Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24)

Tara Brach

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

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🗓️ 27 February 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24) - The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that everything’s happening in; the space that lets everything be, just as it is. It’s in that full allowing that we discover the center of now, that pure still presence that is the very source of our being. The meditation ends with an offering of prayer as that presence is experienced in the domain of the heart.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Our gateway to presence is through waking up in the body many times.
0:50.5	It can be quite simple to begin with the eyes.
0:56.7	When we are thinking a lot, the muscles around the eyes get tight.
1:00.7	You might intentionally soften around the eyes.
1:06.7	As if you are smiling into the eyes and letting the outside corners of the eyes gently be drawn upward.
1:22.7	Let the brow be smooth.
1:27.7	Slight smile at the mouth.
1:32.7	The inside of the mouth smiling.
1:37.7	As Zen teacher Tick-Not-Hon describes it, this is smile yoga.
1:43.7	It sets a kind of message to the nervous system to relax the fight-flight freeze response.
1:51.7	Be more at ease.
1:54.7	Feel that inner and outer smile.
1:57.7	Very slight but real.
2:01.7	The atmosphere of a smile spreading through the face, through the brain.
2:11.7	You might sense the curve of a smile at the throat.
2:15.7	And sense the space in the ease spreading there.
2:24.7	Letting the throat fill the neck area, sensing that, visualizing that curve of a smile.
2:36.7	Feeling the sensations that are there.
2:44.7	Lowing the shoulders to relax back and down a bit.
2:51.7	Let the awareness fill the shoulders.
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