The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist, and author.

The direct way to wake up presence is through the gateway of the body, letting the awareness

gently scan through the body.

We begin by bringing awareness to the region of the eyes.

I'd like to invite you to soften your eyes.

You might imagine you could smile into your eyes, let the outer corners lift a bit.

This relax the flesh around the eyes, let the brow be smooth.

Then feel the sensations that live in that region, the tingling or vibrating, of the light

and darkness of the room.

In a similar way, you can bring a slight smile to the mouth, let the inside of the mouth

smile, let the tongue fill the lower palate, relaxing to the root of the tongue.

And just receive the sensations and aliveness that live throughout the mouth, the lips, the tongue, the gums.

You can imagine a smile spreading through the whole chest, the heart area, sense the

curve of a smile.

Then feel into the heart, the sensations and aliveness that's there, very receptive, open attention.

The eyes are smiling, mouth, the heart, allowing the shoulders to fall away from the ears, let

the awareness fill the shoulders so you can feel from the inside out the movement of energy

and perhaps the places that feel stuck or blocked.

That whatever feels tight or tense, float in awareness.

How the hands to rest in an easy and effortless way, let the hands fill with awareness so you

can feel them from the inside out, softening the hands, noticing the aliveness that's

there.

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