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<v Speaker 1>Welcome.

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<v Speaker 2>I am glad you here to night. We are going

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<v Speaker 2>to practice something profound together. We are going to practice

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<v Speaker 2>the art of letting go. Not the kind of letting

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<v Speaker 2>go that comes from exhaustion or frustration, not the kind

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<v Speaker 2>that feels like giving up, but the kind that comes

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<v Speaker 2>from wisdom, the kind that comes from understanding that some

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<v Speaker 2>things were never meant to be carried forever. You have

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<v Speaker 2>arrived at this moment, and that alone is an act

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<v Speaker 2>of courage.

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<v Speaker 1>Perhaps your day was long, Perhaps your mind has been

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<v Speaker 1>spinning with worries or regrets. Perhaps there is something heavy

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<v Speaker 1>sitting in your chest right now, something you have been

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<v Speaker 1>holding so tightly that you have forgotten what your hands

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<v Speaker 1>feel like when they are open. Whatever you brought with

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<v Speaker 1>you to night, you are welcome here. There is nothing

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<v Speaker 1>to fix in this moment. There is only something to release.

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<v Speaker 1>So let us begin. Find a position that feels right

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<v Speaker 1>for you. You might be lying down with your arms resting

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<v Speaker 1>giunti etu sites. You might be seated with your hands

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<v Speaker 1>on your knees.

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<v Speaker 2>You might be reclined with a pillow beneath your head

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<v Speaker 2>and a blanket over your legs. Whatever feels most natural,

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<v Speaker 2>most open more supported. There is no wrong way to

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<v Speaker 2>be here right now. Close your eyes when you are ready,

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<v Speaker 2>not tightly, not with force. Just let your eyelids grow heavy,

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<v Speaker 2>like two small birds settling on our branch at dusk.

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<v Speaker 2>And as they close, let the room around yourself and

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<v Speaker 2>let the edges of everything blur and fade. Let the

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<v Speaker 2>sounds of the wild outside your door become distant, like

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<v Speaker 2>waves crashing on a shore miles away. You are safe here.

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<v Speaker 1>This is your time, and for the next fifty minutes

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<v Speaker 1>there is nowhere else you need to be, nothing else

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<v Speaker 1>you need to do.

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<v Speaker 3>Just this.

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<v Speaker 2>Just breath, just you take a slow breath in through

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<v Speaker 2>your nice feel the cool air pass your nostrils, and

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<v Speaker 2>feel your lungs, not deeply, not forcefully, just naturally, as

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<v Speaker 2>if your body already knows exactly how much air it needs,

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<v Speaker 2>because it does. Your body has been breathing since the

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<v Speaker 2>moment you were born, and it has never once forgotten how.

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<v Speaker 2>And now let it go. Let it fall out through

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<v Speaker 2>your mouth like a sigh you have been saving all day.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel your shoulders drop with it, Feel your jaw loosen,

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<v Speaker 2>Feel the muscles around your eyes soften, Feel the tiny

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<v Speaker 2>muscles in your forehead, smooth out the ones you did

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<v Speaker 2>not even know were clenched again. Breathe in slowly. Feel

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<v Speaker 2>your ribs expand outward like a bellow's filling with wind.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel the stretch in your intercostal muscles, the ones that

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<v Speaker 2>live between your ribs, that open and close like tiny

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<v Speaker 2>hands making room for the air. Hold it for just

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<v Speaker 2>a moment and release let it go completely. Feel the

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<v Speaker 2>weight of your body pressing into whatever supports you beneath.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel gravity doing its work, holding you so you do

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<v Speaker 2>not have to one more time. In through the nose,

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<v Speaker 2>steady and unhurried, and out through the mouth, letting everything

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<v Speaker 2>dissolve with the exhale. Let the sound of your own

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<v Speaker 2>breath become a kind of music, a rhythm without melody,

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<v Speaker 2>a pulse without urgency. Now, let your breathing return to

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<v Speaker 2>its own rhythm. You do not need to control it,

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<v Speaker 2>just observe it.

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<v Speaker 1>Notice how your chest rises and falls like the surface

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<v Speaker 1>of a calm lake touched by a gentle breeze. Notice

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<v Speaker 1>how your pelly softens and expands with each cycle. There

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<v Speaker 1>is a wisdom in this rhythm that is older than thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Trust it. Bring your attention to the points where your

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<v Speaker 2>body touches the ground, the back of your head, your

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<v Speaker 2>shoulder blades, the weight of your hips, the soles of

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<v Speaker 2>your feet if you are laying down. These are your

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<v Speaker 2>anchors to night, these points of contact between you and

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<v Speaker 2>the earth. They remind you that you are held, that

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<v Speaker 2>you are supported, that you do not need to hold

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<v Speaker 2>yourself up. Right now. Feel the texture of whatever is

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<v Speaker 2>beneath you. Is it soft, fur, warm, cool? Notice these

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<v Speaker 2>small details. They pull you into the present moment, away

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<v Speaker 2>from the spinning wheel of your thoughts, and into the

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<v Speaker 2>solid reality of noun. And with each breath, feel yourself settling,

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<v Speaker 2>the sediment drifting to the bottom of a glass of water, slowly, gently,

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<v Speaker 2>until the water above begins clear, until your mind begins

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<v Speaker 2>to quiet, until all that remains is this stillness, this breath,

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<v Speaker 2>this moment. You are here, you are present, and from

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<v Speaker 2>this place of stillness we can begin. I want you

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<v Speaker 2>to imagine now that you are standing in the edge

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<v Speaker 2>of a forest. Not a dark or threatening forest. This

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<v Speaker 2>is a place of extraordinary beauty and peace, the kind

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<v Speaker 2>of forest that exists in the space between waking and dreaming,

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<v Speaker 2>where the light is golden and the air is thick

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<v Speaker 2>with the scent of pine and wild flowers. Feel the

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<v Speaker 2>ground beneath your feet. It is soft with moss and

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<v Speaker 2>fallen leaves. The earth is cool and yielding, conforming to

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<v Speaker 2>the shape of your bare feet. You can feel the

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<v Speaker 2>gentle puls of the forest floor, as if the earth

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<v Speaker 2>itself is breathing just below the surface.

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<v Speaker 4>Press your toes into the moss and feel how it

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<v Speaker 4>squishes slightly, springing in alive, like a living carpet woven

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<v Speaker 4>from a thousand tiny plants. Look up through the cannypy above.

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<v Speaker 4>Shafts of warm light pour down like liquid gold, dappling

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<v Speaker 4>the path ahead in patches of amber and green. The

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<v Speaker 4>light moves slowly, swaying with the branches, creeding patterns that

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<v Speaker 4>shift and dance across the forest floor like the surface

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<v Speaker 4>of a river seen from below.

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<v Speaker 2>A butterfly passes through one of these shafts, its wings

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<v Speaker 2>catching the light for a brilliant instant before it disappears

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<v Speaker 2>into shadow. Listen. The forest is alive with sound, but

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<v Speaker 2>it is not noisy. A bird calls somewhere in the distance,

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<v Speaker 2>a clear bell like note that echoes through the trees

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<v Speaker 2>and then fades into silence. Another answers further away. Their

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<v Speaker 2>voice is weaving in conversation you cannot understand, but whose

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<v Speaker 2>beauty you can feel. There is the rustle of small

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<v Speaker 2>creatures moving through the underbrush, a squirrel perhaps, or a

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<v Speaker 2>rabbit going above its evening business. And beneath all of

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<v Speaker 2>this the deep, steady hum of the forest itself, the

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<v Speaker 2>sound of ten thousand leaves breathing together in the wind.

