Remembering Our True Home (15:44 min.)
Summary
Tara Brach guides listeners through a formal mindfulness practice, beginning with a gentle body scan to release physical tension from the eyes down to the feet. She encourages cultivating an intimate presence with bodily sensations and emotional tightness, inviting a tender, accepting attitude toward whatever arises. The session expands awareness to include sounds and thoughts as passing phenomena within a spacious, open field of consciousness. Finally, Brach invites participants to recognize this awake, loving awareness as their true nature, extending this sense of sacred connection to all…
Topics discussed
Setting posture and turning attention inward
Inquiring into inner experience and body scan
Releasing tension in eyes, face, and jaw
Softening shoulders, neck, and back
Relaxing arms, hands, and opening the chest
Awareness in heart, lungs, and abdomen
Softening belly, hips, and lower body
Expanding awareness to legs, feet, and sound
Observing thoughts in open awareness
Meeting tension with tender awareness
Allowing sticky emotions with tenderness
Awareness as the ocean of true self
Extending loving awareness to others
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