The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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In the quietness, how many more fully into presence by bringing attention into the body?

And you might begin by just sensing the eyes, letting your eyes soften, letting the brow

be smooth. It's almost like you allow a smile to spread through the eyes, lifting the corners

of the eyes slightly. So there's a receptivity and a softness there.

Again with that image of a smile, you might sense a smile at the mouth. Very slight but

real smile there. The inside of the mouth smiling.

Tiktokhan as Zen Buddhist teacher describes as a smile yoga. Because with a smile it actually

activates the nerves in a way that we move from fight flight freeze into more of the

attend and befriend. Just sense that friendly attitude towards your experience.

You might feel the shoulders and let them fall away a bit from the neck.

Bringing the awareness inside the shoulders. Perhaps sensing a melting or dissolving ice

to water. Just kind of letting go. Ice to water and water to gas.

Feeling the shoulders from the inside out and sensing the movement and aliveness of

sensation there. Feeling the arms, the volume, the length of the arms. Extending into the

hands. See if you can let the hands rest in a very easy and effortless way.

Softening the hands. And feeling them from the inside out.

What do you notice as you maybe soften even more. And feel the life of the hands from

the inside out. Letting there be an openness at the chest. Again feeling the chest from

the inside out. The awareness inside the chest. Just being aware of the sensations and

spaces that are there. And then scanning down, feeling the belly and letting the next

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