The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

To access more of my meditations or join my email list,

please visit tarabrock.com. You might begin practice with the simple intention to bring that these qualities of interest,

of interest, friendliness, ease in relating to whatever comes up.

The guided instructions will have three parts to them.

The first is really arriving in an embodied presence, our senses awake.

The second is to further collect the attention,

the primary anchor or home base that we're using.

And the third is presence with what is. And that might include continuing to collect around an anchor

as appropriate.

We very often begin with some form of a body skin

because

without that quality of awake presence in the body,

we tend to be living in a more conceptual reality,

virtual reality.

And just to say you can't too often re-arrive in the body,

no matter where you are in your practice,

you can always start fresh by scanning and coming back right here.

I often like to use the scanning and coming back right here.

I often like to use the visual image of a smile because I find, and this is in both the

Taoist and Buddhist traditions, that that image when we can bring it into the body as

a felt sense helps to create space for what's here.

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