The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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This is a good time to make any adjustments you'd like to how you're sitting.

Make sure you're comfortable and ideally sitting in a way where you're upright enough to

be awake and to be alert. But also at ease. You might close your eyes and deepen the

settling. Or if not close your eyes, lower your gaze so the attention can go inward.

Become aware of your body sitting here, aware of the movement of the breath.

You might sense the possibility of relaxing with the breath. So that as the breath comes

in, there's a kind of opening to receive it. As if even on a cellular level and the space

between the cells, the breath can enter, be received with the out breath, a letting go.

So with each out breath, sense that you can release unnecessary tension or tightness in the body.

And with the out breath, you might sense you can release unnecessary thoughts that have

been moving through. You can create kind of a clearing.

And to deepen that presence and ease, you might scan through the body, often start in the

area of the brow because when our eyes are tense, it actually keeps us thinking. So you

might consciously soften the area around the eyes. Let the brow be smooth.

Letting go through the shoulders, perhaps sensing the shoulders falling away from the neck.

And then feeling them from the inside out, imagining the dissolving, the melting of ice

to water. And water to gas. So there's a letting go of any clenching.

Letting go and letting be of the life that's here.

Let the hands rest in a very easy, effortless way.

You might soften the hands and soften again. And then feeling the hands from the inside

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