Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home. When difficult or intense experience arises, the practice is to learn to open to what is here with a clear, allowing and kind attention (a favorite from the archives).
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:11.3 | Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing |
| 0:17.8 | to our world. |
| 0:24.4 | You can learn more or support this offering by visiting tarabrock.com, |
| 0:27.1 | where you can also join our email list. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, let's explore together |
| 0:34.7 | the many ways we can live |
| 0:36.7 | from the love and presence that's our deepest |
| 0:40.1 | essence. |
| 0:47.6 | Namaste. Let your awareness scan through your body. |
| 1:14.6 | Just notice if there's areas of particular tightness or tension. |
| 1:22.8 | See if by bringing a soft awareness to those areas there might be a little loosening, letting go. |
| 1:30.3 | You might bring the attention to the region of the brow, the eyes, |
| 1:45.0 | softening the eyes. |
| 1:47.0 | Let the brow be smooth. |
| 1:54.0 | Unhinging the jaw. |
| 1:58.0 | Just sensing a slight but real smile at the mouth. |
| 2:06.6 | See if you can let the shoulders fall away from the ears. |
| 2:15.6 | You might imagine a kind of dissolving in the shoulders. |
| 2:23.5 | Ice to water. |
| 2:29.3 | Water to gas. |
| 2:32.3 | Can you feel from the inside out the movement of energy? |
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