The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Let's start with a practice.

I invite you wherever you are to adjust how you're sitting, what posture you're in, in

any way that allows you to feel awake and at ease.

Once you find the posture that serves you, settle in, invite yourself into presence, and

that might mean that you close your eyes or lower your gaze.

Feel your intention right from the start to relate to whatever arises in your inner life with

the quality of kindness, a kind presence.

Just notice what happens when you sense right in this moment that that's the intention.

With that in mind, you might collect your attention sum with the breath.

You might feel the breath as it comes in and lengthen the breath, perhaps counting to

five.

So it's a long, full and breath, and then matching it with an exhale at five counts,

a sense of letting go.

Again a slow, long, deep, in breath, opening to receive the breath, and with the out breath,

slow, releasing, aware of the sensations of letting go.

Again, breathing in, filling the chest, the lungs, and then that slow out breath, really

feeling the release of the sensations, letting go, letting go.

One more time, inhaling deeply, and feeling a real presence with the out breath, releasing,

letting go, and then allowing the breath to come back into its natural rhythm, noticing

the quality of presence that even in a few moments can become stronger.

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