Meditation: Relax Into Happiness (2017-11-22)

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🗓️ 24 November 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Relax Into Happiness (2017-11-22) - Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go.” This meditation turns us toward this naturally arising happiness by awakening awareness through the body, and then practicing “relaxing back,” over and over, into the aliveness and presence that is always here.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	A direct portal to a relaxed and open presence is through the body, through waking up through
0:52.8	the body.
0:55.6	So we often use the image of a smile to bring a relaxed and awake quality of mindfulness
1:03.8	to our senses.
1:06.4	You might first visualize a great curve of a smile spreading through the sky, imagining
1:13.0	an open sky filled with that curve of a smile.
1:20.0	Since the vastness and the receptivity of that, imagine that your mind could merge with
1:31.6	that open sky.
1:33.1	So the mind is filled with the curve of a smile, letting the smile spread through the
1:47.2	eyes so the outer corners of the eyes are lifted up a bit.
1:52.6	The eyes can soften and relax.
2:00.0	Feeling into the eyes, let the brow be smooth and feel the sensations of aliveness in the
2:11.9	region of the brow.
2:21.9	You might sense the smile in the mouth, a slight smile, but a real smile that the lips, the
2:30.6	inside of the mouth smiling, the tongue relax, filling the palate, feeling the sensations
2:44.0	in the gums and the teeth.
2:52.3	The energy of a smile spreading through the face.
3:10.1	You might visualize and feel a smile spreading through the throat.
3:21.9	Feeling from the inside out, the aliveness of energy in the throat area.
3:35.8	Relaxed presence.
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