The direct way to presence is through being awake in the body.

You can sweep the awareness through the body, perhaps beginning in the area of the eyes,

and simply softening the eyes.

Feeling the flesh around the eyes, softening the brow smooth.

You might sense that you can smile into the eyes,

relax, receptive, slight smile at the inside of the mouth smiling, relaxing the jaw.

And imagining and sensing a smile spreading through the heart, smiling into the heart.

Not to cover over anything, but to make room for what's here.

So the eyes are smiling, the mouth, the heart.

You might imagine and sense the space opening around the heart area, spreading open, wider and wider,

to allow the shoulders to relax back and down.

And then just bringing the awareness inside the shoulders, loosening, softening,

sense if there's a natural untangling or dissolving that's possible.

Relaxing the arms, softening the hands and letting them rest in an easy, effortless way.

Bringing the awareness inside the hands, softening a bit more,

and just feeling the tingling and vibrating and aliveness inside the hands.

But there be an openness in the chest, and then softening down into the belly.

You can imagine that same curve of a smile spreading through the belly,

loosening, softening, letting this next breath be received in a softening belly.

This breath, and then this one, and again,

you can feel the aliveness deep in the torso.

Just as a cup can be filled with water, this body can be filled with awareness,

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