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<v Speaker 2>The air is warm against your skin, almost exactly the

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<v Speaker 2>temperature of your own body, so that for a moment

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<v Speaker 2>the boundary between you and the forest seems to dissolve.

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<v Speaker 2>Carries the sweetness of wildflowers, the earthiness of damp soil,

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<v Speaker 2>the clean freshness of cedar. Each breath fills you with

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<v Speaker 2>the life of this place. With each in hell, you

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<v Speaker 2>draw in the vitality of the forest. With each exhale,

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<v Speaker 2>you release a little more of the tension you brought

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<v Speaker 2>with you. There is a path ahead. It winds gently

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<v Speaker 2>between the trees, disappearing around a bend where the light

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<v Speaker 2>is brightest. You feel drawn to follow it, not with urgency,

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<v Speaker 2>but with a quiet curiosity of someone who knows that

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<v Speaker 2>this path leads somewhere important. Begin to walk, feel the

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<v Speaker 2>soft ground beneath each step, The moss compresses gently under

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<v Speaker 2>your weight and springs back when you lift your foot.

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<v Speaker 2>The path is easy, well warned by countless travelers before you.

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<v Speaker 2>You are not the first person to walk this way,

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<v Speaker 2>and you will not be the last. There is comfort

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<v Speaker 2>in that knowing that others have walked the same path

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<v Speaker 2>and found what they needed. As you walk, notice how

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<v Speaker 2>the light shifts around you. It warms the side of

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<v Speaker 2>your face as you round a curve, it cools as

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<v Speaker 2>you pass beneath the depigt canopy of oak leaves. The

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<v Speaker 2>temperature of the air changes with each step, a constant,

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<v Speaker 2>gentle conversation between warmth and coolness that keeps your senses

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<v Speaker 2>alive and present. Your feet make almost no sound on

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<v Speaker 2>the soft earth. You are walking lightly, as if the

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<v Speaker 2>forest is absorbing your footsteps the way a sponge absorbs water.

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<v Speaker 2>You walk deeper into the forest, the sounds of the

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<v Speaker 2>outside world fade further away. The weight of your responsibilities,

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<v Speaker 2>your worries, your plans. They all begin to feel lighter,

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<v Speaker 2>not because they have disappeared, because the forest is teaching

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<v Speaker 2>your body something your mind has forgotten. That you can

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<v Speaker 2>put things down that you can derest that the earth

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<v Speaker 2>will hold you even when you stop holding yourself. The

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<v Speaker 2>path opens ahead of you, and you see that it

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<v Speaker 2>leads to a clearing, a wide, sunlit space in the

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<v Speaker 2>heart of the forest, carpeted with soft grass and ringed

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<v Speaker 2>by ancient trees whose branches form a cathedral ceiling.

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<v Speaker 4>Above.

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<v Speaker 2>In the center of the clearing, there is a single stone,

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<v Speaker 2>flat and broad, warmed by the sun, inviting you to seek.

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<v Speaker 2>This is the place where we will do our deepest

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<v Speaker 2>work to it. Walk to the stone and sit down.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel its warm through your clothing. It's solidity beneath you.

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<v Speaker 2>You are grounded, You are centered. You are exactly where

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<v Speaker 2>you need to be now, in this place of safety

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<v Speaker 2>and stillness, I want you to turn your attention inward,

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<v Speaker 2>not to your thoughts, but to your body, specifically to

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<v Speaker 2>the places where you feel weight. Will you feel tension?

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<v Speaker 2>Will you feel the accumulation of everything you have been carrying?

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<v Speaker 2>Perhaps it is in your shoulders, those two mountains of

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<v Speaker 2>muscles that hunch upward toward your ears when you are stressed,

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<v Speaker 2>that not untighten when you hold the phone to your

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<v Speaker 2>ear or lean over a screen, feel them now, feel

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<v Speaker 2>the tensions stored there, thick and dense, like rope that

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<v Speaker 2>has been twisted too Tightly, Roll your shoulders slowly, feel

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<v Speaker 2>the knots. Name them if you can. Perhaps it is

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<v Speaker 2>in your chest, that tightness just behind your sternum that

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<v Speaker 2>comes when you are worried about some one you love,

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<v Speaker 2>or when you are carrying a disappointment you have not

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<v Speaker 2>yet spoken aloud.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel it now.

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<v Speaker 2>It might feel like a stone sitting on your heart,

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<v Speaker 2>or a hand pressing gently but persistently against your breastbone.

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<v Speaker 2>Breathe into it, Let the breath touch the place that hurts.

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<v Speaker 2>Perhaps it is in your stomach, that churning, noted feeling

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<v Speaker 2>that comes from anxiety or uncertainty, from decisions not yet made,

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<v Speaker 2>from conversations not yet had. Feel it now, Notice its shape,

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<v Speaker 2>its texture, its temperature. Is it hot cold? Does it

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<v Speaker 2>pulse or say it still? Does it move when you breathe,

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<v Speaker 2>or is it frozen in place? Perhaps it is in

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<v Speaker 2>your lower back, that deep, aching tension that builds over

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<v Speaker 2>days and weeks of carrying the weight of your life,

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<v Speaker 2>the weight of being needed, the weight of being strong

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<v Speaker 2>for others. Feel it now, Feel how it wraps around

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<v Speaker 2>your spine. Like a vine, gripping tightly, making each small

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<v Speaker 2>movement and negotiation between comfort and pain. Perhaps it is

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<v Speaker 2>behind your eyes, that dull pressure that comes from staring

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<v Speaker 2>at screens, from processing information all day, from trying to

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<v Speaker 2>make sense of a world that often does not make sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Feel it now. Let your eyeballs rest deep in their sockets,

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<v Speaker 2>Let the muscles around them go soft. Wherever you carry

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<v Speaker 2>your weight tonight, acknowledge it, not with frustration, not with judgment,

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<v Speaker 2>just with the simple recognition.

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<v Speaker 5>Of what is true. You have been carrying this and

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<v Speaker 5>it has been heavy. Take a moment now to give

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<v Speaker 5>a name to what you have been holding. You do

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<v Speaker 5>not need to set it aloud, You do not need

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<v Speaker 5>to explain it to anyone. Just let it rise to

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<v Speaker 5>the surface. If you're awar in the sucker bubble rising

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<v Speaker 5>through deep water, naywick quietly in your mind. There it

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<v Speaker 5>is the thing you have been carrying, the worry, the grief,

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<v Speaker 5>the fear, the regret, the anger, the uncertainty. It has

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<v Speaker 5>a shape.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, it has a.

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<v Speaker 6>Weight, and in this forest, in this clearing, in this

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<v Speaker 6>moment of total presence, you can see it clearly for

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<v Speaker 5>You have been carrying this.

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<v Speaker 6>For a long time, perhaps longer than you realized. It

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<v Speaker 7>Your body always tells the truth, even when your mind

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<v Speaker 7>is busy telling stories. So let us honor what your

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<v Speaker 7>and then together let us begin the work of setting

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<v Speaker 7>the warm stone where you are sitting, you notice something

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<v Speaker 7>that was not there before. A small stream.

