The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Mm. I invite you to begin by noticing whatever is going on inside you, letting the attention turn inward, and taking a few moments on purpose to let go,

just sense what wants to be released right now. It might help to feel the movement of the breath and relax with the out

breath. You might soften the shoulders, soften the hands,

and feel the aliveness inside the hands.

And let the chest be open, the belly soft.

Let this next breath be received in a softening belly. This breath, and this one and again.

So that if you widen your attention, you can feel the aliveness in the body.

And you can feel the heart area sensing presence in the heart, aware of whatever mood or motion is here. And as you deepen attention to sense your aspiration, your longing to disarm your heart, to open, to choose a situation where in some way you have separated yourself,

distance yourself from others from a group perhaps of difference or a particular leader that you feel aversion to.

I sometimes call this bad othering where you're aware that you have in some way pushed this group or this

individual away with the sense that they are less than, less moral, less worthy, less valuable.

It might be because of their views, their behaviors, politics, religion, race, but in some way you have felt some anger, aversion, or hatred and pushed away a group of difference are a particular known individual.

And you might tune into a particular example of behavior or an event that triggers bad othering, making the other bad or wrong.

Some way that you feel the group or the individuals causing harm. And let that example be close in. So you really get in touch with whatever it is that they are doing exemplifying that brings up your anger or

aversion. Let yourself get in touch with it. And now make what I call the U-turn, which means bring a kind attention right to what's going on inside you, sensing judgment, sensing anger, sensing blame, whatever you're feeling.

Just feel it in your body, and you might from the start put your hand on your heart and

so that you're holding it you're contacting it with a quality of care and just

notice what's there. Aversion, fear, anger. And keep feeling into it and sense perhaps the fear that most is catching your attention,

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