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<v Speaker 1>In the garden there are places to sit. There is

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<v Speaker 1>a stone bench half covered in moss. There is a

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<v Speaker 1>wooden chair beneath an arbor. There is a low wall

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<v Speaker 1>at the garden's edge where you could sit and look

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<v Speaker 1>out over the rest of the garden. You do not

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<v Speaker 1>need to sit, but the garden offers these places. The

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<v Speaker 1>garden is generous with its rest. The light in the

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<v Speaker 1>garden does not change. The light is always the same.

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<v Speaker 1>The body is warm. The body is being held by

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<v Speaker 1>the bed, by the blankets. By the night. Nine eight seven.

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<v Speaker 1>The numbers grow softer. The numbers grow farther apart. There

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<v Speaker 1>is more space between them. Now there is more sunlight.

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<v Speaker 1>Violence six five four. You may lose the numbers. That

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<v Speaker 1>is all right. If the numbers fade, just let them fade.

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<v Speaker 1>The breath is still there, The body is still there.

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<v Speaker 1>Let you mind find a number, any number. Let it

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<v Speaker 1>be twenty. Breathe in, and as you breathe out, say

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<v Speaker 1>the number to yourself slowly. Twenty breathe in, breathe out. Nineteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Let the number carry you down. Each breath a number lower,

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<v Speaker 1>each breath a step closer to rest. Eighteen seventeen sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Do not think about the numbers. Just let them pass,

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<v Speaker 1>Let them be the rhythm of your breath. Your head

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<v Speaker 1>does not need to do anything tonight except rest. Let

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<v Speaker 1>your attention come to your neck, to the muscles along

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<v Speaker 1>the sides of your throat, to the small muscles at

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<v Speaker 1>the base of your skull. Feel them lengthen, feel them soften.

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<v Speaker 1>They have been holding your head up all day. Tonight

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<v Speaker 1>they are allowed to rest. Let your shoulders drop, Let

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<v Speaker 1>them drop toward the bed, Let them settle. You are

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<v Speaker 1>exactly where you are supposed to be, in this bed,

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<v Speaker 1>in this breath, in this moment, you are allowed to rest.

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<v Speaker 1>Rest is not laziness. Rest is not weakness. Rest is

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<v Speaker 1>the foundation of everything else. Without rest, nothing works. With rest,

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<v Speaker 1>everything becomes possible. You are worthy of this sleep. You

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<v Speaker 1>are worthy of this peace. You are worthy of being

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<v Speaker 1>held by the night.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, let your breathing find its own rhythm, a rhythm

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<v Speaker 2>that is a little slower than your waking rhythm, a

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<v Speaker 2>rhythm that is a little deeper.

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<v Speaker 1>Breathe in through your nose. Feel the air as it enters,

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<v Speaker 1>cool the nostrils, cool in the throat, cool chest. Breathe

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<v Speaker 1>out through your mouth softly, slowly, let the breath leave

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<v Speaker 1>without effort. Your feet sink slightly into it as you walk.

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<v Speaker 1>You read, chuck and pull a book from a shelf.

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<v Speaker 1>The book is small. The book is bound in soft

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<v Speaker 1>brown leather. The title on the spine is in gold,

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<v Speaker 1>but you cannot read the language. You open the book.

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<v Speaker 1>The pages are thin. The pages are creamy. The pages

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<v Speaker 1>are filled with words in a script you do not know,

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<v Speaker 1>but you do not need to know the words. The

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<v Speaker 1>body is doing its work. The body knows how to rest.

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<v Speaker 1>The body is resting right now. You are resting right now.

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<v Speaker 1>The garden becomes less distinct, the path, the bench, the

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<v Speaker 1>heron the tree. They fade gently into a wash of

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<v Speaker 1>green and gold and warmth. The garden does not disappear.

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<v Speaker 1>The garden becomes a feeling. The garden becomes a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of being held. The garden becomes the peace you carry

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<v Speaker 1>with you as you sleep. And then we really become

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<v Speaker 1>becomes a fair. The walls remember voices, the windows remember light.

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<v Speaker 1>You are in a hallway. The hallway is long. The

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<v Speaker 1>hallway is lit by a single window at the far end.

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<v Speaker 1>The light from the window falls in a long rectangle

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<v Speaker 1>on the wooden floor. The light is the light of

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<v Speaker 1>late afternoon. The light is golden. There are doors along

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<v Speaker 1>the hallway. Some of the doors are open, some of

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<v Speaker 1>the doors are closed. The sleep is still there, waiting

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<v Speaker 1>for you at the bottom of the count three two one.

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<v Speaker 1>And now there are no numbers. There is only breath.

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<v Speaker 1>There is only the rise and fall of the chest.

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<v Speaker 1>There is only the slow tide of the body letting go,

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<v Speaker 1>the feeling of being in a house that has always

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<v Speaker 1>been here, the feeling of being in a house that

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<v Speaker 1>will always be here, the feeling of being held by

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<v Speaker 1>the walls, by the floors, by the windows, by the

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<v Speaker 1>long quiet of a house at rest. I remember the

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<v Speaker 1>gradius of the first I then the last guy for

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<v Speaker 1>finish surround him has a question. But then the true

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<v Speaker 1>violence of correctly stater, the feeling of being to traumatiize

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<v Speaker 1>of them. Then the lawless psy hides of quiet from

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<v Speaker 1>the lord's by the lice lights be lust, the contempt

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<v Speaker 1>to listen, to free, the fewing of plays of we

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<v Speaker 1>we see, the while that he's allied with the waif

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<v Speaker 1>to will be give them into a strain