The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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please visit tarabrock.com. As you come into stillness, let your attention go to the area of the heart, and you might feel the breath there as you breathe in and out.

And listen to your heart.

Feel your heart.

And ask what your deep intention is

for meditating right now, for practice tonight.

What draws you?

What's your heart's longing?

As you sense what's important to you, feel your sincerity, the kind of purity of your intention. In the stillness, gently scan through your body and notice what might want to let go right now,

where there might be unnecessary quenching or tightness

or tension. And then scanning more slowly, you might feel the eyes and soften your eyes.

You might sense the smile spreading through the eyes, lifting the outer corners,

and let the brow be smooth.

Notice the sensations that arise as you soften in that area,

tingling, vibrating.

You might feel a slight smile at the mouth and let the inside of the mouth smile.

The second. and let the inside of the mouth smile.

This actually sends a message to the nervous system to quiet, fight, flight, freeze.

And genders a sense of ease and well-being.

Letting the tongue fill the lower palate, and see if you can relax down to the root of the tongue.

Feeling the aliveness and tingling in the tongue, the gums, the teeth, the lips.

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