Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27)

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🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27) - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, we discover an increasing sense of wholeness and peace. The meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	The invitation is to make yourself at home in the moment, to relax back, to rest in this
0:54.3	life breath.
0:59.7	We begin in a simple way with a reflection on intention.
1:06.8	To just ask yourself, what is your intention right now for practice?
1:17.4	What feels most important to you and what your heart long for?
1:29.8	So listening inwardly, sensing what you feel sincere about, what you care about.
1:38.7	And I might be having more presence in your life, feeling more open-hearted, more clarity
1:49.4	or balance.
1:53.8	Maybe you care about serving from a more generous place.
1:58.3	Our breath sits in a very deep way that freedom of knowing who you really are beyond any
2:04.9	of the stories.
2:07.5	And since what matters, what brings you to meditation.
2:17.7	Now direct portal to awakening is scanning through the body with awareness.
2:26.8	And to set the mood, you might envision a smile filling the sky.
2:34.9	The curve of a smile, the openness and receptivity of a smile spreading through a great open sky.
2:44.9	Letting the mind merge with that sky.
2:47.9	So your mind is filled with the light and the brightness of a smile.
2:57.7	Just let that mood and sense of receptivity and kindness fill you.
3:08.1	You might sense a smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners of the eyes,
3:14.7	softening the flesh around the eyes.
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