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 3: Perhaps your day was long, Perhaps your mind has been
Speaker 3: spinning with worries or regrets. Perhaps there is something heavy
Speaker 3: sitting in your chest right now, something you have been
Speaker 3: holding so tightly that you have forgotten what your hands
Speaker 3: feel like when they are open. Whatever you brought with
Speaker 3: you to night, you are welcome here. There is nothing
Speaker 3: to fix in this moment. There is only something to release.
Speaker 3: So let us begin. Find a position that feels right
Speaker 3: for you. You might be lying down with your arms
Speaker 3: resting giunta at your sides. You might be seated with
Speaker 3: your hands on your knees. You might be reclined with
Speaker 3: a pillow beneath your head and a blanket over your legs.
Speaker 3: Whatever feels most natural, most open more supported. There is
Speaker 3: no wrong way to be here right now. Close your
Speaker 3: eyes when you are ready, not tightly, not with force.
Speaker 3: Just let your eyelids grow heavy, like two small birds
Speaker 3: settling on our branche at dusk. And as they close,
Speaker 3: let the room around yourself and let the edges of
Speaker 3: everything blur and fade. Let the sounds of the wild
Speaker 3: outside your door become distant, like waves crashing on a
Speaker 3: shore miles away. You are safe here. This is your time,
Speaker 3: and for the next fifty minutes there is nowhere else
Speaker 3: you need to be, nothing else you need to do.
Speaker 3: Just this, Just breath, just you take a slow breath
Speaker 3: in through your eyes. Feel the cool air pass your
Speaker 3: nostrils and fill your lungs, not deeply, not forcefully, just naturally,
Speaker 3: as if your body already knows exactly how much air
Speaker 3: it needs, because it does. Your body has been breathing
Speaker 3: since the moment you were born, and it has never
Speaker 3: once forgotten how. And now let it go. Let it
Speaker 3: fall out through your mouth like a sigh you have
Speaker 3: been saving all day. Feel your shoulders drop with it,
Speaker 3: Feel your jaw loosen, Feel the muscles around your eyes soften, Feel.
Speaker 1: The tiny muscles in your forehead, smooth out the ones
Speaker 1: you did not even know were clenched again. Breathe in slowly.
Speaker 1: Feel your ribs expand outward like a bellow's filling with wind.
Speaker 1: Feel the stretch in your intercostal muscles, the ones that
Speaker 1: live between your ribs, that and close like tiny hands
Speaker 1: making room for the air. Hold it for just a
Speaker 1: moment and release let it go completely. Feel the weight
Speaker 1: of your body pressing into whatever supports you beneath. Feel
Speaker 1: gravity doing its work, holding you so you do not
Speaker 1: have to one more time.
Speaker 3: In through the nose, steady and unhurried, and out through
Speaker 3: the mouth, letting everything dissolve with the exhale. Let the
Speaker 3: sound of your own breath become a kind of music,
Speaker 3: a rhythm without melody, a pulse without urgency. Now, let
Speaker 3: your breathing return to its own rhythm. You do not
Speaker 3: need to control it, just observe it. Notice how your
Speaker 3: chest rises and falls like the surface of a calm
Speaker 3: lake touched by a gentle breeze. Notice how your pelly
Speaker 3: softens and expands with each cycle. There is a wisdom
Speaker 3: in this with them that is older than thought.
Speaker 4: Trust it.
Speaker 3: Bring your attention to the points where your body touches
Speaker 3: the ground, the back of your head, your shoulder blades,
Speaker 3: the weight of your hips, the soles of your feet
Speaker 3: if you are laying down. These are your anchors tonight.
Speaker 1: These points of contact between you and the earth. They
Speaker 1: remind you that you are held, that you are supported,
Speaker 1: that you do not need to hold yourself up.
Speaker 5: Right now.
Speaker 1: Feel the texture of whatever is beneath you. Is it soft, fur, warm, cool?
Speaker 1: Notice these small details. They pull you into the present moment,
Speaker 1: away from the spinning wheel of your thoughts, and into
Speaker 1: the solid reality of noun. And with each breath, fear
Speaker 1: fie yourself settling.
Speaker 3: The sediment drifting to the bottom of a glass of water, slowly, gently,
Speaker 3: until the water above begins clear, until your mind begins
Speaker 3: to quiet, until all that remains is the stillness, this breath,
Speaker 3: this moment.
Speaker 6: You are here, you.
Speaker 3: Are present, and from this place of stillness we can begin.
