Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:06 min)

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes the changing flow of life. When we inhabit that openness, there’s a natural arising of peace, wakefulness and tenderness.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.2	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock.com. Please be aware of your body sitting here breathing.
0:48.3	We'll take some moments to scan down through the body, relaxing and waking up from inside out.
1:01.0	You might feel the region of the eyes, softening the eyes, letting the brow be smooth,
1:14.6	just feel the aliveness, the tingling and vibrating,
1:20.6	perhaps a sense of darkness and light to the lids.
1:30.3	Let your senses be awake.
1:36.3	Let the jaw be unhinged,
1:40.3	the tongue filling the lower jaw.
1:46.0	Relax down to the root of the tongue. You might sense a slight smile at the mouth,
1:49.0	a smile in the inside of the mouth.
1:54.0	Receiving the sensations in the region of the mouth,
1:58.0	the thumbs, the teeth, the tongue, the lips.
2:01.6	Letting the shoulders all away from the neck, allowing the shoulders to be filled with awareness,
2:20.3	so that whatever you feel inside, whether it's a tightness or twisting or pressure,
2:27.3	whatever's there, not, just letting it float in awareness.
2:43.0	Loosen loosely.
2:50.0	You might sense a gradual dissolving and a movement of sensation.
2:52.6	Sometimes it's like ice to water, a melting.
3:00.6	Just letting the light of awareness do the work.
3:06.6	Ice to water. water to gas.
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