Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: I am glad you here to night. We are going
Speaker 2: to practice something profound together. We are going to practice
Speaker 2: the art of letting go. Not the kind of letting
Speaker 2: go that comes from exhaustion or frustration, not the kind
Speaker 2: that feels like giving up, but the kind that comes
Speaker 2: from wisdom, the kind that comes from understanding that some
Speaker 2: things were never meant to be carried forever. You have
Speaker 2: arrived at this moment, and that alone is an act
Speaker 2: of courage.
Speaker 1: Perhaps your day was long, Perhaps your mind has been
Speaker 1: spinning with worries or regrets. Perhaps there is something heavy
Speaker 1: sitting in your chest right now, something you have been
Speaker 1: holding so tightly that you have forgotten what your hands
Speaker 1: feel like when they are open. Whatever you brought with
Speaker 1: you to night, you are welcome here. There is nothing
Speaker 1: to fix in this moment. There is only something to release.
Speaker 1: So let us begin. Find a position that feels right
Speaker 1: for you. You might be lying down with your arms resting
Speaker 1: giunti etu sites. You might be seated with your hands
Speaker 1: on your knees.
Speaker 2: You might be reclined with a pillow beneath your head
Speaker 2: and a blanket over your legs. Whatever feels most natural,
Speaker 2: most open more supported. There is no wrong way to
Speaker 2: be here right now. Close your eyes when you are ready,
Speaker 2: not tightly, not with force. Just let your eyelids grow heavy,
Speaker 2: like two small birds settling on our branch at dusk.
Speaker 2: And as they close, let the room around yourself and
Speaker 2: let the edges of everything blur and fade. Let the
Speaker 2: sounds of the wild outside your door become distant, like
Speaker 2: waves crashing on a shore miles away. You are safe here.
Speaker 1: This is your time, and for the next fifty minutes
Speaker 1: there is nowhere else you need to be, nothing else
Speaker 1: you need to do.
Speaker 3: Just this.
Speaker 2: Just breath, just you take a slow breath in through
Speaker 2: your nice feel the cool air pass your nostrils, and
Speaker 2: feel your lungs, not deeply, not forcefully, just naturally, as
Speaker 2: if your body already knows exactly how much air it needs,
Speaker 2: because it does. Your body has been breathing since the
Speaker 2: moment you were born, and it has never once forgotten how.
Speaker 2: And now let it go. Let it fall out through
Speaker 2: your mouth like a sigh you have been saving all day.
Speaker 2: Feel your shoulders drop with it, Feel your jaw loosen,
Speaker 2: Feel the muscles around your eyes soften, Feel the tiny
Speaker 2: muscles in your forehead, smooth out the ones you did
Speaker 2: not even know were clenched again. Breathe in slowly. Feel
Speaker 2: your ribs expand outward like a bellow's filling with wind.
Speaker 2: Feel the stretch in your intercostal muscles, the ones that
Speaker 2: live between your ribs, that open and close like tiny
Speaker 2: hands making room for the air. Hold it for just
Speaker 2: a moment and release let it go completely. Feel the
Speaker 2: weight of your body pressing into whatever supports you beneath.
Speaker 2: Feel gravity doing its work, holding you so you do
Speaker 2: not have to one more time. In through the nose,
Speaker 2: steady and unhurried, and out through the mouth, letting everything
Speaker 2: dissolve with the exhale. Let the sound of your own
Speaker 2: breath become a kind of music, a rhythm without melody,
Speaker 2: a pulse without urgency. Now, let your breathing return to
Speaker 2: its own rhythm. You do not need to control it,
Speaker 2: just observe it.
Speaker 1: Notice how your chest rises and falls like the surface
Speaker 1: of a calm lake touched by a gentle breeze. Notice
Speaker 1: how your pelly softens and expands with each cycle. There
Speaker 1: is a wisdom in this rhythm that is older than thought.
Speaker 2: Trust it. Bring your attention to the points where your
Speaker 2: body touches the ground, the back of your head, your
Speaker 2: shoulder blades, the weight of your hips, the soles of
Speaker 2: your feet if you are laying down. These are your
Speaker 2: anchors to night, these points of contact between you and
Speaker 2: the earth. They remind you that you are held, that
Speaker 2: you are supported, that you do not need to hold
Speaker 2: yourself up. Right now. Feel the texture of whatever is
Speaker 2: beneath you. Is it soft, fur, warm, cool? Notice these
Speaker 2: small details. They pull you into the present moment, away
Speaker 2: from the spinning wheel of your thoughts, and into the
Speaker 2: solid reality of noun. And with each breath, feel yourself settling,
Speaker 2: the sediment drifting to the bottom of a glass of water, slowly, gently,
Speaker 2: until the water above begins clear, until your mind begins
Speaker 2: to quiet, until all that remains is this stillness, this breath,
Speaker 2: this moment. You are here, you are present, and from
Speaker 2: this place of stillness we can begin. I want you
Speaker 2: to imagine now that you are standing in the edge
Speaker 2: of a forest. Not a dark or threatening forest. This
Speaker 2: is a place of extraordinary beauty and peace, the kind
Speaker 2: of forest that exists in the space between waking and dreaming,
Speaker 2: where the light is golden and the air is thick
Speaker 2: with the scent of pine and wild flowers. Feel the
Speaker 2: ground beneath your feet. It is soft with moss and
Speaker 2: fallen leaves. The earth is cool and yielding, conforming to
Speaker 2: the shape of your bare feet. You can feel the
Speaker 2: gentle puls of the forest floor, as if the earth
Speaker 2: itself is breathing just below the surface.
Speaker 4: Press your toes into the moss and feel how it
Speaker 4: squishes slightly, springing in alive, like a living carpet woven
Speaker 4: from a thousand tiny plants. Look up through the cannypy above.