Speaker 3: I want you to imagine now that you are standing
Speaker 3: in the edge of a forest. Not a dark or
Speaker 3: threatening forest. This is a place of extraordinary beauty and peace,
Speaker 3: the kind of forest that exists in the space between
Speaker 3: waking and dreaming, where the light is golden and the
Speaker 3: air is thick with the scent of pine and wildflowers.
Speaker 3: Feel the ground beneath your feet. It is soft with
Speaker 3: moss and fallen leaves. The earth is cool and yielding,
Speaker 3: conform to the shape of your bare feet. You can
Speaker 3: feel the gentle pulls of the forest floor, as if
Speaker 3: the earth itself is breathing just below the surface.
Speaker 7: Press your toes into the moss and feel how it
Speaker 7: squishes slightly, springing in alive, like a living carpet woven
Speaker 7: from a thousand tiny plants. Look up through the cannypy above.
Speaker 7: Shafts of warm light pour down, like liquid gold, dappling
Speaker 7: the path ahead in patches of amber and green. The
Speaker 7: light moves slowly, swaying with the branches, creating patterns that
Speaker 7: shift and dance across the forest floor like the surface
Speaker 7: of a river seen from below.
Speaker 3: A butterfly passes through one of these shafts, its wings
Speaker 3: catching the light for a brilliant instant before it disappears
Speaker 3: into shadow. Listen. The forest is alive with sound, but
Speaker 3: it is not noisy. A bird calls somewhere in the distance,
Speaker 3: a clear bell like note that echoes through the trees
Speaker 3: and then fades into silence. Another answers further away. Their
Speaker 3: voice is weaving in conversation you cannot understand, but whose
Speaker 3: beauty you can feel. There is the rustle of small
Speaker 3: creatures moving through the underbrush, a squirrel perhaps, or a
Speaker 3: rabbit going about its evening business. And beneath all of
Speaker 3: this the deep, steady hum of the forest itself, the
Speaker 3: sound of ten thousand leaves breathing together in the wind.
Speaker 3: The air is warm against your skin, almost exactly the
Speaker 3: temperature of your own body, so that for a moment
Speaker 3: the boundary between you and the forest seemed to dissolve.
Speaker 1: Carries the sweetness of wild flowers, the earthiness of damp soil,
Speaker 1: the clean freshness of cedar.
Speaker 3: Each breath fills you with the life of this place.
Speaker 1: With each in hell, you draw in the vitality of
Speaker 1: the forest. With each exhil you release a little more
Speaker 1: or of the tension you brought with you.
Speaker 3: There is a path ahead.
Speaker 1: It winds gently between the trees, disappearing around a bend
Speaker 1: where the light is brightest. You feel drawn to follow it,
Speaker 1: not with urgency, but with a quiet curiosity of someone
Speaker 1: who knows that this path leads somewhere important. Begin to
Speaker 1: walk feel the soft ground beneath each step. The moss
Speaker 1: compresses gently under your weight and springs back when you.
Speaker 4: Lift your foot.
Speaker 3: The path is easy, well warned by countless travelers before you.
Speaker 3: You are not the first person to walk this way,
Speaker 3: and you will not be the last. There is comfort
Speaker 3: in that knowing.
Speaker 8: That others have walked the same path and found what
Speaker 8: they needed. As you walk, notice how the light shifts
Speaker 8: around you. It warms the side of your face as
Speaker 8: you round a curve, It cools as you pass beneath
Speaker 8: the big canopy of oak leaves. The temperature of the
Speaker 8: air chain with each step, a constant, gentle conversation between
Speaker 8: warmth and coolness that keeps your senses alive and present.
Speaker 8: Your feet make almost no sound on the soft earth.
Speaker 3: You are walking lightly, as if the forest is absorbing
Speaker 3: your footsteps the way a sponge absorbs water. You walk
Speaker 3: deeper into the forest, the sounds of the outside world
Speaker 3: fade further away. The weight of your responsibilities, your worries,
Speaker 3: your plans. They all begin to feel lighter, not because
Speaker 3: they have disappeared, because the forest is teaching your body
Speaker 3: something your mind has forgotten. That you can put things
Speaker 3: down that you can.
Speaker 5: You rest that the earth will hold you even when
Speaker 5: you stop holding yourself. The path opens ahead of you,
Speaker 5: and you see that it leads to a clearing, a wide,
Speaker 5: sunlit space in the heart of the forest, covered with
Speaker 5: soft grass and ringed by ancient trees whose branches form
Speaker 5: a cathedral ceiling.
Speaker 3: Above.
Speaker 5: In the center of the clearing, there is a single stone,
Speaker 5: flat and broad, warmed by the sun, inviting.
