The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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As part of settling in this morning, you might take a moment to reflect on your intention

to sense this, called the Choose Presence, and to sense the intention for kindness.

And beginning with our body as the domain of waking up awareness, kindness, you might

first sense a great sky around you and let that be filled with the curve of a smile.

Just visualizing that curve and sensing, it's spreading in our receptive, alive, awake way through the sky.

And letting that descend and fill the whole mind with a smile.

Just opening the mind, letting it be bright, warm, sensing the mind and the sky merging.

You can really feel that openness that we lose track of, and we're in our thoughts.

That smiling, great open sky of mind.

Letting the energy of that spread through the eyes through the brow.

You would intentionally soften that area.

You might feel the eyelids flickering a bit, invite the brow to be smooth.

Use the mood, the atmosphere of a smile, and the receptivity to the sensations.

You can bring that receptivity through the face by slightly smiling at the mouth, inside of the mouth smiling.

You may have waking up met her, eleven kindness through the body, sensing the receptivity sensations through the face, the inside of the mouth.

Let the tongue fill the lower palate, and relax down to the root of the tongue.

You feel the aliveness and ease that fills the mouth, the tongue, the gums, the teeth.

Sensing the curve, the smile at the throat.

So usually a lot of tightening in the throat, when there's tension, so just the smile makes room for that.

You can bring our awareness to that, and help to dissolve.

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