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Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing

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Now, let's explore together

the many ways we can live

from the love and presence that's our deepest essence.

Namaste.

Namaste. I thought we'd have a very brief reflection that is called the power of the sacred pause.

And many of you are familiar with that beautiful line from the poet Dorothy Postalate, she writes,

create a clearing in the dense forest of your life.

So we begin with this and you can begin by wherever you are,

bringing attention to your body, start by noticing your posture, and then make the subtle

adjustments are maybe not so subtle that will bring you into a way of sitting where you're

feeling upright and alert. You just sit a little taller maybe

and also at ease, relaxed. And you might close your eyes or lower your gaze so you can

turn your attention inward and really notice that

uprightness and at ease in the body. And to collect the attention, we breathe together now.

You might take a long, deep in breath, and then a very slow-out breath so that as you release

the breath you feel a letting go. Good. And another breath, deep, full in breath. And then hold for a moment feel the fullness and then with that out-breath

the sense of letting go maybe a loosening softening in the shoulders softening down

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