If you're new to this, begin by closing your eyes and feeling your sitting posture.

And with your eyes closed, see if you can make the adjustments to sitting so that you feel

yourself sitting upright and balanced.

And what that means is you might experiment by leaning to the left, leaning to the right,

perhaps forward, backwards.

And then sense what really feels stable, centered, gravitationally aligned, sitting tall.

And then just sense you can relax your body around that tallness, allowing the breath

to deepen.

And so that you extend the in-breath now, take a long, full in-breath, and then breathing

out slowly, a slow out breath so that you can feel the sensations of letting go.

And again, a very deep, full in-breath, and a slow out breath.

Letting go, letting go.

And again, inhaling deeply, filling the lungs.

And exhaling slowly, letting go, letting go.

Let the breath resume in its natural rhythm.

But feel that sense of collectedness when you begin to deepen the attention.

Aware of the quality of your own presence right here.

Feel with that presence and invitation to sense what your intention is.

Let your intention is for being here tonight.

Continue to pay attention as you ask yourself, what really matters to me?

So you're listening to your heart, just to feel your own sincerity about what calls you.

And as you sense that heart longing, you might bring the palms together and we'll chant

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