The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.

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I'm going to give you a chance to explore deepening truths with someone you value in a meditation.

To short meditation, I invite you to practice on your own and then practice in real life.

Again, someone you value, someone you'd like to nourish your relationship with by playing your edge more,

by taking off the mask, by being more real.

And to scan inside and sense where there might be some unspoken truth,

something that you, in some way, feel you've covered up that you're not sharing,

that might be creating a separation that maybe you're not even aware of some of the time.

Something that if you spoke might potentially bring more understanding and connection,

but it's scary, perhaps.

Take the moment as you do this to, and this is the self-honesty, the you turn to really feel inside you.

So what is the vulnerability?

What are the feelings that may be difficult to name out loud that are there that have been as yet not so well expressed?

Is it a feeling of your own self-aversion, feeling of insecurity?

Is it some anger and judgment that you've been carrying underneath that a sense of hurt?

What's there?

Is there an unmet need for more loving, for feeling respect, seeping seed?

Whatever you're noticing, first bring compassion and tenderness to it.

Making the you turn means contacting what's inside us with a real full and gentle kindness.

In my sense that you're your own high self or your future self,

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