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Meditation - The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (2017-01-25)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Meditation - The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (2017-01-25) - It's natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and awakening through the body. We then rest in open awareness, and when the attention drifts, guide ourselves to rest our minds, over and over, in the aliveness and presence that is right here.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:08.5

To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.

0:30.0

As you come into stillness, let the attention go inward.

0:49.6

It's your feeling, your sitting posture from the inside out.

0:55.1

Your feeling your body sitting here, this breathing body.

1:02.4

A very beautiful way of beginning is to simply bring your attention to the area of the heart.

1:12.8

And sense what your intention is, what your deepest intention is for being here, for practicing,

1:21.6

for meditation.

1:25.4

What is it your heart really longs for?

1:44.0

The sign of really being in touch with a deep intention, as there's a quality of sincerity,

1:51.6

as we feel, wrote in a sense of, yeah, this is what matters to me.

2:15.4

The feeling of the breath, you might extend the breath so that the in-breath is full and deep.

2:27.8

And the out-breath is very slow, so you can actually feel the sensations of the breath as

2:33.4

it leaves the nostrils.

2:37.2

And again, filling the lungs, filling the chest with the in-breath.

2:48.1

And a slow out breath, a slow releasing, a slow letting go.

3:00.6

Sensing in this way with a long deep in breath.

3:11.2

And a slow conscious releasing, letting go, letting go.

3:26.9

Sensing with the out-breath, that you can release tension and tightness, softening as you

3:33.3

let go of the breath.

3:37.3

Sensing in this way with a long deep in breath.

4:04.8

Selling up fully on the in-breath.

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