Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15)

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15) - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath, and rest with the rhythmic waves of breathing, experiencing the background of the whole domain of physical aliveness.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:37.8	One of the direct gateways to presence is waking up our attention in a relaxed way through
0:54.1	the body.
0:56.6	You might begin by sensing the area of the brow, the eyes.
1:03.7	And as if you could smile into the eyes, sense the outside corners of the eyes, uplifted
1:11.8	some.
1:14.6	The eyes soft, the brow smooth, and receptive to the sensations, the aliveness in the region
1:28.3	of the eyes.
1:39.6	You might let that receptivity spread, feeling the scalp and the skull, the sensations that
1:46.3	arise.
1:55.9	Let's smile at the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:05.3	Then the receptivity to the sensations and the tongue, the gums, the teeth, the lips.
2:18.1	You might imagine the throat filling the neck, and then feeling in a receptive way, the
2:30.7	sensations and aliveness in the neck.
2:46.6	Feeling the shoulders fall away from the neck.
2:51.0	See if you can feel the shoulders and the inside out, imagining perhaps a dissolving or melting
2:59.7	sensation, iced water, water to gas.
3:12.4	Again, a receptivity to the aliveness, the movement of sensations in the shoulders.
3:33.7	Everywhere of the length and the volume of the arms, letting the hands rest in a very
3:45.5	easy and effortless way.
3:51.8	Then softening the hands, feeling the hands from the inside out with an intimate attention,
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