Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)

Tara Brach

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

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

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	Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.
0:11.3	Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing
0:17.8	to our world.
0:24.4	You can learn more or support this offering by visiting tarabrock.com,
0:27.1	where you can also join our email list.
0:32.5	Now, let's explore together
0:34.7	the many ways we can live
0:36.7	from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.
0:45.3	Namaste.
0:48.2	Namaste. Our gateway to presence is through waking up in the body many times.
1:19.6	It can be quite simple to begin with the eyes.
1:24.6	Often when we're thinking a lot, the muscles around the eyes get tight.
1:28.3	So you might intentionally soften around the eyes, as if you're smiling into the eyes and
1:38.3	letting the outside corners of the eyes gently be drawn upward a bit.
1:51.0	Let the brow be smooth.
1:56.0	Slight smile at the mouth,
2:00.0	the inside of the mouth smiling.
2:05.6	As Zen teacher Ticknadhan describes it, this is smile yoga.
2:12.6	It sets a kind of message to the nervous system to relax the fight-flight-fries response and be more
2:20.9	at ease.
2:22.4	Just feel that inner and outer smile very slight but real.
2:28.5	And the atmosphere of a smile spreading through the face, through the brain.
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