It says, you close your eyes, you might just sense the possibility of making yourself

at home, right in this moment, relaxing back, perhaps sensing the movement of your breath.

With a simple intention of just noticing it and relaxing with your breath, letting your

senses be awake, so you're aware of the sounds around you, a receptive listening kind of

attention. With that same kind of listening, listen inwardly just to sense the life inside

you, aware of the sensations of sitting here right now, how your body feels, and bringing

a gentle listening attention to the heart. And you might notice what is the state of your

heart right now. It may have been a while since you really listened inwardly to kind of

intimacy with our heart, just sense what's it like? Is there an numbness, is there anxiety

and tightness? Is there tenderness or openness? So not to add any judgment, but just to notice the

felt sense of the heart area. That's part of homecoming. And as you listen to and feel the

heart, you might sense what your intention is tonight for being here. Sense from the most sincere

place in you. What matters to you?

So join our voices together with a simple chant, letting that chant come from this place of caring and

sincerity. The mantra is oom, which is the sound current of connectedness, being one with. If you'd like to bring the palms

together to center more fully, the attention in the heart area, receptivity and care, well chant three times.

So please inhale deeply.

We'll take some moments to just scan through the body, waking up, bringing mindful presence to the life that's right here.

You might begin, though, by imagining great blue sky, great space around you, and just sense the curve of a smile spreading through that space.

Just to connect with the reality of openness, receptivity. You might sense that same curve of a smile spreading through the eyes, letting the corners of the eyes be lifted a bit, softening the eyes, letting the brow be smooth.

Smiling into the eyes, letting the lips be in a slight smile, the inside of the mouth smiling.

Just feeling through the face a sense of flow and aliveness and openness, sensing the mind filled with a smile wide open.

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