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Meditation: Filling our Body with Love (2017-08-16)

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Meditation: Filling our Body with Love (2017-08-16) - When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting in loving presence and offering loving prayer.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:07.7

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0:31.0

You might begin with the simple intention of bringing friendliness, kindness to the life that's right here.

0:43.0

Let us know what happens when you on purpose regard your inner life with a gentleness and a care.

1:03.0

We can let the image of a smile help to embody that care.

1:15.0

You might start by imagining or visualizing a smile that spreads through a great open sky.

1:25.0

It's the curve of a smile.

1:31.0

And with that an openness and a receptivity of benevolence in the whole atmosphere.

1:48.0

Imagine that your mind can merge with that great open sky.

1:53.0

So the smile is filling your mind, brightening your mind.

2:10.0

You might smile into the eyes and sense the outer corners of the eyes, lift it up a bit and a smile.

2:17.0

The eyes are smiling, soft, flesh around the eyes, smooth brow.

2:37.0

Sense that you're opening to and bringing kindness and care to that whole area of the brow.

2:46.0

Relaxing, soothing, gentle presence.

3:03.0

Let your jaw be unhinged.

3:06.0

Slight smile at the mouth.

3:10.0

Sense the inside of the mouth smiling.

3:18.0

Let the tongue fill the lower palate, relaxing down to the root of the tongue.

3:27.0

Let the kindness, the gentleness of the smile fill the various cells and spaces between the cells and the mouth.

3:49.0

The eyes are smiling, the mouth.

3:54.0

It may visualize and feel a smile in the throat.

4:01.0

Sometimes we don't even realize that tightness in the throat.

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