Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness - This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this changing life.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	One of the direct ways of waking up presence is by relaxing and bringing the attention fully into the body.
0:54.0	Sometimes the image or visualization of a smile can help us do that.
1:04.0	You might imagine a great sky around you extending in all directions and since the curve of a smile spreading through and suspended in that great open sky, just to visualize that,
1:20.0	that receptivity and openness of a smile, and then let that curve, that smile, descend, to spread through the eyes.
1:38.0	So the outer corners of your eyes are lifted slightly.
1:46.0	The brow is smooth, the eyes are soft.
1:51.0	Notice the sensations that you become aware of.
2:00.0	The eyes are smiling, letting a light smile spread through the lips, and even feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:18.0	Let the tongue fill the lower palate, relaxing down to the root of the tongue.
2:31.0	Notice what sensations you become aware of in the mouth.
2:48.0	You might allow the shoulders to relax back and down a little, letting the shoulders fill with awareness so you can feel them from the inside out.
3:09.0	You might imagine a kind of dissolving or melting from ice to water, then water to gas.
3:29.0	Let us sing the sensations you become aware of inside the shoulders.
3:51.0	Check and see if the hands can rest very easily, softly, effortlessly.
4:05.0	Feeling the hands from the inside out.
4:12.0	As you soften the hands again and again.
4:18.0	Notice what sensations you become aware of inside the hands.
4:40.0	The eyes are soft, smiling.
4:46.0	The mouth relaxed, slight smile there.
4:53.0	You might visualize and sense a smile spreading through the heart and chest area, that curve and receptivity of a smile.
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