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<v Speaker 1>The path winds gently between beds of plants you cannot

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<v Speaker 1>quite name. The plants are not exotic. The plants are

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<v Speaker 1>the kind of plants you might find in any quiet garden, leafy, soft,

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<v Speaker 1>varieded in their greens. You walk the path slowly. You

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<v Speaker 1>do not have to reach any destination. You are walking

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<v Speaker 1>because walking feels good. The stones massage the soles of

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<v Speaker 1>your feet. The air is warm.

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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 at the nostrils, cool in the throat, cool in

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<v Speaker 1>the chest. Breathe out through your mouth softly, slowly. Let

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<v Speaker 1>the breath leave without effort. Let your thighs feel heavy.

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<v Speaker 1>Let your knees soften, Let your calves release, Let your

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<v Speaker 1>ankles be still. Let your feet open. Let your toes uncurl.

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<v Speaker 1>The toes have been gripping all day, shoes, gripping floors,

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<v Speaker 1>gripping uncertainty. Tonight the toes are free. Feel your whole

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<v Speaker 1>body now, feel it from the crown of your head

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<v Speaker 1>to the soles of your feet. Feel it heavy, feel

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<v Speaker 1>it warm, feel it held. Your head does not need

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<v Speaker 1>to do anything tonight except rest. Let your attention come

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<v Speaker 1>to your neck, to the muscles along the sides of

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

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<v Speaker 1>your skull. Feel them lengthen, feel them soften. They have

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<v Speaker 1>been holding your head up all day. Tonight they are

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<v Speaker 1>allowed to rest. Shoulders drop, let them drop toward the bed.

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<v Speaker 1>Let them settle now in this quiet, in this rest,

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<v Speaker 1>Allow a few soft truths to settle into you. You

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<v Speaker 1>are safe here, You are held here. The night is long,

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<v Speaker 1>and you have nowhere to be but exactly where you are.

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<v Speaker 1>You did enough today, whatever you did, whatever you didn't do,

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<v Speaker 1>you did enough. Tomorrow is another day. Tonight is for rest.

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<v Speaker 1>You are not behind, You are not late, You are

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<v Speaker 1>not failing. In this house, you can simply walk the hallway,

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<v Speaker 1>look through the doors, Rest your forehead against the window,

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<v Speaker 1>and feel the cool glass and the golden light. The

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<v Speaker 1>house softens, the hallway fades, the doors close one by

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<v Speaker 1>one gently, the way doors close. In a dream, the

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<v Speaker 1>window dissolves, the glass becomes air, the light becomes memory.

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<v Speaker 1>The dream is over, but the feeling of the dream remains.

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<v Speaker 1>Let your tongue rest gently against the roof of your mouth,

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<v Speaker 1>or curl softly at its bottom, whichever feels more natural.

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<v Speaker 1>Either way, the muscles of your face are learning to release. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>let your attention drift to the back of your head,

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<v Speaker 1>to the place where your head meets the pillow. Feel

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<v Speaker 1>the weight of your head being held, Feel the pillow

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<v Speaker 1>receiving you, Feel the give, feel the support. But the

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<v Speaker 1>garden does not feel smaller. As you go deeper, the

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<v Speaker 1>garden feels larger. The garden seems to expand as you

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<v Speaker 1>move through it, the way a dream expands as you

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<v Speaker 1>move through it. The garden has no edges. The garden

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<v Speaker 1>has no end. There is always more garden. There is

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<v Speaker 1>always more quiet. You come to a clearing in the

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<v Speaker 1>center of the garden. In the clearing, there is a

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<v Speaker 1>circle of grass. The grass is soft. The body is

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>You are in a house. The house is not yours,

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<v Speaker 1>though it feels like it could be. The house has

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<v Speaker 1>the quality of a house from a story you read

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<v Speaker 1>as a child, or a house from a dream you

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<v Speaker 1>had once and forgot. The house is large. The house

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<v Speaker 1>is empty of other people, but not empty of presence.

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<v Speaker 1>The house feels inhabited by the memory of everyone who

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<v Speaker 1>has ever lift here. The floors remember feet. 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. 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 work 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, not in

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<v Speaker 1>a rush. You step through the way you have been

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<v Speaker 1>stepping through everything tonight, slowly, gently, one breath at a time.

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<v Speaker 1>The door closes behind you. The door makes no sound.

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<v Speaker 1>The door does not lock. You can return whenever you

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<v Speaker 1>need to. The door will be there. The door is

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<v Speaker 1>always there. On the other side of the