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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Mm-mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm. Okay, so we're going to be moving into our meditation, and especially if you're new, begin by checking your sitting posture.

You might close your eyes and with your eyes closed begin and adjusting of your

posture so that you might sense instead of sitting and leaning forward or leaning back and you can actually play with that coming

into a balance of sitting upright sitting tall for, it's actually helpful not to lean against the chair, but rather feel

that uprightness as if your tailbone could go deep into the earth with roots,

and then your spine rising up like a tree to the heavens, sitting tall, and then notice the possibility of relaxing with that

tallness.

So you let your shoulders be loose, your hands soft.

And take a nice full breath. and another.

and let your attention come gently to the heart area.

Just feel a quality of presence of being right here and you might ask yourself what your intention is

for practicing right now for meditating right now.

What is it your heart longs for. We open our time together as community and it's really a global community.

Just to feel that shared heart aspiration for awakening,

for freedom. You might bring the palms together as a way of centering at the heart and

we'll chant the simple mantra, Ohm, which is a sound current of connectedness.

We'll chant it three times. a sound current current of connectedness.

We'll turn it three times.

We'll begin by taking a nice deep in breath. Oh. Oh, Ah. Oh. Oh. As you relax your hands down again, feel the sitting posture, this body breathing. and feeling the body from the inside out will just scan down the body waking up our attention. You might let the eyes be very soft. Let the brow

be smooth. Just allow yourself to feel the tingling and vibrating and aliveness in that region of the face.

Perhaps the sparkling of light and dark at the eyelids.

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