Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14) - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:07.2 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm making yourself at home in this moment. |
| 0:46.5 | It's really coming into the moment. |
| 0:51.4 | Feeling your breath. |
| 0:54.9 | You might feel and sense the breath touching the area of the heart. |
| 1:07.8 | We begin with the inquiry. |
| 1:11.0 | What is your deepest intention for meditation practice? |
| 1:18.4 | We're being right here right now. |
| 1:26.6 | Listen inwardly to what feels most sincere right this moment. |
| 1:42.0 | Feeling what most matters to you. |
| 1:44.4 | Feeling our shared aspiration that these practices of presence will ripple out in a way that |
| 1:53.0 | brings healing to our world. |
| 2:04.3 | In the stoneness, let your awareness scan through your body. |
| 2:09.8 | Notice if there's any areas of particular tightness or tension. |
| 2:17.9 | See if just by bringing the tension there, there can be some natural loosening or softening. |
| 2:46.2 | You can deepen that relaxation and ease by bringing a sense of kindness into the body. |
| 2:55.2 | We do that with the image and felt sense of a smile letting a smile spread through the |
| 3:01.7 | eyes. |
| 3:04.9 | Let the outer corners of the eyes be lifted slightly. |
| 3:10.9 | The eyes soft in the brow smooth. |
| 3:20.4 | Noticing the sensations, the aliveness, ease spreading through the brow. |
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