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<v Speaker 2>Flows gently from between the roots of an ancient oak,

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<v Speaker 2>winding through the grass in a narrow channel before disappearing

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<v Speaker 2>into the forest flore a few meters away. The water

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<v Speaker 2>is crystal clear. You can see every pebble, every grain

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<v Speaker 2>of sand in the bottom. The sunlight catches its surface

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<v Speaker 2>and scatters it into tiny diamonds of light. This stream

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<v Speaker 2>has a purpose. It is here to carry things away,

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<v Speaker 2>not with force, not with violence, but with the patient,

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<v Speaker 2>persistent power of flowing water, water that has been carving

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<v Speaker 2>its path through the earth for centuries, water that knows

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<v Speaker 2>exactly what to do with what it is given. Lean

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<v Speaker 2>closer and listen to the stream. It has a voice,

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<v Speaker 2>not words, but a sound that is almost like words,

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<v Speaker 2>a murmur, a whisper, a soft syllable that repeats and

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<v Speaker 2>varies and repeats again. That sounds like the world's oldest lullaby,

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<v Speaker 2>sung without end, without audience, simply because singing is what

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<v Speaker 2>water does. I want you to imagine now that the

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<v Speaker 2>thing you have been carrying, the weight you just acknowledged,

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<v Speaker 2>has a physical form. It might look like a stone.

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<v Speaker 2>It might look like a bundle of dark cloth. It

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<v Speaker 2>might look like a tangled knot of the red. It

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<v Speaker 2>might look like a heavy book, or a sack of grain,

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<v Speaker 2>or a piece of drift wood, worn smooth by years

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<v Speaker 2>of salt water. Whatever fool it takes, it is sitting

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<v Speaker 2>in your hands. Now, feed its great feed its texture,

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<v Speaker 2>feel the truth of it. This is real. What you

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<v Speaker 2>are holding is real. The pain, the worry, the burden,

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<v Speaker 2>it all matters. It has mattered to you, and it

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<v Speaker 2>has shaped too. We're not trying to pretend it never existed.

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<v Speaker 2>We are not trying to erase your experience. We are

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<v Speaker 2>not dismissing what you have been through. We are simply

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<v Speaker 2>acknowledging that this thing has done its work, hurt you

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<v Speaker 2>what it came to teach, and now it is time

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<v Speaker 2>to let it go. Look at the stream, Feel the

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<v Speaker 2>cool mist rising from its surface. Hear the gentle murmur

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<v Speaker 2>of its voice as it flows over the stones. Watch

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<v Speaker 2>a leaf drift past, spinning slowly in the current, carried

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<v Speaker 2>along without effort, without struggle, without resistance. Now, when you

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<v Speaker 2>are ready, place what you are holding into the stream.

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<v Speaker 2>Do it slowly, Feel your fingers opening, feel the weight

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<v Speaker 2>leaving your palms. Watch as the water takes it. Watch

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<v Speaker 2>as the current catches it and begins to carry it downstream.

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<v Speaker 2>It does not resist, it does not cling to your hands.

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<v Speaker 2>Is simply except what the water offers, the freedom of movement,

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<v Speaker 2>the journey of release, the trust that the current knows

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<v Speaker 2>with goo watch it go.

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<v Speaker 3>Watch as it travels.

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<v Speaker 2>Downstream, getting smaller and smaller. Its edge is softening, its shape, dissolving.

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<v Speaker 2>The water does not hurry. It carries your burden with

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<v Speaker 2>the same gentle care with which it carries every leaf,

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<v Speaker 2>every petal, every fallen branch, with absolute neutrality, with absolute acceptance.

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<v Speaker 2>It does not judge what you have given it. It

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<v Speaker 2>simply takes it and carries it away. And as it

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<v Speaker 2>disappears around the bend, something remarkable happens. Your hands feel lighter,

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<v Speaker 2>your chest feels lighter. That tightness behind your sternum has

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<v Speaker 2>loosened just a little. Your shoulders have dropped another fraction

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<v Speaker 2>of an inch. Your stomach has unclinched just enough to

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<v Speaker 2>let a full breath pass through. You did it, You

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<v Speaker 2>let something go, and the world did not end. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>the world feels a little brighter. The light in the

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<v Speaker 2>clearing seems warmer. The bird song sounds clearer, The air

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<v Speaker 2>feels cleaner in your lungs. This is what release feels like,

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<v Speaker 2>not emptiness, not loss, space, room to breathe, room to

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<v Speaker 2>growl room to be. But we are not finished. This

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<v Speaker 2>dream is patient, and there is more to release. I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to look at your hands again. Even after

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<v Speaker 2>placing the first burden into the water, you notice that

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<v Speaker 2>there is more there. Your body has been carrying layers

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<v Speaker 2>of weight, stacked one on top of another, like sediment

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<v Speaker 2>in a river bed. The first release revealed the next layer,

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<v Speaker 2>and now you can see it clearly. This layer might

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<v Speaker 2>be different from the first. Perhaps it is lighter, more diffuse.

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<v Speaker 2>Not a single heavy stone, but a collection of smaller pebbles,

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<v Speaker 2>each one representing a minor worry, a small frustration, a

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<v Speaker 2>fleeting anxiety that accumulated over days and weeks, until together

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<v Speaker 2>they formed a weight that.

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<v Speaker 7>Pressed you down.

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<v Speaker 2>Pick up these smalles stones, hold them in your palms,

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<v Speaker 2>Feel how numerous they are. Each one is small on

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<v Speaker 2>its own, but together they are significant. You might even

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<v Speaker 2>recognize some of them though. Worry about a deadline, the

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<v Speaker 2>irritation with a coworker, the nagging feeling that you forgot

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<v Speaker 2>something important, the guilt about spending too much time on

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<v Speaker 2>your phone, the fear that you are not doing enough,

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<v Speaker 2>not being enough, not keeping up with everyone else. These

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<v Speaker 2>are the pebbles of daily life. They are not traumatic,

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<v Speaker 2>They do not make for good stories. They are not

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<v Speaker 2>the kind of thing you would tell a friend about

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<v Speaker 2>over coffee. But they are heavy in their accumulation. They

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<v Speaker 2>fill your pockets with weight you barely notice until you

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<v Speaker 2>try to move, until you try to rest, until you

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<v Speaker 2>lie down at night and feel them pressing into you

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<v Speaker 2>from every side. Let them go, too, Open your hands

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<v Speaker 2>over the stream and let the pebbles fall. Watch them

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<v Speaker 2>splash into the water, one by one, small splashes, quiet

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<v Speaker 2>entries the stream. Valley notices. It takes each pebble the

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<v Speaker 2>same way it took the stone, the same way it

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<v Speaker 2>takes every fallen branch and autumn leaf, without preference, without judgment,

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<v Speaker 2>without hesitation. Watch as the current takes them, rolling them downstream,

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<v Speaker 2>tumbling them over the rocks, smoothing their edges, until they

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<v Speaker 2>become part of the river bed itself. They are not destroyed.

