The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

Maya Angelo writes, I long as does every other human being to be at home wherever I find

myself. I long as does every other human being to be at home wherever I find myself.

This homecoming, this relaxing and inhabiting the moment with love, with presence, is available

right here, right now. As a way of arriving you might let that image of a smile help to bring a sense

of natural benevolence, love and kindness to the body, heart and mind. You might imagine a smile

spread through the sky, great open blue sky.

Vast receptive smile and sense that vastness, that receptivity filling the mind, letting the mind

merge with sky. So the whole mind is lit up in that receptivity and openness and benevolence of a smile.

Sense of smile spreading through the eyes, corners of the eyes lifted up a bit, softening the eyes,

letting the brow be smooth. Sensing a slight smile at the mouth, slight but real. So the eyes

are smiling, slight smiled the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling.

As you breathe in and out, you might feel the breath at the throat and sense that curve and

receptivity of a smile there, the openness and space inside the throat.

So the eyes are soft, slight smile, the mouth smiling, the throat.

And feeling that breath as the breath rise as it falls at the chest and sense a smile spreading

through the chest, smiling into the heart. So you can imagine and feel with the

aliveness in the space and receptivity in the heart area.

You might notice how the smile, the heart makes room for whatever's there.

It allows you to be at home with whatever is arising.

You might imagine and sense that heart space widening and widening so that the shoulders are included.

And you can notice the possibility of letting the shoulders relax back and down some, being at ease.

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