The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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The guidance for sitting posture is really whatever best serves you for sitting upright.

So sitting tall, that just helps you to be wakeful and alert and also at ease.

You can relax right from the get-go, a little bit of letting go.

Bring the attention to the breath and in a very simple way, breathing in a nice long, full breath.

Breathing out slowly, matching the length of the breath, the exhale and the inhale.

She's breathing out slowly.

Without any pause, again, breathing in.

It's kind of like six counts in, six counts out, relaxing and breathing.

Then letting the breath be natural and letting the attention come to the area of the heart.

Just noticing the state of your heart right now.

That any judgment, taking some moments to bring an intimate attention, sensing what mood is here.

As you listen to and feel the heart area, you might notice whatever you sense is your deepest

intention for being here right now.

This is the inquiry into what really matters.

If you can connect with your sincerity about presence, about waking up your heart and your being.

One of the direct pathways to awakening is through bringing a very alive presence to the life of the body.

We're engaged presence.

I'd like to invite you to begin by feeling the region of the eyes.

You might let that sense of a smile spread through the eyes.

The outer corners are uplifted a bit.

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