And as you officially pause right now, just let your eyes close and notice with a kind

of gentle attention, what's going on inside you.

Just notice.

Notice what happens when you come into stillness and on purpose relax just a little bit right

now.

Notice what happens when you sense some gesture of kindness to yourself.

Some wish for the evening that it might unfold in a way that's alive and good for you.

Some gesture of kindness.

Notice what happens as you just begin to listen to your heart and sense what the state of

your heart is right now.

You begin to open up a kind of intimacy with yourself where you're really paying attention.

Just notice.

And as you attend and listen, you might sense what it is you really are wishing for.

What really brings you here tonight?

What it is even this very moment you wish you could touch or experience or inhabit.

See if you can feel your own sincerity kind of stripping away the layers of being automatic

and I just feel sincerity, there's something innocent and real that brings you here and

brings you into stillness, just feel that.

And it's from this deep in presence that we chant together in a simple way, this mantra

you might bring the palms together and really feel your heart as you chant.

We'll just chant it three times in howling deeply to begin.

To begin to scan through the body, so wake up that presence right inside our bodies.

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