Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - 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.
0:07.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:31.6	Join your feet connected to the floor, feeling your body sitting here, and become aware of
0:41.4	the fact of breathing.
0:45.0	Now, very consciously extending the breath, so the in-breath is long and slow and deep.
1:00.6	And then the out-breath also is long and slow, releasing slowly the breath.
1:08.8	Let it go.
1:11.0	Let it go.
1:12.6	And again, a nice long in-breath, you might slowly count to six.
1:26.6	And a slow out breath.
1:28.8	Let it go, counting to six again, so the breaths are matched.
1:40.8	Breathing in.
1:50.6	Breathing out slowly, releasing so you can feel the sensations of the breath as you exhale.
2:00.4	And you at your own pace with this matched in-breath and out-breath.
2:30.0	Now, aware of the sensations as the breath comes in and aware of the out-breath.
2:56.9	Let it go.
3:06.9	Being sure to fully fill the lungs and then fully emptying the lungs.
3:35.4	Now, allowing the breath to resume and its natural rhythm.
4:02.2	And just become the witness to the body.
4:08.9	Let the body breathe itself.
4:17.2	You might sense the possibility of relaxing with the movement of the breath, relaxed witnessing.
4:37.2	Let it go.
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