Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-05-06)

Tara Brach

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

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🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-05-06) - This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O’Donahue

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Today's meditation is on open-hearted presence.
0:50.0	And I invite you to begin in that spirit with sensing your intention to bring a kind and
0:58.6	gentle attention to whatever arises.
1:10.5	You might become aware of this body sitting here breathing.
1:20.2	Let the breath be long and deep and full, inhaling and filling the chest and lungs.
1:30.3	And with the out breath, slow out breath, relaxing.
1:34.3	See if it's possible to let go, let go.
1:39.3	Again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and lungs.
1:45.9	Let the out breath softening down the length of the body.
1:49.6	Let it go.
1:52.6	Let it go.
1:54.6	One more time, a nice, full deep in breath.
1:58.8	And a slow out breath, relaxing, releasing.
2:07.4	Let it go.
2:10.4	Breathing the breath to resume and its natural rhythm.
2:17.4	You might envision around you a great open sky and sense the curve of a smile spreading
2:24.0	through that sky.
2:27.6	Just visualize that.
2:29.4	The receptivity, and vast openness of a smile spreading through the sky.
2:38.4	Letting your mind merge with that great sky, sensing a smile spreading through the mind.
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