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

As you let your attention turn inward, you might take some moments to reflect on what brings you here tonight.

And see if you can really listen in deeply to what is most important to you, what your heart most wishes for, really what your intention is.

Let yourself come into that place that feels most sincere.

Let yourself come into that place that feels most sincere.

The silence is taking some moments to listen.

Listening to the sounds, the very soft sounds around you, the sounds in the space of the room, listening to the sounds of these words, and listening to the spaces between you and you.

So that you are listening not just with your ears but with your whole awareness.

Listening to the more distant sounds, sensing that even the most distant sounds you can detect.

Is arising in the space of awareness received by awareness.

Noticing that there is nothing to do with listening.

Can't go after a sound or even focus in on a sound.

Rather, sounds are known spontaneously by awareness.

This resting in that openness that listens.

The same way that we can receive sounds.

You can receive the sensations in the body, in awareness.

You might notice that if you soften the shoulders, you just receive and allow the experience of sensations inside the shoulders.

That can be felt.

Including the sounds and the sensations.

Noticing what is happening in the body, letting it be received in awareness.

Softening the hands.

As if you could bring the whole awareness inside the hands receiving the sensations that are there.

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