Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou - Being Home

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou - Being Home (2021-08-11) - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence - arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back to our senses…into the openhearted awareness that is our true home.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:35.6	Maya Angelo writes,
0:46.0	I long as does every other human being to be at home wherever I find myself.
0:59.8	This homecoming, this relaxing and inhabiting the moment with love, with presence,
1:29.7	is available right here, right now.
1:36.7	As a way of arriving, you might let that image of a smile help to bring a sense of natural
1:48.1	benevolence, love and kindness to the body, heart and mind.
1:53.7	You might imagine a smile spread through the sky, great open blue sky.
2:05.7	Vast receptive smile and sense that vastness, that receptivity filling the mind, letting
2:12.4	the mind merge with sky.
2:16.6	The whole mind is lit up in that receptivity and openness and benevolence of a smile.
2:34.6	Sense of smile spreading through the eyes, corners of the eyes lifted up a bit, softening
2:44.3	the eyes and letting the brow be smooth.
2:58.0	Sensing a slight smile at the mouth, slight but real.
3:03.3	So the eyes are smiling, slight smile at the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.
3:21.3	As you breathe in and out, you might feel the breath at the throat and sense that curve
3:26.8	and receptivity of a smile there, the openness and space inside the throat.
3:46.7	To the eyes are soft, slight smile, the mouth smiling, the throat.
4:01.8	And feeling that breath as the breath rises and falls at the chest and sense of smile spreading
4:10.6	through the chest.
4:15.3	Feeling into the heart.
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