Tara Brach Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)
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Apr 8, 2026 A guided practice uses a sky-smile image to wake loving awareness in body and mind. Listeners are led to soften the face and let a gentle smile spread into heart, belly, and torso. The practice brings earth energy into cellular aliveness and invites resting in a spacious, heartful presence.
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Start With Slow Counted Breaths
- Inhale slowly to a count of five and exhale to five, then allow natural rhythm to cultivate wakeful presence in the body.
- Tara Brach guides this breath practice early to ground attention and prepare for the heart-focused visualization that follows.
Smile As An Open Sky Of Awareness
- Visualizing a wide open sky with a smile lets the mind merge with vast, receptive awareness and creates an atmosphere of benevolence.
- The image softens the eyes and face so goodwill is felt physically, linking inner spaciousness to facial expression.
Soften The Face To Emanate Benevolence
- Soften facial muscles: lift outer eye corners, relax mouth, sense a smile in the throat to emanate benevolence through the face.
- Tara Brach names these specific places (eyes, lips, throat) to make the benevolence physically accessible.