Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21)

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🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21) - We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to rest in that open wakefulness, allowing the changing thoughts, sounds, sensations and feelings to come and go. When we let life be just as it is, we become a sea of awareness that includes all the waves.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Perhaps one of the most direct portals to the awakened heart mind is by waking up
0:51.2	our awareness in the body.
0:54.8	To do that with a gentleness, it helps to have the image and sense of a smile.
1:03.6	You might visualize that spread through the whole sky, the curve and receptivity of a smile,
1:13.8	spreading through a vast sky.
1:20.3	And then let your mind merge with that vast sky, sensing the smile filling your mind,
1:31.4	with that an openness or receptivity.
1:34.8	Perhaps you can soften your eyes and sense the curve and image of a smile spreading
1:44.4	through the eyes, lifting the outer corners, softening again to the brow as smooth.
1:58.9	And you can feel the receptivity in that whole region of the brow.
2:10.2	Bringing a slight smile to the lips and Tick-Not-Hon calls the smile yoga.
2:19.3	Because it helps connect us to a very natural sense of benevolence and ease.
2:27.4	Maybe you can feel the inside of your mouth smiling.
2:34.0	As you do, let the tongue fill the lower palate.
2:41.6	See if you can relax down to the root of the tongue.
2:51.9	Can you imagine and feel all the aliveness through the mouth, the gums, the teeth, the tongue,
3:01.0	the lips, the aliveness that spreads through the face, the tingling and vibrating in the
3:18.4	scalp and skull.
3:29.9	You might sense the throat filling the neck, the aliveness and sensation in the throat,
3:45.6	and the allowing the shoulders to fall away from the neck.
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