Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.

Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

to our world.

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.

Namaste.

Namaste. We'll start our time together with meditation, really opening to our moment-to-moment experience with an accepting heart.

So in that spirit, you might close your eyes, or let the eyes be be downcast and let the attention go inward.

Take some moments to adjust your sitting posture so you're sitting in a way that allows you to be

alert, awake, but also at ease.

You might open your practice by reflecting for a moment on your intention,

the intention towards presence, the intention toward

meeting the moments with a kind heart, and then begin listening.

A receptive kind of listening to the most distant sounds you can hear

listening not just with your ears but your whole awareness in a global kind of way.

Notice with listening there's nothing really to do.

Sounds are known spontaneously by awareness.

I'm just sensing the receptivity to sound.

And bringing the same openness and receptivity to sound to the sensations in your body.

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