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Mm. One of my favorite translations of the word mindfulness is the Chinese translation, which is present heart.

And so we're going to have a meditation that awakens a present heart. And so we're going to have a meditation that awakens a present heart, that that

courageous awake heart that can really be here for our life.

Wherever you are in whatever position suits you and serves you right now, you might let your attention go inward and find your way of feeling a sense of

safety and groundedness and connection right here just feel your body on the earth.

Sense the space around you that can really hold this life.

You might even feel the beings in your life that give you a sense of support.

And as you deepen your attention right now, you you're taking a nice long deep in breath and then a slow out breath.

Slow enough so you can feel the sensations

as you release the breath.

Good. sensations as you release the breath. Good, and another nice long, deep in breath.

Slow out breathreath, releasing and sense of letting go with the out breath, letting go, letting go, and again,

a nice full deep in breath.

And a slow smooth out breath,

letting go, letting go. Letting go. Then as the breath comes back

into its natural rhythm, notice the quality of presence that's grown just in a few moments,

that you're a little more here. You can deepen that presence as you gently scan through the body, waking up through the body, relaxing through the body, and

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