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

Taking some moments to scan through the body with awareness, relax and wake up from the

inside out of this living body.

And as we often do using that image of a smile to invite for the real receptivity and

gentleness, you might sense yourself smiling into the eyes, letting a smile spread through

the eyes.

So if you could feel the corners of the eyes slightly lifted up.

If the eyes be soft, the brows smooth.

And notice the sensations of aliveness in that whole domain.

Slight smile at the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.

Relaxing the jaw, relaxing right to the root of the tongue.

Feel the sensations, your aliveness inside the mouth.

Feeling in the throat area and you might imagine a smile, that curve and receptivity at the

throat.

Perhaps feeling the breath in that area as you breathe in and out.

There are the sensations there.

So the eyes are soft, smiling.

The mouth, throat.

Smiling into the heart area, letting a smile that curve and openness and felt sense of a

smile spread through the heart and chest area.

Allow yourself to directly connect with the aliveness.

So as it is within the heart area.

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