The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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I'd like to invite you to find a posture, most likely sitting, it could be standing or lying down,

but a posture that allows you to be really relaxed and yet wakeful.

So take some moments to set yourself and once you're in that posture to close your eyes and

and then again make whatever subtle adjustments that allow you to feel most balanced than it is.

As you settle now, take some moments to sense your intention for this practice, your intention

towards presence, first being right here, awake, open, relating with kindness to your inner experience.

And in that spirit of relating with a gentle heart, you might visualize the image of a smile

and sense wide open space, a great sky, a great blue endless sky and that that smile is spreading

through the sky. And then allow your mind to merge with that great sky and sense a smile filling

your mind, feeling the uplift of that, the receptivity of a smile.

And as you do, you might soften your eyes and sense a smile spreading through your eyes,

lifting up the outer edges of your eyes, let the brow be smooth.

And just feel the openness, the tingling, vibrating in that whole region of the eyes,

perhaps a sense of flickering of light and dark.

You're becoming more sensitive, more here.

You might bring a slight smile to the mouth and see if you can feel the inside of the mouth smiling.

And let the tongue fill the lower palate,

relaxing right down to the root of the tongue, widening the attentions.

You can feel your whole mouth filled with sensation, the gums, teeth, tongue, lips,

letting that awareness spread through the whole face,

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