As your body becomes still, you might invite your attention right here.

Just make yourself at home right in the moment.

It can help to begin with a few very conscious long breaths.

Let's together inhale deeply.

And with the out breath, the conscious letting go, letting go, letting go.

Good, and then inhaling, filling the lungs, filling the chest.

And again, as the breath goes out, sense the releasing letting go.

And again, inhaling deeply, filling the lungs.

This time holding for a moment when the breath is full,

feeling the sensations of fullness, and slowly letting go of the breath,

softening down the length of the body, letting go.

As the breath resumes its natural rhythm,

sense the possibility of relaxing as it comes in,

relaxing, receiving as a balloon inflates, opening with the breath.

And with the out breath, again, kind of dissolving outward into the space around you.

Just sensing the possibility of this breath is kind of a way of collecting the attention,

relaxing with what's happening right here, the breath in the foreground,

and yet still aware in the background of the sounds that are here.

Sense is awake.

Aware of the field of sensations, body.

Aware of the heart, breathing and feeling your heart.

Opening the evening as we do with that inquiry of what really brings us here,

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