Meditation: The Blessings of Love

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Meditation: The Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable tender place within us that longs to feel loved, and call on loving presence to bless us. By imagining and allowing ourselves to receive love, our hearts become open and filled with light. We then bring that inner loving presence fully alive as we offer blessings to other beings. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken our heart. (a favorite from the archives)

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	This is a very simple meditation.
0:37.0	It's a very simple meditation.
0:44.0	Sitting in a way that's comfortable, taking a moment to scan through your body,
0:51.0	and so the sense of kindness, see if anything wants to relax or let go.
1:10.0	Let your attention come to the area of the heart.
1:14.0	You might feel your breath right at your heart.
1:20.0	With some interest, with a gentle attention, just notice whatever the state of your heart is right now.
1:33.0	Notice what might want attention in the region of your heart.
1:40.0	If there's some mood or emotion or something going on in your life that's living inside you right now,
1:47.0	it just wants a bit of acknowledgement.
2:03.0	You might wonder and notice if there's something inside some place of vulnerability that you haven't been wanting to feel.
2:18.0	Part of what keeps us from realness, what keeps us in that small self-identity, is the avoiding of what's here.
2:35.0	You might let yourself breathe directly into whatever feels most vulnerable.
2:47.0	Keeping the attention in the body, throat, chest, belly.
2:59.0	For some, it helps to put your hand on your heart just to keep the sense of being in relationship with your inner life,
3:05.0	breathing and feeling what's asking for attention.
3:18.0	If you're aware of something you're afraid of that's going on in your life, something that feels like a loss,
3:32.0	just letting that, the raw feelings or vulnerability be felt, breathing, feeling the touch of your own hand,
3:42.0	letting whatever's here be here.
4:02.0	Sometimes when we get quiet and pay attention, part of what's here is a sense of really not feeling at home in ourselves.
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