Meditation: What Matters to your Heart?

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? - Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are invited to attune to the state of our heart and our deepest aspiration.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.6	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:15.9	Namaste and welcome friends.
0:19.0	For many entering the New Year is really an opportunity to take a fresh look at our lives
0:25.7	and reconnect with what most matters.
0:29.6	And so in that spirit, I'd like to offer a short guided meditation that can help us
0:36.6	listen more deeply to our hearts, can help us become intimate with the current state of
0:42.1	our heart and really get in touch with our deepest longings or aspirations.
0:49.4	I hope you enjoy.
1:20.4	As a way of arriving, you might just sense your posture right now and make whatever
1:29.4	subtle adjustments help you to feel awake and alert and at ease.
1:37.4	And you might close your eyes or let your gaze be downcast.
1:47.4	And begin with a conscious breathing, inhaling deeply, perhaps to the count of five so that
1:54.2	you're filling your chest and your lungs.
1:59.0	And then a very slow out breath.
2:03.2	Letting go.
2:05.0	Letting go.
2:07.8	Nice, deep, full in breath again, filling the chest and the lungs.
2:12.7	And with the out breath, a soft breath, a slow breath, releasing any tension or tightness,
2:26.7	again breathing in deeply and breathing out slowly, sensing the possibility of softening
2:36.9	down the length of your body.
2:44.9	And allowing the breath to resume and its natural rhythm.
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