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<v Speaker 2>They are transformed from burdens into beauty, from weight into landscape,

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<v Speaker 2>from things that press you down into things that hold

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<v Speaker 2>the water in place, that create the pools where the

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<v Speaker 2>light gathers, that shape the current into its path. Feel

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<v Speaker 2>a lightness spreading through your body now, starting in your

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<v Speaker 2>hands and traveling up your arms, into your shoulders, down

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<v Speaker 2>your spine. It is like warm water pouring through you,

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<v Speaker 2>dissolving every knot, every tension, every type place. It touches

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<v Speaker 2>your muscles, soften your joints, loosen your breathing deepens. You

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<v Speaker 2>might feel a gentle tingling in your extremities, as if

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<v Speaker 2>your body is waking up from a long sleep, and

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<v Speaker 2>still there is more. There are the oldest layers, the

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<v Speaker 2>ones you have been carrying so long they have become

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<v Speaker 2>part of your identity. The belief that you are not enough,

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<v Speaker 2>the fear that you will fail, the grief that you

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<v Speaker 2>carry for opportunities lost, for words left unspoken, for the

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<v Speaker 2>person you thought you would be by now, the story

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<v Speaker 2>you tell yourself about who you are and what you deserve.

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<v Speaker 2>These are the deepest weights, the ones that have shaped

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<v Speaker 2>the contours of your inner landscape. Releasing them feel so

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<v Speaker 2>releasing a part of yourself, and any way it is,

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<v Speaker 2>it is releasing a version of yourself that no longer

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<v Speaker 2>serves you, a version that was born from pain, from fear,

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<v Speaker 2>from the stories you were told, and the stories you

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<v Speaker 2>told yourself when you were a small one, the world

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<v Speaker 2>felt too big to understand. Look at the stream one

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<v Speaker 2>more time. It flows on, endless, patient, endlessly, willing to

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<v Speaker 2>carry whatever you give it. The water does not judge,

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<v Speaker 2>It does not ask questions, It does not demand explanations

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<v Speaker 2>or justifications. It simply receives and carries away. It has

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<v Speaker 2>been doing this since before you were born, and it

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<v Speaker 2>will continue long after you are gone. There is something

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<v Speaker 2>deeply comforting about that something that says you are not

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<v Speaker 2>the first to carry this weight, and you will not

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<v Speaker 2>be the last to set it down. Let these deep

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<v Speaker 2>old weights go, not all at once, not in a

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<v Speaker 2>single dramatic gesture.

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<v Speaker 8>Gently one by one, like releasing your grip on a

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<v Speaker 8>railing you have been holding for years. Feel your fingers uncurling,

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<v Speaker 8>Feel your knuckle streetening, Feel the stiffness in your joints

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<v Speaker 8>dissolving as years of tension finally mercifully release. Watch the

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<v Speaker 8>last of it flow away. Watch the water carry it

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<v Speaker 8>downstream through the forest, out into the wider world, where

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<v Speaker 8>it will dissolve into the earth and become something new,

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<v Speaker 8>something that no longer weighs on you, something.

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<v Speaker 2>That has completed its journey, something that has finished its teaching.

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<v Speaker 2>And now, in this space you have created this new

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<v Speaker 2>openness in your body and your mind. Something extraordinary happens.

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<v Speaker 2>The light at the far end of the clearing brightens.

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<v Speaker 2>The golden shafts of sun intensify, gathering together, or like

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<v Speaker 2>a dozen spots, like converging on a single point, the

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<v Speaker 2>air and the clearing shafts.

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<v Speaker 1>It becomes warmer, more luminous, as if the clearing itself

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<v Speaker 2>A deep breath. From that light, a figure begins to emerge.

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<v Speaker 2>At first, it is just a silhouette, a shape against

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<v Speaker 2>the brightness, But as it steps forward into the soft

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<v Speaker 2>grass of the clearing, you begin to see details. It

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<v Speaker 2>is you, but it is a you that has not

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<v Speaker 2>arrived yet, a future version of yourself, standing in the

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<v Speaker 2>fullness of who you are becoming. Notice how this future

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<v Speaker 2>self moves. There is a confidence in their step that

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<v Speaker 2>comes not from arrogance, but from self knowledge. They know

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<v Speaker 2>who they are. They have been through the fire of

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<v Speaker 2>experience and come out the other side with their authenticity intact.

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<v Speaker 2>They have released the weights that you are just now

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<v Speaker 2>learning to set down. You can see it in the

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<v Speaker 2>way they carry themselves, in the way their shoulders are relaxed,

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<v Speaker 2>in the way their eyes are clear and settled. Look

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<v Speaker 2>at their face. What do you see there? Perhaps there

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<v Speaker 2>are lines that were not there before, marks of laughter

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<v Speaker 2>and tears, of living fully and without reservation. Perhaps their

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<v Speaker 2>eyes are deeper, more settled, carrying the wisdom of experiences you.

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<v Speaker 5>Have not yet had.

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<v Speaker 2>Perhaps their smile is different, quieter, more certain, the smile

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<v Speaker 2>of someone who has made peace with themselves and with

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<v Speaker 2>the world. This is not a fantasy. This is not

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<v Speaker 2>an illusion, This is a possibility. This is who you

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<v Speaker 2>are in the process of becoming.

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<v Speaker 9>Every choice you make, every weight you release, every moment

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<v Speaker 9>of persons and courage, moves you classer to this version

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<v Speaker 9>of yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>Your future self.

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<v Speaker 9>Walks toward you and sits down beside you on the stone.

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<v Speaker 9>There do not speak immediately. They simply sit with you,

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<v Speaker 9>sharing the warmth of the sun, the gentle sound of

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<v Speaker 9>the stream, the soft breeding of the forest. Their presence

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<v Speaker 9>is a gift. It tells you that the journey is

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<v Speaker 9>worth it, that the releasing smutters.

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<v Speaker 2>That you are going somewhere beautiful. When they finally speak,

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<v Speaker 2>their voice is familiar. It is your own voice, but steadier, calmer.

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<v Speaker 2>There is no urgency in it, no performance, no need

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<v Speaker 2>to impress or convince, just truth, spoken simply, the way

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<v Speaker 2>truth always sounds when it is finally free from the

422
00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.880
<v Speaker 2>noise of fear and doubt. They might say something like this,

423
00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.599
<v Speaker 2>I know it is hard. I know the letting go

424
00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:49.720
<v Speaker 2>feels like law.

425
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:52.559
<v Speaker 10>But I am here to tell you that every way

426
00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:56.799
<v Speaker 10>you release creates space for something more, space for joy

427
00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:59.240
<v Speaker 10>that you could not feel when you were carrying so

428
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:02.359
<v Speaker 10>much space for love that could not reach you when

429
00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:05.839
<v Speaker 10>your arms were full, Space for the person you truly are,

430
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:10.640
<v Speaker 10>to finally step forward and be seen. Listen to these words.

431
00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:14.359
<v Speaker 10>Let them land in the open spaces you have created

432
00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.240
<v Speaker 10>inside yourself. Let them fill the places where the old

433
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.279
<v Speaker 10>weights used to be. This is what fills the vacuum

434
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:26.000
<v Speaker 10>of release. Not emptiness but possibility, not loss, but becoming.

435
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.599
<v Speaker 10>Your future self reaches out and takes your hand. Feel

436
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.839
<v Speaker 10>the warmth of their grip, feel the strength in their fingers.

