The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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So please, if you will, close your eyes and with your eyes closed, adjust your posture

so that you find your way into sitting upright.

There's a quality of sitting tall and alert.

And then notice what you can relax in the posture.

And then, we want the sitting posture to support the inner qualities of being awake and at ease.

Let's breathe together, collecting the tension, inhaling deeply, more of a fullness to the in breath than normal.

Breathing in.

And a slow out breath. Slow, slow release. Letting go. Letting go.

And then again, inhaling deeply, filling the chest and lungs.

You might even hold for a moment to feel the fullness, the chest open, the shoulders back.

And then a slow out breath. Slow enough so you can feel the sensations of releasing the breath.

And inhaling again.

Filling the lungs and then a slow out breath, softening down the length of the body, releasing. Letting go.

Letting go. And then allowing the breath to resume its natural rhythm.

And sense the quality of presence with the breath, allowing intimate awake.

Letting this presence include whatever experience you're having in the heart, whatever mood, whatever the state of the heart is right now.

If you're connecting with yourself, taking a few moments to come home to what's going on inside you.

The attention at the heart, sensing what your intention is for tonight.

This is a listening in with the quality of real sincerity, touching what matters to you, recognizing what matters.

Letting what matters in form your evening.

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