Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list,
0:09.0	please visit Tara Brock.com. Mm-mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm. Let's begin together with our meditation. You might take a sense of your posture right now and make the subtle adjustments that allow you to be seated in a way that's
0:57.0	alert, so you're sitting upright, awake, and at ease, relaxed and receptive.
1:07.6	You might let yourself imagine a wide open blue sky and sense the curve of a smile spreading through that sky.
1:22.0	And just imagine that the receptivity and openness of a smile spreading through a great open
1:30.3	sky. And let your mind merge with that sky. So you can sense the curve and receptivity of a smile spreading through your
1:46.9	awareness, filling your awareness. And you might directly sense the outer corners of your eyes lifting slightly in a smile.
2:17.0	Let the eyes be soft and the brow smooth. The eyes are smiling. and bring a slight smile to the mouth.
2:24.0	And feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:30.0	And take not harm. Tiknot Han, Zen Master describes us a smile yoga because it helps our nervous system relax and open in a very benevolent way, feeling kindness.
2:55.0	Awareness filled with a smile, the eyes smiling, and the mouth.
3:28.6	You might visualize and sense a really to create the space to let life be as it is. To say yes to the life that's here without resisting, without opposing.
3:41.2	The eyes are smiling, soft, the mouth, the heart.
3:50.0	You might imagine in widening circles spreading out from the heart that openness and
4:00.2	ease of a smile, relaxing and opening, allowing the shoulders to fall away from the
4:09.9	neck.
4:22.0	Sensing the space inside the shoulders, letting whatever tightness or tension is there, let it float in awareness. aware of the length and the weight and the volume of your arms.
4:49.0	Let your hands rest in a very easy, effortless way.
4:56.8	You might explore softening your hands,
5:00.6	as if that receptivity and sensitivity of a small could fill the hands,
5:08.0	softening the hands again, and just feeling the hands from the inside out. Letting there be an openness to the chest, still sensing that smile in the heart,
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