Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is

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🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is - 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).

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:08.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Let your awareness scan through your body.
0:49.1	Just notice if there's areas of particular tightness or tension.
0:57.5	See if by bringing a soft awareness to those areas there might be a little loosening.
1:03.5	Let it go.
1:14.2	You might bring the attention to the region of the brow, the eyes, softening the eyes.
1:23.0	Let the brow be smooth.
1:30.6	Unhinging the jaw.
1:33.6	Sensing a slight but real smile at the mouth.
1:41.4	See if you can let the shoulders fall away from the ears.
1:50.9	You might imagine a kind of dissolving in the shoulders.
1:58.1	Ice to water.
2:04.1	Water to gas.
2:09.0	You feel from the inside out the movement of energy.
2:20.3	Softening.
2:21.3	Let it go.
2:30.5	Let the hands rest in an easy, effortless way.
2:40.2	Softening the hands and feeling them from the inside out.
2:49.1	Just be intimate with the tingling and vibrating that's there.
2:58.7	There be an openness to the chest.
3:02.7	Feel the region of the heart from the inside out.
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