Meditation - Relaxing Back into Living Presence

Tara Brach

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

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🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation - Relaxing Back into Living Presence (2016-12-07) - When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through "relaxing back" and reopening our attention to our senses, relaxing through our body, and gently contacting the felt sense in our heart. By repeatedly relaxing back, we become increasingly familiar with the vibrancy, tenderness and openness of true presence.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:09.2	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Let yourself be aware of the spot is sitting here breathing.
0:53.0	Feeling the awareness inside the body, scanning through so you can relax and open what might
1:08.0	be tight or tense.
1:15.3	You might soften in the region of the eyes as if you could sense the curve of a smile spreading
1:27.4	through the eyes, the outer corners of the eyes lifted a bit, the brows moved.
1:38.0	It's a tingling and vibrating and a liveness in that area of the eyes.
1:51.2	Slight smile at the mouth.
1:54.4	You might even feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
1:59.4	This image and felt sense of a smile sends a message to the nervous system to relax, to
2:07.8	be at ease.
2:12.8	See if you can relax the tongue right down to the root of the tongue.
2:17.6	Let it fill the lower jaw.
2:23.6	Let's see if you can feel the aliveness of tingling and vibrating that fills the whole area of the mouth.
2:40.6	Letting the shoulders fall away from the neck.
2:50.3	Using the awareness that fills the area of the shoulders.
2:55.3	See if there's a natural relaxing or loosening there.
3:01.4	If you could let any tightness or tangle float in awareness.
3:20.5	Letting the hands rest in a very easy and effortless way.
3:25.2	Feeling the hands from the inside out, softening.
3:34.8	Just receiving the tingling and vibrating and aliveness that's there.
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