The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Letting your attention go inward. You might feel the breath at your heart, sensing with

the in-breath that you can really feel your breath touching the heart area and breathing

out, letting go from the heart, sensing whatever mood is here and with a listening quality

of attention. Since what brings you here right now, what brings you to practice? What

brings you to a path of meditation? Listen to what your heart really cares about so you

can touch in a bit to your real sincerity of heart. There's a prayerful quality when

we sense what we really care about, whether we language it as presents or being more loving,

realizing our true nature, who we really are, freedom and peace.

The pathway to a relaxed and open heart is awakening up and relaxing and finding the

awareness and space inside the body. You might begin by sensing the region of the

brow, letting the eyes be soft in the brow's moon. Let a smile spread through your eyes,

lifting up the outer corners. Just be aware of the tingling and vibrating, perhaps the flickering

of light and dark, letting us light smile, spread through the lips, even the inside of the

mouth smiling. Let the tongue fill the upper palate, relaxing down to the base, or the root

of the tongue. Feel the sensations that fill the mouth, the tongue that gums, the lips. Can you sense

the space and awareness, the sensation inside the mouth? You might imagine and sense the throat

filling the neck, perhaps imagining the curve of a smile, filling the throat in the neck.

And feeling from the inside out, can you sense the awareness and the

awareness inside the neck? You might allow the shoulders to relax back and down, letting the shoulders

fill with awareness so that you're feeling from the inside out, feeling the sensations, the

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