The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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I might let your attention really rest in the area of the heart, breathing in and out of your heart, sensing really what brings you here, what your intention is.

For coming to meditation practice, for the spiritual path, what is it that matters to you?

The invitation is to feel your own sincerity, what you care about.

It's from that caring and our shared aspiration that our practice of meditation might awaken these hearts in a way that really helps heal our world.

In this dullness, you might sense that you can soften your eyes, let your brow be smooth, let a sense of a smile spread through the eyes, as if the outer edges could be lifted slightly.

You just feel the softening that can happen in that region of the face.

A slight smile at the mouth, and since the inside of the mouth smiling, notice can you let the tongue fill the lower palate.

And can you relax the tongue down to the root, opening to the sensations that fill the mouth, gums the teeth, the lips, feeling the whole face, perhaps the light and dark at the eyes, the quivering, tingling, vibrating through the face.

The scalp and the skull, feeling inside the whole brain, face down to the neck, waking up, allowing the shoulders to fall away from the neck.

You can see if you can feel the shoulders from the inside out, sense that whatever tightness or tensions there can float a little in awareness, begin to untangle, soften,

you might even sense ice to water, melting, and water to gas, letting the hands rest in an easy, effortless way.

You might notice what happens if you intentionally soften the hands, and then soften again.

And see if you can feel from the inside out, the energy and aliveness that's there.

Let there be an openness to the chest, let the awareness fill the whole chest area so you can feel from the inside out the heart, whatever sensations, whatever energies there in the heart area, letting faith, letting everything float in awareness.

And scanning down the belly, letting this next breath be received in a softening belly, this breath, and now this one.

And again, letting the awareness fill the belly as you can feel from the inside out, the energy, the life, the whole abdominal area, the aware of inhabiting this body with awareness, letting that extend to the pelvic region,

feeling from the inside out, the aliveness and energy that's here.

The eyes are soft, smile at the mouth, hands are soft, and the chest is open, the belly is soft, the awakening through the whole torso,

where the legs, the length, volume, the weight, right into the feet, feeling the aliveness, tingling, vibrating in the feet.

And noticing what happens if you widen the lens now, and feel this body like an energy body, a field of sensation, and just let everything happen.

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