Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min)

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🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.

From the meditation closing:

Sometimes the inquiry, “Am I dreaming?” can help to clarify both the trance and the veils that we're hiding behind and what's actually here. “Am I dreaming?” Just to sense the thoughts, stories, commentary that keeps us one step removed from this vibrant mystery that's right here. And then relax back again. Moment to moment - relaxing with the life that's right here ...this breath ...these feelings ...these sensations ...this life.

In these last few minutes, you might ask yourself, “Can I let go just a little bit more?” Let go of the thoughts, the veils of stories. The tension in the body - let go, relax, and let this life live through you.

We close by bringing attention to the heart. Offering your heart, whatever blessing, saying, or wish most resonates in this moment.

Sense that this world, this life, is part of your heart.

Offering those around you, those close to you in your life, and all beings, your blessings.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:31.0	We can deepen the quality of presence by very gently scanning through the body with the awareness.
0:39.0	Just feeling from the inside out, the life of the body.
0:47.0	You might soften the eyes, let the brow be smooth.
0:52.0	A lot of tensions carried around the brow.
0:58.0	The more we think, the more there's kind of a knitting and a tightness there.
1:04.0	Sensing a smile spreading through the eyes can help to really ease that area.
1:10.0	Corners of the eyes uplifted.
1:15.0	Just slight smile at the mouth.
1:19.0	Once you can sense the inside of the mouth smiling, letting the jaw be unhinged, relaxing down to the root of the tongue.
1:35.0	Just feeling the sensations through the whole mouth area, from the inside out.
1:45.0	Gums teeth tongue lips.
1:53.0	Slight smile still.
1:59.0	Feel the throat, sense the throat filling the neck area.
2:05.0	Smile through the throat.
2:09.0	Just letting that curve of a smile relax the tension, visualizing and feeling it.
2:22.0	Smile through the heart area.
2:26.0	Not to cover over, but really to help connect with the space that's there.
2:33.0	So you can feel the life in the heart and chest.
2:43.0	Feel the shoulders from the inside out.
2:47.0	You might sense the possibility of a dissolving or loosening there.
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