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Jan 2024
20m 23s

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness

TARA BRACH
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Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness

We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from "the inside out," opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic presence (from the archives).

It doesn't matter how many times the mind drifts. It's the gentle re-arriving that retrains your heart and mind. Just to choose to come back… Perhaps to sense what might let go a little more… If there's something that might want to relax a bit more right now… To listen to and feel the changing moment-to-moment experience with an awake, open awareness. ~ Tara

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