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

When you close your eyes, take some moments to sense your posture.

Because this posture, this body is what allows us to really touch into certain qualities

of heart, mind.

See if you're sitting tall so there's that aspect of being alert, but not stiff.

See if you can relax some in that tallness, chest open,

belly soft, take a few full breaths.

And as you settle, you might let your attention come to the area of the heart.

And just inquire in a simple way, what really brings me here tonight?

What is my intention for tonight?

What is my deepest intention?

And take some time just to listen, sense what bubbles up.

Sense what brings a feeling of sincerity as you land on it.

And still feeling the heart, the heart area, you might gently bring the palms together.

So you're drawing, centering the whole attention at the heart as we chant the simple mantra

on this sound current of connectedness.

And we'll chant it three times.

Just letting go into the sound current with your heart, inhaling deeply to begin.

The most direct portal perhaps to presence is through this living body, relaxing and waking

up.

Let me begin by softening the eyes.

You can even imagine smiling into the eyes, so there's a sense of the corners of the eyes,

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