This is one meditation I’ve developed, which I will guide you through: Feel down here, a little bit above the navel – you’ll find the right place. Centre yourself there, in feeling. Observe the breathing, in the sense of the expansion and contraction of the outer part of the body, as if it were a balloon. The body just breathes as it wants to, regardless of how you think it ought to breathe. Just observe this expansion and contraction for a few minutes… You see it has a very calming effect. We are becoming quite peaceful… Just this gentle movement, this comfortable gentle movement… Again, look
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