The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Take some moments to find a comfortable posture where you're awake and alert and that usually means sitting upright, but also at ease sensing whatever parts of you that can relax, letting them relax.

Closing your eyes and taking some moments to settle in this way.

Become aware of this body breathing, extending the breath, taking a nice deep long in breath,

and a slow out breath that allows you to release, to relax with the letting go.

And again, a nice full deep in breath,

and a slow, even out breath, releasing, letting go, letting go.

And once more, inhaling deep, full breath.

And with that slow out breath, you might sense you could soften down the length of your body, letting go, letting go.

And then as you allow the breath to come back to its normal rhythm, you might feel whatever presence has emerged just through these few moments.

And from that present, sense your intention for this meditation.

Perhaps for being here, awake, kind, meeting whatever arises with presence and care.

We begin as we sometimes do with the image and felt sense of a smile. You might feel the reach of your eyes and let that smile spread through the eyes.

Because that the eyes can soften, the brow becomes smooth, bringing a slight smile to the lips.

And imagine and sense the experience of a smile filling the mouth.

And if you can relax the tongue letting the tongue fill the lower palate, and relaxing right down to the root of the tongue,

becoming aware of the sensation, the tongue, the tongue's teeth, lips, letting that sensitivity to aliveness spread through the face, bringing some ease to all the micro muscles used to maintain and expression, just relaxing.

You might allow the shoulders to relax back and down some, let the awareness fill the shoulders, inviting that kind of dissolving from ice to water and melting.

And then water to gas.

From the inside out, sensitive to the movement of energy, to any areas of tightness, tension, flow, just letting whatever's there float in awareness.

A gentle, intimate presence,

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