Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (2020-05-20)

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (2020-05-20) - Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory experience, the tension in the body that reduces aliveness and the armoring around the heart that dulls our sensitivity and tenderness toward life itself.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	This meditation is called the Art of Letting Go.
0:49.7	And in meditation, letting go actually means releasing the resistance we have to what's
0:56.1	here.
0:57.3	So we'll explore this together, letting go of thoughts, letting go of tension in the
1:01.9	body, letting go of armoring around the heart.
1:05.8	When we do relax resistance, we open to the flow of aliveness and love and full awareness.
1:16.8	We begin this letting go in a simple way with the breath and invite you to become aware
1:22.7	of your body breathing.
1:28.2	And then extending the breath.
1:30.0	So you're taking a nice long deep in breath.
1:37.5	And then with the out breath, the slow out breath, feeling the sensations of letting go.
1:43.6	Letting go, letting go.
1:46.3	And again, a nice full in breath, feeling the chest and the lungs.
1:52.7	And a slow conscious out breath, letting go.
1:57.1	And continue with this long deep breathing and sense with the out breath, the opportunity
2:02.8	to release, to relax outward, to let go.
2:08.3	And with this next out breath, sense that you can let go of any lingering thoughts in
2:14.2	the mind.
2:16.8	Letting go, letting go of thoughts.
2:20.0	And so that you open to the sounds that are here, to the sense of space around you.
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