Welcome friends to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Each week I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing to our world. You can learn more or support this offering by visiting TaraBrock.com where you can also join our email list. Now let's explore together the many ways we can live from the love and presence that's our deepest essence. Namaste. This fall we experimented for about six weeks with including an ad before this podcast. And we've decided not to move forward with any more advertising. Many of you shared that it disrupted the flow of your listening and I really understand it didn't feel aligned with the spirit of this offering. These teachings and meditations will continue to be freely available and your support truly makes that possible. Thank you friends. Thank you for whatever you've offered and for your continued generosity in whatever form feels right to you. We begin in a simple way our practice by listening inwardly to our hearts and sensing our intention for practice. What it is that brings you to practice, what it is that your heart might long for. Take your time just inquiring and listening. Tell you feel that sense of sincerity about what matters to you. One of the most direct ways to awaken presence is by scanning down the body and really waking up from the inside out. You might feel the region of the brows, the eyes and just soften your eyes a bit. You might sense a smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners. Let the brow be smooth. We receive the sensations and aliveness in that area. In a similar way, slight smile at the mouth. Let the tongue relax, let it fill the lower jaw. Relaxing down to the root of the tongue. Feeling yourself open to the whole play of sensation in the mouth, the gums, the tongue, the lips. You might sense the curve of a smile at the throat. Let the breath come in and out at the throat. Letting the throat fill the neck, and feeling the sensations from the inside out. Smiling into the heart, letting a smile spread through the chest. This isn't to paper over what's there, but really to make space for the life that's there. You might sense a widening of that field that the smile is in, so that it says if there's widening ripples, there's some ease that you can feel in the area of the shoulders. Letting the shoulders fall away from the neck, a little back and down. Feeling them from the inside out, receptive to the sensations inside the shoulders. Sometimes they can help to purposefully let go a little more in the area of the shoulders because we carry so much tension, imagining the shift of ice to water, sense of melting, and then water to gas. Feeling the sensations of aliveness, and sensing the space that fills the shoulders. Aware of the length, the volume of the arms. Feeling the hands resting in an easy and effortless way. Explore softening the hands, softening and feeling from the inside. Feel receptivity, the aliveness of sensation. See if you can imagine the space that fills the hands and this living dance of energy that's here. Sensing an openness in the chest. And from the inside out, feeling the aliveness, the space that fills the chest. Aware of the abdominal region letting the next breath be received in a softening belly. And then this one. And again. Feeling the belly from the inside out. Receptive attention. Aware of the sensations and the space that fills the belly. Gaining down into the pelvic region. Again experiencing from the inside out, the sense of space and aliveness that fills the pelvic region. Aware of the length and the volume of your legs. Feeling the feet from the inside out. The tingling and vibrating and aliveness that's there. Sensing and sensing the feet. Ruted deep in the earth. This earth's energy flowing up through your feet. Filling your whole body. So it's a really felt sense of the expression of the earth's energy flowing through and expressing through you. You might sense that in all directions. So you can feel this bodily being as a field of sensation. Sensing the open space of awareness that this energy is dancing and unfolding in. From that openness, listening to sounds also, this play of sound. And how open awareness experiences this changing dance of sensation and sound feelings. 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And gently relax back, connect with the senses, what's right here, sensations, aliveness, sound. And then relax back some more, and sense the weakful openness, the awareness that's all happening in. It's resting as awareness, discovering how awareness is experiencing moment to moment, and changing the player of life. And for the last part of this meditation, sensing whatever is going on in your heart right now, whatever movement of emotions, feelings, sensations, sensing how open awareness is receiving and experiencing your heart. Sensing the capacity for an infinite kind of tenderness and presence with whatever is here. The heart space where whatever arises is held with kindness. Sensing if there's any blessing or prayer or wish you'd like to offer to your own heart right now. And widening to sense how this open-hearted awareness is all inclusive, sensing your prayer for all beings everywhere. May we realize and trust the living awareness that's our true home.
