The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Just as a way of beginning, take some moments to adjust if you're sitting or for some people

like to do these lying down, standing, however, adjust your posture so that you feel a sense

of ease, also alertness.

And you might let your attention go inward.

And for some, that's closing your eyes.

You might find it helpful to just lower your gaze, whatever serves you.

It would begin in the simple way of breathing together.

Just become aware of this body breathing.

And you might lengthen or extend the in-breath, perhaps to the count of five.

So you really feel the chest and the lungs.

But the slow out breath, the same count, matching the in-breath and the out-breaths.

You can feel the sensations of releasing the breath.

And again, a long, slow in-breath.

And a slow out-breath.

And again, breathing in, filling the chest and the lungs.

And sense with the out-breath that you're actually letting go, releasing, relaxing outward.

And again, breathing in, opening, receiving.

And breathing out a long, slow out-breath, softening down the length of the body as you release

the breath.

Now as you allow the breath to return to its natural rhythm, in a sense an observing

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