Meditation: Loving Presence - with smile body scan (2017-03-29)

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🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Loving Presence - with smile body scan (2017-03-29) - This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a body scan, and then open to the spacious presence that includes the changing moment to moment flow of experience. The meditation closes with a few minutes of offering loving blessings to our inner life, dear ones in need and all beings.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	A beautiful way to begin a practice is just to sense the quality of heart that you'd
0:49.6	like to hold the practice with.
0:53.3	To my censure intention to regard what arises with a real gentleness, kindness, friendliness.
1:13.5	And part of the way you can embody that intention is with the image and the sense of a smile.
1:22.8	You might visualize vast open space of sky and let the image of a smile spread through that sky.
1:35.9	This curve and receptivity of a smile filling the sky.
1:47.9	Imagine your mind merging with that sky so that the smile is filling your whole mind.
2:04.4	Gently feeling the region of the eyes sensing a smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners of the eyes slightly.
2:17.9	Slight smile at the mouth.
2:28.9	And see if you can sense the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:34.9	Notice the sensations of a liveliness that fill the whole region of the mouth.
2:43.9	Tongue, gums, teeth, lips.
3:03.9	And I'd visualize the curve of a smile at the throat and feel the sense of a smile spreading through the throat.
3:12.9	So that the throat fills the whole neck.
3:17.9	And there's that receptivity and aliveness that can be felt in the space of a smile.
3:36.9	Again, softening the eyes, smiling through the eyes, slight smile at the mouth, the throat.
3:53.9	In a sense that you could smile into the heart, that a smile can spread through the heart and chest area, that curve and receptivity of a smile.
4:10.9	Sensing how the space of a smile doesn't cover over anything, it makes room for the life that's here.
4:28.9	In my sense that space of receptivity, that openness widening out to include the shoulders, just letting the shoulders relax back and down a bit.
4:46.9	Feeling from the inside out, the sensations, the movement of energy in the shoulders,
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