The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Oh. Greetings. Namaste, friends. Most are aware, this is a season of huge collective fear, distress.

For many, the focus is on the elections here in the United States, and it's broader.

It's the violence and suffering in our world. So our emotions are natural, they're intelligent,

and when we're caught in the grip of fear, which happens a lot for people in these days,

it's because we have forgotten a larger sense of our belonging,

our shared belonging to loving, awake awareness.

So this guided meditation, it's an adaptation of the Tibetan tonguelin practice,

it can help us remember and reopen to our shared spiritual heart. So let's begin together,

finding a comfortable way of sitting, sitting so you're

tall, you're feeling alert and also at ease.

And you can either close your eyes or perhaps lower your gaze so that the attention naturally

goes inward.

And we'll start with the simplicity of breathing consciously together.

So feel the movement of the breath.

And you might extend the in-breath.

Extend it so that it's really a long, deep, full in-breath, filling the chest in the lungs.

Hold for a moment.

And then a slow-out breath.

Let it be a slow, smooth release of the breath.

So you can feel the sensations of the breath leaving the nostrils and then inhaling again, nice long, deep, full in breath.

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