The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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We start each week as we will this time with a guided meditation.

I'd like to invite you to find a posture, most likely sitting, it could be standing or lying down.

But a posture that allows you to be really relaxed and yet wakeful.

So take some moments to set yourself and once you're in that posture,

to close your eyes and then again make whatever subtle adjustments that allow you to feel most balanced

and at ease.

As you settle now, take some moments to censure intention for this practice.

Your intention towards presence, first being right here, awake, open,

and relating with kindness to your inner experience.

And in that spirit of relating with a gentle heart, you might visualize the image of a smile

and sense wide open space, a great sky, a great blue endless sky and that that smile is spreading

through the sky.

Then allow your mind to merge with that great sky.

And sense a smile filling your mind.

Feeling the uplift of that, the receptivity of a smile.

And as you do, you might soften your eyes and sense a smile spreading through your eyes,

lifting up the outer edges of your eyes.

Let the brow be smooth.

And just feel the openness, the tingling, vibrating, and that whole region of the eyes.

Perhaps a sense of flickering of light and dark.

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