Meditation: Listening to Our Heart (2020-10-14)

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meditation: Listening to Our Heart (2020-10-14) - True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.9	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	We begin breathing together.
0:45.0	Let's take a nice, full deep in breath.
0:52.7	And a slow out breath.
0:54.7	And sense a letting go as you release the breath.
1:00.8	And again, a nice, deep, full in breath.
1:07.7	And a slow out breath letting go.
1:13.2	One more time, inhale deeply.
1:20.2	And then a smooth, slow out breath releasing any tightness or tension that's possible.
1:31.2	And then allowing the breath to come back into its natural rhythm, feeling the quality of presence that's here.
1:42.2	And in this presence, bring the attention to sound.
1:53.2	Begin listening to the sounds around you.
1:57.2	Aware of the sounds that are close in, the space that you're in.
2:06.2	Aware of the sounds of these words coming and going.
2:14.2	Aware of the silence between the words.
2:23.2	Listening to the space you're in and then to the more distant sounds.
2:35.2	And sensing that listening presence that's receptive.
2:45.2	So you're listening not just with your ears but with your whole awareness.
3:10.2	And now bringing that listening presence to the body so that you're listening to and feeling the sensations in the body.
3:22.2	As you scan, you might feel the area of the brow, the eyes.
3:34.2	Listening to and feeling the aliveness that's there.
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