Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:37 min)

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness in our bodies, and then opening to receive the entire play of sounds, sensations and feelings in awareness.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.1	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock.com. The sitting posture really is what makes the inner state possible.
0:46.3	It makes it kind of conducive to if you're sitting upright, being more alert and awake.
0:54.9	And then at ease, see if you can, in the midst of that uprightness, see what can relax,
1:00.9	what wants to let go a little.
1:05.3	So there's that blend of awake and relaxed, awake and relaxed.
1:14.6	Awake and relaxed.
1:22.6	You might length the breath lengthen a bit so you have a nice full in-breath and a slow out breath.
1:31.3	And again, nice full in breath.
1:37.3	And a slow out breath.
1:42.3	And letting the breath be natural, just a little more collected here, feel the attention at the heart, breathing
1:46.3	and feeling the heart.
1:52.7	We take some moments to sense our intention, the invitation is to really touch into what matters to you.
2:04.6	It's a very powerful reflection just to ask, you know, what is it that I really aspire to?
2:12.6	What does my heart long for?
2:15.6	What matters?
2:24.3	Perhaps it's to be more present in your life or more open-hearted.
2:29.3	Maybe it's to come to more realization as to who you really are, your true, authentic nature.
2:37.0	Maybe it's to relax, to be more at ease, just to sense what matters to you.
2:49.0	We let that be a kind of opening prayer.
2:59.6	In the stillness and the quietness we can deepen presence as we wake up through the body and the inside out, feeling the
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