Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:06 min.)

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate presence with our natural breathing. With breath as our home base, we practice returning again and again when the mind becomes distracted. As presence grows, we can let the breath be in the foreground, and include whatever waves of life come and go. This brings a quiet mind, and a peaceful, happy heart.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.1	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock. Oh. Oh. Oh. Feeling your feet connected to the floor.
0:44.3	Feeling your body sitting here.
0:50.3	You become aware of the fact of breathing.
0:57.0	You know, very consciously extending the breath so the in breath is long and slow and deep.
1:07.0	And then the out breath also is long and slow,
1:16.6	releasing slowly the breath, letting go, letting go.
1:23.6	And again, a nice long in-breath, you might slowly count to six.
1:34.3	And a slow out breath, letting go, counting to six again so the breaths are matched.
1:49.0	Breathing in.
1:58.0	And breathing out, slowly releasing so you can feel the sensations of the breath as you
2:09.2	exhale.
2:10.6	Continue at your own pace with this matched in-bread and out breath.
2:18.3	And out breath. I'm I'm I'm
2:35.0	I'm
2:37.0	I'm
2:38.0	I'm Aware of the sensations as the breath comes in
3:05.6	and aware of the out breath letting go. Being sure to fully fill the lungs and then fully emptying the lungs. Now allowing the breath to resume in its natural rhythm, and just become the witness
4:18.0	to the body, relaxed,
4:42.6	relaxing. witness. Letting this life breath be a kind of home base, resting the attention here.
5:31.6	You might find yourself drawn to resting with the sensations of the inflow, outflow at the nostrils.
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