Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 30 September 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (2016-09-28) - 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. |
| 0:07.7 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | The sitting posture really is what makes the inner state possible. |
| 0:50.7 | It makes it kind of conducive to if you're sitting upright, being more alert and awake. |
| 0:58.6 | And then at ease, see if you can in the midst of that uprightness, see what can relax, |
| 1:04.5 | what wants to let go a little. |
| 1:09.0 | So there's the blend of awake and relaxed. |
| 1:16.1 | Awake and relaxed. |
| 1:20.8 | You might the breath lengthen a bit so you have a nice full in breath. |
| 1:27.8 | And a slow out breath. |
| 1:32.3 | And again, a nice full in breath. |
| 1:37.0 | A slow out breath. |
| 1:41.5 | I'm letting the breath be natural, just a little more collected here. |
| 1:47.2 | Feel the attention at the heart. |
| 1:50.6 | Breathing and feeling the heart. |
| 1:58.2 | We take some moments to sense our intention, the invitations to really touch into what matters |
| 2:08.7 | to you. |
| 2:09.7 | It's a very powerful reflection, just to ask, what is it that I really aspire to? |
| 2:18.0 | What is my heart long for? |
| 2:21.7 | What matters? |
| 2:24.7 | And perhaps it's to be more present in your life or more open-hearted. |
| 2:36.1 | Maybe it's to come to more realization as to who you really are, your true, authentic |
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