Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:35.6	We'll begin with meditation and you might find yourself a comfortable way of sitting and either close your eyes or let your gaze be downcast and invite yourself into presence.
0:57.6	Invite yourself to be right here right now.
1:08.8	Let yourself become aware of this body sitting here breathing.
1:18.9	Gently scanning through and sensing where there might be some letting go where you might release a little tension or tightness.
1:45.3	Using the image and the sense of a smile, let a smile spread through your eyes allowing the outer corners of the eyes to lift a little, softening the eyes, feeling the the brows move.
2:10.9	So you can sense a kind of receptivity, ease, and bringing that same slight smile to the mouth, feeling the inside of the mouth filled with a smile.
2:38.9	Noticing if it's possible to relax the tongue right down to the root.
2:55.3	Feeling and visualizing that smile spread through the heart. So you're smiling into the heart.
3:06.9	Can you sense a growing space there? Openness.
3:20.0	Imagine and feel that openness spreading through the chest including the shoulders so you can allow the shoulders to just relax back and down some.
3:37.7	Feeling the shoulders from the inside. See if you can notice the movement of energy, of a liveness, of sensation inside the shoulders.
3:58.1	The space inside the shoulders.
4:14.5	Allowing the hands to rest in a very easy and effortless way. And softening the hands. And softening again.
4:32.9	Feeling them from the inside out. Seeing if you can sense the tingling or vibrating that's there.
5:03.7	Sensing an openness of the chest. Feeling the chest from the inside out. The heart from the inside out.
5:19.3	Seeing if you can sense the aliveness of sensation there.
5:40.9	Energy, space inside the heart.
5:55.6	Sensing if you can let this next breath be received in a softening belly. This breath.
6:12.0	Now this one. And again. Feeling from the inside out. The aliveness and space inside the belly.
6:32.4	The eyes still soft. The slight smile at the mouth. The hand soft. And the belly soft.
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