Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment -

When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.

…Exploring what it means to unconditionally say “yes” to the life that’s here… In the moment when that “yes” becomes full, our hearts awaken in love. ~ Tara

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit Tarabrock.com. Mm-mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm. As you come into stillness, you might begin with an inquiry that we invite each time
0:49.9	we gather, which is to sense what really brings you here to practice.
0:58.9	And take your time, just feel your heart, feel your presence and sense from the most sincere place in you what
1:08.9	most matters what is it that you long for that you really that longing that this practice will awaken whether it's the longing for being more present or perhaps more open-hearted,
1:26.0	to touch a deeper realization or truth,
1:31.1	to live with more ease or peace, or it might be all of that, to just sense what matters.
1:50.0	The power of touching into your aspiration is that brings you a tone more receptive and present place, it allows your aspiration to actually manifest.
1:56.3	Just a few what you care about. Be aware of simply sitting here, this breathing body.
2:26.8	Taking some moments to scan through the body with awareness, softening, relaxing, wherever there might be habitual tightening.
2:30.7	And you might begin with the eyes, softening the eyes and letting the brow be smooth.
2:47.0	Letting the jaw relax open some tongue fill the lower jaw. So you can relax right down to the root of the tongue.
2:55.0	And you might sense a slight smile at the mouth.
3:00.0	This helps to activate the parasympathetic nervous system,
3:08.0	brings more ease, well-being to the whole system.
3:20.0	You might sense if the shoulders might fall away from the neck some relaxing them back and down.
3:25.0	And bring the awareness to fill the shoulders
3:30.0	so you can feel from the inside out.
3:32.7	And if there's areas of tight. so you can feel from the inside out.
3:35.8	And if there's areas of tightness or clenching any knots,
3:38.7	see if they can just float a bit in awareness.
3:49.0	The more you feel from the inside out, the more you might be able to detect
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