Meditation: Embodied Metta (2020-06-17)

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Embodied Metta (2020-06-17) - Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and openness of metta through our body, and then invites us to rest in the space of loving presence, as we open to whatever arises.

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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	The title of this meditation is Embodying Meta, which is loving kindness, really bringing
0:48.1	the felt sense of loving kindness alive in our bodies.
0:53.2	So if you'd like to adjust how you're sitting in any way that allows you to be comfortable
0:58.2	and some of you might choose to be lying down or to be standing whatever best serves,
1:05.2	closing your eyes, taking a few full breaths.
1:11.2	Let these breaths gather your attention.
1:14.2	Collect you.
1:15.2	Bring you right here.
1:17.2	Nice deep, in full.
1:22.2	Out completely.
1:26.2	Filling the lungs with the in-breath, releasing with the out-breath.
1:38.2	And you might begin by visualizing a wide open sky, a very big blue sky,
1:47.2	and imagining the curved impression of a smile just spreading through the skies.
1:54.2	The receptivity of a smile, the openness of a smile.
2:04.2	And then imagine your mind can merge with that wide open sky.
2:09.2	So your mind is filled with the curve of a smile.
2:14.2	And with that openness and that receptivity.
2:25.2	And then gently bringing the attention to your eyes and sensing the smile spreading through your eyes,
2:33.2	letting the outer corners of your eyes lift, letting the eyes soften and the
2:43.2	brow be smooth.
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