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As you close your eyes, you might find the sitting posture that can best support you in two

qualities of presence. Being alert, which means you want to be sitting up pretty tall,

not slumped because that'll keep you wakeful and also relaxed at ease. So see, right from

the start if it's possible to just relax a bit more. In the stillness, let your attention

come to the heart area. And we begin with a very simple reflection of kind of listening

inward. Just to ask yourself what your deepest intention is and being here. What is it that

your heart longs for? What matters to you in this life?

And just listen inward and just to fuel the quality of sincerity that arises when you connect

with what you care about, whether it's becoming more present, more open-hearted, more trusting,

and we're able to be intimate with others, more self-aware, more aware of really who and what

you are. It's from that place of sincerity and care that we bring our voices together

as community. And you might bring the palms together very lightly at the heart, just

to fuel the quality of open-heartedness and tenderness as you chant the mantra,

ohm, which in three times. And see if you can let that chant come from the sincerity of your heart.

Please inhale deeply to begin.

Direct portals to presence and open-heartedness is through waking up through the body.

You can let the awareness sweep through the body, relaxing and opening.

You might start in the area of the brow, the region of the brow. Let the eyes soften and the

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