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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice relaxing back into the aliveness and awareness that is always here. We close with a beautiful poem from poet Danna Faulds.
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0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
0:05.5 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
0:30.0 | As you come into stillness, let yourself feel your breath in the area of the heart. |
0:52.0 | She becomes increasingly sensitive to the feelings, the felt sense in the area of the heart. |
1:08.3 | And ask yourself, what is my deepest intention for being here, for practicing meditation? |
1:19.0 | This is an inquiry about what most matters to you, what your heart longs for. |
1:35.9 | As you sense what matters, the sign of really being connected to a deep intention as you'll |
1:43.9 | feel sincere. |
1:44.9 | It's like your body is saying, yes, I care about this. |
1:53.7 | Aware of your sitting posture, letting yourself sit, they say like a Buddha halfway between |
2:04.7 | heaven and earth, so you're sitting tall and yet rooted. |
2:15.4 | See if you can relax any parts of the body that are obviously tense or tight. |
2:26.5 | You might soften in the shoulders and let the shoulders relax back and down a little. |
2:40.6 | You might soften the hands so you can feel as you relax the hands, the sensations inside |
2:49.1 | them, tingling the vibrating. |
3:00.6 | You might let there be an openness at the chest and see if you can soften and relax the |
3:09.3 | belly. |
3:10.3 | Let this next breath be received in a softening belly, this breath. |
3:21.4 | And now this one, and again, so you can feel the breath and the aliveness deep in the |
3:34.6 | torso, relaxing to the legs, letting the feet spread and rest comfortably on the floor, |
3:50.1 | feel the contact places where your feet touch the floor, warmth, pressure. |
4:00.4 | Feel inside the feet, the movement of energy, tingling, vibrating. |
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