Tara Brach Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min.)
Mar 13, 2025
Explore the journey of reconnecting with your senses and grounding in the present moment. Gentle guidance leads you through relaxation techniques, inviting awareness to soften the body and heart. Discover how to embrace your breath and listen to the sounds around you, while learning to navigate wandering thoughts. Experience the gift of open-hearted awareness and extend blessings to your own heart and all beings. Ultimately, find solace in recognizing your awakened heartspace as your truest nature.
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Body-First Soften And Open
- Soften the eyes, brow, tongue, shoulders, and rest into the body's aliveness to open awareness.
- Reconnect with breath and sensations to relax from head to feet and feel the body as a field of aliveness.
Listen With Wide-Angle Awareness
- Include both close and distant sounds in your listening and sense the silence that is listening.
- Use the felt aliveness and open space of awareness as the container for changing sensations and sounds.
Thoughts Signal A Move Away From Openness
- Noticing when the mind narrows into thought reveals a habitual contraction away from openness.
- Returning to present sensations is the reliable pathway back to awake, receptive awareness.