The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Good morning, good afternoon, Good evening friends. Hello and welcome to the 7 a.m. California time sit and talk.

I'm Nicki Mregafori and delighted to be with you

in this moment in time.

And we've been exploring the topic of Sada, confidence, faith this week and we'll do a guided meditation

and I'll offer some reflection, some teachings. So let's's begin let's begin by coming together by

collecting ourselves by collecting ourselves

collecting ourselves and arriving, arriving in this body. However this mind's showing up in this moment, it's okay. So right. Not demanding it to be otherwise but working with what is, working with what is.

what is.

As if you're greeting yourself, greeting yourself,

all of yourself, no part left out. Greeting all parts of your body.

Hello, welcome.

Welcome to settle relax. the body to settle, relax, to be just as it is here. Thank you. If there are wrinkles, wrinkles in the body, let's call him wrinkles, or wrinkles in the mind.

It's okay. Let the wrinkles be.

Not fighting with them.

Let them be.

Having a sense of gentleness softness around everything, with everything.

Giving them time, acceptance, it's a gradual process. We know this is a gradual process. We know this is a gradual process. We know this. I'm connecting with our breath, with the in-breath, with the in-breath,

with the out breath. You're not going to see. Connecting with the sensations of the in-breath, out-breath throughout the body.

Calming, soothing, settling. You're going to see. and maybe dropping a drop just a drop, of a sense of appreciation gratitude into the heart.

For this moment, for the ability to come together.

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