Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09)

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09) - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and then opening to all sounds, sensations and emotions with the energetic allowing of “Yes.” We close with a poem by Danna Faulds, “White Dove.”

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:36.0	Wherever you are, just take some moments now and find yourself a way of sitting that's
0:49.5	comfortable so that you're alert, you're able to stay awake, usually an upright posture
0:57.5	helps with that.
0:59.7	And also it is, and it's part of settling for many it helps to close your eyes and let
1:06.9	the attention go inward, coming into stillness, letting the attention rest with the breath
1:19.6	and extending the breath now so that you inhale and fill the chest, the lungs, breathing
1:27.7	and fully.
1:31.6	And then the out breath is slow so that you can feel the sensations of the breath as it's
1:37.2	released.
1:40.5	And again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and the lungs.
1:46.1	And a slow out breath, feel a sense of relaxing outward and letting go, letting go.
1:56.4	One more time inhaling deeply, a slow, smooth out breath relaxing, softening down the
2:06.7	length of the body with the exhale, and then allowing your breath to come back into its
2:14.6	natural rhythm and sense yourself both observing the breath and feeling the breath with an
2:22.9	increased presence.
2:32.5	Taking these moments to set your intention for practice, that aspiration to regard whatever
2:41.1	arises with a kind allowing attention.
2:53.7	And we deepen that presence as we scan through the body.
2:56.7	You might begin with the eyes, softening the eyes, feeling the tingling around the eyes
3:04.5	as you let the brow be smooth.
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