The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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A key portal to awakening presence, deepening presence is through the body, through being

awake from the inside out in the body.

You might let the awareness scan beginning in the region of the eyes, softening the

eyes.

You might sense the outer corners of the eyes slightly lifted as if in a smile, letting

the brow be smooth.

And feeling the sensations, the aliveness there, bringing a slight smile to the mouth,

and feeling the inside of the mouth smiling.

This image and felt sense of a smile helps to create a shift in the nervous system towards

ease.

It helps to increase the power sympathetic activity.

So there really can be more relaxation, more of an atmosphere of loving presence.

Fencing that slight smile and relaxing the tongue down to the root of the tongue, and

feeling the sensations, the aliveness, the awareness inside the mouth.

Fencing the shoulders relax back and down a bit, letting awareness fill the shoulders.

You can notice where there's tightness or tension or holding.

Just allow whatever is there to float in awareness, perhaps to untangle itself a bit.

Feeling the hands from the inside out, softening some, and just noticing the tingling, the

vibrating, the aliveness and awareness inside the hands.

Letting there be an openness in the chest, and you might smile into the heart since the

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