Speaker 4: Shafts of warm light pour down like liquid gold, dappling
Speaker 4: the path ahead in patches of amber and green. The
Speaker 4: light moves slowly, swaying with the branches, creeding patterns that
Speaker 4: shift and dance across the forest floor like the surface
Speaker 4: of a river seen from below.
Speaker 2: A butterfly passes through one of these shafts, its wings
Speaker 2: catching the light for a brilliant instant before it disappears
Speaker 2: into shadow. Listen. The forest is alive with sound, but
Speaker 2: it is not noisy. A bird calls somewhere in the distance,
Speaker 2: a clear bell like note that echoes through the trees
Speaker 2: and then fades into silence. Another answers further away. Their
Speaker 2: voice is weaving in conversation you cannot understand, but whose
Speaker 2: beauty you can feel. There is the rustle of small
Speaker 2: creatures moving through the underbrush, a squirrel perhaps, or a
Speaker 2: rabbit going above its evening business. And beneath all of
Speaker 2: this the deep, steady hum of the forest itself, the
Speaker 2: sound of ten thousand leaves breathing together in the wind.
Speaker 2: The air is warm against your skin, almost exactly the
Speaker 2: temperature of your own body, so that for a moment
Speaker 2: the boundary between you and the forest seems to dissolve.
Speaker 2: Carries the sweetness of wildflowers, the earthiness of damp soil,
Speaker 2: the clean freshness of cedar. Each breath fills you with
Speaker 2: the life of this place. With each in hell, you
Speaker 2: draw in the vitality of the forest. With each exhale,
Speaker 2: you release a little more of the tension you brought
Speaker 2: with you. There is a path ahead. It winds gently
Speaker 2: between the trees, disappearing around a bend where the light
Speaker 2: is brightest. You feel drawn to follow it, not with urgency,
Speaker 2: but with a quiet curiosity of someone who knows that
Speaker 2: this path leads somewhere important. Begin to walk, feel the
Speaker 2: soft ground beneath each step, The moss compresses gently under
Speaker 2: your weight and springs back when you lift your foot.
Speaker 2: The path is easy, well warned by countless travelers before you.
Speaker 2: You are not the first person to walk this way,
Speaker 2: and you will not be the last. There is comfort
Speaker 2: in that knowing that others have walked the same path
Speaker 2: and found what they needed. As you walk, notice how
Speaker 2: the light shifts around you. It warms the side of
Speaker 2: your face as you round a curve, it cools as
Speaker 2: you pass beneath the depigt canopy of oak leaves. The
Speaker 2: temperature of the air changes with each step, a constant,
Speaker 2: gentle conversation between warmth and coolness that keeps your senses
Speaker 2: alive and present. Your feet make almost no sound on
Speaker 2: the soft earth. You are walking lightly, as if the
Speaker 2: forest is absorbing your footsteps the way a sponge absorbs water.
Speaker 2: You walk deeper into the forest, the sounds of the
Speaker 2: outside world fade further away. The weight of your responsibilities,
Speaker 2: your worries, your plans. They all begin to feel lighter,
Speaker 2: not because they have disappeared, because the forest is teaching
Speaker 2: your body something your mind has forgotten. That you can
Speaker 2: put things down that you can derest that the earth
Speaker 2: will hold you even when you stop holding yourself. The
Speaker 2: path opens ahead of you, and you see that it
Speaker 2: leads to a clearing, a wide, sunlit space in the
Speaker 2: heart of the forest, carpeted with soft grass and ringed
Speaker 2: by ancient trees whose branches form a cathedral ceiling.
Speaker 4: Above.
Speaker 2: In the center of the clearing, there is a single stone,
Speaker 2: flat and broad, warmed by the sun, inviting you to seek.
Speaker 2: This is the place where we will do our deepest
Speaker 2: work to it. Walk to the stone and sit down.
Speaker 2: Feel its warm through your clothing. It's solidity beneath you.
Speaker 2: You are grounded, You are centered. You are exactly where
Speaker 2: you need to be now, in this place of safety
Speaker 2: and stillness, I want you to turn your attention inward,
Speaker 2: not to your thoughts, but to your body, specifically to
Speaker 2: the places where you feel weight. Will you feel tension?
Speaker 2: Will you feel the accumulation of everything you have been carrying?
Speaker 2: Perhaps it is in your shoulders, those two mountains of
Speaker 2: muscles that hunch upward toward your ears when you are stressed,
Speaker 2: that not untighten when you hold the phone to your
Speaker 2: ear or lean over a screen, feel them now, feel
Speaker 2: the tensions stored there, thick and dense, like rope that
Speaker 2: has been twisted too Tightly, Roll your shoulders slowly, feel
Speaker 2: the knots. Name them if you can. Perhaps it is
Speaker 2: in your chest, that tightness just behind your sternum that
Speaker 2: comes when you are worried about some one you love,
Speaker 2: or when you are carrying a disappointment you have not
Speaker 2: yet spoken aloud.
Speaker 1: Feel it now.
Speaker 2: It might feel like a stone sitting on your heart,
Speaker 2: or a hand pressing gently but persistently against your breastbone.
Speaker 2: Breathe into it, Let the breath touch the place that hurts.
Speaker 2: Perhaps it is in your stomach, that churning, noted feeling
Speaker 2: that comes from anxiety or uncertainty, from decisions not yet made,
Speaker 2: from conversations not yet had. Feel it now, Notice its shape,
Speaker 2: its texture, its temperature. Is it hot cold? Does it
Speaker 2: pulse or say it still? Does it move when you breathe,
Speaker 2: or is it frozen in place? Perhaps it is in
Speaker 2: your lower back, that deep, aching tension that builds over
Speaker 2: days and weeks of carrying the weight of your life,
Speaker 2: the weight of being needed, the weight of being strong
Speaker 2: for others. Feel it now, Feel how it wraps around
Speaker 2: your spine. Like a vine, gripping tightly, making each small
Speaker 2: movement and negotiation between comfort and pain. Perhaps it is
Speaker 2: behind your eyes, that dull pressure that comes from staring
Speaker 2: at screens, from processing information all day, from trying to
Speaker 2: make sense of a world that often does not make sense.