437
00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.559
<v Speaker 10>They are not stronger than you, They are simply you, unburdened, you,

438
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.519
<v Speaker 10>standing in the full light of who you are. They

439
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:44.200
<v Speaker 10>squeeze your hand once gently, and in that squeeze you

440
00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:48.480
<v Speaker 10>feel a transmission, a knowing, a certainty that you are

441
00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:51.799
<v Speaker 10>on the right path. That the work you are doing tonight,

442
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:57.880
<v Speaker 10>the releasing, the opening, the choosing to be present, it matters.

443
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:00.279
<v Speaker 10>It is changing you.

444
00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:06.440
<v Speaker 11>Slowly, quietly, profoundly. Not in the way the world measures

445
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:11.359
<v Speaker 11>change with announcements and milestones and public displays, but in

446
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.359
<v Speaker 11>the way the earth stridges from the inside out, one

447
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:19.160
<v Speaker 11>grain at a time. And now your future self stands.

448
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:23.839
<v Speaker 11>They smile at you one more time, that quiet, certain smile,

449
00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:27.480
<v Speaker 11>and they begin to walk back toward the light. As

450
00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:30.079
<v Speaker 11>they go, they look over the shoulder, and their eyes

451
00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.240
<v Speaker 11>say what their lips do not need to. I will

452
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:33.720
<v Speaker 11>be here.

453
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.000
<v Speaker 3>I am waiting, and I am you. Watch them go,

454
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.000
<v Speaker 3>Watch as the light receives them back into itself. Feel

455
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.960
<v Speaker 3>the warmth of their presence lingering in the air, in

456
00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:47.960
<v Speaker 3>your hand, in your chest. They are not gone. They

457
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:51.160
<v Speaker 3>are simply ahead of you on the path, and every

458
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:54.559
<v Speaker 3>step you take from this moment forward is a step

459
00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:58.920
<v Speaker 3>toward them. Feel the space inside you now, Feel.

460
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:02.359
<v Speaker 2>How different it is from when we began. Where there

461
00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.359
<v Speaker 2>was tension, there is ease where there was weight, There

462
00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:08.759
<v Speaker 2>is lightness. Where there was a closed fist, there is

463
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.400
<v Speaker 2>an open hand. Where there was a wall, there is

464
00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:13.839
<v Speaker 2>a window. This is what it feels like when you

465
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:19.119
<v Speaker 2>let go, not empty, full full of air, full of light,

466
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:23.160
<v Speaker 2>full of the simple, uncomplicated joy of being present in

467
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:27.359
<v Speaker 2>your own body. Take a deep breath, now, deeper than

468
00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:31.400
<v Speaker 2>any breath you've taken tonight. Feel the air pour in

469
00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:35.759
<v Speaker 2>tea like sunlight filling our room. Fill your lungs completely

470
00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:40.160
<v Speaker 2>and then a little more holy. Feel the fullness of

471
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:45.079
<v Speaker 2>this moment, the complete and total occupation of your body

472
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.079
<v Speaker 2>by your breath. Feel the edges of your roops expanding,

473
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:54.000
<v Speaker 2>Feel the pressure against the dire fraim, feel the lin release.

474
00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:57.799
<v Speaker 2>Let it go with a sound if you like, a sigh,

475
00:29:58.119 --> 00:30:02.359
<v Speaker 2>a hum, a gentle brow of relief, whatever your body

476
00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.359
<v Speaker 2>wants to express. Let the ex hill carry the last

477
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:10.599
<v Speaker 2>remnants of what you have released. Let it be a celebration,

478
00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:14.680
<v Speaker 2>a homecoming. I thank you to yourself for doing this

479
00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:19.480
<v Speaker 2>brave and necessary work. Notice how your body feels in

480
00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:23.720
<v Speaker 2>this moment, not how you think it should feel, how

481
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:29.079
<v Speaker 2>it actually feels. Perhaps there is still some residual tension somewhere.

482
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.039
<v Speaker 1>That is fine.

483
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.000
<v Speaker 2>We do not need to be perfect in our release.

484
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.759
<v Speaker 1>We only need to be willing. The rest have been

485
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:39.559
<v Speaker 1>in his own time, in his own way.

486
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.920
<v Speaker 12>The body has its own timeline for healing, and it

487
00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.839
<v Speaker 12>is rarely the timeline the mind. Once perhaps you feel

488
00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.279
<v Speaker 12>a gentle warmth spreading through your limbs. Perhaps you feel

489
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:53.119
<v Speaker 12>a tingling in your fingertips or the soles of your feet.

490
00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:57.119
<v Speaker 12>Perhaps you feel a soft pulsing in your temples or

491
00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:01.880
<v Speaker 12>your throat. Perhaps you feel nothing specific, owl just a

492
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:05.960
<v Speaker 12>general sense of spaciousness and ease, like stepping into a

493
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:09.440
<v Speaker 12>room that has just been cleaned and aired out. All

494
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:11.119
<v Speaker 12>of these responses are valid.

495
00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:15.400
<v Speaker 13>All of them are signs that something has shifted eastside.

496
00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:15.599
<v Speaker 1>You.

497
00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:20.480
<v Speaker 13>Let yourself rest in this new lightness. Let your body

498
00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:25.079
<v Speaker 13>explore it the way child explores a new room, touching

499
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:29.880
<v Speaker 13>the walls, feeling the floor, testing the space. There is

500
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:35.039
<v Speaker 13>no rush, therefore, is to await. The clearing will hold

501
00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:38.680
<v Speaker 13>you as long as you need. Feel the warmth of

502
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:42.440
<v Speaker 13>the stone being easy. It has been as driving the

503
00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:46.319
<v Speaker 13>sun all day and night. Shears that warmth with you.

504
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:52.079
<v Speaker 2>Feel it seeping through your cloaths, through your skin, into

505
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:57.880
<v Speaker 2>your muscles, your bones, your blood. You are being nourished

506
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:04.079
<v Speaker 2>by the earth itself, held by the sun, supported by

507
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:12.519
<v Speaker 2>something vast and ancient and endlessly generous. This is your birthrate,

508
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:20.640
<v Speaker 2>This lightness, this peace, There's always been here, waiting beneath

509
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:25.920
<v Speaker 2>the layers of weight and worry and habit. You have

510
00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:31.240
<v Speaker 2>not created it tonight. You have uncovered it, like an

511
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:36.119
<v Speaker 2>archaeologist brushing away centuries of dust to reveal the mosaic beneath.

512
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:39.599
<v Speaker 2>The beauty was always there. You simply had to clear

513
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:42.839
<v Speaker 2>away what was covering it. Now, let us use the

514
00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:46.160
<v Speaker 2>breath to deep in and anchor this new state. We

515
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:50.200
<v Speaker 2>are going to practice a rhythm called four two six two.

516
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.240
<v Speaker 2>It is simple and it is powerful. It activates your

517
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:58.279
<v Speaker 2>body's natural relaxation response, the one that tells your nervous

518
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.640
<v Speaker 2>system you are safe. You can stand down, you can rest.

