The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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So welcome to our heart meditation.

It's nice to be together with you.

Feel free to find a way of sitting that's comfortable and allows you to be alert enough

so you're here.

With the loving kindness practice, we might use ideas and thoughts of others.

But for it to really become manifest, it's an experience in the body, tenderness and warmth

in the body.

So I like to begin by establishing that embodied presence, bringing meta into the body with

the imagery of a smile.

Tick-not-hone causes smile yoga because it, and again, it's got a real science to it,

that the image and the felt sense of a smile actually relaxes the fight flight, frees

mechanism, the stress reaction.

It activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which really allows us to feel a sense of

ease and benevolence.

You might imagine the great sky that's around us right now, this blue, open sky, and imagine

it filled with the curve and the image of a smile.

Receptive, vast, open, letting your mind merge with that vast, open sky and sensing the

smile spreading through your whole mind.

You might allow the eyes to smile, the outer corners of the eyes, lifted up some, so there's

a sense of spaciousness and ease and softening of the eyes, brow is smooth.

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