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Let your attention gently scan through your body and just notice if there's any part of your

body that might want to relax a little more. Let go a little more.

You might sense that you can let go and soften a little on the shoulders.

Let the hands rest in an easy, effortless way, softening the hands.

Letting the chest be open. The belly relaxed. Letting this next breath be received in a softening

belly. This breath.

Now this one.

And again.

The wear of the contact points, the places of pressure or warmth, where you're sitting on your cushion or chair,

where your hands contact your legs or each other. The feet touch the floor.

And then widening the attention. So you can feel this whole body, this energy body,

as a dance of sensation,

relaxing with the moment to moment experience of aliveness.

See if you can feel this whole energy body simultaneously,

the field of aliveness.

Discovering in the midst of this field of aliveness, the simple movement of the breath,

the inflow and outflow of the breath.

Notice where the breath is most easy to detect.

Perhaps where the breath feels most pleasant.

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