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

In the quietness, you might listen for a few moments in a receptive way, where of the

sounds, perhaps soft sounds in the room.

Listening to the space you're in.

If you can listen not just with your ears, but with your whole awareness.

Notice that with listening there's nothing to do.

Sounds happen and are known spontaneously.

These words just appearing, disappearing.

Sounds in the spaces between the sounds.

Listening to the more distant sounds.

Can you sense the space of awareness that includes even the most distant sounds that you can detect?

So that same receptivity of listening, that you can listen to and feel the aliveness in the body.

Sense the awareness in the shoulder area and just receiving the sensations there.

Sense the possibility of softening and relaxing in that space of receptive attention.

Let the awareness be in the hands, receiving the movement of sensation there.

This aliveness inside the hands.

Let your awareness fill your chest, receiving, connecting with the aliveness in the chest area.

Letting everything be just as it is, receiving with curiosity a gentle presence in the chest.

Let the awareness fill the belly.

Let's see if you can feel from the inside out the aliveness in the belly.

Letting everything be just as it is, receiving the movement of sensation there.

Letting the awareness fill the pelvic region, hips, buttocks, genitals.

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