The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

Whether you're new or you've practiced meditation for years and years, there's such a value to

sensing a freshness, just to start fresh in this moment and with some curiosity, sense

of the sitting posture.

And how can this posture best support a quality of being alert, open, relaxed, and you might

make some subtle adjustments so that you're sitting in a way that's tall and upright,

but not stiff.

You might take a moment to sweep the attention through the body and if there's some obvious

area of tightness, holding, just to let go a little.

Taking a nice, very conscious, full deep breath now, inhaling and filling the lungs.

And then a really slow out breath so that as you let go of the breath, you can feel the

sensations of letting go.

Feel the sensations of the out breath.

And then again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest, filling the lungs.

Hold for a moment and a slow out breath.

Let it go.

Let it go.

One more time, let's inhale together.

Let's inhale in the breath for a moment, filling a stretch across the chest and a slow

out breath.

Let it go.

Let it go.

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