The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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So many know this, but the Chinese translation of mindfulness is present heart.

So our meditation will be called present heart.

And I invite you to find yourself a comfortable position to begin with so that you're upright,

you're sitting upright and relaxed.

To close your eyes and let yourself become still.

Taking a few conscious full breaths to help collect your attention.

Since the possibility of relaxing and releasing with the out breath.

And as your breath resumes and its natural rhythm, you might feel your intention in this meditation

to relate to the life that comes and goes with the present heart, with care.

We begin by bringing a caring presence to the body.

We might use that image and felt sense of a smile, smiling into the eyes, sensing the eyes with that curve of a smile that lift in the outer edges.

Let the eyes be soft.

Let the brow be smooth.

Bringing a slight smile to the lips.

Tick-n-a-tick, not harm.

Gen-teacher calls this smile yoga because it sends a message to our whole nervous system that we can relax that fight flight response.

That we can sense more of the navelance and ease with our life.

Let's see inside of the mouth, smiling.

Letting the attention spread through the face, softening, relaxing all those micro muscles.

Just noticing whatever sensations of tingling or vibrating or aliveness are right here.

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