The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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This meditation is called Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath.

And as a way to begin, I invite you to simply listen to the sounds around you, listening

to the words that you're hearing and also the spaces between them.

Listening not just with your ears but with your whole awareness in a global sort of way.

And then with that same receptivity of listening, listen to and feel the aliveness inside your body.

As you do that, you might sense what wants to let go right now.

And then you might feel the aliveness and sense it if it's possible to let go a little

wherever there's obvious tension or tightness.

And with the same receptivity, we'll gently scan the body with a relaxed awareness, just noticing the life in the body.

And we begin with the brow and the eyes and invite you to explore softening your eyes.

You can even sense the outer corners of the eyes slightly lifted as if you're smiling into the eyes.

And let the brow be smooth.

And with that receptive listening presence, just sense the aliveness in the whole region of the brow.

Perhaps tingling or vibrating.

Or maybe there's a flickering of light at the lids.

In the same way, bringing a receptive presence to the area of the mouth.

And you might bring a slight smile to the lips.

And sense the inside of the mouth smiling.

Letting the tongue spread to a lower palate.

Relaxing the tongue down to the root.

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