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, some might find it helpful to just lower your gaze, whatever serves you. We 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 fill the chest and 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,

and again, breathing in, filling the chest in the lungs, and sense with the out breath that you're actually

letting go, releasing, relaxing outward.

And again, breathing in, opening, receiving. 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 the sense and observing of the breath.

That it's possible to continue to relax with the movement of the breath, with awareness, perhaps sensing the presence that has increased just even in a few moments that you're more here.

Then we can increase that presence further as we scan down the body waking up in an energetic way. You might imagine and feel a smile spreading through the eyes, so the outer

corners of the eyes are lifted a bit. Let that help a softening through the eyes. A softening and a

softening and a

similar way you might let there be a slight smile at the mouth.

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