Speaker 2: Feel it now. Let your eyeballs rest deep in their sockets,
Speaker 2: Let the muscles around them go soft. Wherever you carry
Speaker 2: your weight tonight, acknowledge it, not with frustration, not with judgment,
Speaker 2: just with the simple recognition.
Speaker 5: Of what is true. You have been carrying this and
Speaker 5: it has been heavy. Take a moment now to give
Speaker 5: a name to what you have been holding. You do
Speaker 5: not need to set it aloud, You do not need
Speaker 5: to explain it to anyone. Just let it rise to
Speaker 5: the surface. If you're awar in the sucker bubble rising
Speaker 5: through deep water, naywick quietly in your mind. There it
Speaker 5: is the thing you have been carrying, the worry, the grief,
Speaker 5: the fear, the regret, the anger, the uncertainty. It has
Speaker 5: a shape.
Speaker 2: Now, it has a.
Speaker 6: Weight, and in this forest, in this clearing, in this
Speaker 6: moment of total presence, you can see it clearly for
Speaker 6: the first time.
Speaker 5: You have been carrying this.
Speaker 6: For a long time, perhaps longer than you realized. It
Speaker 6: became so familiar that you forgot it was there, the
Speaker 6: way you stop noticing the weight of a back pack
Speaker 6: after you have been wearing it for hours, but your
Speaker 6: body remembered. Your body has been holding this even when
Speaker 6: your mind tried to push it away.
Speaker 7: Your body always tells the truth, even when your mind
Speaker 7: is busy telling stories. So let us honor what your
Speaker 7: body has been doing, let us thank it for its service,
Speaker 7: and then together let us begin the work of setting
Speaker 7: it down. In the center of the clearing, next to
Speaker 7: the warm stone where you are sitting, you notice something
Speaker 7: that was not there before. A small stream.
Speaker 2: Flows gently from between the roots of an ancient oak,
Speaker 2: winding through the grass in a narrow channel before disappearing
Speaker 2: into the forest flore a few meters away. The water
Speaker 2: is crystal clear. You can see every pebble, every grain
Speaker 2: of sand in the bottom. The sunlight catches its surface
Speaker 2: and scatters it into tiny diamonds of light. This stream
Speaker 2: has a purpose. It is here to carry things away,
Speaker 2: not with force, not with violence, but with the patient,
Speaker 2: persistent power of flowing water, water that has been carving
Speaker 2: its path through the earth for centuries, water that knows
Speaker 2: exactly what to do with what it is given. Lean
Speaker 2: closer and listen to the stream. It has a voice,
Speaker 2: not words, but a sound that is almost like words,
Speaker 2: a murmur, a whisper, a soft syllable that repeats and
Speaker 2: varies and repeats again. That sounds like the world's oldest lullaby,
Speaker 2: sung without end, without audience, simply because singing is what
Speaker 2: water does. I want you to imagine now that the
Speaker 2: thing you have been carrying, the weight you just acknowledged,
Speaker 2: has a physical form. It might look like a stone.
Speaker 2: It might look like a bundle of dark cloth. It
Speaker 2: might look like a tangled knot of the red. It
Speaker 2: might look like a heavy book, or a sack of grain,
Speaker 2: or a piece of drift wood, worn smooth by years
Speaker 2: of salt water. Whatever fool it takes, it is sitting
Speaker 2: in your hands. Now, feed its great feed its texture,
Speaker 2: feel the truth of it. This is real. What you
Speaker 2: are holding is real. The pain, the worry, the burden,
Speaker 2: it all matters. It has mattered to you, and it
Speaker 2: has shaped too. We're not trying to pretend it never existed.
Speaker 2: We are not trying to erase your experience. We are
Speaker 2: not dismissing what you have been through. We are simply
Speaker 2: acknowledging that this thing has done its work, hurt you
Speaker 2: what it came to teach, and now it is time
Speaker 2: to let it go. Look at the stream, Feel the
Speaker 2: cool mist rising from its surface. Hear the gentle murmur
Speaker 2: of its voice as it flows over the stones. Watch
Speaker 2: a leaf drift past, spinning slowly in the current, carried
Speaker 2: along without effort, without struggle, without resistance. Now, when you
Speaker 2: are ready, place what you are holding into the stream.
Speaker 2: Do it slowly, Feel your fingers opening, feel the weight
Speaker 2: leaving your palms. Watch as the water takes it. Watch
Speaker 2: as the current catches it and begins to carry it downstream.
Speaker 2: It does not resist, it does not cling to your hands.
Speaker 2: Is simply except what the water offers, the freedom of movement,
Speaker 2: the journey of release, the trust that the current knows
Speaker 2: with goo watch it go.
Speaker 3: Watch as it travels.
Speaker 2: Downstream, getting smaller and smaller. Its edge is softening, its shape, dissolving.
Speaker 2: The water does not hurry. It carries your burden with
Speaker 2: the same gentle care with which it carries every leaf,
Speaker 2: every petal, every fallen branch, with absolute neutrality, with absolute acceptance.
Speaker 2: It does not judge what you have given it. It
Speaker 2: simply takes it and carries it away. And as it
Speaker 2: disappears around the bend, something remarkable happens. Your hands feel lighter,
Speaker 2: your chest feels lighter. That tightness behind your sternum has
Speaker 2: loosened just a little. Your shoulders have dropped another fraction
Speaker 2: of an inch. Your stomach has unclinched just enough to
Speaker 2: let a full breath pass through. You did it, You
Speaker 2: let something go, and the world did not end. In fact,
Speaker 2: the world feels a little brighter. The light in the
Speaker 2: clearing seems warmer. The bird song sounds clearer, The air
Speaker 2: feels cleaner in your lungs. This is what release feels like,
Speaker 2: not emptiness, not loss, space, room to breathe, room to
Speaker 2: growl room to be. But we are not finished. This
Speaker 2: dream is patient, and there is more to release. I
Speaker 2: want you to look at your hands again. Even after
Speaker 2: placing the first burden into the water, you notice that
Speaker 2: there is more there. Your body has been carrying layers
Speaker 2: of weight, stacked one on top of another, like sediment
Speaker 2: in a river bed. The first release revealed the next layer,
Speaker 2: and now you can see it clearly. This layer might
Speaker 2: be different from the first. Perhaps it is lighter, more diffuse.
