The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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I have been focusing on the theme of deep listening.

And so I thought what I do is start today, our meditation with a meditation on listening.

So it's called cultivating deep listening.

If you will, find yourself that way of sitting or lying down or the posture that most will support presence.

That gives you a sense of both ease and alertness.

And as a way of deepening your attention, if it helps to close your eyes or lower your gaze, you might explore that.

We start by breathing together, feeling the breath in the body and now together, inhaling so that we fill the chest and the lungs.

And then a slow out breath.

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

And a slow out breaths.

You can feel the release of the breath through the nostrils.

Letting go. And one more time, inhale deeply.

Slow release.

Sense a kind of softening down your body as you let go.

Let the breath now find its natural rhythm.

And I gently scan through your body and see if there's any part of your body that wants to let go a little right now.

In listening, listening to the sounds that are here, you can put aside all doing.

You'll find that listening is really receptive.

So relax and come into a state of listening to the sounds in the room.

Let me see these words into the spaces that come between the words.

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