Speaker 1: You to seek.
Speaker 5: This is the place where we will do our deepest
Speaker 5: work tonight.
Speaker 1: Walk to the stone and sit down. Feel its warm
Speaker 1: through your clothing. It's solidity beneath you. You are grounded,
Speaker 1: You are centered. You are exactly where you need to
Speaker 1: be now, in this place of safety and stillness, I
Speaker 1: want you to turn your attention inward, not to your thoughts,
Speaker 1: but to your body, specifically to the places where you
Speaker 1: feel weight, where you feel tension, where you feel the accumulation.
Speaker 5: Of everything you have been carrying.
Speaker 9: Perhaps it is in your shoulders.
Speaker 3: Those two mounts of muscles that hunch up or toward
Speaker 3: your ears when you are stressed, that not untighten when
Speaker 3: you hold the phone to your ear or lean over
Speaker 3: a screen. Feel them now, feel the tensions door there
Speaker 3: thick and dance, like rope that has been twisted too Tightly.
Speaker 3: Roll your shoulders slowly.
Speaker 1: Feel the knots.
Speaker 3: Name them if you can. Perhaps it is in your chest,
Speaker 3: that tightness just behind your sternum that comes when you
Speaker 3: are worried about someone you love, or when you are
Speaker 3: carrying a disappointment you have not yet spoken aloud. Feel
Speaker 3: it now. It might feel like a stone sitting on
Speaker 3: your heart, or a hand pressing gently but persistently against
Speaker 3: your breastbone. Breathe into it, Let the breath touch the
Speaker 3: place that hurts. Perhaps it is in your stomach, that churning,
Speaker 3: nodded feeling that comes from anxiety or uncertainty, from decisions
Speaker 3: not yet made, from conversations not yet had. Feel it now,
Speaker 3: Notice its shape, its texture, its temperature. Is it hot cold?
Speaker 3: Does it pulse or say it still? Does it move
Speaker 3: when you breathe, or is it frozen in place? Perhaps
Speaker 3: it is in your lower back, that deep, aching tension
Speaker 3: that builds over days and weeks of carrying the weight
Speaker 3: of your life, the weight of being needed, the weight
Speaker 3: of being strong for others. Feel it now, Feel how.
Speaker 1: It wraps around your spine like a vine. Gripping tightly,
Speaker 1: making each small movement and negotiation between comfort and pain.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it is behind your eyes.
Speaker 3: That dull pressure that comes from staring at screens, from
Speaker 3: processing information all day, from trying to make sense of
Speaker 3: a world that often does not make sense. Feel it now.
Speaker 3: Let your eyeballs rest deep in their sockets, let the
Speaker 3: muscles around them go soft. Wherever you carry your weight tonight,
Speaker 3: acknowledge it, not with frustration, not with judgment, just with
Speaker 3: the simple recognition of what is true. You have been
Speaker 3: carrying this and it has been heavy.
Speaker 10: Take a moment now to give a name to what
Speaker 10: you have been holding. You do not need to say
Speaker 10: it aloud, You do not need to explain it to anyone.
Speaker 10: Just let it rise to the surface of your awareness,
Speaker 10: like a bubble rising through deep water, nay week.
Speaker 3: Quietly in your mind. There it is the seeing you
Speaker 3: have been carrying, the worry, the grief, the fear, the rigorte,
Speaker 3: the anger, the uncertainty. It has a shape.
Speaker 1: Now, it has a weight, and in this form, in
Speaker 1: this clearing, in this moment of total presence, you can
Speaker 1: see it clearly for the first time. You have been
Speaker 1: carrying this for a long time. Perhaps longer than you realized.
Speaker 1: It became so familiar that you forgot it was there,
Speaker 1: the way you stop noticing the weight of a back
Speaker 1: pack after you have been wearing it for hours, but
Speaker 1: your body remembered. Your body has been holding this even
Speaker 1: when your mind tried to push it away.
Speaker 11: Your body always tells the truth, even when your mind
Speaker 11: is busy telling stories. So let us honor what your
Speaker 11: body has been doing. Let us thank it for its service,
Speaker 11: and then together let us begin the work of setting
Speaker 11: it down. In the center of the clearing, next to
Speaker 11: the warm stone where you are sitting, you notice something
Speaker 11: that was not there before. A small stream flows gently
Speaker 11: from between the roots of an ancient oak, winding through
Speaker 11: the grass in a narrow channel before disappearing into the
Speaker 11: forest flore a few meters away. The water is crystal clear.
