Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (18:55 min.)

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and going. And in the background, experiencing an alert inner stillness – a vast presence from which all activity pours forth.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:04.1	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:07.9	please visit tarabrock. Oh. In the quietness, coming more fully into presence by bringing attention into the body.
0:53.3	And you might begin by just sensing the body.
0:59.0	And you might begin by just sensing the eyes and letting your eyes soften,
1:03.0	letting the brow be smooth.
1:08.0	It's almost like you allow a smile to spread through the eyes, lifting the corners of
1:12.9	the eyes slightly.
1:13.9	So there's a receptivity and a softness there.
1:21.0	And again with that image of a smile, you might sense a smile at the mouth.
1:33.3	Very slight but real smile there.
1:37.3	The inside of the mouth smiling.
1:41.3	Ticknhan, a Zen Buddhist teacher describes as a smile yoga, because with a smile,
1:54.0	it's with a smile it actually activates the nerves in a way that we move from fight-flight freeze
2:02.6	into more of the attend and befriend.
2:08.6	Just sense that friendly attitude towards your experience.
2:24.3	You might feel the shoulders and let them fall away a bit from the neck. Bringing the awareness inside the shoulders.
2:30.3	Perhaps sensing a melting or dissolving ice to water, just kind of letting go.
2:44.0	Ice to water and water to gas.
2:51.6	Feeling the shoulders from the inside out and sensing the movement and aliveness of sensation
3:04.6	there.
3:06.6	Feeling the arm. and aliveness of sensation there.
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