Meditation: Vipassana (Mindfulness or Insight)

Tara Brach

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

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🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Vipassana (Mindfulness or Insight) - A gift of meditation is learning to open to life just how it is, with awake awareness. This meditation guides us in establishing an embodied presence, and collecting the attention with mindfulness of the breath. We then open the attention to whatever is predominant, and rest in an open, engaged and receptive presence.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:07.7	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	A key gateway to awakening presence is through the body.
0:48.0	We'll take some moments to scan through the body, releasing and relaxing.
0:56.7	Letting go of tension. You might begin by sensing the region of the brow, let the eyes be soft.
1:07.3	The brow smooth. You might even imagine and sense smiling into the eyes, letting the curve of
1:18.0	the smile spread through the eyes, lifting up the outer corners.
1:28.4	With that same image of a smile, sensing a slight but real smile at the mouth.
1:38.0	Feeling the energy of a smile inside the mouth.
1:40.7	Just receptive to the sensations that are there, relaxing the jaw, relaxing the tongue down to the root.
1:59.2	Can you feel the aliveness of sensation in the mouth?
2:02.2	Lowing the shoulders to fall away from the ears to relax back and down.
2:15.2	Feeling the shoulders from the inside out.
2:22.7	You might imagine a melting of ice to water.
2:33.2	And then water to gas.
2:42.0	See if you can sense the movement of sensation inside the shoulders.
2:50.7	Relaxing, letting go.
2:52.8	Letting the hands rest in an easy and effortless way.
3:08.5	Soffering the hands.
3:11.2	Soffering the hands.
3:13.6	And feeling them from the inside out.
3:16.7	And intimate attention to the tingling and vibrating of the aliveness inside the hands.
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