The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Become aware of your breathing and let yourself feel the breath in the area of the heart.

And you'll notice that helps you listen more deeply to the heart, feeling the energy, the felt sense, and the region of the heart.

Taking these moments to reflect on what your heart's intention is for practicing meditation right now.

What calls you?

And whether you've never reflected on this before or you've done this hundreds of times, since fresh and with sincerity, what is it that most matters to you?

What really matters?

In the stillness, you might begin to let the awareness scan through your body, sensing where it's natural and easy to let go of it.

You might soften the eyes and let the brow be smooth, letting the eyes float like orbs in a pool of water.

Perhaps feeling a slight smile at the lips, then master Tick-Nat-Hon calls this smile yoga because it sends our nervous system a message to let go of the fight-flight freeze reaction to rest in more comfort and ease.

It's a slight smile.

Eyes soft.

You might let the shoulders fall away from the neck.

And see if you can feel from the inside out, the energy, the sensations and the shoulders.

You might sense the possibility of a dissolving, of ice melting to water.

See if you can feel that, a kind of melting, ice to water, and then water to gas, letting whatever feelings that remain of any tightness or tension float in awareness.

Allowing the hands to rest in a very easy and effortless way.

You might soften the hands and feel them from the inside.

Softening the hands.

See if you can detect the tingling and vibrating, the movement and aliveness of energy inside the hands.

Let there be an openness at the chest.

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