Meditation: Present Heartspace

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🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Meditation: Present Heartspace - This meditation establishes an embodied presence with the gentleness of a smile-down scan, then opens us to the heartspace that includes the changing waves of experience. It ends with a short lovingkindness meditation that offers prayers for relief of the current great suffering from floods in Texas, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	One of the most beautiful descriptions of mindfulness is a present heart.
0:51.2	We can awaken that quality of presence, gentleness, care.
0:58.2	By beginning with the image and the felt sense of a smile, you might imagine
1:06.4	great wide open space, endless blue sky, and the curve of a smile spreading through it.
1:13.8	It is visualized and sensed that receptivity and openness as you let the mind and that sky merge.
1:28.3	So you sense the mind as an open, receptive space filled with the curve of a smile.
1:44.7	Sensing the possibility of softening your eyes and letting that curve of a smile spread through the
1:52.6	eyes, you might even sense the outer corners lifted a bit.
2:01.9	The brow is smooth,
2:11.8	inviting a half smile to the mouth.
2:14.1	Let's see if you can sense the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:28.0	You might let the tongue fill the lower palate,
2:35.1	relaxing down to the root of the tongue.
2:44.8	The eyes smiling the mouth.
2:50.9	And it's smiling into the heart,
2:54.2	inviting that curve and felt sense of a smile to spread through the heart and chest area.
3:03.2	Noticing how it doesn't cover over anything, it creates an openness to feel the life that's here.
3:14.2	The eyes soft, mouth smiling, the heart smiling,
3:30.8	letting that openness wide and out and out and out.
3:35.6	So there's space for the shoulders to gently fall away from the neck.
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