Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (2018-07-11)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (2018-07-11) - When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and judgment. This meditation relaxes and opens the mind, first by a body scan and a "smile down," and then by including all changing experience in a spacious awareness. As our attention shifts from mind objects like sensation and sound to the space of awareness itself, we discover the Beingness that is our formless home.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	In the stillness you might fill your heart and mind with a quality of kindness by visually
0:56.3	seeing the image of a smile. Perhaps imagine a smile spreading through the whole sky.
1:03.9	Imagine a great blue sky filled with the curve of a smile.
1:15.0	And imagine your mind emerging with that sky. So your mind is filled with the brightness and the
1:21.8	uplift of a smile.
1:33.1	Soffering the eyes, imagining the eyes smiling, floating in that great sky of mind.
1:46.4	A slight smile at the mouth.
1:51.8	The inside of the mouth smiling.
1:58.4	And so your continents can help to sense the possibility of relaxing through the whole face.
2:06.8	Receptive light open.
2:14.3	Let the tongue relax so that you can feel it spreading through the lower palette.
2:20.4	Relaxing right down to the root of the tongue.
2:29.5	Notice how the mouth might fill with sensation.
2:34.9	Tons, gums, teeth, lips.
2:39.4	Sensing the throat, filling the neck, a smile spreading through the throat.
2:53.2	Where are the sensations from the inside out?
3:11.4	Lowing the shoulders to relax back and down a little.
3:14.7	And feeling from the inside out the shoulders.
3:23.2	Allowing whatever knots or tension that might be there to float in awareness.
3:45.6	Let the hands rest in a very easy, effortless way.
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