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

Become aware of the movement of the breath.

And with the listening quality of attention, just spring your awareness to the heart area.

Notice the state of your heart right now.

This might be the first time today or in a while that you've very purposefully just contacted

your own heart and said, okay, what's it like right now?

Just offered a kind of listening attention.

You might notice what mood is here.

You might notice the physical sensations of the heart, whether there's a quality of

numbness or a quality of tightness or flow, openness or squeeze, density, weightiness, lightness.

Deepening your attention and sense what is your intention, your heart's intention for being here tonight.

What do you wish or long for?

Letting yourself connect with your own sincerity.

We continue to awaken a relaxed quality of presence by scanning through the body.

You might notice if there's any areas of particular tightness or tension.

Just invite a loosening, a softening in those areas.

Scanning down the body, you might start the head.

Find that area of the eyes and the brows and feel from the inside out the possibility of

relaxing so the brow is smooth.

You might sense that you're smiling into the eyes, but the corners of the eyes lift a little,

the flesh around the eyes soften.

So there's a receptivity and ease.

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