The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.

In the stillness, aware of this body breathing.

I'm very consciously extending and deepening the breath.

So the in-breath is full and deep, filling the chest and lungs, breathing in.

And then a slow out breath, slow enough so you can feel the sensations as they leave the

nostrils, releasing the breath, releasing, letting go.

And then a nice, full deep in breath again, breathing in.

Belling up and then a slow out breath.

Very aware with the out breath of letting go, relaxing outward, releasing.

And again, a nice, deep, full in breath, filling the lungs.

And a conscious slow out breath, releasing, letting go.

Continuing in this rhythm of breathing in and filling yourself with the breath.

And then a slow out breath, very consciously slow.

So there's a sense of the relaxing outward, the releasing as you release the breath.

Keeping the attention close into the breath.

Aware of the sensations of filling up and of releasing.

When you notice the mind is drifted, just gently come back to the in-breath or the out-breath.

It can be a relaxing open to receive with the in-breath and a relaxing and releasing with the out-breath.

So there's a sense of the relaxing outward, the out-breath and the out-breath.

See if you can sense with the in-breath that you're filling not just your chest and your

lungs, but all the cells in your body, expanding, receiving, even the spaces between the cells,

...