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<v Speaker 1>The shelves fade, the lamps dim, the chair dissolves into

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<v Speaker 1>the feeling of being held. The dream becomes the sense

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<v Speaker 1>of being in a place that is vast and quiet

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<v Speaker 1>and kind. You do not need to open the closed ones.

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<v Speaker 1>You do not need to enter the open ones. You

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<v Speaker 1>only need to walk the hallway. You only need to

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<v Speaker 1>feel the wood under your feet, feel the light on

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<v Speaker 1>your face, feel the quiet of the house. You walk.

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<v Speaker 1>Your footsteps echo softly. The echo is gentle. You put

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<v Speaker 1>your hand on the knob, you turn it. The door

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<v Speaker 1>swings inward on silent hinges. Beyond the door is the

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<v Speaker 1>room of rest. The room has been waiting for you.

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<v Speaker 1>The room has always been waiting for you, even on

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<v Speaker 1>the days you forgot it existed, even on the days

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<v Speaker 1>you told yourself you did not have time to enter.

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<v Speaker 1>But tonight you have time. Tonight you are stepping through Tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>They can do nothing. Let your attention return to your chest.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel your chest rise, feel your chest fall, Feel the

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<v Speaker 1>rhythm of your breathing. Do not change the rhythm, just

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<v Speaker 1>notice it. Notice how the breath comes in, Notice how

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<v Speaker 1>the breath goes out. Notice the small paws between That

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<v Speaker 1>pause is where peace lives. Feel your heart beating inside

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<v Speaker 1>your chest, feel it doing its work. The dark is

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<v Speaker 1>the kind of dark that wraps itself around you like

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<v Speaker 1>a heavy blanket. You can see if you look the

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<v Speaker 1>faintest suggestion of trees at the edge of the property.

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<v Speaker 1>The trees are still. The trees are sleeping too. There

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<v Speaker 1>is a clock in the room. The clock is not ticking.

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<v Speaker 1>The clock is silent. Tonight time does not need to

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<v Speaker 1>be measured. Tonight time will pass on its own without

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<v Speaker 1>any help from us. The night is kind. Sleep now sleep.

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<v Speaker 1>End of Week one Master Script The Art of Stillness,

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<v Speaker 1>seven thousand, five hundred words, thirty minutes, spoken at two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty w pm meditative pace. In this house,

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<v Speaker 1>you can simply walk the hallway, look through the doors,

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<v Speaker 1>rest your forehead against the window, and feel the cool

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<v Speaker 1>glass and the golden light. The house softens, the hallway fades,

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<v Speaker 1>The doors close one by one gently, the way doors close.

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<v Speaker 1>In a dream, the window dissolves, the glass becomes air,

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<v Speaker 1>the light becomes memory. The dream is over, but the

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<v Speaker 1>feeling of the dream remains in the pause. There is stillness.

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<v Speaker 1>In the stillness, there is rest.

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<v Speaker 2>Breathe in.

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<v Speaker 1>Breathe out. The breath is.

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<v Speaker 2>Doing the work now. The breath does not need your help.

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<v Speaker 2>The breath knows the way to sleep. The breath has

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<v Speaker 2>known since you were born. Trust the breath, Follow the breath,

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<v Speaker 2>Let the breath carry you.

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<v Speaker 1>You are already arriving at rest. You can feel it,

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<v Speaker 1>can't you That small softening behind your eyes, The way

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<v Speaker 1>your shoulders have already begun to drift lower on your back.

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<v Speaker 1>The slow, almost imperceptible deepening of your breath. That is

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<v Speaker 1>your body telling you something it has always known. That

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<v Speaker 1>rest is not something you earn. Rest is something you allow.

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<v Speaker 1>So allow it right here, right now. Your feet sink

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<v Speaker 1>slightly into it. As you walk. You read, chuck and

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<v Speaker 1>pull a book from a shelf. The book is small.

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<v Speaker 1>The book is bound in soft brown leather. The title

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<v Speaker 1>on the spine is in gold, but you cannot read

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<v Speaker 1>the language. You open the book. The pages are thin,

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<v Speaker 1>the pages are creamy. The pages are filled with words

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<v Speaker 1>in a script you do not know. But you do

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<v Speaker 1>not need to know the words. The body is doing

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

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<v Speaker 1>is resting right now. You are resting, right now. Let

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<v Speaker 1>you mind find a number, any number, let it be twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>Breathe in, and as you breathe out, say the number

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

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<v Speaker 1>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. The air

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<v Speaker 1>smells of green things, of earth, of leaf of flower,

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<v Speaker 1>not strongly, just gently, the way a garden smells at

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<v Speaker 1>the end of a long day. There is water nearby.

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<v Speaker 1>You can hear it. The sound is small, The sound

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<v Speaker 1>is soft. It is the sound of water moving over stones.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the sound of a stream you cannot see.

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<v Speaker 1>The sound follows you as you walk. The sound keeps

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<v Speaker 1>you company. They have been halting expressions all day, surprise, attention, worry, laughter.

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<v Speaker 1>Tonight they are invited to do nothing at all. Let

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<v Speaker 1>the muscles around your eyes soften, Let the small muscles

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<v Speaker 1>of your temples soften, Let your jaw soften.