Speaker 11: You can see every pebble, every grain of sand in
Speaker 11: the bottom. The sunlight catches its surface and scatters it
Speaker 11: into tiny diamonds of light. This stream has a purpose.
Speaker 11: It is here to carry things away, not.
Speaker 3: With force, not with violence, but with the patient, persistent
Speaker 3: power of flowing water. Water that has been carving its
Speaker 3: path through the earth for centuries, Water that knows exactly
Speaker 3: what to do with what it is given. Leaning closer
Speaker 3: and listen to the stream. It has a voice, not words,
Speaker 3: but a sound that is almost like words, a murmur,
Speaker 3: a whisper, a soft syllable that repeats and varies and
Speaker 3: repeats again, but sands like the world's oldest lullaby, sung
Speaker 3: without end, without audience, simply because singing is what water does.
Speaker 3: I want you to imagine now that the thing you
Speaker 3: have been carrying, the weight you just acknowledged, has a
Speaker 3: physical form. It might look like a stone. It might
Speaker 3: look like a bundle of dark cloth. It might look
Speaker 3: like a tangled knot of the red. It might look
Speaker 3: like a heavy book, or a sack of grain, or
Speaker 3: a piece of drift wood, worn smooth by years of
Speaker 3: salt water. Whatever fool it takes, it is sitting in
Speaker 3: your hands. Now, Feed its weight, feed its texture, feel
Speaker 3: the truth of it. This is real. What you are
Speaker 3: holding is real. The pain, the worry, the burden, it
Speaker 3: all matters. It has mattered to you, and it has
Speaker 3: shaped to We are not trying to pretend it never existed.
Speaker 3: We are not trying to erase your experience. We are
Speaker 3: not dismissing what you have been through. We are simply
Speaker 3: acknowledging that this thing has dug its work, had you
Speaker 3: what it came to teach, and now it is time
Speaker 3: to let it go. Look at the stream, Feel the
Speaker 3: cool mist rising from its surface. Hear the gentle murmur
Speaker 3: of its voice as it flows over the stones. Watch
Speaker 3: a leaf drift past, spinning slowly in the current, carried
Speaker 3: along without effort, without struggle, without resistance. Now, when you
Speaker 3: are ready, place what you are holding into the stream.
Speaker 3: Do it slowly, Feel your fingers opening, feel the weight
Speaker 3: leaving your palms. Watch as the water takes it. Watch
Speaker 3: as the current catches it and begins to carry it
Speaker 3: down stream. It does not resist, It does not cling
Speaker 3: to your hands. Is simply except what the water offers,
Speaker 3: the freedom of movement, the journey of release, the trust
Speaker 3: that the current knows where to go. Watch it go.
Speaker 3: Watch as it travels downstream, getting smaller and smaller. Its
Speaker 3: edge is softening, its shape, dissolving. The water does not hurry.
Speaker 3: It carries your burden with the same gentle care with
Speaker 3: which it carries every leaf, every petal, every fallen branch,
Speaker 3: with absolute neutrality, with absolute acceptance. It does not judge
Speaker 3: what you have given it. It simply takes it and
Speaker 3: carries it away. And as it disappears around the bend,
Speaker 3: something remarkable happens. Your hands feel lighter, your chest feels lighter.
Speaker 3: That tightness behind your sternum has loosened just a little.
Speaker 5: Your shoulders have dropped another fraction of an inch. Your
Speaker 5: stomach has unclinched just enough to let a full breath
Speaker 5: pass through. You did it, You lets thing go, and
Speaker 5: the world did not end.
Speaker 3: In fact, the.
Speaker 5: World feels a little brighter. The light in the clearing
Speaker 5: seems warmer. The bird song sounds clearer. The air feels
Speaker 5: cleaner in your lungs. This is what release feels like,
Speaker 5: not emptiness, not loss. Space, room to breathe, room to growl.
Speaker 1: Room to be.
Speaker 5: But we are not finished.
Speaker 3: The stream is patient and there is more to release.
Speaker 3: I want you to look at your hands again. Even
Speaker 3: after placing the first burden into the water, you notice
Speaker 3: that there is more there. Your body has been carrying
Speaker 3: layers of weight, stacked one on top of another, like
Speaker 3: sediment in a river bed. The first release revealed the
Speaker 3: next layer, and now you can see it clearly. This
Speaker 3: layer might be different from the first. Perhaps it is lighter,
Speaker 3: more diffuse, Not a.
Speaker 12: Single heavy stone, but a collection of smaller pebbles, each
Speaker 12: one representing a minor worry, a small frustration, a fleeting anxiety,
Speaker 12: that accumulated over days and weeks, until together they formed
Speaker 12: a weight that pressed you down. Pick up these smaller stones,
Speaker 12: hold them in your palms. Feel how numerous they are.
