The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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As you settle in, just close your eyes and feel your body, your heart.

You can sense this as a life practice.

The essence is simple.

This willingness to directly contact reality right here and offer care.

You might start by just feeling the movement of the breath

and sensing as you breathe in that you're contacting and aware of the life and shy you.

And as you breathe out, that you're flowing outward into the space around you, let and go.

Let and go.

Let yourself sense this particular juncture of your life and whatever is arising within you,

whatever reaction, whatever place of emotional difficulty is strongest.

It might be anger, might be fear, sorrow, confusion,

feel where it lives in your body.

If it helps a sense what really evokes it, the worst part of things going on

and what really brings it up, this could be in your personal life or more societally,

just to help you get in touch.

And feel that as you breathe in you could directly contact where that vulnerability is.

Breathing in is like saying you're willing to touch it, feel it, be with it.

Let the breath come right to the place in your body where you feel most vulnerable,

maybe the throat or the chest or the belly.

For some it helps to put your hand where you feel it most strongly.

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