Meditation: Intimacy with Life (2018-05-09)

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Meditation: Intimacy with Life (2018-05-09) - This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We widen the attention to include sound and then sense and rest in the awareness that holds all experience. Our reminders are to wake up from trance by reopening to our senses, allowing for a true intimacy with the life that lives through us.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	The wear of this body sitting here breathing.
0:56.8	Bringing that friendly attention, a soft, clear, friendly attention to the body.
1:11.7	As a way of lighting up that attention, letting it be warm, you might have the image of a smile
1:19.2	spreading through a great sky.
1:22.2	Just trying that, the feeling and image of a smile spreading through a great sky,
1:32.2	receptive, open, bright, and then letting the mind merge with that sky so that the smiles filling your mind.
1:51.9	In my sense, it's easy to soften a bit in the eyes now.
2:00.0	I'd even imagine the outward corners of the eyes up a bit lifted in the smile,
2:05.8	that sense of a smile spreading through the eyes.
2:11.2	Let the brow be smooth. When we're thinking a lot, there's a lot of little micro muscles around
2:18.2	the eyes that tense up. So it really helps to soften, to smile into the eyes, soft eyes.
2:31.4	And slight smile at the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:40.3	Let the tongue fill the lower palate. You might even sense a relaxing down to the root of the tongue.
2:48.2	You might notice the sensations that are felt in the area of the mouth, the tongue, the
3:03.2	thumbs, the teeth, the lips.
3:19.8	You might sense the throat filling the neck, perhaps even the image and sense of a smile spreading
3:27.7	through the neck, to allow there to be an openness so you can feel the sensations there fully.
3:42.6	A receptive, friendly presence.
3:57.7	Visualizing and having the felt sense of the smile spread through the chest and the heart area.
4:10.2	Again, not to cover over, but really to make space so we can intimately contact our experience in the body.
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