Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings and sounds in an intimate, allowing presence.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	As you come into stillness, let the attention come to the heart area.
0:55.0	And just feel the breath gently in that region.
1:01.0	Notice the state of your heart right now.
1:11.0	Where whatever mood or emotion might be here,
1:19.0	what level of sensitivity or maybe there's a quality of numbness or cutoffness.
1:28.0	That in each judgment, just with kind of a curious, friendly attention.
1:41.0	Noticing how it is.
1:55.0	As you continue listening inwardly, listen for what your heart's intention is.
2:02.0	And what is it your heart longs for?
2:07.0	Your heart's purpose or aspiration for practicing right now.
2:16.0	For meditating.
2:28.0	As you inquire, you might have a prepackaged response just about of that.
2:33.0	And then listen even more deeply.
2:35.0	Just keep asking yourself, what's most true?
2:58.0	Is it for increased presence in your life?
3:04.0	More open-heartedness?
3:08.0	More realization of what's truth or true?
3:15.0	More peace?
3:19.0	What is it your heart most longs for?
3:23.0	Right in these moments.
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