Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the poem “lost” by David Wagoner.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	If you will, find yourself that way of sitting or lying down or the posture that most will support presence.
0:54.0	That gives you a sense of both ease and alertness.
1:08.0	And as a way of deepening your attention, if it helps to close your eyes or lower your gaze, you might explore that.
1:19.0	Start by breathing together, feeling the breath in the body and now together, inhaling so that we fill the chest and the lungs.
1:28.0	So a nice deep in breath.
1:33.0	And then a slow out breath.
1:36.0	Slow out breath.
1:38.0	Letting go.
1:40.0	Letting go.
1:42.0	Again, a nice, full deep in breath, filling the chest and the lungs.
1:48.0	And a slow out breath.
1:50.0	So you can feel the release of the breath through the nostrils.
1:53.0	Letting go.
1:55.0	Letting go.
1:57.0	And one more time, inhale deeply.
2:04.0	Slow release.
2:07.0	And then a softening down your body as you let go.
2:13.0	Let the breath now find its natural rhythm.
2:17.0	And you may gently scan through your body and see if there's any part of your body that wants to let go a little right now.
2:28.0	And begin listening.
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