Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here.

Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

to our world.

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.

Namaste. sense your posture, your sitting posture and make any adjustments that will serve you

as you go into our meditation.

And for those of you that are new, the two key features for the sitting posture you might

attend to and you can close your eyes and feel from

the inside out, are sitting upright. So there's a quality of sitting tall that can support being

alert. Just feel that sitting tall quality.

And then of course there's the quality of at ease.

So you might sense like a tall tree, upright also that the limbs can relax, be at ease.

See what might want to let go a little in your body.

You might let the in-breath and the out-breath lengthen some. So you're breathing in and filling the chest and the lungs.

And breathing out slowly, feeling a sense of releasing, relaxing outward and letting go.

Letting the energy collect with the breath.

And then bringing the attention in a simple way to the heart with a

reflection and inquiry, what is my intention for meditation right now? What really brings me right this moment to practice?

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