Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence

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🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence - This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We end with a brief loving kindness reflection.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	You might let your attention, feeling of your breath, be at the heart area.
0:52.0	We're going to breathe in and out of your heart.
1:07.0	Taking these moments to listen inwardly and ask yourself, what is my deepest, truest intention right now for being here for meditating?
1:25.0	What is it your heart most longs for?
1:35.0	See if you can feel where you're most sincere.
1:45.0	It takes a few moments sometimes to even begin to listen in and sense what really does matter to me.
1:58.0	If you get the more you're in touch with your intention, the more as you meditate, you'll be reminded again and again to be right here, to choose presence.
2:17.0	You might feel our shared intention that as we wake up these hearts and minds with meditation, that that ripple out in a way that's healing for our world.
2:31.0	And we'll come together as community with the chanting of Om as a way to express our heart, express our caring.
2:41.0	You might bring the palms together in front of the heart and we'll chant three times and begin by taking a nice full in breath.
3:31.0	Our minds and bodies are most comforted and quiet most naturally when there's a quality of benevolence, of kindness, atmosphere, of caring.
3:54.0	When you can invoke that with the image of a smile imagining around you a vast open sky and then visualizing the curve of a smile spreading through that sky,
4:13.0	the receptivity and openness of a smile filling that vastness, warm and inviting.
4:25.0	Imagine that your mind can merge with that open vast sky of awareness.
4:34.0	So your mind is filled with the warmth and receptivity of a smile.
4:45.0	And you can sense how that's expressed at the eyes, the outer corners of the eyes lifted slightly, a smile spreading through the eyes,
4:59.0	softening the eyes, letting the brow be smooth, and sensing a slight but real smile at the mouth.
5:15.0	See if you can feel the inside of your mouth smiling.
5:21.0	And as you do let the tongue fill the lower palate and see if you can relax down to the root of the tongue.
5:41.0	The eyes are soft and smiling the mouth.
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