Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2020-09-02)

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2020-09-02) - When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back into the awareness that is always, already here. We explore relaxing back through a body scan, and then with all our senses wide open. With practice we increasingly find our pathway home by relaxing the clench of doings, and resting in what is.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.3	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Let's begin our meditation and arrive together.
0:46.7	I invite you if you haven't already done so, to find your posture for sitting.
0:54.8	You might close your eyes and make those subtle adjustments so that you're sitting in a
1:00.6	way that's upright, alert, and yet it is relaxed.
1:12.4	And then just allow the settling to happen naturally.
1:17.9	One of the most valuable understandings of awakening is that we're not trying to get somewhere.
1:26.8	It's really more of a relaxing back into what's always and already here.
1:35.3	So in that spirit, we'll scan through the body a bit and explore this relaxing back.
1:43.0	And I invite you to begin with the region of the eyes.
1:47.6	Let the eyes be soft.
1:52.4	Let the brow be smooth.
1:57.0	Our habitual thinking ends up contracting those little micro muscles around the eyes.
2:03.0	So just softening.
2:05.6	Letting there be a kind of resting.
2:08.3	And notice with that, with the softening.
2:12.2	The coming to aliveness, the sense of the sensation and tickling in the area of the eyes, the
2:19.0	perhaps the flicker of darkness and light.
2:34.2	Knowing there be a slight smile at the lips, you might feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:41.2	Let's see if you can relax down to the root of the tongue.
2:53.8	And letting all the features of your face, the sensations in the face, just be as it is.
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