The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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One of the direct gateways to presence is waking up our attention in a relaxed way through

the body.

You might begin by sensing the area of the brow, the eyes, and as if you could smile into

the eyes, sense the outside corners of the eyes, uplifted some, the eyes soft, the brow smooth,

and receptive to the sensations, the aliveness in the region of the eyes.

You might let that receptivity spread, feeling the scalp and skull, the sensations that arise.

Let's smile at the mouth, the inside of the mouth smiling, and then the receptivity to

the sensations and the tongue, the gums, the teeth, the lips.

You might imagine the throat filling the neck, and then feeling in a receptive way the sensations

and aliveness in the neck.

Letting the shoulders fall away from the neck.

If you can feel the shoulders and the inside out, imagining perhaps a dissolving or melting

sensation, iced water, water to gas, again a receptivity to the aliveness, the movement of

sensations in the shoulders.

The wear of the length and the volume of the arms.

Feeling the hands resting a very easy and effortless way, and softening the hands, feeling

the hands from the inside out, and with an intimate attention, receiving the aliveness

that's there.

Notice if you can sense tingling, vibrating in the hands, pulsing, warmth.

Letting there be an openness to the chest area, and sensing, visualizing, feeling a smile

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