The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Feeling the movement of the breath and letting yourself bring your attention to the heart area.

Sometimes it helps to imagine and sense your breath coming in and out of the heart.

There's an inquiry that is invaluable when we're practicing and it's invaluable in life.

That is what is that really most matters to me.

What is it I really want from meditation?

What is my heart long for?

Take your time as you reflect on this to feel what's most sincere.

It takes some presence to really contact what matters to us.

It's kind of if you were at the end of your life looking back, what would it mean to have these moments really be lived in a way that was true to you?

How do you want to be?

What are the qualities of your being that you most want to manifest live from?

As we begin to sense what matters to us in our own individual language, we can also sense our shared prayer that our practice awakens our heart in a way that can touch other people and ripple out and bring healing to our world.

In the stillness you might gently begin to scan through the body letting your awareness wake up through your body.

It helps to fuel the area of the eyes and soften the eyes.

When we're thinking a lot the brow tends to get tight all those little micro muscles tighten.

So let the brow be smooth, the eyes soft.

You might even sense your smiling into the eyes letting the outer corners lift a little.

And just notice the sensations that you can receive and perceive in that area.

In a similar way you might have a slight smile at the mouth.

Let the jaw be unhinged. Let the tongue fill lower palate.

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