The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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So this class really we've been exploring how do we wake up from the interpretive world?

We ask the questions that can get us into our body, into our senses, challenge and destabilize the old beliefs.

Begin to sense what's really going on inside us.

That phrase, Ehipasiko, it's the only way through this kind of common find out for yourself that we can start to trust the awareness and the love and the goodness of our being.

It has to be through our own inquiry, our own attention inside.

So I'd like to close with a final practice where you have a chance to kind of work with a stuck place and just try out some of these questions and see how it goes for you.

Knowing that when you have more time and you're on your own, this can be something that's really juicy for you.

Okay, so again, closing your eyes, sitting in a way that allows you to feel awake and relaxed.

And scanning through your life right now, and noticing if there's a situation, a place in your life where you're feeling stuck, where you keep kind of reacting in the same way, encourage you not to pick something that you feel is laced with trauma because you won't serve you as a way of exploring for this time.

So in some place where you feel stuck and you keep reacting with feelings of hurt or irritation, anxiety, embarrassment.

And as you bring a situation to mind, you might sense what your most obvious reaction is that you feel isn't so healthy or you wish you could in some way heal or wake up from the anger or the fear or whatever it is.

Because we begin, we'll use the acronym RAIN as a way to explore this just to recognize what's happening.

Recognize, okay, this is anger, judgment, blame, whatever it is, and allow it.

Allowing it means you're just letting it be there, you're not trying to fix it or change it right now, giving it some space.

And sensing your sincerity as we begin to investigate a little what's happening inside you.

And you might notice if there's, when this is going on, if you're living with some belief, and this is the part where we're shining a light of awareness on the mind, we're looking and saying, oh, is there some belief going on?

Like, oh, you'll never be good enough or you're unlovable or too selfish or some way failing.

There's some belief that you can shine the light of awareness on right now.

There might be, there might not be, but just see. That's the first question. What am I believing?

Because when we're suffering, generally we're believing something that's not true and that's limiting.

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