Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:43 min.)

Tara Brach

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara's Wednesday night class, the meditation ends with a sense of melting into community – relaxed and alert.

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0:00.0	Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.
0:11.3	Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing
0:17.8	to our world.
0:24.4	You can learn more or support this offering by visiting tarabrock.com,
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0:32.5	Now, let's explore together
0:34.7	the many ways we can live
0:36.7	from the love and presence that's our deepest
0:40.1	essence.
0:47.6	Namaste.
0:53.5	This fall we experimented for about six weeks with including an ad before this podcast,
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1:06.0	Many of you shared that it disrupted the flow of your listening, and I really understand
1:10.7	it didn't feel aligned with the flow of your listening, and I really understand it didn't feel aligned
1:12.2	with the spirit of this offering. These teachings and meditations will continue to be freely
1:18.5	available, and your support truly makes that possible. Thank you, friends. Thank you for whatever
1:25.7	you've offered and for your continued generosity in whatever form
1:31.0	feels right to you. And you may take some moments to feel the movement of the breath in the area of the heart.
2:00.0	And let your attention be at the heart,
2:04.6	a kind of listening attention.
2:11.6	Listening inwardly,
2:15.6	sense your deepest intention for practicing right now.
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