Speaker 2: Not a single heavy stone, but a collection of smaller pebbles,
Speaker 2: each one representing a minor worry, a small frustration, a
Speaker 2: fleeting anxiety that accumulated over days and weeks, until together
Speaker 2: they formed a weight that.
Speaker 7: Pressed you down.
Speaker 2: Pick up these smalles stones, hold them in your palms,
Speaker 2: Feel how numerous they are. Each one is small on
Speaker 2: its own, but together they are significant. You might even
Speaker 2: recognize some of them though. Worry about a deadline, the
Speaker 2: irritation with a coworker, the nagging feeling that you forgot
Speaker 2: something important, the guilt about spending too much time on
Speaker 2: your phone, the fear that you are not doing enough,
Speaker 2: not being enough, not keeping up with everyone else. These
Speaker 2: are the pebbles of daily life. They are not traumatic,
Speaker 2: They do not make for good stories. They are not
Speaker 2: the kind of thing you would tell a friend about
Speaker 2: over coffee. But they are heavy in their accumulation. They
Speaker 2: fill your pockets with weight you barely notice until you
Speaker 2: try to move, until you try to rest, until you
Speaker 2: lie down at night and feel them pressing into you
Speaker 2: from every side. Let them go, too, Open your hands
Speaker 2: over the stream and let the pebbles fall. Watch them
Speaker 2: splash into the water, one by one, small splashes, quiet
Speaker 2: entries the stream. Valley notices. It takes each pebble the
Speaker 2: same way it took the stone, the same way it
Speaker 2: takes every fallen branch and autumn leaf, without preference, without judgment,
Speaker 2: without hesitation. Watch as the current takes them, rolling them downstream,
Speaker 2: tumbling them over the rocks, smoothing their edges, until they
Speaker 2: become part of the river bed itself. They are not destroyed.
Speaker 2: They are transformed from burdens into beauty, from weight into landscape,
Speaker 2: from things that press you down into things that hold
Speaker 2: the water in place, that create the pools where the
Speaker 2: light gathers, that shape the current into its path. Feel
Speaker 2: a lightness spreading through your body now, starting in your
Speaker 2: hands and traveling up your arms, into your shoulders, down
Speaker 2: your spine. It is like warm water pouring through you,
Speaker 2: dissolving every knot, every tension, every type place. It touches
Speaker 2: your muscles, soften your joints, loosen your breathing deepens. You
Speaker 2: might feel a gentle tingling in your extremities, as if
Speaker 2: your body is waking up from a long sleep, and
Speaker 2: still there is more. There are the oldest layers, the
Speaker 2: ones you have been carrying so long they have become
Speaker 2: part of your identity. The belief that you are not enough,
Speaker 2: the fear that you will fail, the grief that you
Speaker 2: carry for opportunities lost, for words left unspoken, for the
Speaker 2: person you thought you would be by now, the story
Speaker 2: you tell yourself about who you are and what you deserve.
Speaker 2: These are the deepest weights, the ones that have shaped
Speaker 2: the contours of your inner landscape. Releasing them feel so
Speaker 2: releasing a part of yourself, and any way it is,
Speaker 2: it is releasing a version of yourself that no longer
Speaker 2: serves you, a version that was born from pain, from fear,
Speaker 2: from the stories you were told, and the stories you
Speaker 2: told yourself when you were a small one, the world
Speaker 2: felt too big to understand. Look at the stream one
Speaker 2: more time. It flows on, endless, patient, endlessly, willing to
Speaker 2: carry whatever you give it. The water does not judge,
Speaker 2: It does not ask questions, It does not demand explanations
Speaker 2: or justifications. It simply receives and carries away. It has
Speaker 2: been doing this since before you were born, and it
Speaker 2: will continue long after you are gone. There is something
Speaker 2: deeply comforting about that something that says you are not
Speaker 2: the first to carry this weight, and you will not
Speaker 2: be the last to set it down. Let these deep
Speaker 2: old weights go, not all at once, not in a
Speaker 2: single dramatic gesture.
Speaker 8: Gently one by one, like releasing your grip on a
Speaker 8: railing you have been holding for years. Feel your fingers uncurling,
Speaker 8: Feel your knuckle streetening, Feel the stiffness in your joints
Speaker 8: dissolving as years of tension finally mercifully release. Watch the
Speaker 8: last of it flow away. Watch the water carry it
Speaker 8: downstream through the forest, out into the wider world, where
Speaker 8: it will dissolve into the earth and become something new,
Speaker 8: something that no longer weighs on you, something.
Speaker 2: That has completed its journey, something that has finished its teaching.
Speaker 2: And now, in this space you have created this new
Speaker 2: openness in your body and your mind. Something extraordinary happens.
Speaker 2: The light at the far end of the clearing brightens.
Speaker 2: The golden shafts of sun intensify, gathering together, or like
Speaker 2: a dozen spots, like converging on a single point, the
Speaker 2: air and the clearing shafts.
Speaker 1: It becomes warmer, more luminous, as if the clearing itself
Speaker 1: is taking.
Speaker 2: A deep breath. From that light, a figure begins to emerge.
Speaker 2: At first, it is just a silhouette, a shape against
Speaker 2: the brightness, But as it steps forward into the soft
Speaker 2: grass of the clearing, you begin to see details. It
Speaker 2: is you, but it is a you that has not
Speaker 2: arrived yet, a future version of yourself, standing in the
Speaker 2: fullness of who you are becoming. Notice how this future
Speaker 2: self moves. There is a confidence in their step that
Speaker 2: comes not from arrogance, but from self knowledge. They know
Speaker 2: who they are. They have been through the fire of
Speaker 2: experience and come out the other side with their authenticity intact.
