Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.2	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:38.1	We begin with meditation and I'd like to invite you to come into whatever posture will best serve you,
0:53.5	feeling relaxed and awake.
0:55.6	Let yourself settle in, coming into stillness and letting the attention go within.
1:05.9	The way to presence is through awakening this body's awareness.
1:21.8	And it can be very valuable to use the image of a smile as a way of relaxing and opening through the body.
1:29.6	You might first visualize a smile spreading through a great wide open sky.
1:38.6	Great sky in the curve of a smile spreading through it and sensing that openness and receptivity
1:52.6	of a smile.
1:57.6	And letting the mind merge with that sky as if the top of your head is wide open.
2:09.6	So you can feel that smile spreading through your whole mind, brightening the mind, uplifting, relaxing.
2:25.6	You might sense the smile spreading in a very immediate way through the eyes,
2:30.6	that the outside corners of the eyes are lifted up a bit.
2:35.6	The eyes can soften naturally.
2:43.6	The brow, smooth.
2:49.6	And sensing with the receptivity of a smile, the sensations and aliveness, free to move
2:56.6	through the whole region of the brow.
3:10.6	And spreading a slight smile to the mouth, filling the inside of the mouth in a smile,
3:26.6	sensing the sensations and aliveness through the whole area of the mouth, tongue, gums, the teeth, the lips.
3:44.6	The eyes are smiling, soft, the mouth.
3:50.6	You might visualize and sense the curve of a smile through the throat.
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