The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist, and author.

I'm beginning a simple way just taking a few full breaths.

I'd like to invite you to expand the in-breath so it's more full than usual.

Inhaling deeply and filling the lungs.

And again, that slow out breath, see if you can relax as you let go,

softening, releasing, letting go.

And one more time, inhaling deeply.

Slow out breath, feel softening down the lens of the body, letting go, letting go,

allowing the breath to resume in its natural rhythm.

Just relaxing with the inflow and the outflow.

And noticing the quality of a bit more presence, more collectiveness perhaps.

Letting the attention rest in the heart area as you inquire within,

just sense your intention for tonight.

So you're listening to sense what is it that really brings you here tonight?

If your heart could express its deepest yearning or longing.

What is it you're longing for?

Just with that felt sense of sincerity, you might gently bring the palms together,

keeping the presence in the heart area as we chant this simple,

very universal mantra or sound current of own.

So we'll chant together three times, begin by inhaling deeply.

Sensing yourself here, right here, you might even mentally whisper the word here.

Feel the body from the inside out, breathing and present.

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