The attitude that really supports us in presence is one of friendliness, this quality of saying

yes, regarding whatever is arising with a quality of kindness, of care.

It can be helpful to begin a meditation by sensing the curve and shape of a smile.

When you might sense sky, great open sky with the smile filling the space of the sky.

And let your mind merge with that, with that great open sky.

You can feel your mind filled with a benevolence, that receptivity of a smile.

Sensing smile spread through the eyes, to the eyes soften.

Sensing a slight smile at the mouth, let the inside of the mouth be smiling.

There's softening or relaxing of the jaw.

You might sense the curve of a smile spreading through the heart and the chest area.

Not to cover over, but to make space for what is here.

You can sense the tenderness of heart floating in the space of a smile.

Sensing the chest be open, feeling the shoulders free to relax a bit, a kind of melting or dissolving.

From the inside out in the shoulders, let it go.

Arms hanging easily, the hand soft.

Feeling with that openness of the torso, the chest that you can relax down through the stomach area,

softening the belly, letting the breath be received deep in the torso.

Still sensing that smile, the eyes, the mouth, the heart, smiling in the belly.

Loosening, letting there be some space, feeling the aliveness there.

Sensing the sense of aliveness, awareness spread down through the legs, feeling the feet from the inside.

Widening the attention to feel this whole body, this energy body, this living dancing, energy body.

Feel the sensation, free to move, express in the space of a smile and that allowing open space, that field of awareness.

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