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the feeling of happiness and joyfulness, and when you breathe out, breathe out all your worries and negative feelings. Take a moment to let go of all responsibilities that relate to work, loved ones, family, studies, or anything else. Let everything go. Let your mind be joyful, relaxed and free from all worry. Then breathe normally. Relax every muscle in your body. Start to relax from the top of your head, down to your forehead. Relax the muscles in your face, your eyelids, your neck, and the muscles in your shoulders, your arms, down to the tips of your fingers. Relax the muscles of your back, your chest, your legs, down to the tips of your toes. Let every part of your body relax. Don't let any part of your body contract, tighten or become tense. Continue to relax until you feel that every part of your body and each cell in your body are completely relaxed. You are now in a state of complete relaxation, so that you can feel an emptiness, transparency, and lightness. Now, allow your mind to become joyful, cheerful, clear, pure and bright. Release, and let go. Empty your mind. Make your mind clear, pure and free from all thoughts. Imagine you are sitting alone in a vast, open space, full of freedom and peacefulness as if you never had any attachment in life, never had any problem, and had never known anyone before. Then imagine that your body has no organ. Suppose it is a tube, a hole, a hollow, like an inflated balloon, or like a crystal or diamond cylinder, bright and clear. Let it be an open space, empty, hollow inside. You may feel your body get lighter and lighter, as if it is weightless; gradually melting away and becoming one with the atmosphere around you. Let yourself enjoy this feeling of peacefulness. Now, bring your mind to focus to the centre of the body, in the middle of your abdomen, two fingers' width above the navel. If you are a new practitioner, do not worry too much about the exact point of the centre of the body. | 86