Meditation: Openhearted Presence
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart.
"Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are actually profoundly transformational. If you notice thinking and then plant the seeds of kindness, that becomes the habit of the heart." ~Tara
We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O'Donohue, from Beauty – The Invisible Embrace.
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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. Oh. Oh. Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm. I'm Today's meditation is on open-hearted presence. |
| 0:50.4 | And I invite you to begin in that spirit with sensing your intention to bring a kind and |
| 0:58.7 | gentle attention to whatever arises. |
| 1:10.2 | You might become aware of this body sitting here breathing. |
| 1:19.6 | Let the breath be long and deep and full, |
| 1:23.6 | inhaling and filling the chest and the lungs. |
| 1:30.2 | And with the out breath, a slow out breath, relaxing. |
| 1:34.7 | See if it's possible to let go, let go. |
| 1:40.0 | Again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and the lungs. |
| 1:45.7 | And with the out breath, softening down the length of the body, letting go. |
| 1:52.7 | Letting go. |
| 1:54.9 | One more time, a nice, full, deep in-breath. |
| 2:01.7 | And a slow out-b relaxing, releasing, letting go, |
| 2:10.5 | allowing the breath to resume in its natural rhythm. |
| 2:17.2 | You might envision around you a great open sky |
| 2:21.1 | and sense the curve of a smile spreading through that sky. |
| 2:27.5 | Just visualize that. |
| 2:29.9 | The receptivity and vast openness of a smile, spreading through the sky, and letting your |
| 2:39.6 | mind merge with that great sky, sensing a smile spreading through the mind. |
| 2:49.0 | Just feeling the spirit or energy of a smile, the lightness, the brightness, the |
| 2:56.6 | receptivity. |
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