and turn your attention just here and now to the present experience. Start, if you

will, with two or three long breaths, and allow each of the long breaths out to

release whatever they will, to let yourself open, become more present.

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So find a way to sit where you're comfortable, unstable, and at ease in your body.

Let yourself be settled. And if you're able to allow your eyes to close

gently or at least lower your gaze, and turn your attention just here and now to

the present experience. Start, if you will, with two or three long breaths, and allow

each of the long breaths out to release whatever they will to let yourself

open, become more present.

Turn into your body seated here with a loving awareness. Let your eyes and face

be soft. Lose in the jaw. If you like, you can throw your head in a little circle to

release your neck and let it find a simple upright. Let the shoulders drop, relax, and

the arms and hands rest easily. Feel the weight of your body on the seat or the

cushion or the floor wherever you are. And sense how it's met equally by the

earth below you that you can let go and rest on the earth just where you are, with ease

and trust in this moment. Relaxed and present. Let the belly be soft and the breath natural

and let the heart be soft as well to receive whatever arises with a spirit of kindness, compassion.

Now with this embodied presence, begin to notice the experiences here and now.

There'll be sensations of the body, sounds, emotions and feelings arising.

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