The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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You might begin practice with the simple intention to bring that these qualities of interest,

and your friendliness is in relating to whatever comes out.

The guided instructions will have three parts to them.

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

The second is to further collect the attention, the primary anchor home base that we're using.

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 scan 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 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 it felt sense, helps to create space for what's here.

You can begin by imagining a smile spreading through a whole big vast open sky.

And then just letting the mind merge with that sky so that the smile is filling your mind.

And that curve, you can feel with the curve that quality of openness and receptivity, brightness.

The light sense, the curve of a smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners of the eyes gently.

And with that softening the eyes, letting the brow be smooth,

and sensing the aliveness of sensation in that region of the brow.

A slight smile at the mouth, and the inside of the mouth smiling.

You might see if you can feel the inside of the tongue, let the tongue spread, filling the lower jaw.

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