Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness (2017-06-07)

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🗓️ 8 June 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness - This guided practice establishes a kind, friendly attention with the image and felt sense of a smile, and evokes an embodied presence. We open to the awake awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing sounds and sensations; and then the awake awareness that experiences our own heart. We end with a lovingkindness prayer for ourself and the world.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.3	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.8	The attitude which allows meditation to be very alive and rich and deep
0:36.2	is really a quality of friendliness towards whatever is going on inside us.
0:44.4	And a way of connecting with that friendliness is through the image and the felt sense of a smile.
0:52.4	So I invite you to imagine a great smile spreading through a bright open sky.
1:00.9	The curve of a smile spreading through the sky.
1:07.5	That receptivity and openness.
1:12.3	And imagine as if there was no top-tier head that your mind could merge with that open sky.
1:21.2	The mind could be filled with the curve, the energy,
1:26.2	receptivity of a smile.
1:36.4	Sense that you can feel in a very precise way the curve of a smile spreading through the eyes,
1:44.0	lifting the outer corners.
1:45.5	But the eyes be soft, the brow smooth.
1:56.0	You might sense a very slight smile at the mouth until the inside of the mouth is smiling.
2:16.0	Letting the tongue fill the lower jaw,
2:25.4	relaxing down to the root of the tongue.
2:31.6	It's feeling the sensations of aliveness to fill the mouth.
2:45.6	You might imagine and feel the curve of a smile at the throat.
2:56.3	And sensing the aliveness, sensations and space inside the throat.
3:02.5	And smiling into the whole region of the heart, letting that curve of a smile spread through the heart.
3:18.8	Sensing a spaciousness, a receptivity that can include whatever is here.
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