Speaker 12: Each one is small on its own, but together they
Speaker 12: are significant. You might even recognize some of them. That
Speaker 12: worry about a deadline, the irritation with a coworker, the
Speaker 12: nagging feeling that you forgot something important, the guilt about
Speaker 12: spending too much time on your phone, the fear that
Speaker 12: you are not doing enough, not being enough, not keeping
Speaker 12: up with everyone else. These are the pabbles of daily life.
Speaker 12: They are not traumatic, They do not make for good stories.
Speaker 12: They are not the kind of thing you would tell
Speaker 12: a friend about over coffee. But they are heavy in
Speaker 12: their accumulation.
Speaker 1: They fill your pockets with weight you barely notice until
Speaker 1: you try to move, until you try to rest, until
Speaker 1: you lie down at night and feel them pressing into
Speaker 1: you from every side. Let them go, too, Open your
Speaker 1: hands over the stream, and let the pebbles fall. Watch
Speaker 1: them splash into the water, one by one, small splashes,
Speaker 1: quiet entries the stream. Valley notices. It takes each pebble
Speaker 1: the same way it took the stone, the same way
Speaker 1: it takes every fallen branch and autumn leaf, without preference,
Speaker 1: without judgment, without hesitation. Watch as the current takes them,
Speaker 1: rolling them downstream, tumbling them over the rocks, smoothing their edges,
Speaker 1: until they become.
Speaker 3: Part of the river bed itself. They are not destroyed.
Speaker 3: They are transformed from burdens into beauty, from weight into landscape,
Speaker 3: from things that press you down, into things that hold
Speaker 3: with the water in place, that create the pools where
Speaker 3: the light gathers, that shape the current into its path.
Speaker 3: Feel a lightness spreading through your body now, starting in
Speaker 3: your hands and traveling up your arms, into your shoulders,
Speaker 3: down your spine. It is like warm water pouring through you,
Speaker 3: dissolving every knot, every tension, every type place. It touches
Speaker 3: your muscles, soften your joints, loosen your breathing deepens. You
Speaker 3: might feel a gentle tingling in your extremities, as if
Speaker 3: your body is waking up from a long sleep. And
Speaker 3: still there is more. There are the oldest layers, the
Speaker 3: ones you have been carrying so long they have become
Speaker 3: part of your identity. The belief that you are not enough,
Speaker 3: the fear that you will fail, the grief that you
Speaker 3: carry for opportunities lost, for words left unspoken, for the
Speaker 3: person you thought you would be by now, the story
Speaker 3: you tell yourself about who you are and what you deserve.
Speaker 3: These are the deepest weights, the ones that have shaped
Speaker 3: the contours of your inner landscape.
Speaker 1: Releasing them feels so releasing a part of yourself, and
Speaker 1: any way it is, it is releasing a version of
Speaker 1: yourself that no longer serves you, a version that was
Speaker 1: born from pain, from fear, from the stories you were told,
Speaker 1: and the stories you told yourself when you were a
Speaker 1: small one, the world felt too big to understand. Look
Speaker 1: at the stream one more time. It flows on, endless, patient, endlessly,
Speaker 1: willing to.
Speaker 11: Carry whatever you give it.
Speaker 3: The water does not.
Speaker 1: Judge, It does not ask questions, It does not demand
Speaker 1: explanations or justifications. It simply receives and carries away. It
Speaker 1: has been doing this since before you were born, and
Speaker 1: it will continue long after you are gone. Something deeply
Speaker 1: comforting about that, something that says you are not the
Speaker 1: first to carry this weight, and you will not be
Speaker 1: the last to set it down. Let these deep old
Speaker 1: weights go, not all at once, not in a single
Speaker 1: dramatic gesture.
Speaker 3: But gently, one by one, like releasing your grip on
Speaker 3: a railing you have been holding for years. Feel your
Speaker 3: fingers uncurling, Feel your knuckle streetening, Feel the stiffness in
Speaker 3: your joints dissolving as years of tension finally mercifully release.
