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With your eyes closed, take some moments from the inside out to adjust your posture in

any way that might help you so that you're sitting and feeling tall, that there's an

upright quality, feeling a sense of balance. You might lean forward a little bit and then

backwards to the left, to the right, and just sense as you center that feeling of balance,

so a bright, balanced, and then allowing whatever muscles that want to relax, let it go.

Bring a gentle attention to the heart area. You sense the state of your heart right now.

It might be the first time you've checked in with your heart in recent history or maybe

not, but just notice without judgment if there's a numbness or if there's sensitivity, if there's

excitement or if there's fear, how awake your heart feels, tender, defended.

Maybe let that listening deepen so you can sense into what your heart is longing for,

is wanting right now. What brings you here in a deep way?

It brings you here to practice, to presence. And as you connect with some sense of that

sincerity, that prayerfulness or longing that feels deep, that feels true, you might gently

bring the palms together to establish that heart presence as we chant. We'll chant the simple

mantra Om, see, sound current of connectedness, carrying us into oneness, chant three times,

and we begin by inhaling deeply.

Om.

Aware of your body sitting here, your body breathing.

Consciously extending the breath so the in breath is full indeed.

And the out breath is slow, very slow, releasing, relaxing outward, letting go.

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