Meditation: In the Body (20:29 min.)

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This guided meditation invites you to gently come home to the aliveness of the body. Through mindful awareness, you’ll learn to soften tension, release mental agitation, and rest in the simplicity of presence. As you bring a compassionate attention to sensations, you discover a refuge that is always here—an embodied wholeness that allows you to meet life with greater ease and tenderness.

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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.com. I'm Oh and
0:24.6	Oh It takes some moments to bring a mindful awareness to the life of the body.
0:50.3	And it helps to just feel the face and in particular the eyes and see if you can soften
0:58.0	your eyes as if you could smile into them, sense the corners of the eyes up a bit as if
1:07.0	it's really a way of softening and opening, relaxing the flesh around the eyes.
1:15.6	Let the brow be smooth.
1:22.6	And to invite a slight smile at the mouth.
1:28.8	Just a gentle smile, it's called the half-smile of the Buddha,
1:33.3	the inside of the mouth smiling.
1:38.3	Jaw slightly open.
1:49.0	It sends a signal to the whole nervous system to be at ease,
1:52.0	it relaxes the fight-flight, tension in the body.
1:57.0	You can smile into the heart, just imagine smiling into the heart.
2:06.5	Imagine the curve and feeling of a smile spreading through the chest.
2:13.8	And sense and imagine that creates a space that's needed for whatever's in the heart,
2:18.3	a gentle space there.
2:20.3	You might imagine that space opening and opening said that the shoulders are free to relax even more back
2:36.5	and down.
2:41.5	A soft awareness in the shoulders, just sensing the sensations inside the shoulders, kind of melting or dissolving.
2:53.6	You might feel the whole region of the arms as filled with aliveness, filled with space.
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