519
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:05.839
<v Speaker 2>Here is how it works. We will breathe in for

520
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:08.680
<v Speaker 2>a count of four, hold for a count of two,

521
00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:12.400
<v Speaker 2>breathe out slowly for a count of six, and pause

522
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:14.720
<v Speaker 2>for a count of two before the next in hail,

523
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:19.799
<v Speaker 2>Let us begin together. Breathe in through your nose two

524
00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:25.519
<v Speaker 2>three four. Feel your lungs feel steadily, evenly, like water

525
00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:29.720
<v Speaker 2>rising in the glass, cool air entering, Feeling the space

526
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:35.160
<v Speaker 2>behind your ribs. Hold one two, Feel the stillness at

527
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.200
<v Speaker 2>the top of the breath, the brief pause between action

528
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:41.799
<v Speaker 2>and release. There is a whole world in the spause,

529
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.680
<v Speaker 2>a whole universe of quiet. Now bring out through your

530
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:52.240
<v Speaker 2>mouth slowly two three, four, five six. Let the ax

531
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.079
<v Speaker 2>hel be twice as long as the nhale. Feel your

532
00:33:55.079 --> 00:33:58.799
<v Speaker 2>body softening with it. Feel your belly drawn inward, Feel

533
00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.960
<v Speaker 2>the tension leaving your minds like water draining from a bath,

534
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:08.079
<v Speaker 2>like weight falling from your shoulders pose one two. Feel

535
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:10.880
<v Speaker 2>the emptiness at the bottom of the breath, the stillness

536
00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:13.800
<v Speaker 2>before the next. In hell, there is a vast piece

537
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:17.239
<v Speaker 2>in this pause, a whole universe of piet between one

538
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:23.679
<v Speaker 2>breath and the next again in two, three four, steady

539
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:31.840
<v Speaker 2>and full. Hold one two, out, two, three, four, five six,

540
00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:36.719
<v Speaker 2>Slow and complete, Every less molecule of air released. Pause

541
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:40.960
<v Speaker 2>one two. Notice how your body responds to this rhythm.

542
00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:45.079
<v Speaker 2>Your heart be slowing, your muscles unclinching, the thoughts in

543
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:50.440
<v Speaker 2>your mind growing quieter, pure, softer, like snowflakes drifting down

544
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:54.639
<v Speaker 2>through still air. Each breath draws you deeper into the clearing,

545
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:59.960
<v Speaker 2>deeper into the stillness, deeper into yourself. Let us can

546
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:03.480
<v Speaker 2>you for several more rounds? I will guide you through

547
00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:09.760
<v Speaker 2>each face in two three four. Feel the air passing

548
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:14.000
<v Speaker 2>through your nostrils, down your throat, filling the space behind

549
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:20.320
<v Speaker 2>your rips. Feel your belly rise. Hold one two.

550
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.840
<v Speaker 1>Hold the fullness, Hold the stillness. This is the moment

551
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:32.320
<v Speaker 1>of maximum openness. Out two, three, four, five six, slow

552
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:36.039
<v Speaker 1>and steady. Feel your body letting go with each number.

553
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:41.400
<v Speaker 1>Feel the muscles in your face soften, Feel your shoulders drop,

554
00:35:42.199 --> 00:35:45.360
<v Speaker 1>Feel the space between your shoulder blades, melt into whatever

555
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:52.280
<v Speaker 1>is beneath you. Pause one two. Rest here in the

556
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:56.320
<v Speaker 1>emptiness and the space between. This is where the deepest

557
00:35:56.320 --> 00:36:00.920
<v Speaker 1>healing happens, in the paws, in the silence, and the

558
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:09.400
<v Speaker 1>nothing that is actually everything. In two three four. Feel

559
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:15.039
<v Speaker 1>the warmth of the new breath entering hold one two out,

560
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:21.880
<v Speaker 1>two three, four, five six, Feel the weight of the

561
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:29.320
<v Speaker 1>day leaving with the air. Pause one two. Let us

562
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:32.800
<v Speaker 1>do three more rounds on your own. Now you know

563
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:36.559
<v Speaker 1>the rhythm, trust your body to follow it, Trust the

564
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:40.920
<v Speaker 1>numbers to carry you. I will be here when you return.

565
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:46.760
<v Speaker 1>Follow the rhythm of four two six, two, and let

566
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:51.079
<v Speaker 1>yourself sink deeper with each cycle. Welcome back.

567
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.320
<v Speaker 2>You should feel a deep sense of calm. Now, a

568
00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:59.039
<v Speaker 2>won't spreading from your center outward to the tips of

569
00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:03.079
<v Speaker 2>your fingers, and the breath work has told your body

570
00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:09.639
<v Speaker 2>a story, a story of safety, of rest, of permission

571
00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:13.280
<v Speaker 2>to let go of the constant vigilance that modern life demands.

572
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:16.800
<v Speaker 2>Carry this feeling with you. It is not something you

573
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:20.119
<v Speaker 2>need this for us to access. It lives inside you,

574
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.920
<v Speaker 2>in your breath, in your body. You can return to

575
00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:27.639
<v Speaker 2>this rhythm any time you need to, any moment of stress,

576
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:31.119
<v Speaker 2>any moment of worry, any moment when the weights begin

577
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:33.960
<v Speaker 2>to pile up again, you can close your eyes and

578
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:37.719
<v Speaker 2>breathe in for four, hold for two, out for six,

579
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:41.880
<v Speaker 2>pause for two, and in thirty seconds you will be

580
00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:45.119
<v Speaker 2>back here, back in the clearing, back in the light,

581
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.199
<v Speaker 2>back in the piece. Before we leave this clearing, let

582
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:54.159
<v Speaker 2>us plant some seeds. Words have power, then, not the

583
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.239
<v Speaker 2>magic power, but the power of repetition, the power of intention,

584
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.559
<v Speaker 2>the power of choosing what to believe about yourself and

585
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.760
<v Speaker 2>your life. These are not commands. They are not demands.

586
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.480
<v Speaker 2>They are invitations. Take the ones that resonate with you

587
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:10.960
<v Speaker 2>tonight and leave the rest. They will be here whenever

588
00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:14.800
<v Speaker 2>you need them. I release what no longer serves me.

589
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:18.159
<v Speaker 2>I am allowed to set down my burdens. My worth

590
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:21.159
<v Speaker 2>is not measured by what I carry. I trust the

591
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:24.880
<v Speaker 2>process of letting go. I am safe to be still.

592
00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:29.920
<v Speaker 2>My body knows how to heal. I choose peace over perfection.

593
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:36.000
<v Speaker 2>I am enough exactly as I am. I release the need.

594
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:40.880
<v Speaker 14>To control what I cannot change. I welcome the lightness

595
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:45.840
<v Speaker 14>that comes with surrender. My past does not define my future.

596
00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:49.760
<v Speaker 14>I am becoming who I was always meant to be.

597
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:55.519
<v Speaker 14>Let these words settle into the way rain settles into soil.

598
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:58.920
<v Speaker 14>You do not need to force them. You do not

599
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:02.960
<v Speaker 14>need to repeat, eat them, or memorize them, or write

600
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:03.639
<v Speaker 14>them down.

601
00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Simply let them be. Thing them find the places inside

602
00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:10.519
<v Speaker 1>you where they are needed most, and take root there.

603
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.119
<v Speaker 1>In their own time, in their own way, they will grow.

