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Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 9 September 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2021-09-08) - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising and passing life. In the final part of the practice, we explore how awake awareness is receiving the experience of our heart and offer blessings to our inner life and all living beings.

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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.

0:37.7

We begin in a simple way, our practice, by listening inwardly to our hearts and sensing

0:52.8

our intention for practice.

0:57.6

What it is that brings you to practice, what it is that your heart might long for.

1:06.5

Take your time just inquiring and listening until you feel that sense of sincerity about

1:15.0

what matters to you.

1:26.4

One of the most direct ways to awaken presence is by scanning down the body and waking up

1:34.0

from the inside out.

1:37.1

You might feel the region of the brows, the eyes, and just soften your eyes a bit.

1:46.8

You might sense a smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners, let the

1:56.6

brow be smooth.

2:04.0

Simply receive the sensations and aliveness in that area.

2:13.2

Similar way, slight smile at the mouth.

2:19.4

Let the tongue relax, let it fill the lower jaw, relaxing down to the root of the tongue.

2:31.6

Sending yourself open to the whole play of sensation in the mouth, the gums, the tongue, the lips.

2:50.8

You might sense the curve of a smile at the throat.

2:56.4

First the breath as it comes in and out at the throat.

3:05.7

Letting the throat fill the neck and feeling the sensations from the inside out that arise.

3:24.0

Feeling into the heart, letting a smile spread through the chest.

3:30.6

This isn't to paper over what's there, but really to make space for the life that's

3:35.3

there.

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