The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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The gateway to presence is an alert, wakeful, relaxed attention in the body.

You might sweep through the body with awareness, perhaps beginning at the eyes, just softening

the eyes.

We have a tendency to tighten there, letting the brow be smooth.

As if you could smile into the eyes, let a smile spread through the eyes.

Slight smile at the mouth.

You might feel the inside of the mouth smiling.

It's a direct way to relax the fight flight reactivity and really create an energy or

spirit of ease and benevolence.

Eyes smiling in the mouth.

Just imagine and sense that curve of a smile at the heart.

Not to cover over anything, but to relax that space within us that can include whatever's

here.

Letting that space open up so that the shoulders are invited to relax back and down a bit.

Just feel the sensations inside the shoulders, a kind of letting go or dissolving there.

Feel the hands resting in an easy, effortless way.

Refining so you can feel the inside of the hands, the tingling, vibrating, aliveness there.

Still aware of the smile at the heart, that openness in the chest area.

Let's see if you can relax and loosen down through the torso, softening the belly.

As if that smile could reside there too and with that an openness and invitation for the

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