Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include sounds and sense the openness to life. At the center of the practice is a relaxing back and inhabiting spacious awareness. The meditation ends as we experience the heart from the vantage of spacious awareness and offer prayers to our inner life and all life.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.9	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:37.9	Feeling the awareness inside your body, just notice if there's any areas of particular
0:53.6	tiredness or tension and see if there might be a natural letting go.
1:13.6	I'm going to make consciously sense the region around the eyes and soften there.
1:27.6	Let the brow be smooth.
1:29.6	Feeling the mouth letting the jaw be unhinged.
1:35.3	Feeling the tongue to spread and relax in the lower jaw of the palate.
1:41.5	Feeling down to the root of the tongue and letting that be relaxed.
1:48.5	In my sense, the throat filling the neck area.
1:59.4	Just feeling from the inside out, the aliveness, the sensation, space inside the neck.
2:19.4	Allow the shoulders to fall away from the neck, relaxing back and down.
2:29.4	Let the shoulders be filled with awareness.
2:33.4	See if you can feel from the inside out, the tingling or vibrating places of tension or flow inside the shoulders.
2:48.4	Continuing to attend in that region of the shoulders, sense the space that sensations are floating in.
3:13.4	See if there can be a natural melting or dissolving in that space.
3:28.4	Notice if it's possible to let the hands rest more easily, letting them be quite soft.
3:53.4	Feeling the full awareness inside the hands.
4:00.4	Can you notice the vibrating, the tingling, the aliveness inside the hands?
4:26.4	Can you see that?
4:32.4	Placing the awareness inside the heart.
4:37.4	Again, just noticing the felt sense, the movement of sensations, pressure, tightness, flow, heat, whatever is there.
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