Speaker 2: They have released the weights that you are just now
Speaker 2: learning to set down. You can see it in the
Speaker 2: way they carry themselves, in the way their shoulders are relaxed,
Speaker 2: in the way their eyes are clear and settled. Look
Speaker 2: at their face. What do you see there? Perhaps there
Speaker 2: are lines that were not there before, marks of laughter
Speaker 2: and tears, of living fully and without reservation. Perhaps their
Speaker 2: eyes are deeper, more settled, carrying the wisdom of experiences you.
Speaker 5: Have not yet had.
Speaker 2: Perhaps their smile is different, quieter, more certain, the smile
Speaker 2: of someone who has made peace with themselves and with
Speaker 2: the world. This is not a fantasy. This is not
Speaker 2: an illusion, This is a possibility. This is who you
Speaker 2: are in the process of becoming.
Speaker 9: Every choice you make, every weight you release, every moment
Speaker 9: of persons and courage, moves you classer to this version
Speaker 9: of yourself.
Speaker 2: Your future self.
Speaker 9: Walks toward you and sits down beside you on the stone.
Speaker 9: There do not speak immediately. They simply sit with you,
Speaker 9: sharing the warmth of the sun, the gentle sound of
Speaker 9: the stream, the soft breeding of the forest. Their presence
Speaker 9: is a gift. It tells you that the journey is
Speaker 9: worth it, that the releasing smutters.
Speaker 2: That you are going somewhere beautiful. When they finally speak,
Speaker 2: their voice is familiar. It is your own voice, but steadier, calmer.
Speaker 2: There is no urgency in it, no performance, no need
Speaker 2: to impress or convince, just truth, spoken simply, the way
Speaker 2: truth always sounds when it is finally free from the
Speaker 2: noise of fear and doubt. They might say something like this,
Speaker 2: I know it is hard. I know the letting go
Speaker 2: feels like law.
Speaker 10: But I am here to tell you that every way
Speaker 10: you release creates space for something more, space for joy
Speaker 10: that you could not feel when you were carrying so
Speaker 10: much space for love that could not reach you when
Speaker 10: your arms were full, Space for the person you truly are,
Speaker 10: to finally step forward and be seen. Listen to these words.
Speaker 10: Let them land in the open spaces you have created
Speaker 10: inside yourself. Let them fill the places where the old
Speaker 10: weights used to be. This is what fills the vacuum
Speaker 10: of release. Not emptiness but possibility, not loss, but becoming.
Speaker 10: Your future self reaches out and takes your hand. Feel
Speaker 10: the warmth of their grip, feel the strength in their fingers.
Speaker 10: They are not stronger than you, They are simply you, unburdened, you,
Speaker 10: standing in the full light of who you are. They
Speaker 10: squeeze your hand once gently, and in that squeeze you
Speaker 10: feel a transmission, a knowing, a certainty that you are
Speaker 10: on the right path. That the work you are doing tonight,
Speaker 10: the releasing, the opening, the choosing to be present, it matters.
Speaker 10: It is changing you.
Speaker 11: Slowly, quietly, profoundly. Not in the way the world measures
Speaker 11: change with announcements and milestones and public displays, but in
Speaker 11: the way the earth stridges from the inside out, one
Speaker 11: grain at a time. And now your future self stands.
Speaker 11: They smile at you one more time, that quiet, certain smile,
Speaker 11: and they begin to walk back toward the light. As
Speaker 11: they go, they look over the shoulder, and their eyes
Speaker 11: say what their lips do not need to. I will
Speaker 11: be here.
Speaker 3: I am waiting, and I am you. Watch them go,
Speaker 3: Watch as the light receives them back into itself. Feel
Speaker 3: the warmth of their presence lingering in the air, in
Speaker 3: your hand, in your chest. They are not gone. They
Speaker 3: are simply ahead of you on the path, and every
Speaker 3: step you take from this moment forward is a step
Speaker 3: toward them. Feel the space inside you now, Feel.
Speaker 2: How different it is from when we began. Where there
Speaker 2: was tension, there is ease where there was weight, There
Speaker 2: is lightness. Where there was a closed fist, there is
Speaker 2: an open hand. Where there was a wall, there is
Speaker 2: a window. This is what it feels like when you
Speaker 2: let go, not empty, full full of air, full of light,
Speaker 2: full of the simple, uncomplicated joy of being present in
Speaker 2: your own body. Take a deep breath, now, deeper than
Speaker 2: any breath you've taken tonight. Feel the air pour in
Speaker 2: tea like sunlight filling our room. Fill your lungs completely
Speaker 2: and then a little more holy. Feel the fullness of
Speaker 2: this moment, the complete and total occupation of your body
Speaker 2: by your breath. Feel the edges of your roops expanding,
Speaker 2: Feel the pressure against the dire fraim, feel the lin release.
Speaker 2: Let it go with a sound if you like, a sigh,
Speaker 2: a hum, a gentle brow of relief, whatever your body
Speaker 2: wants to express. Let the ex hill carry the last
Speaker 2: remnants of what you have released. Let it be a celebration,
Speaker 2: a homecoming. I thank you to yourself for doing this
Speaker 2: brave and necessary work. Notice how your body feels in
Speaker 2: this moment, not how you think it should feel, how
Speaker 2: it actually feels. Perhaps there is still some residual tension somewhere.
Speaker 1: That is fine.
Speaker 2: We do not need to be perfect in our release.
Speaker 1: We only need to be willing. The rest have been
Speaker 1: in his own time, in his own way.
Speaker 12: The body has its own timeline for healing, and it
Speaker 12: is rarely the timeline the mind. Once perhaps you feel
Speaker 12: a gentle warmth spreading through your limbs. Perhaps you feel
Speaker 12: a tingling in your fingertips or the soles of your feet.
