
2:57.7	The brow is smooth.
3:04.5	Let the mouth be relaxed, a slight smile at the mouth, the jaw unhinged.
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