Day 9 - Expanding Your Awareness Every Day When I let go of what I am I become what I might be Lao Tzu The nature of life is to grow and expand in happiness love and fulfillment However faced with the reality of everyday stress our awareness tends to contract into a defensive posture of anxiety fear and fatigue Today we see that in the quiet stillness of meditation we release the accumulated stress that weighs us down and become free to expand into our natural states of love joy and creativity