Speaker 12: Perhaps you feel a soft pulsing in your temples or
Speaker 12: your throat. Perhaps you feel nothing specific, owl just a
Speaker 12: general sense of spaciousness and ease, like stepping into a
Speaker 12: room that has just been cleaned and aired out. All
Speaker 12: of these responses are valid.
Speaker 13: All of them are signs that something has shifted eastside.
Speaker 1: You.
Speaker 13: Let yourself rest in this new lightness. Let your body
Speaker 13: explore it the way child explores a new room, touching
Speaker 13: the walls, feeling the floor, testing the space. There is
Speaker 13: no rush, therefore, is to await. The clearing will hold
Speaker 13: you as long as you need. Feel the warmth of
Speaker 13: the stone being easy. It has been as driving the
Speaker 13: sun all day and night. Shears that warmth with you.
Speaker 2: Feel it seeping through your cloaths, through your skin, into
Speaker 2: your muscles, your bones, your blood. You are being nourished
Speaker 2: by the earth itself, held by the sun, supported by
Speaker 2: something vast and ancient and endlessly generous. This is your birthrate,
Speaker 2: This lightness, this peace, There's always been here, waiting beneath
Speaker 2: the layers of weight and worry and habit. You have
Speaker 2: not created it tonight. You have uncovered it, like an
Speaker 2: archaeologist brushing away centuries of dust to reveal the mosaic beneath.
Speaker 2: The beauty was always there. You simply had to clear
Speaker 2: away what was covering it. Now, let us use the
Speaker 2: breath to deep in and anchor this new state. We
Speaker 2: are going to practice a rhythm called four two six two.
Speaker 2: It is simple and it is powerful. It activates your
Speaker 2: body's natural relaxation response, the one that tells your nervous
Speaker 2: system you are safe. You can stand down, you can rest.
Speaker 2: Here is how it works. We will breathe in for
Speaker 2: a count of four, hold for a count of two,
Speaker 2: breathe out slowly for a count of six, and pause
Speaker 2: for a count of two before the next in hail,
Speaker 2: Let us begin together. Breathe in through your nose two
Speaker 2: three four. Feel your lungs feel steadily, evenly, like water
Speaker 2: rising in the glass, cool air entering, Feeling the space
Speaker 2: behind your ribs. Hold one two, Feel the stillness at
Speaker 2: the top of the breath, the brief pause between action
Speaker 2: and release. There is a whole world in the spause,
Speaker 2: a whole universe of quiet. Now bring out through your
Speaker 2: mouth slowly two three, four, five six. Let the ax
Speaker 2: hel be twice as long as the nhale. Feel your
Speaker 2: body softening with it. Feel your belly drawn inward, Feel
Speaker 2: the tension leaving your minds like water draining from a bath,
Speaker 2: like weight falling from your shoulders pose one two. Feel
Speaker 2: the emptiness at the bottom of the breath, the stillness
Speaker 2: before the next. In hell, there is a vast piece
Speaker 2: in this pause, a whole universe of piet between one
Speaker 2: breath and the next again in two, three four, steady
Speaker 2: and full. Hold one two, out, two, three, four, five six,
Speaker 2: Slow and complete, Every less molecule of air released. Pause
Speaker 2: one two. Notice how your body responds to this rhythm.
Speaker 2: Your heart be slowing, your muscles unclinching, the thoughts in
Speaker 2: your mind growing quieter, pure, softer, like snowflakes drifting down
Speaker 2: through still air. Each breath draws you deeper into the clearing,
Speaker 2: deeper into the stillness, deeper into yourself. Let us can
Speaker 2: you for several more rounds? I will guide you through
Speaker 2: each face in two three four. Feel the air passing
Speaker 2: through your nostrils, down your throat, filling the space behind
Speaker 2: your rips. Feel your belly rise. Hold one two.
Speaker 1: Hold the fullness, Hold the stillness. This is the moment
Speaker 1: of maximum openness. Out two, three, four, five six, slow
Speaker 1: and steady. Feel your body letting go with each number.
Speaker 1: Feel the muscles in your face soften, Feel your shoulders drop,
Speaker 1: Feel the space between your shoulder blades, melt into whatever
Speaker 1: is beneath you. Pause one two. Rest here in the
Speaker 1: emptiness and the space between. This is where the deepest
Speaker 1: healing happens, in the paws, in the silence, and the
Speaker 1: nothing that is actually everything. In two three four. Feel
Speaker 1: the warmth of the new breath entering hold one two out,
Speaker 1: two three, four, five six, Feel the weight of the
Speaker 1: day leaving with the air. Pause one two. Let us
Speaker 1: do three more rounds on your own. Now you know
Speaker 1: the rhythm, trust your body to follow it, Trust the
Speaker 1: numbers to carry you. I will be here when you return.
Speaker 1: Follow the rhythm of four two six, two, and let
Speaker 1: yourself sink deeper with each cycle. Welcome back.
Speaker 2: You should feel a deep sense of calm. Now, a
Speaker 2: won't spreading from your center outward to the tips of
Speaker 2: your fingers, and the breath work has told your body
Speaker 2: a story, a story of safety, of rest, of permission
Speaker 2: to let go of the constant vigilance that modern life demands.
Speaker 2: Carry this feeling with you. It is not something you
Speaker 2: need this for us to access. It lives inside you,
Speaker 2: in your breath, in your body. You can return to
Speaker 2: this rhythm any time you need to, any moment of stress,
Speaker 2: any moment of worry, any moment when the weights begin
Speaker 2: to pile up again, you can close your eyes and
Speaker 2: breathe in for four, hold for two, out for six,
Speaker 2: pause for two, and in thirty seconds you will be
Speaker 2: back here, back in the clearing, back in the light,
Speaker 2: back in the piece. Before we leave this clearing, let
Speaker 2: us plant some seeds. Words have power, then, not the
Speaker 2: magic power, but the power of repetition, the power of intention,
Speaker 2: the power of choosing what to believe about yourself and
Speaker 2: your life. These are not commands. They are not demands.