Speaker 3: Watch the last of it flew away. Watch the water
Speaker 3: carry it downstream through the forest, out into the wider world,
Speaker 3: where it will dissolve into the earth and become something new,
Speaker 3: something that no longer weighs on you, something that has
Speaker 3: completed its journey, something that has finished its teaching, and now,
Speaker 3: in this space, have created this new openness in your body,
Speaker 3: in your mind. Something extraordinary happens. The light at the
Speaker 3: far end of the clearing brightens. The golden shafts of
Speaker 3: sun intensified, gathering together, or like a dozen spots, like
Speaker 3: converging on a single point. The air in the clearing
Speaker 3: shafts it becomes warmer, more luminous, as if the clearing
Speaker 3: itself is taking a deep breath from that light, a
Speaker 3: figure begins to emerge. At first, it is just a silhouette,
Speaker 3: a shape against the brightness. But as it steps forward
Speaker 3: into the soft grass of the clearing, you begin to
Speaker 3: see details. It is you, but it is a you
Speaker 3: that has not a right yet, a future version of yourself,
Speaker 3: standing in the fullness of who you are becoming. Notice
Speaker 3: how this future self moves.
Speaker 1: There is a confidence in their stud that comes not
Speaker 1: from arrogance, but from self knowledge. They know who they are.
Speaker 1: They have been through the fire of experience and come
Speaker 1: out the other side, where their oftenicidy intact. They have
Speaker 1: released the weights that you.
Speaker 3: Are just now learning to set down. You can see
Speaker 3: it in the way they carry themselves, in the way
Speaker 3: their shoulders are relaxed, in the way their eyes are
Speaker 3: clear and settled. Look at their face. What do you
Speaker 3: see there?
Speaker 13: Perhaps there are lines that were not there before, marks
Speaker 13: of laughter and tears, of living fully and without reservation.
Speaker 13: Perhaps their eyes are deeper, more settled, carrying the wisdom
Speaker 13: of experiences you have not yet had. Perhaps their smile
Speaker 13: is different, quieter, more certain, the smile of someone who
Speaker 13: has made peace with themselves and with the world. This
Speaker 13: is not a fantasy. This is not an illusion, This
Speaker 13: is a possibility. This is who you are in the
Speaker 13: process of becoming.
Speaker 14: Every choice you make, every weight you release, every moment
Speaker 14: of presence and courage, moves you classer to this version
Speaker 14: of yourself.
Speaker 3: Your future self.
Speaker 1: Walks toward you and sits down beside you on the stone.
Speaker 1: There do not speak immediately. They simply sit with you,
Speaker 1: sharing the warmth of the sum the gentle sound of
Speaker 1: the stream, the soft breeding of the forest. Their presence
Speaker 1: is a gift. It tells you that the journey is
Speaker 1: worth it, that the releasing matters.
Speaker 15: That you are going somewhere beautiful. When they finally speak,
Speaker 15: their voice is familiar. It is your own voice, but steadier, calmer.
Speaker 15: There is no urgency in it, no performance, no need
Speaker 15: to impress or convince, just truth, spoken simply, the way
Speaker 15: truth always sounds when it is finally free from the
Speaker 15: noise of fear and doubt. They might say something like this,
Speaker 15: I know it is hard. I know the letting go
Speaker 15: feels like law.
Speaker 6: But I am here to tell you that every weight
Speaker 6: you release creates space for something more, space for joy
Speaker 6: that you could not feel when you were carrying so
Speaker 6: much space for love that could not reach you when
Speaker 6: your arms were full space for the person you truly are,
Speaker 6: to finally step forward and be seen. Listen to these words.
Speaker 6: Let them land in the open spaces you have created
Speaker 6: inside yourself. Let them fill the places where the old
Speaker 6: weights used to be.
Speaker 3: This is what fills the vacuum overlease. Not emptiness but possibility,
Speaker 3: not loss, but becoming. Your future self reaches out and
Speaker 3: take your hand. Feel the warmth of their grip, feel
Speaker 3: the strength in their fingers. They are not stronger than you,
Speaker 3: They are simply you, unbodened, you, standing in the full
Speaker 3: light of who you are. They squeeze your hand once, gently,
Speaker 3: and in that squeeze you feel a transmission, a knowing,
Speaker 3: a certainty that you are on the right path.
Speaker 16: That the work you are doing tonight, the releasing, the opening,
Speaker 16: the choosing to be present, it matters. It is changing you, slowly, quietly, profoundly.
Speaker 16: Not in the way the world measures change with announcements
Speaker 16: and milestones and public displays, but in the way the
Speaker 16: earth fridges from the inside out, one grain at a time.
Speaker 16: And now your future self stands. They smile at you
Speaker 16: one more time, that quiet, certain smile, and they begin
Speaker 16: to walk back toward the light.
Speaker 3: As they go, they look over the shoulder, and their
Speaker 3: eyes say what their lips do not need to. I
Speaker 3: will be here. I am waiting, and I am you.