604
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:17.159
<v Speaker 1>They will become part of you. They will speak to

605
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:19.719
<v Speaker 1>you when you need them most, rising up from some

606
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.320
<v Speaker 1>quiet corner of your memory, like the voice of a

607
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.599
<v Speaker 1>friend who always knows what to say. The light in

608
00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:29.280
<v Speaker 1>the clearing is changing now. The golden shafts are softening,

609
00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:33.119
<v Speaker 1>taking on the warm amber tones of late afternoon. The

610
00:39:33.199 --> 00:39:36.440
<v Speaker 1>forest knows that our time here is drawing to a close,

611
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:39.719
<v Speaker 1>and it is preparing to hold you a little more gently.

612
00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:42.920
<v Speaker 1>As you transition from this inner world back to the

613
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:46.920
<v Speaker 1>outer one, take one last look around. The ancient trees,

614
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.239
<v Speaker 1>their bark thick and furrowed with age, standing like silent

615
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:56.880
<v Speaker 1>witnesses to everything that has happened here tonight. The stream

616
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:02.880
<v Speaker 1>still flowing, still carrying, still doing its patient, eternal work, the.

617
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.440
<v Speaker 15>Mass, the wildflowers, the shafts of light filtering through the canopy.

618
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.159
<v Speaker 15>This place will be here whenever you need it. You

619
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.840
<v Speaker 15>carry it inside you now, a forest of peace that

620
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.559
<v Speaker 15>you can visit any time you close your eyes and breathe.

621
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<v Speaker 15>Place your hand over your heart, feel it beating that steady,

622
00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:21.199
<v Speaker 15>faithful rhythm that has been with you since before you

623
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.079
<v Speaker 15>were born, before you had a name, before you had

624
00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:27.119
<v Speaker 15>a story. It does not ask for your permission, It

625
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:28.199
<v Speaker 15>does not need your help.

626
00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:31.760
<v Speaker 2>It does not care about your plans, or your fears,

627
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:32.440
<v Speaker 2>or your.

628
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<v Speaker 5>To do list.

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<v Speaker 2>It simply beats, faithfully, constantly, without rest, without complaint. Your

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<v Speaker 2>heart has been carrying you your entire life. Perhaps tonight

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<v Speaker 2>you can carry it a little more gently. Thank yourself

632
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:52.800
<v Speaker 2>for being here, for showing up, for choosing to spend

633
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<v Speaker 2>this time on the sacred work of release. It would

634
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<v Speaker 2>have been easy to skid this, to scroll through your phone,

635
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:02.960
<v Speaker 2>to watch some thing, to stay busy, to stay distracted.

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<v Speaker 1>But you chose this. You chose stillness, You chose courage.

637
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:13.159
<v Speaker 1>You chose to sit with yourself in the dark and

638
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:16.760
<v Speaker 1>do the work that needed doing, and that matters more

639
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:21.440
<v Speaker 1>than you know. That choice, repeated night after night, will

640
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:25.519
<v Speaker 1>reshape your life in ways you cannot yet imagine. Before

641
00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:30.000
<v Speaker 1>we leave, let us take one final walk together through

642
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.519
<v Speaker 1>this clearing, not to do anything, not to fix or

643
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:38.199
<v Speaker 1>change or release, simply to witness. See this place with

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00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:42.239
<v Speaker 1>fresh eyes, knowing what has happened here tonight, Walk slow, leaf,

645
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.119
<v Speaker 1>Feel the grass beneath your feet cool now as a

646
00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:48.639
<v Speaker 1>shadow's lengthen in orders the way the light filters through

647
00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:51.559
<v Speaker 1>the canopy, creating bartons on the ground that shift and

648
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:56.119
<v Speaker 1>change with every breeze. Each parton is unique, Each pattern

649
00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:59.400
<v Speaker 1>exists for all your moment before it transforms into something new.

650
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:03.559
<v Speaker 1>There's a lesson in that nothing is permanent, not even

651
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:05.320
<v Speaker 1>the beautiful things and.

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00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:09.039
<v Speaker 2>Not the painful ones either. Pause at the stream one

653
00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:13.159
<v Speaker 2>more time. Look at the water. It is the same

654
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:16.280
<v Speaker 2>stream it was an hour ago. But you are different.

655
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:21.039
<v Speaker 2>You are lighter, you are more open. The stream knows this.

656
00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.519
<v Speaker 2>It reflects your face back to you, and the face

657
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:27.159
<v Speaker 2>it shows you is clearer than the one you arrived with.

658
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:30.400
<v Speaker 2>There is a softness in your expression that was not

659
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:33.880
<v Speaker 2>there before. There is a lightness in your eyes. The

660
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:37.519
<v Speaker 2>forest breeze with you now. You are not a visitor here.

661
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:41.559
<v Speaker 2>You are a part of this place. The piece of

662
00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:46.079
<v Speaker 2>this clearing is your peace. The stillness of these trees

663
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:51.320
<v Speaker 2>is your stillness. The flow of this water is your

664
00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:59.239
<v Speaker 2>own capacity for release, flowing, always, carrying, always, renewing always.

665
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:04.800
<v Speaker 2>This is not something you visited, This is something you remembered.

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00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:10.000
<v Speaker 2>Stand in the center of the clearing and simply be.

667
00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:15.519
<v Speaker 2>Feel the air on your skin, feel the sun on

668
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.760
<v Speaker 2>your face, feel the gentle gravity of the earth holding

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00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.639
<v Speaker 2>you exactly where you are.

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<v Speaker 16>There is nothing else to do, There is nowhere else

671
00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:33.159
<v Speaker 16>to be. This moment, right here, right now, is complete.

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<v Speaker 16>In this completeness, Light gratitude arise not as an obligation,

673
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:44.719
<v Speaker 16>not as a spiritual exxious eise, not because some one

674
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:48.239
<v Speaker 16>told you is good for you, but as a natural

675
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:51.920
<v Speaker 16>response to the beauty of this moment. The way the

676
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:57.079
<v Speaker 16>body producest is in response to beauty or laughter, in

677
00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:58.559
<v Speaker 16>response to joy.

678
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:02.119
<v Speaker 2>Gratitude for your body, which carried you here tonight and

679
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:06.320
<v Speaker 2>continues to carry you through life with remarkable grace and resilience,

680
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.920
<v Speaker 2>through illness and health, through grief and celebration, through every

681
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:13.480
<v Speaker 2>stumble and every triumph. Your body has never given up

682
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.119
<v Speaker 2>on you, even when you gave up on it. Gratitude

683
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.159
<v Speaker 2>for your mind, which, despite its tendency toward worry and

684
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.599
<v Speaker 2>overthinking gave you the awareness to know that you needed

685
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.480
<v Speaker 2>this tonight and the wisdom to seek it out. Your

686
00:44:26.519 --> 00:44:29.480
<v Speaker 2>mind is a powerful tool. It brought you here, and

687
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:33.159
<v Speaker 2>tonight you taught it something new that sometimes the best

688
00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:36.239
<v Speaker 2>thing it can do is be quiet. Gratitude for the

689
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:40.039
<v Speaker 2>weights you release tonight. Yes, gratitude for the burdens themselves,

690
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:43.440
<v Speaker 2>because they taught you something. They showed you where you

691
00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.440
<v Speaker 2>were holding on too tightly. They revealed the places in

692
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:50.519
<v Speaker 2>your life that need attention, care and compassion.