Speaker 2: They are invitations. Take the ones that resonate with you
Speaker 2: tonight and leave the rest. They will be here whenever
Speaker 2: you need them. I release what no longer serves me.
Speaker 2: I am allowed to set down my burdens. My worth
Speaker 2: is not measured by what I carry. I trust the
Speaker 2: process of letting go. I am safe to be still.
Speaker 2: My body knows how to heal. I choose peace over perfection.
Speaker 2: I am enough exactly as I am. I release the need.
Speaker 14: To control what I cannot change. I welcome the lightness
Speaker 14: that comes with surrender. My past does not define my future.
Speaker 14: I am becoming who I was always meant to be.
Speaker 14: Let these words settle into the way rain settles into soil.
Speaker 14: You do not need to force them. You do not
Speaker 14: need to repeat, eat them, or memorize them, or write
Speaker 14: them down.
Speaker 1: Simply let them be. Thing them find the places inside
Speaker 1: you where they are needed most, and take root there.
Speaker 1: In their own time, in their own way, they will grow.
Speaker 1: They will become part of you. They will speak to
Speaker 1: you when you need them most, rising up from some
Speaker 1: quiet corner of your memory, like the voice of a
Speaker 1: friend who always knows what to say. The light in
Speaker 1: the clearing is changing now. The golden shafts are softening,
Speaker 1: taking on the warm amber tones of late afternoon. The
Speaker 1: forest knows that our time here is drawing to a close,
Speaker 1: and it is preparing to hold you a little more gently.
Speaker 1: As you transition from this inner world back to the
Speaker 1: outer one, take one last look around. The ancient trees,
Speaker 1: their bark thick and furrowed with age, standing like silent
Speaker 1: witnesses to everything that has happened here tonight. The stream
Speaker 1: still flowing, still carrying, still doing its patient, eternal work, the.
Speaker 15: Mass, the wildflowers, the shafts of light filtering through the canopy.
Speaker 15: This place will be here whenever you need it. You
Speaker 15: carry it inside you now, a forest of peace that
Speaker 15: you can visit any time you close your eyes and breathe.
Speaker 15: Place your hand over your heart, feel it beating that steady,
Speaker 15: faithful rhythm that has been with you since before you
Speaker 15: were born, before you had a name, before you had
Speaker 15: a story. It does not ask for your permission, It
Speaker 15: does not need your help.
Speaker 2: It does not care about your plans, or your fears,
Speaker 2: or your.
Speaker 5: To do list.
Speaker 2: It simply beats, faithfully, constantly, without rest, without complaint. Your
Speaker 2: heart has been carrying you your entire life. Perhaps tonight
Speaker 2: you can carry it a little more gently. Thank yourself
Speaker 2: for being here, for showing up, for choosing to spend
Speaker 2: this time on the sacred work of release. It would
Speaker 2: have been easy to skid this, to scroll through your phone,
Speaker 2: to watch some thing, to stay busy, to stay distracted.
Speaker 1: But you chose this. You chose stillness, You chose courage.
Speaker 1: You chose to sit with yourself in the dark and
Speaker 1: do the work that needed doing, and that matters more
Speaker 1: than you know. That choice, repeated night after night, will
Speaker 1: reshape your life in ways you cannot yet imagine. Before
Speaker 1: we leave, let us take one final walk together through
Speaker 1: this clearing, not to do anything, not to fix or
Speaker 1: change or release, simply to witness. See this place with
Speaker 1: fresh eyes, knowing what has happened here tonight, Walk slow, leaf,
Speaker 1: Feel the grass beneath your feet cool now as a
Speaker 1: shadow's lengthen in orders the way the light filters through
Speaker 1: the canopy, creating bartons on the ground that shift and
Speaker 1: change with every breeze. Each parton is unique, Each pattern
Speaker 1: exists for all your moment before it transforms into something new.
Speaker 1: There's a lesson in that nothing is permanent, not even
Speaker 1: the beautiful things and.
Speaker 2: Not the painful ones either. Pause at the stream one
Speaker 2: more time. Look at the water. It is the same
Speaker 2: stream it was an hour ago. But you are different.
Speaker 2: You are lighter, you are more open. The stream knows this.
Speaker 2: It reflects your face back to you, and the face
Speaker 2: it shows you is clearer than the one you arrived with.
Speaker 2: There is a softness in your expression that was not
Speaker 2: there before. There is a lightness in your eyes. The
Speaker 2: forest breeze with you now. You are not a visitor here.
Speaker 2: You are a part of this place. The piece of
Speaker 2: this clearing is your peace. The stillness of these trees
Speaker 2: is your stillness. The flow of this water is your
Speaker 2: own capacity for release, flowing, always, carrying, always, renewing always.
Speaker 2: This is not something you visited, This is something you remembered.
Speaker 2: Stand in the center of the clearing and simply be.
Speaker 2: Feel the air on your skin, feel the sun on
Speaker 2: your face, feel the gentle gravity of the earth holding
Speaker 2: you exactly where you are.
Speaker 16: There is nothing else to do, There is nowhere else
Speaker 16: to be. This moment, right here, right now, is complete.
Speaker 16: In this completeness, Light gratitude arise not as an obligation,
Speaker 16: not as a spiritual exxious eise, not because some one
Speaker 16: told you is good for you, but as a natural
Speaker 16: response to the beauty of this moment. The way the
Speaker 16: body producest is in response to beauty or laughter, in
Speaker 16: response to joy.