Speaker 3: Watch them go, Watch as the light receives them back
Speaker 3: into itself. Feel the warmth of their presence lingering in
Speaker 3: the air, in your hand, in your chest. They are
Speaker 3: not gone, They are simply ahead of you on the path,
Speaker 3: and every step you take from this moment forward is
Speaker 3: a step toward them. Feel the space inside you now, Feel.
Speaker 1: How different it is from when we began. Where there
Speaker 1: was tension, there is ease where there was waight, There
Speaker 1: is lightness. Where there was a closed fist, There is
Speaker 1: an open hand. Where there was a wall, there is
Speaker 1: a window. This is what it feels like when you
Speaker 1: let go, not empty, full full of air, full of light,
Speaker 1: full of the simple, uncomplicated joy of being present in
Speaker 1: your own body. Take a deep breath, now, deeper than
Speaker 1: any breath you've taken tonight.
Speaker 3: Feel the air pour in tea like sunlight filling your room.
Speaker 3: Fill your lungs completely, and then a little more holy.
Speaker 3: Feel the fullness of this moment, the complete and total
Speaker 3: occupation of your body by your breath. Feel the edges
Speaker 3: of your groops expanding, Feel the pressure against the dire frahim,
Speaker 3: feel a live release. Let it go with a sound
Speaker 3: if you like, a sigh, a hum, a gentle groan
Speaker 3: of relief, wherever your body wants to express. Let the
Speaker 3: ex hill carry the last remnants of what you have released.
Speaker 3: Let it be a celebration, a homecoming. I thank you
Speaker 3: to yourself for doing this brave and necessary work. Notice
Speaker 3: how your body feels in this moment, not how you
Speaker 3: think it should feel, how it actually feels. Perhaps there
Speaker 3: is still some residual tension somewhere. That is fine.
Speaker 1: 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 17: The body has its own timeline for healing, and it
Speaker 17: is rarely the timeline the mind. Once perhaps you feel
Speaker 17: a gentle warmth spreading through your limbs. Perhaps you feel
Speaker 17: a tingling in your fingertips or the soles of your feet.
Speaker 17: Perhaps you feel a soft pulsing in your temples or
Speaker 17: your throat. Perhaps you feel nothing specific at all, just
Speaker 17: a general sense of spaciousness and ease, like stepping into
Speaker 17: a room that has just been cleaned and aired out.
Speaker 17: All of these responses are valid.
Speaker 4: Or have them, are signs that something has shifted eastside you.
Speaker 4: Let yourself rest in this new lightness. Let your body
Speaker 4: explore it the way child explores a new room, touching
Speaker 4: the walls, feeling the floor, testing the space. There is
Speaker 4: no rush. Therefoires to await. The clearing will hold you
Speaker 4: as long as you need. Feel the warmth of the
Speaker 4: stone beneaths e. It has been as driving the sun
Speaker 4: all day and night. Shears that warmth with you.
Speaker 3: Feel it seeping through your clothes, through your skin, into
Speaker 3: your muscles, your bones, your blood. You are being nourished
Speaker 3: by the earth itself, held by the sun, supported by
Speaker 3: something vast and ancient and endlessly generous. This is your birthright,
Speaker 3: This lightness, this piece, There's always been here, waiting beneath
Speaker 3: the layers of weight and worry, and have it. You
Speaker 3: have not created it tonight. You have uncovered it.
Speaker 18: Like an archaeologist brushing away centuries of dust to reveal
Speaker 18: the mosaic beneath. The beauty was always there. You simply
Speaker 18: had to clear away what was covering it. Now, let
Speaker 18: us use the breath to deep in and anchor this
Speaker 18: new state. We are going to practice a rhythm called
Speaker 18: four two six two. It is simple and it is powerful.
Speaker 18: It activates your body's natural relaxation response, the one that
Speaker 18: tells your nervous system you are safe. You can stand down,
Speaker 18: you can rest.
Speaker 9: Here is how it works. We will breed in for
Speaker 9: acount of four, hold for account of two, breath out
Speaker 9: slowly for a count of six, and pause for a
Speaker 9: count of two before the next in hail. Let us
Speaker 9: begin together. Breathe in through your nose two three four.
Speaker 9: Feel your lungs feel steadily, evenly, like water rising in
Speaker 9: the glass, cool air entering, Feeling the space behind your ribs.
Speaker 9: Hold one two, Feel.
Speaker 3: The stillness at the top of the breath, the brief
Speaker 3: pause between action and release. There is a whole world
Speaker 3: in the spouse, a whole universe of quiet. Now, bry
Speaker 3: out through your mouth slowly two three, four, five six.
