Meditation - The Silence that is Listening (2013-11-13)

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🗓️ 14 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meditation - The Silence that is Listening (2013-11-13) - Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	In this stillness, let your awareness scan gently through your body.
0:52.6	And just notice where there might be some holding or tightness or tension.
1:01.6	And since you can bring your awareness to those places and sense the softening of releasing.
1:22.6	You might soften the eyes.
1:31.5	We often carry a lot of tension there, little micro muscles tighten.
1:36.7	And the more we think, the more they tighten.
1:40.1	So since the softening of the eyes and letting the brow be smooth, you can imagine smiling
1:50.0	into your eyes, letting the outer corners lift a little.
1:57.9	And just helps to bring a sense of openness and receptivity.
2:08.0	Slight smile at the mouth.
2:09.6	Relaxing the tongue, sensing the tongue can fill the lower palate.
2:18.4	And see if you can relax the tongue right down to the root.
2:25.0	Opening to the sensations that fill the mouth, the gums, the teeth, the lips.
2:47.6	Be aware of the air touching the face, the sensations through the face.
2:55.6	Just scalp and skull.
3:06.7	You might imagine the throat filling the neck.
3:14.5	And dealing the sensations inside the throat and neck.
3:18.0	Softening at the back of the neck.
3:23.8	And softening a little more so the shoulders can relax away from the neck.
3:33.2	And feel the space open up inside the shoulders.
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