Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (2020-03-04)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (2020-03-04) - 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.
0:05.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	You might let yourself imagine a wide open blue sky, and sense the curve of a smile spreading
0:53.8	through that sky.
0:56.6	Just imagine that the receptivity and openness of a smile spreading through a great open sky.
1:05.6	Then let your mind merge with that sky.
1:15.6	So you can sense the curve and receptivity of a smile spreading your three-year awareness, filling your awareness.
1:29.6	And you might directly sense the outer corners of your eyes lifting slightly in a smile.
1:40.6	Let the eyes be soft and the brow smooth.
1:50.6	The eyes are smiling.
1:56.6	Bring a slight smile to the mouth.
2:01.6	Feel the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:06.6	Tick-not-hom is enmaster, describes the smile yoga, because it helps our nervous system relax and open in a very benevolent way, feeling kindness.
2:25.6	Awareness filled with a smile.
2:31.6	The eyes smiling in the mouth.
2:38.6	You might visualize and sense a smile spreading through the heart.
2:54.6	And this isn't to cover over anything.
2:58.6	It's really to create the space to let life be as it is.
3:03.6	To say yes to the life that's here, without resisting, without opposing.
3:13.6	The eyes are smiling, soft, the mouth, the heart.
3:26.6	You might imagine and widening circles spreading out from the heart that openness and ease of a smile, relaxing you, relaxing and opening.
3:42.6	Lowing the shoulders to fall away from the neck.
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