The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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This is a practice called Breathing Through and it's a traditional practice actually adapted

from classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice and I hope you enjoy it.

You might begin by sensing your posture and making sure that you're sitting in a way that

is relaxed, comfortable and allows you to be awake.

If you'd like to close your eyes, please do or lower your gaze.

We'll begin together with a few long deep breaths inhaling to the count of five, breathing

in and filling the lungs.

The out breath matching the in breath, exhaling to the count of five, letting go, letting go.

Again breathing in, filling the chest and the lungs.

The slow, smooth out breath releasing, letting go, letting go and again inhaling and the slow,

even out breath releasing, relaxing outward, letting go.

Then allowing your breath to resume in its natural rhythm, letting go of all controlling

and simply observing and feeling the breath as it is.

As you watch the breath, just noticing that it happens by itself without your will, without

you deciding when to inhale or exhale.

Just sense that you're being breathed, being breathed by life, just as all of their

beings on our planet, human and non-human animals, life forms, were being breathed, sustained

in a fast, breathing web of life.

Now visualize your breath as a stream or a ribbon of air that's passing through you.

See it flow up through your nose and down through your windpipe and into your lungs.

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