Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - 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.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:36.6	Take some moments to find a way of sitting, some posture that will support you in the practice,
0:52.9	and then perhaps a few breaths to gather the attention and arrive right here.
1:03.3	You can deepen the quality of presence by very gently scanning through the body with the awareness.
1:11.6	Just feeling from the inside out, the life of the body.
1:19.2	You might soften the eyes, let the brow be smooth.
1:26.8	A lot of tensions carried around the brow.
1:30.0	More we think the more there's kind of a knitting and a tightness there.
1:36.2	Sensing a smile spreading through the eyes can help to really ease that area, corners of
1:42.5	the eyes uplifted.
1:47.1	Just slight smile at the mouth.
1:51.0	If you can sense the inside of the mouth smiling, letting the jaw be unhinged, relaxing down
2:02.1	to the root of the tongue.
2:07.4	And feeling the sensations through the whole mouth area, and inside out, gums teeth tongue,
2:22.2	lips, slight smile still.
2:31.9	Feel the throat, sense the throat filling the neck area, smile through the throat.
2:41.5	Just letting that curve of a smile relax the tension, visualizing and feeling it.
2:54.5	Smile through the heart area, not to cover over but really to help connect with the space
3:03.2	that's there.
3:04.2	You can feel the life in the heart and chest.
3:12.2	Feel the shoulders from the inside out.
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