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Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (2019-06-12)

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Tara Brach

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (2019-06-12) - Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence that is always and already here. From presence we spontaneously notice and allow the changing flow of experience, and sense the openness and wakefulness of our natural awareness.

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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.

0:30.0

Let your senses be awake, listening to the sounds around you, feeling the

0:57.7

aliveness in the body, sensing the field of awareness that everything's happening in,

1:15.6

this field of wakefulness, of intelligence that's listening to sound.

1:33.6

The awareness that's present to sensation, relax back and just rest in that awareness that's right here,

1:53.6

listening to and feeling the aliveness of the moment, an effortless presence,

2:19.6

resting in that presence and scanning through the body, just receiving the sensations in the region of the eyes,

2:37.6

the flickering of light, little vibration sensation there, you might want to soften the eyes a little,

2:51.6

you've been sent a smile spreading through the eyes, sensing the quality of presence that wakes up in that region,

3:15.6

and feeling the light smile at the mouth, and feeling the lips from the inside, the fullness, letting the tongue fill the lower palate,

3:39.6

the jaw unhinged, so you can feel the awareness inside the mouth, sensitive, receiving sensations there,

4:03.6

let imagine the throat filling your neck, and sensing the awareness inside the neck, the space inside the neck,

4:19.6

awake, sensitive, alive, allow the shoulders to relax back and down a little,

4:41.6

and feel the shoulders from the inside out, the space and awareness inside the shoulders,

4:57.6

perhaps sensing tightness or tension, and if it's there to let it float in awareness,

5:15.6

let the hands be soft and rest in an easy and effortless way, and softening again,

5:33.6

feeling the hands from the inside out, the fingers, the space between the palms and the back of the hands,

5:43.6

the tingling and vibrating, the happening inside the hands,

6:03.6

and just as a cup is filled with water, this whole body is filled with awareness,

6:11.6

awareness, feeling the sensations, playing through the hands,

6:33.6

let there be an openness of the chest, and sensing from the inside out, the space and awareness,

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