The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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please visit tarabrock.com. In meditation practice we awaken mindfulness of what's here in the moment

and we also become aware of how we're relating to our experience.

So we begin by sensing the possibility of relating to our experience.

So we begin by sensing the possibility of regarding whatever arises with kindness.

And we can help to bring our bodies into alignment in a kind and open way with the image of a smile.

You might begin by imagining a great open blue sky

and visualize that sky wide open,

filled with the curve of a smile, the brightness and receptivity of a smile.

And just imagine that your mind can merge with that open sky of awareness, so your mind

is filled with the warmth and the area of the eyes just float in

that open sky of awareness and let the outer corners of the eyes lift a bit,

as if you could smile into the eyes

and let the brow be smooth.

The eyes are smiling and bringing a very slight but real smile to the lips.

The sense, the inside of your mouth smiling.

And let that spread through the face, allowing all the micro muscles of the face to soften

and relax.

You might feel it sense that your throat can fill your neck and visualize and sense

the curve of a smile in the throat area.

Soffening and opening there.

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