Meditation - Saying “Yes” to Life (2017-10-04)

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🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation - Saying “Yes” to Life - This meditation guides us in relaxing through the body, then opening to the changing river of experience. By continually relaxing back and letting go into what is unfolding, we discover the natural vastness, wakefulness and vitality of our essential Being.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.5	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:31.0	As a way of waking up through our bodies, waking up our hearts, you might bring the attention
0:39.1	to the brow and just let the brow be smooth and relaxed.
0:46.8	It can help to imagine that you're smiling into your eyes,
0:50.3	like the corners of the eyes, the outside corners, lift a bit, so the eyes are soft.
1:02.3	Let us light smile spread through the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.
1:21.3	Imagine and sense a smile spreading through the heart.
1:29.3	The felt sense of that curve of a smile and the heart not to cover over, but really to make room for what's here.
1:39.3	Letting that space, that openness, the smile, wide and out, so you can allow the shoulders to relax back and down some.
1:59.3	See if you can feel the shoulders from the inside out, softening.
2:14.3	Perhaps you can sense the shift from ice to water kind of melting inside the shoulders.
2:27.3	And then water to gasp, letting go some.
2:43.3	Bringing the awareness inside the hands.
2:47.3	And can you notice the tingling or vibrating there?
2:54.3	Notice what happens if you soften the hands.
3:07.3	Continue to feel them from the inside out.
3:12.3	Perhaps you'll sense the kind of vibrating warmth or coolness.
3:20.3	The aliveness is there.
3:24.3	Letting there be that openness to the chest, feeling inside the heart, directly contacting the sensations there.
3:54.3	Relaxing down the torso.
3:57.3	See if you can let this next breath be received in a softening belly.
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