Meditation: At Home in the Moment (21:02 min)

Tara Brach - Tara Brach

In this guided meditation, Tara Brach leads listeners through a body-centered practice to cultivate presence, using breath, bodily sensation, and gentle visualization of 'smiling' throughout the body. She emphasizes sett

Key takeaways

• Tara Brach guides practitioners to 'settle right here, right now' using breath as an anchor

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Speaker 1: Speaker 1 (0:04) 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. Speaker 1: 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. Let's begin together with that beautiful ritual of coming into presence, intentionally arriving. And the invitation is to allow yourself to settle right here, right now, bringing perhaps an attention to the simple movement of the breath. Take some moments to check your sitting posture, and you can do it really with your eyes closed from the inside out, making whatever subtle adjustments help you to feel aligned so that you're sitting upright, sitting tall but not stiff, balanced, sense what wants to let go a little bit right now. Just right at the beginning, let go. You might become aware of the movement of the breath and gently feel the breath in the area of the heart. We begin with the simple reflection on aspiration. What is your intention for this meditation sitting, for this gathering? What is it that really brings you here that matters to you? Letting yourself sense what you sincerely care about, what your heart longs for. We can bring that quality of gentleness and receptivity into our whole body, body and being as we scan through the body. Just relax. It's helpful to use the image and felt sense of