Tara Brach

Meditation: Know That You're Here (19:38 min)

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Feb 25, 2026
Guided breathing and a slow body scan to collect attention and release tension. Gentle focus on hands, chest, belly and pelvic aliveness. Widening into whole-body awareness and open senses. Simple anchors to return attention when the mind wanders. Resting in wakeful presence and offering care and blessing for oneself and others.
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ADVICE

Anchor Attention With A Four Count Breath

  • Use a counted slow full breath to collect attention and anchor presence.
  • Tara Brach guides a 4-count in-breath and matched 4-count out-breath, then shifts to witnessing the natural breath to stabilize awareness.
ADVICE

Release Tension By Scanning From Brow To Hands

  • Scan the body from brow to hands to soften habitual tension and awaken sensation.
  • Tara Brach names specific spots: smooth brow, unhinged jaw, melting shoulders, and intimate attention to hands to reveal subtle aliveness.
INSIGHT

Sensation Is A Boundaryless Dance In Awareness

  • Sensation has no fixed boundary; inside and outside dissolve into a dance appearing in awareness.
  • Tara Brach invites sensing the whole energy body and the vastness that includes distant and close sounds.
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