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

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>leave without effort. But the garden does not feel smaller.

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<v Speaker 2>As you go deeper, the garden feels larger. The garden

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<v Speaker 2>seems to expand as you move through it, the way

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<v Speaker 2>a dream expands as you move through. The garden has

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<v Speaker 2>no edges. The garden has no end. There is always

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<v Speaker 2>more garden. There is always more quiet. You come to

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<v Speaker 2>a clearing in the center of the garden. In the

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<v Speaker 2>clearing there is a circle of grass. The grass is soft.

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

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

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 2>the slow tide of the body letting go through the door.

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<v Speaker 2>There is only the quiet dark, the safe dark, The

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<v Speaker 2>kind dark. You step through, not all at once. The

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<v Speaker 2>world will still be there in the morning, but it

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<v Speaker 2>does not need you tonight. On the other side of

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<v Speaker 2>the door, the body rests. The body is heavy, the

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<v Speaker 2>body is warm. The body is held by the bed.

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<v Speaker 2>The body is held by the blankets. The body is

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<v Speaker 2>held by the night. On the other side of the door,

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<v Speaker 2>the breath slows. The breath becomes almost nothing. The breath

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<v Speaker 2>becomes the smallest rise and fall. You do not need

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<v Speaker 2>to read. You only need to hold the book. You

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<v Speaker 2>only need to feed it's hate. You put the book back.

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<v Speaker 2>You pull another. This one is larger. This one is

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<v Speaker 2>bound in green. The pages are heavier, the pages are

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<v Speaker 2>edged in gold. You open it to a random page.

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<v Speaker 2>There is an illustration, a woodcut of a tree, of

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<v Speaker 2>a figure walking beneath the tree of a sky full

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<v Speaker 2>of stars. The illustration is simple. You feel held by

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<v Speaker 2>the garden. You feel held by the moment. In the garden,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing is asked of you, nothing is needed from you,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing is waiting for you. You can stay here as

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<v Speaker 2>long as you like. The garden does not track the time.

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<v Speaker 2>The garden does not keep count. The garden simply holds you.

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<v Speaker 2>The way. The tree holds the birds that nest in

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<v Speaker 2>its branches. The dream softens at the edges. The walls

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<v Speaker 2>are painted a color that has no name, a color

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<v Speaker 2>that lives somewhere between cream and pale rose. A color

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<v Speaker 2>that holds the light without reflecting it back too sharply.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a chair in the corner of the room,

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<v Speaker 2>a chair with arms. The chair is a polstered in

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<v Speaker 2>a fabric that is soft and worn and welcoming. You

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<v Speaker 2>are not going to sit in the chair tonight. You

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<v Speaker 2>are not going to need it. Your feet sink slightly

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<v Speaker 2>into it as you walk. You read, chuck, and pull

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<v Speaker 2>a book from a shelf. The book is small. The

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<v Speaker 2>book is bound in soft brown leather. The title on

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<v Speaker 2>the spine is in gold, but you cannot read the language.

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<v Speaker 2>You open the book. The pages are thin. The pages

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<v Speaker 2>are creamy. The pages are filled with words in a

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<v Speaker 2>script you do not know, but you do not need

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<v Speaker 2>to know the words. The chairs hold the shape of

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<v Speaker 2>the people who have rested here. You sit in one

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<v Speaker 2>of the chairs. The chair receives you. The chair has

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<v Speaker 2>been waiting for you. The leather is cool at first,

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<v Speaker 2>then warms to your body. On the desk in front

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<v Speaker 2>of you. There is an open book. You do not

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<v Speaker 2>remember opening it. The book is open to a page

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<v Speaker 2>with no words, only an image. The image is of

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<v Speaker 2>a window. You are loved by this moment. You are enough.

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<v Speaker 2>You have always been enough, You will always be enough.

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<v Speaker 2>Let these truths settle. Let them sink into your chest,

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<v Speaker 2>Let them sink into your belly, Let them sink into

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<v Speaker 2>your bones. Let them be there when you wake. Let

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<v Speaker 2>them be there in the morning. You put your hand

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<v Speaker 2>on the knob, you turn it. The door swings inward

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<v Speaker 2>on silent hinges. Beyond the door is the room of rest.

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<v Speaker 2>The room has been waiting for you. The room has

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<v Speaker 2>always been waiting for you, even on the days you

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<v Speaker 2>forgot it existed, even on the days you told yourself

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<v Speaker 2>you did not have time to enter. But tonight you

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<v Speaker 2>have time. Tonight you are stepping through. The Feel the

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<v Speaker 2>weight of your belly, Feel the warmth of your belly.

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<v Speaker 2>The belly is the soft center of you. The belly

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<v Speaker 2>is where you hold your feelings. Let it be soft tonight,

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<v Speaker 2>Let it be safe. Feel your hips. Feel your hips

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<v Speaker 2>heavy on the bed, Feel the bones of your pelvis

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<v Speaker 2>resting into the mattress. Feel the lower back settling. Feel

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<v Speaker 2>the small of your back lengthening, Now your legs. The

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<v Speaker 2>lamps have green glass shades. The light they give is warm.

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<v Speaker 2>The light is gentle on the eye.