The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Please find a comfortable way to sit.

A quiet place where you can settle yourself.

You might close your eyes.

With your eyes closed, take some moments to adjust your posture, making any subtle movement

that will bring into a way of sitting that allows you to be alert and relaxed.

Feel yourself sitting here on this earth.

You might feel a sense of the weight of your body, a sense of gravity.

There's a kind of belonging to the earth.

You might imagine yourself as a great mountain, stable, steady, enduring changing weather

with nobility and strength.

Please become aware of your breathing.

You might extend your breath now so that with the in-breath, you can count to five.

Inhale in one, two, three, four, five.

I'm feeling that fullness exhaling.

Again, one, two, three, four, five.

And inhaling deeply, filling the chest and lungs.

Counting for yourself a smooth in-breath.

And then with the out-breath, a sense of letting go.

See if you can release whatever tensions you're carrying, relaxing and letting go.

Again, breathing in, filling the chest and lungs.

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