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<v Speaker 1>Now, let your breathing find its own rhythm, a rhythm

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<v Speaker 1>that is a little slower than your waking rhythm, a

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<v Speaker 1>rhythm that is a little deeper.

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<v Speaker 2>Breathe in through your nose. Feel the air as it enters,

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<v Speaker 2>cool the nostrils, cool in the throat, cool in the chest.

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<v Speaker 2>Breathe out through your mouth softly, slowly, let the breath

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<v Speaker 2>leave without effort. The illustration is beautiful. You look at

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<v Speaker 2>it for a long time. You do not read the words.

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<v Speaker 2>You do not need to. You put the book, look back,

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<v Speaker 2>You walk on. There are reading desks in the library,

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<v Speaker 2>long wooden desks with green shaded lamps. There are soft

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<v Speaker 2>chairs beside some of the desks. The chairs are leather.

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<v Speaker 2>The chairs are worn soft by years of readers sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in them. You are almost there. You are at the door.

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<v Speaker 2>The door of sleep is just ahead of you. The

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<v Speaker 2>door is open. The door has been open all along.

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<v Speaker 2>The door has been waiting for you to arrive. Through

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<v Speaker 2>the door. There is only rest through the door. There

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<v Speaker 2>is only the slow tide of the body letting go

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<v Speaker 2>through the door. There is only the quiet dark, the

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<v Speaker 2>safe dark, the kind dark you step through, not all

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<v Speaker 2>at once.

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<v Speaker 3>The feel the weight of your belly. Feel the warmth

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<v Speaker 3>of your belly. The belly is the soft center of you.

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<v Speaker 3>The belly is where you hold your feelings. Let it

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<v Speaker 3>be soft tonight, Let it be safe. Feel your hips.

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<v Speaker 3>Feel your hips heavy on the bed. Feel the bones

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<v Speaker 3>of your pelvis resting into the mattress. Feel the lower

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<v Speaker 3>back settling. Feel the small of your back lengthening. Now

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<v Speaker 3>your legs.

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<v Speaker 2>Let you mind find a number, any number. Let it

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<v Speaker 2>be twenty. Breathe in, and as you breathe out, say

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<v Speaker 2>the number to yourself, slowly, twenty. Breathe in, breathe out. Nineteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Let the number carry you down. Each breath a number lower,

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<v Speaker 2>each breath, a step closer to rest. Eighteen seventeen sixteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Do not think about the numbers. Just let them pass.

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<v Speaker 2>Let them be the rhythm of your breath.

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<v Speaker 4>You do not need to solve anything tonight. You do

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<v Speaker 4>not need to figure anything out. You do not need

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<v Speaker 4>to plan, You do not need to worry. You only

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<v Speaker 4>need to breathe. You only need to let go. Your

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<v Speaker 4>body knows how to sleep. Your body has known since

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<v Speaker 4>you were born. Your body remembers, Your body knows the way.

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<v Speaker 4>Trust your body. Let your body lead. Your mind is

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<v Speaker 4>allowed to wander.

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<v Speaker 2>The book is closed. The book is waiting for someone

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<v Speaker 2>to read it. But that someone does not need to

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<v Speaker 2>be you. The room is for someone. The room is

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<v Speaker 2>not for you tonight. You only need to see it,

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<v Speaker 2>You only need to know it is there. You walk on,

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<v Speaker 2>you come to another door. This one is also open.

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<v Speaker 2>Through this door, you can see a sitting room. There

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<v Speaker 2>is a fireplace. You are already arriving at rest. You

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<v Speaker 2>can feel it, can't you. That small softening behind your eyes,

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<v Speaker 2>The way your shoulders have already begun to drift lower

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<v Speaker 2>on your back. The slow, almost imperceptible deepening of your breath.

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<v Speaker 4>That is your.

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<v Speaker 2>Body telling you something it has always known. That rest

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<v Speaker 2>is not something you earn. Rest is something you allow.

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<v Speaker 2>So allow it right here, right now. The dark is

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<v Speaker 2>the kind of dark that wraps itself around you like

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<v Speaker 2>a heavy blanket. You can see if you look the

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<v Speaker 2>faintest suggestion of trees at the edge of the property.

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<v Speaker 2>The trees are still. The trees are sleeping too. There

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<v Speaker 2>is a clock in the room. The clock is not ticking.

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<v Speaker 2>The clock is silent. Tonight. Time does not need to

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<v Speaker 2>be measured. Tonight time will pass on its own without

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<v Speaker 2>any help from us. The lamp has a soft fabric shade.

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<v Speaker 2>The lamp is the kind of lamp that gives the

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<v Speaker 2>kind of light you would want if you were reading

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<v Speaker 2>a book late at night. But tonight, the lamp is

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<v Speaker 2>off tonight. The only light in the room is the

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<v Speaker 2>light from the window. The light from the window is

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<v Speaker 2>the light of the moon. The room is quiet. The

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<v Speaker 2>room is patient. The room is waiting for you to

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<v Speaker 2>settle in.

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<v Speaker 4>Breathe in two.

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<v Speaker 2>Three four.

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<v Speaker 4>Talk two three four, five, six, seven eight.

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<v Speaker 5>Let the outbreds threat, then the outbread strike the stretched

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<v Speaker 5>by one count TITSI long not forcing juice doth o

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<v Speaker 5>wong four bead out des i've. The staircase is the

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<v Speaker 5>spine of the house. The staircase connects all the rooms,

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<v Speaker 5>all the floors, all the moments that have ever been

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<v Speaker 5>lived here. At the end of the hallway you reach

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<v Speaker 5>the window. The window is large, the window is tall.

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<v Speaker 5>Through the window, you can see the garden. It is

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<v Speaker 5>the same garden. It is always the same garden. The

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<v Speaker 5>garden is the place you return to in.

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<v Speaker 2>Dream after dream. You find yourself in a garden. The