Speaker 1: Now, let your breathing find its own rhythm, a rhythm
Speaker 1: that is a little slower than your waking rhythm, a
Speaker 1: rhythm that is a little deeper.
Speaker 2: Breathe in through your nose. Feel the air as it enters,
Speaker 2: cool the nostrils, cool in the throat, cool in the chest.
Speaker 2: Breathe out through your mouth softly, slowly, let the breath
Speaker 2: leave without effort. The illustration is beautiful. You look at
Speaker 2: it for a long time. You do not read the words.
Speaker 2: You do not need to. You put the book, look back,
Speaker 2: You walk on. There are reading desks in the library,
Speaker 2: long wooden desks with green shaded lamps. There are soft
Speaker 2: chairs beside some of the desks. The chairs are leather.
Speaker 2: The chairs are worn soft by years of readers sitting
Speaker 2: in them. You are almost there. You are at the door.
Speaker 2: The door of sleep is just ahead of you. The
Speaker 2: door is open. The door has been open all along.
Speaker 2: The door has been waiting for you to arrive. Through
Speaker 2: the door. There is only rest through the door. There
Speaker 2: is only the slow tide of the body letting go
Speaker 2: through the door. There is only the quiet dark, the
Speaker 2: safe dark, the kind dark you step through, not all
Speaker 2: at once.
Speaker 3: The feel the weight of your belly. Feel the warmth
Speaker 3: of your belly. The belly is the soft center of you.
Speaker 3: The belly is where you hold your feelings. Let it
Speaker 3: be soft tonight, Let it be safe. Feel your hips.
Speaker 3: Feel your hips heavy on the bed. Feel the bones
Speaker 3: of your pelvis resting into the mattress. Feel the lower
Speaker 3: back settling. Feel the small of your back lengthening. Now
Speaker 3: your legs.
Speaker 2: Let you mind find a number, any number. Let it
Speaker 2: be twenty. Breathe in, and as you breathe out, say
Speaker 2: the number to yourself, slowly, twenty. Breathe in, breathe out. Nineteen.
Speaker 2: Let the number carry you down. Each breath a number lower,
Speaker 2: each breath, a step closer to rest. Eighteen seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 2: Do not think about the numbers. Just let them pass.
Speaker 2: Let them be the rhythm of your breath.
Speaker 4: You do not need to solve anything tonight. You do
Speaker 4: not need to figure anything out. You do not need
Speaker 4: to plan, You do not need to worry. You only
Speaker 4: need to breathe. You only need to let go. Your
Speaker 4: body knows how to sleep. Your body has known since
Speaker 4: you were born. Your body remembers, Your body knows the way.
Speaker 4: Trust your body. Let your body lead. Your mind is
Speaker 4: allowed to wander.
Speaker 2: The book is closed. The book is waiting for someone
Speaker 2: to read it. But that someone does not need to
Speaker 2: be you. The room is for someone. The room is
Speaker 2: not for you tonight. You only need to see it,
Speaker 2: You only need to know it is there. You walk on,
Speaker 2: you come to another door. This one is also open.
Speaker 2: Through this door, you can see a sitting room. There
Speaker 2: is a fireplace. You are already arriving at rest. You
Speaker 2: can feel it, can't you. That small softening behind your eyes,
Speaker 2: The way your shoulders have already begun to drift lower
Speaker 2: on your back. The slow, almost imperceptible deepening of your breath.
Speaker 4: That is your.
Speaker 2: Body telling you something it has always known. That rest
Speaker 2: is not something you earn. Rest is something you allow.
Speaker 2: So allow it right here, right now. The dark is
Speaker 2: the kind of dark that wraps itself around you like
Speaker 2: a heavy blanket. You can see if you look the
Speaker 2: faintest suggestion of trees at the edge of the property.
Speaker 2: The trees are still. The trees are sleeping too. There
Speaker 2: is a clock in the room. The clock is not ticking.
Speaker 2: The clock is silent. Tonight. Time does not need to
Speaker 2: be measured. Tonight time will pass on its own without
Speaker 2: any help from us. The lamp has a soft fabric shade.
Speaker 2: The lamp is the kind of lamp that gives the
Speaker 2: kind of light you would want if you were reading
Speaker 2: a book late at night. But tonight, the lamp is
Speaker 2: off tonight. The only light in the room is the
Speaker 2: light from the window. The light from the window is
Speaker 2: the light of the moon. The room is quiet. The
Speaker 2: room is patient. The room is waiting for you to
Speaker 2: settle in.
Speaker 4: Breathe in two.
Speaker 2: Three four.
Speaker 4: Talk two three four, five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 5: Let the outbreds threat, then the outbread strike the stretched
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Speaker 5: wong four bead out des i've. The staircase is the
Speaker 5: spine of the house. The staircase connects all the rooms,
Speaker 5: all the floors, all the moments that have ever been
Speaker 5: lived here. At the end of the hallway you reach
Speaker 5: the window. The window is large, the window is tall.
Speaker 5: Through the window, you can see the garden. It is
Speaker 5: the same garden. It is always the same garden. The
Speaker 5: garden is the place you return to in.
Speaker 2: Dream after dream. You find yourself in a garden. The