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Tara Brach

Meditation on Intention

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 8 December 2010

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

2010-12-08 - This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on "Ask the Friend for Love." Find more of Tara's guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new email list there, too.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let your attention go inward a bit and let's begin tonight with the breath.

0:08.3

Very simple, very beautiful gateway, inhaling deeply, filling the lungs, and then a very

0:18.6

slow out breath and sense with the out breath very consciously, a letting go, letting go.

0:29.4

Enhaling deeply again, filling the lungs, holding the breath for a moment, and again a slow

0:41.9

out breath, sense a relaxing outward, letting go.

0:47.3

It's all through the nose unless you're clogged up inhaling again deeply.

0:58.5

Full breath, hold for a moment, and with the out breath again, slow exhale, sense that

1:07.9

you can soften down the length of the body, letting go, letting go.

1:16.9

So as the breath now resumes its natural rhythm, sense that you could relax with the

1:24.2

inflow as if with the balloon filling up, just opening, relaxing open, letting the breath

1:36.1

be at the center of the attention, but also aware of the sounds around you, the sense

1:46.0

of the space around you, the sense of the space and the aliveness inside you, just feel

2:02.9

the body from the inside out, the sensations, see if it's possible to relax just a little

2:13.4

bit more right now, still feeling that life breath that inflow and outflow, sensing the

2:30.5

increase of presence, just of awareness in the last few moments, gathering and collecting

2:40.2

and arriving.

2:46.7

Just bring that presence to your heart right now, a committed kind of listening to your

2:53.8

heart, that may be the first time that you've just in a very conscious way said to yourself,

3:01.9

okay, I'm going to really just pay attention to the state of my heart right now, and it

3:09.8

may be that you bring your attention in a very physical way to the heart area, but let

3:18.2

the intention be to energetically bring this receptivity to the feelings of your heart

3:31.4

center, so that as you listen, you're listening for what really matters to you right now.

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