The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Namaste, welcome. Let's get yourself in whatever position you feel will be most conducive

to bringing your attention inward in a truly kind way.

So take some moments and listen to your body.

Let yourself come into stillness. Let your attention go inward, maybe the gaze downcast

or closing your eyes, whatever feels safe and comfortable.

Let's breathe a little together. A few full breaths inhaling deeply, filling the chest

and lungs, slow out breath and since letting go of whatever is ready to be released, and

again, breathing, feeling your body breathing. You might take a few moments to allow the breath

and its natural rhythm now and just scan through your body more intentionally to see if there's

any places of tension or tightness that want to relax and let go.

Now widen your attention a bit and scan your life and bring to mind a current situation

where you feel you're getting emotionally stuck, one that elicits a difficult reaction

and such as self-judgment or such as anger or anxiety. So it could be something that

has to do with a conflict with somebody else, perhaps a family member, a colleague, could

be something to do with your own health, might be something that feels challenging at

work, a feeling of failure, feeling of frustration, might be the pain of an addictive behavior

that you're watching in yourself, or maybe it's a conversation you regret. For the purposes

of this practice, I wouldn't pick something that's really deeply painful, the triggers

perhaps trauma. It won't serve you so well and if any point you feel overwhelmed as we're

doing this, if the feelings feel like too much, just shift your attention away from this

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