Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05)

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05) - We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:36.3	We'll begin together, take a few moments and find yourself coming into a posture
0:52.5	that really supports you and feeling very much here. So there's a sense of groundedness.
0:59.6	I really think of that as belonging to the earth, feeling the hug of gravity.
1:09.1	It's going to feel your body's weight and that stability and security of being right here.
1:17.6	Also sensing the space around you that there's room for whatever arises.
1:21.8	Letting the posture be such that you're awake,
1:28.4	lest you're in the mood to take a nap, that you're alert and at ease as much as possible.
1:38.8	Letting the attention go inward, whether you close your eyes or let the
1:43.9	eyes be downcast, or for some, even looking up at the horizon and letting the gaze spread out
1:52.0	to 180 degree kind of inclusiveness, soft eyes. Feel this body breathing.
2:02.5	Let the rhythm or the movement of the breath help to collect your attention.
2:19.8	It can help to make the breath a little more full at first.
2:22.8	To really feel that sense of filling the chest and the lungs,
2:31.7	opening to receive the life that's here.
2:35.1	And with the out breath, the real sense of releasing.
2:37.6	I'm letting go.
2:58.2	Letting the breath be in a natural rhythm and you might continue to feel that movement of the breath
3:04.8	as you gently scan through the body.
3:09.0	And you might sense wherever you're paying attention that the out breath
3:13.5	can help you to release any unnecessary tightness or tension.
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