The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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In a few moments, I'll be offering the guided instructions as we often do.

But before that, I thought it would be helpful just to lay out the larger framework or map for

our instructions and practice, a real path of practice.

And the heart of the practice really is to relax or rest back into that awareness that's

always here that recognizes and allows this changing life to be reality.

And as a way to find our path to that, we have a number of different skillful means, our

ways of helping us arrive.

Some of the most basic that we offer here as part of practice to help us really see clearly

and open fully is to establish an anchor.

And an anchor, home base, they're all equal.

Whatever helps you to sustain a more steady presence serves.

And the most common is the breath.

And even within the breath, there are different places you can attend to the breath.

Some that inflow outflow at the nostrils, some that's the rising falling at the chest, the

expanding, deflating the belly, some for the whole body, just feeling the whole body breathing.

But for many people, the breath isn't the primary anchor, especially if there's been trauma.

An anchor might be the sensations in the hands, the feet are sound.

Sounds a good one for many people, not just when there's been trauma because different

anchors have different strengths.

And with sound, it creates more of an open quality, a more receptive presence.

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