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00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.519
<v Speaker 5>That were not enemies.

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<v Speaker 2>They were teachers, difficult minding teachers, but teachers. Nonetheless, gratitude

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00:44:56.840 --> 00:45:01.239
<v Speaker 2>for this clearing, this forest, the stream, this stone, real

696
00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:06.519
<v Speaker 2>or imagined. They served their purpose tonight with absolute fidelity.

697
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:09.920
<v Speaker 2>They held the space for your healing. They asked nothing

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00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:14.000
<v Speaker 2>in return. They gave everything and expected nothing. There is

699
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:17.000
<v Speaker 2>a purity in that kind of generosity that we rarely

700
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:20.880
<v Speaker 2>encounter in the waking world. And gratitude for this moment,

701
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<v Speaker 2>this single, unrepeatable moment in the long, beautiful, complicated story

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00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:28.679
<v Speaker 2>of your life, a moment of peace, a moment of release,

703
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.239
<v Speaker 2>a moment of coming home to yourself. There will never

704
00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.000
<v Speaker 2>be another moment exactly like this one, and that is

705
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:36.360
<v Speaker 2>what makes it precious. It is time now to make

706
00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.440
<v Speaker 2>our way back, not with haste, not with reluctance, but

707
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:42.280
<v Speaker 2>with the gentle, natural rhythm of someone who knows that

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00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.440
<v Speaker 2>they can always return. The forest is not going anywhere,

709
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.840
<v Speaker 2>The clearing is not going anywhere. The stream will keep flowing,

710
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:55.119
<v Speaker 2>the light will keep shifting, the stone will keep warming

711
00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:59.599
<v Speaker 2>in the sun. This place exists inside you know, and

712
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:03.119
<v Speaker 2>it will be here whenever you need it. Begin to

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00:46:03.119 --> 00:46:06.719
<v Speaker 2>bring your awareness back to your physical body. Feel the

714
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:10.320
<v Speaker 2>room around you, the temperature of the air on your skin,

715
00:46:11.639 --> 00:46:15.360
<v Speaker 2>the sounds that exist beyond the forest, in the real world,

716
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:18.840
<v Speaker 2>where your life is waiting for you. Perhaps the hum

717
00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:22.840
<v Speaker 2>of a fan, the distant sound of traffic, the quiet

718
00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.519
<v Speaker 2>breathing of someone in another room. These sounds are not intrusions.

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00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:31.800
<v Speaker 2>They are gentle invitations back to the world. Feel the

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00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:35.440
<v Speaker 2>surface beneath you, whether it is a bed, a couch,

721
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:39.800
<v Speaker 2>a mat, or the floor. Feel it supporting you. Feel

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00:46:39.800 --> 00:46:42.840
<v Speaker 2>the texture of whatever is against your skin, the fabric

723
00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.760
<v Speaker 2>of your clothes, the weave of a blanket, the coolness

724
00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:50.960
<v Speaker 2>of a pillowcase. Your body is here. Your body is now.

725
00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:53.760
<v Speaker 2>Weigle your fingers, the.

726
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:57.880
<v Speaker 17>All movements at first, testing the connection between your mind

727
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:03.239
<v Speaker 17>and your body. Feel each finger separately, the thumb, the

728
00:47:03.440 --> 00:47:07.880
<v Speaker 17>index finger, the mere finger, each one a distinct and

729
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:13.159
<v Speaker 17>miraculous instrument. Feel the pads of your fingertips, the nails,

730
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:18.639
<v Speaker 17>the small creases at each joint. These hands that carry

731
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:23.480
<v Speaker 17>your world, Let them be soft tonight. Wiggle your toes.

732
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.119
<v Speaker 17>Feel the sensation of movement traveling.

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00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:31.440
<v Speaker 2>Up through your feet, your ankles, your cuds, Because it's

734
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:35.760
<v Speaker 2>your body is waking up, returning to its ordinary state

735
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:40.320
<v Speaker 2>of readiness. But it carries something new now, a lightness,

736
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:45.559
<v Speaker 2>a softness, a quiet confidence that comes from having faced

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00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:50.159
<v Speaker 2>your burdens and released them. Take a deep breath. This time.

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<v Speaker 2>It is not a meditation breath. It is a waking breath,

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00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.159
<v Speaker 2>an arrival breath, the kind of breath you take when

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<v Speaker 2>you step out of a cool building into warm sunlight.

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<v Speaker 2>Fill the energy in it the other life. If you

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00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:07.159
<v Speaker 2>are lying down, begin to roll on to your side.

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00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:11.039
<v Speaker 2>Rest there for a moment in the fetal position, curled

744
00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:15.320
<v Speaker 2>and the safe. This is a position of transition, a

745
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:20.000
<v Speaker 2>position between sleep and waking, between the inner world and

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<v Speaker 2>the outer.

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<v Speaker 13>Honor it.

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<v Speaker 2>Give yourself a small mercy of a few more seconds

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<v Speaker 2>in the soft dark before you return to the light.

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<v Speaker 2>When you are ready, use your hands to push yourself

751
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.920
<v Speaker 2>up to a seated position. Move slowly. There is no rush,

752
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.440
<v Speaker 2>There is no clock that matters. Right now, take your time,

753
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:43.599
<v Speaker 2>and when you feel steady, when you feel ready, open

754
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:46.280
<v Speaker 2>your eyes. Let the world come back to you slowly,

755
00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:50.159
<v Speaker 2>like a photograph developing in a dark room. First the shapes,

756
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:54.320
<v Speaker 2>then the colors, then the details. Let your eyes adjust,

757
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.639
<v Speaker 2>let your mind catch up. Let everything be a little

758
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:01.519
<v Speaker 2>softer than it was before. You are here. You are present.

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00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:06.039
<v Speaker 2>You are different than you were an hour ago, lighter, freer,

760
00:49:06.559 --> 00:49:10.800
<v Speaker 2>more open, more yourself. Carry this with you into the

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00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:14.079
<v Speaker 2>rest of your evening, into your night, into tomorrow, not

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00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:16.840
<v Speaker 2>as a memory of something that happened, but as a

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00:49:16.840 --> 00:49:19.559
<v Speaker 2>state of being that you cultivated through your own courage

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<v Speaker 2>and intention. You did this, you chose to release, and

765
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.719
<v Speaker 2>in releasing, you chose to growl. The forest is always here,

766
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.960
<v Speaker 2>the clearing is always here, and so is this piece,

767
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:34.519
<v Speaker 2>this lateness, this version of you that exists beneath all

768
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:36.719
<v Speaker 2>the weights you have learned to carry. Do you know

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<v Speaker 2>where to find it?

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00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:37.639
<v Speaker 1>Now?

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<v Speaker 2>You know the way, the door is always open, the

772
00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:43.679
<v Speaker 2>path is always clear. All you have to do is

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<v Speaker 2>close your eyes and walk. Thank you for being here tonight,

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00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.320
<v Speaker 2>thank you for trusting yourself enough to let go. And

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<v Speaker 2>thank you for the quiet, extraordinary courage it takes to

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<v Speaker 2>sit with yourself in stillness and choose peace. I will

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<v Speaker 2>be here whenever you need. Until next time, be gentle

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<v Speaker 2>with yourself. You are doing BEAUTI lately.

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<v Speaker 1>Good night,