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Tara Brach

Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.

Transcript

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The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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To access more of my meditations or join my email list,

0:10.0

please visit Tararock.com.

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Mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm.

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Mm-mm.

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Mm-mm. This meditation is called meeting fear with a healing breath.

0:49.0

And as a way to begin, I invite you to simply listen,

0:57.0

to listen to the words that you're hearing and also the spaces between them.

1:17.0

Listening not just with your ears but with your whole awareness in a global sort of way. And then with that same receptivity of listening,

1:43.6

listen to and feel the aliveness inside your body.

1:52.3

As you do that you might sense what wants to let go right now.

2:01.0

Listening to and feeling the aliveness and sensing if it's possible to let go a little

2:11.8

wherever there's obvious tension or tightness. You're not going to. And with the same receptivity, we'll gently scan the body with relaxed relaxed awareness just noticing the life in the body and we

2:48.1

begin with the brow and the eyes and invite you to explore softening your eyes.

2:58.5

You can even sense the outer corners of the eyes slightly lifted as if you're smiling into the eyes and

3:08.1

let the brow be smooth.

3:09.5

And with that receptive listening presence to sense the aliveness and the whole region of the

3:21.2

brow.

3:21.7

Perhaps. in the whole region of the brow, perhaps tingling or vibrating, or maybe there's a flickering of

3:31.2

light at the lids. In the

3:45.0

the same way bringing a receptive presence to the area of the mouth

3:50.0

and you might bring a slight smile to the lips and sense the inside of the mouth smiling.

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