Speaker 2: Gratitude for your body, which carried you here tonight and
Speaker 2: continues to carry you through life with remarkable grace and resilience,
Speaker 2: through illness and health, through grief and celebration, through every
Speaker 2: stumble and every triumph. Your body has never given up
Speaker 2: on you, even when you gave up on it. Gratitude
Speaker 2: for your mind, which, despite its tendency toward worry and
Speaker 2: overthinking gave you the awareness to know that you needed
Speaker 2: this tonight and the wisdom to seek it out. Your
Speaker 2: mind is a powerful tool. It brought you here, and
Speaker 2: tonight you taught it something new that sometimes the best
Speaker 2: thing it can do is be quiet. Gratitude for the
Speaker 2: weights you release tonight. Yes, gratitude for the burdens themselves,
Speaker 2: because they taught you something. They showed you where you
Speaker 2: were holding on too tightly. They revealed the places in
Speaker 2: your life that need attention, care and compassion.
Speaker 5: That were not enemies.
Speaker 2: They were teachers, difficult minding teachers, but teachers. Nonetheless, gratitude
Speaker 2: for this clearing, this forest, the stream, this stone, real
Speaker 2: or imagined. They served their purpose tonight with absolute fidelity.
Speaker 2: They held the space for your healing. They asked nothing
Speaker 2: in return. They gave everything and expected nothing. There is
Speaker 2: a purity in that kind of generosity that we rarely
Speaker 2: encounter in the waking world. And gratitude for this moment,
Speaker 2: this single, unrepeatable moment in the long, beautiful, complicated story
Speaker 2: of your life, a moment of peace, a moment of release,
Speaker 2: a moment of coming home to yourself. There will never
Speaker 2: be another moment exactly like this one, and that is
Speaker 2: what makes it precious. It is time now to make
Speaker 2: our way back, not with haste, not with reluctance, but
Speaker 2: with the gentle, natural rhythm of someone who knows that
Speaker 2: they can always return. The forest is not going anywhere,
Speaker 2: The clearing is not going anywhere. The stream will keep flowing,
Speaker 2: the light will keep shifting, the stone will keep warming
Speaker 2: in the sun. This place exists inside you know, and
Speaker 2: it will be here whenever you need it. Begin to
Speaker 2: bring your awareness back to your physical body. Feel the
Speaker 2: room around you, the temperature of the air on your skin,
Speaker 2: the sounds that exist beyond the forest, in the real world,
Speaker 2: where your life is waiting for you. Perhaps the hum
Speaker 2: of a fan, the distant sound of traffic, the quiet
Speaker 2: breathing of someone in another room. These sounds are not intrusions.
Speaker 2: They are gentle invitations back to the world. Feel the
Speaker 2: surface beneath you, whether it is a bed, a couch,
Speaker 2: a mat, or the floor. Feel it supporting you. Feel
Speaker 2: the texture of whatever is against your skin, the fabric
Speaker 2: of your clothes, the weave of a blanket, the coolness
Speaker 2: of a pillowcase. Your body is here. Your body is now.
Speaker 2: Weigle your fingers, the.
Speaker 17: All movements at first, testing the connection between your mind
Speaker 17: and your body. Feel each finger separately, the thumb, the
Speaker 17: index finger, the mere finger, each one a distinct and
Speaker 17: miraculous instrument. Feel the pads of your fingertips, the nails,
Speaker 17: the small creases at each joint. These hands that carry
Speaker 17: your world, Let them be soft tonight. Wiggle your toes.
Speaker 17: Feel the sensation of movement traveling.
Speaker 2: Up through your feet, your ankles, your cuds, Because it's
Speaker 2: your body is waking up, returning to its ordinary state
Speaker 2: of readiness. But it carries something new now, a lightness,
Speaker 2: a softness, a quiet confidence that comes from having faced
Speaker 2: your burdens and released them. Take a deep breath. This time.
Speaker 2: It is not a meditation breath. It is a waking breath,
Speaker 2: an arrival breath, the kind of breath you take when
Speaker 2: you step out of a cool building into warm sunlight.
Speaker 2: Fill the energy in it the other life. If you
Speaker 2: are lying down, begin to roll on to your side.
Speaker 2: Rest there for a moment in the fetal position, curled
Speaker 2: and the safe. This is a position of transition, a
Speaker 2: position between sleep and waking, between the inner world and
Speaker 2: the outer.
Speaker 13: Honor it.
Speaker 2: Give yourself a small mercy of a few more seconds
Speaker 2: in the soft dark before you return to the light.
Speaker 2: When you are ready, use your hands to push yourself
Speaker 2: up to a seated position. Move slowly. There is no rush,
Speaker 2: There is no clock that matters. Right now, take your time,
Speaker 2: and when you feel steady, when you feel ready, open
Speaker 2: your eyes. Let the world come back to you slowly,
Speaker 2: like a photograph developing in a dark room. First the shapes,
Speaker 2: then the colors, then the details. Let your eyes adjust,
Speaker 2: let your mind catch up. Let everything be a little
Speaker 2: softer than it was before. You are here. You are present.
Speaker 2: You are different than you were an hour ago, lighter, freer,
Speaker 2: more open, more yourself. Carry this with you into the
Speaker 2: rest of your evening, into your night, into tomorrow, not
Speaker 2: as a memory of something that happened, but as a
Speaker 2: state of being that you cultivated through your own courage
Speaker 2: and intention. You did this, you chose to release, and
Speaker 2: in releasing, you chose to growl. The forest is always here,
Speaker 2: the clearing is always here, and so is this piece,
Speaker 2: this lateness, this version of you that exists beneath all
Speaker 2: the weights you have learned to carry. Do you know
Speaker 2: where to find it?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: You know the way, the door is always open, the
Speaker 2: path is always clear. All you have to do is
Speaker 2: close your eyes and walk. Thank you for being here tonight,
Speaker 2: thank you for trusting yourself enough to let go. And
Speaker 2: thank you for the quiet, extraordinary courage it takes to
Speaker 2: sit with yourself in stillness and choose peace. I will
Speaker 2: be here whenever you need. Until next time, be gentle
Speaker 2: with yourself. You are doing BEAUTI lately.
Speaker 1: Good night,