Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit Tarabrock.com. The I'm Oh Oh |
| 0:24.6 | Oh |
| 0:27.6 | Oh Take a moment to find a sitting posture that can really support you. |
| 0:46.3 | Recommend sitting upright as tall as you can without being tense or stiff. |
| 0:55.0 | And the reason for sitting tall is you'll be more alert. |
| 1:01.0 | See if you can find in that tallness a quality of ease. |
| 1:07.0 | So just take a moment to let go a little, sitting tall and then letting go. |
| 1:17.7 | You might take a few full breaths to collect the attention, inhaling deeply now and exhaling |
| 1:26.5 | slowly. |
| 1:30.7 | And again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and lungs. |
| 1:37.5 | And then a very slow out breath so you can feel the sensations of the breath as it's |
| 1:43.7 | released. |
| 1:46.2 | One more time, inhaling deeply. |
| 1:52.5 | Letting go now, the breath slowly. |
| 1:55.0 | Just feel letting go through your whole body, letting go, letting go. |
| 2:01.6 | And then let the breath resume its natural rhythm. |
| 2:06.6 | And just notice the quality of presence that's here. |
| 2:12.6 | Notice if you feel a little more here, mindful, awake. |
| 2:29.3 | In this presence you can let the attention come to the heart and take a moment to sense your intention |
| 2:35.6 | tonight for being here, what it is that matters to you, what it is in the most sincere |
| 2:46.6 | way that that's important that really brings you to meditate. |
| 2:53.6 | And letting yourself feel that sincerity of heart, we do a bit of chanting as part of opening |
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