Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31)

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31) - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:08.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:38.4	Gently bring your attention to your breath.
0:49.5	Just take a moment to collect and settle.
0:58.1	This part of arriving to remind yourself of what matters to you, what brings you to practice,
1:15.6	what brings you to mindfulness practice, sensing your own sincerity, what your intention
1:32.6	is for being here.
1:46.6	We truly arrive in presence by relaxing back.
1:52.9	There's such a forward momentum to our mind and our energy.
2:03.0	Like to invite you to sense the possibility of relaxing back by scanning through your
2:09.2	body.
2:10.2	Just sense what place and you want to let go a little right now.
2:22.2	Where's their tightness or tension that might naturally release?
2:30.0	You can relax back into more openness, ease.
2:47.7	As you scan, you might sense the shoulders because that's a very habitual place of tensing
2:55.3	when we're on our way somewhere else.
2:57.5	Just sense that there can be a natural way of letting whatever knots or tightness that's
3:05.6	their float and awareness, untangle, iced water, and water to gas, relaxing back.
3:26.5	You might consciously soften the hands and let those micro muscles of tightness just soften
3:39.1	and open so you can relax back from the inside out and feel the aliveness and space inside
3:48.2	the hands.
3:57.8	Let there be an openness to the chest.
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