Meditation: The Center of Now (2017-04-26)

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🗓️ 27 April 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Meditation: The Center of Now (2017-04-26) - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:09.3	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Let yourself become aware of this body sitting here breathing.
0:53.4	Gently scanning through and sensing where there might be some letting go where you might
1:05.8	release a little tension or tightness.
1:23.1	Gently scanning the image in the sense of a smile, let a smile spread through your eyes,
1:31.7	allowing the outer corners of the eyes to lift a little, softening the eyes, feeling the
1:43.3	brow smooth, so you can sense a kind of receptivity, ease, and bring in that same slight smile
2:03.0	to the mouth, feeling the inside of the mouth filled with a smile.
2:16.9	You're noticing if it's possible to relax the tongue right down to the root.
2:33.4	Feeling and visualizing that smile spread through the heart, so you're smiling into the heart.
2:44.8	Can you sense a growing space there, openness?
2:58.0	Imagine and feel that openness spreading through the chest, including the shoulders, so you can
3:04.1	allow the shoulders to just relax back and down some.
3:16.0	Feeling the shoulders from the inside.
3:20.2	See if you can notice the movement of energy, of a liveness, of sensation inside the shoulders,
3:36.0	the space inside the shoulders, allowing the hands to rest in a very easy and effortless
3:55.8	way, and softening the hands, and softening again, and again, and feeling them from the inside
4:45.9	out, feeling the chest from the inside out, the heart from the inside out.
4:57.0	Seeing if you can sense the liveness of sensation there.
5:19.6	Energy, space inside the heart, softening the belly, and sensing if you can let this next
5:39.4	breath be received in a softening belly.
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