Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence (2017-08-02)

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🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into the awake space that is aware of this changing life.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	In the quietness, allow the attention to begin to scan through the body, becoming aware
0:55.3	of the liveness that's here. You might bring the attention to the region of the eyes,
1:05.1	and just soften the eyes a little. Let the brow be smooth. Become aware of whatever
1:18.4	tingling or vibrating, maybe flickering light at the lids. Letting whatever's here be
1:35.7	just as it is. Be aware of the mouth. You might let there be a slight smile at the mouth.
1:52.1	Maybe the inside of the mouth, you might sense a smile. Letting the tongue fill the palate.
2:10.8	And see if you can relax right down to the root of the tongue.
2:14.4	Be aware of the sensations and aliveness that fill the mouth.
2:36.5	Allow the shoulders to gently fall away from the neck.
2:44.7	Let the awareness fill the shoulders so you can feel them from the inside out.
2:54.4	You might imagine a melting sensation, ice melting to water,
3:01.6	and the feeling of the sensation inside the shoulders.
3:13.2	Ice to water, water to gas.
3:20.6	See if you can sense a space that fills the shoulders.
3:34.8	And the aliveness, the movement of energy.
3:39.7	There continues to be any sort of knottedness or tension.
3:52.0	See if you can let it float in awareness.
4:09.7	Allow the hands to rest in an easy and effortless way.
4:21.3	And softening the hands now.
4:24.7	Consciously softening the hands.
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