The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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please visit tarabrock. Oh. Oh. Oh. The attitude that really supports us in presence is one of friendliness, this quality of

saying yes regarding whatever's arising with a quality of kindness

with care.

It can be helpful to begin a meditation by sensing the curve and shape of a smile.

And you might sense sky, great open sky, with a smile filling the space of the sky.

And let your mind merge with that, with that great open sky.

So you can feel your mind filled with a, that benevolence, that receptivity of a smile.

Sensing smile spread through the eyes, so the eyes soften.

Sense a slight smile at the mouth.

Let the inside of the mouth be smiling.

So there's softening or relaxing of the jaw.

You might sense the curve of a smile spreading through the heart and the chest area.

Not to cover over but to make space for what is here.

You can sense the heart, the tenderness of heart floating in the space of a smile.

Letting the chest be open, feeling the shoulders free to relax a bit, a kind of melting or dissolving from the inside out in the shoulders, letting go.

The arms hanging easily, the hands soft. Feeling with that openness of the torso, the chest that you can relax down through the

stomach area, softening the belly, letting the breath be received deep in the torso.

Still sensing that smile, the eyes, the mouth, the heart, smiling in the belly, just loosening,

letting there be some space, feeling the aliveness there. Letting the aliveness there.

Feeling the sense of aliveness,

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