Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again, learning to rest in the formless awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all passing experience.

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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. You might sense right now what wants to let go a little bit.
0:48.3	Noticing where there might be holding or tension.
0:55.0	Feeling this body breathing and letting the awareness of the breath be at the heart,
1:01.0	as if you could breathe in and out of your heart and asking yourself, what is my intention for practicing right now?
1:16.6	My intention for meditation, for being here.
1:21.6	What's the deepest intention?
1:25.6	And if you've never done this before or done it, What's the deepest intention?
1:33.3	And if you've never done this before or done it 10,000 times,
1:37.3	just sense where your sincerity is.
1:40.3	What is it you care about? In the stillness you might imagine a wide open sky around you.
1:53.0	And since that sky filled with the curve of a smile, that openness and brightness and felt sense of a smile,
2:11.6	filling the sky, then allow your mind to merge with that sky.
2:22.3	So the whole mind is filled with that felt sense of a smile,
2:29.3	lit up, open, receptive,
2:40.0	edgeless, open, receptive, edgeless.
2:48.0	And sense that you can smile right into the eyes, so the outside corners of the eyes are lifted slightly.
2:55.6	The brow is smooth, the eyes are soft.
3:01.6	Sensations are floating, tingling, vibrating in the whole region of the eyes.
3:14.3	You can feel the aliveness there and the space that it's floating in.
3:23.3	The sense of a very slight smile at the mouth,
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