Speaker 3: Let the ax hel be twice as long as the inhale.
Speaker 3: Feel your body softening with it. Feel your belly drawn inward,
Speaker 3: Feel the tension leaving your muscles, like water draining from
Speaker 3: a bath, like weight falling from your shoulders. Pause, one two.
Speaker 3: Feel the emptiness at the bottom of the breath, the
Speaker 3: stillness before the next inhal There is a vast piece
Speaker 3: in this pause, a whole universe of piet between one
Speaker 3: breath and the next. Again in two, three four, steady,
Speaker 3: in full hold one two, out, two three, four, five six,
Speaker 3: slow and complete, every less molecule of air released pause
Speaker 3: one two. Notice how your body responds to this rhythm.
Speaker 3: Your heart be slowing, your muscles unclinching, the thoughts in
Speaker 3: your mind growing quieter, pure, softer, like snowflakes drifting down
Speaker 3: through still air. Each breath draws you deeper into the clearing,
Speaker 3: deeper into the stillness, deeper into yourself. Let us continue
Speaker 3: for several more rounds. I will guide you through each
Speaker 3: face in two three four. Feel the air passing through
Speaker 3: your nostrils, down your throat, filling the space behind your rips.
Speaker 3: Feel your belly rise. Hold one two, Hold the fullness,
Speaker 3: Hold the stillness. This is the moment of maximum openness.
Speaker 3: Out two, three, four, five six, slow and steady. Feel
Speaker 3: your body letting go with each number. Feel the muscles
Speaker 3: in your face soften, Feel your shoulders drop, Feel the
Speaker 3: space between your shoulder blades melt into whatever is beneath you.
Speaker 3: Pause one two. Rest here in the emptiness and the
Speaker 3: space between. This is where the deepest healing happens, in
Speaker 3: the pause, in the silence, and then nothing that is
Speaker 3: actually everything in two three four. Feel the warmth of
Speaker 3: the new breath entering hold one.
Speaker 1: Two out, two three, four, five six, Feel the weight
Speaker 1: of the day leaving with the air pause one two.
Speaker 1: Let us do three more rounds on your own. Now
Speaker 1: you know the rhythm, trust your body to follow it,
Speaker 1: Trust the numbers to carry you. I will be here
Speaker 1: when you return. Follow the rhythm of four two six, two,
Speaker 1: and let yourself sink deeper with each cycle.
Speaker 3: Welcome back. You should feel a deep sense of calm now,
Speaker 3: a won't spreading from your center outward to the tips
Speaker 3: of your fingers and toes. The breath work has told
Speaker 3: your body a story, a story of safety, of rest,
Speaker 3: of permission to let go of the constant vigilance that
Speaker 3: modern life demands. Carry this feeling with you. It is
Speaker 3: not something you need this forest to access. It lives
Speaker 3: inside you, in your breath, in your body. You can
Speaker 3: return to this rhythm any time you need.
Speaker 19: To, any moment of stress, any moment of worry, any
Speaker 19: moment when the weights begin to pile up again, you
Speaker 19: can close your eyes and breathe In for four, hold
Speaker 19: for two, out for six, pause for two, and in
Speaker 19: thirty seconds you will be back here, back in the clearing,
Speaker 19: back in the light, back in the piece. Before we
Speaker 19: leave this clearing, let us plant some seeds.
Speaker 5: Words have power, not magic power, but the power of repetition,
Speaker 5: the power of intention, the power of choosing what to
Speaker 5: believe about yourself and your life.
Speaker 3: These are not commands. They are not demands. They are invitations.
Speaker 3: Take the ones that resonate with you tonight and leave
Speaker 3: the rest. They will be here whenever you need them.
Speaker 3: I release what no longer serves me. I am allowed
Speaker 3: to set down my burdens. My worth is not measured
Speaker 3: by what I carry. I trust the process of letting go.
Speaker 1: I am safe to be still. My body knows how
Speaker 1: to heal. I choose peace over perfection. I am enough
Speaker 1: exactly as I am.
Speaker 5: I release the.
Speaker 1: Need to control what I cannot change. I welcome the
Speaker 1: lightness that comes with surrender. My past does not define
Speaker 1: my future. I am becoming who I was always meant
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 3: Let the these.
Speaker 1: Words settle into the way rain settles into soil. You
Speaker 1: do not need to force them. You do not need
Speaker 1: to repeat them, or memorize them, or write them down.
Speaker 3: Simply let them be.
Speaker 1: Thing them, find the places inside you where they are
Speaker 1: needed most, and take root there.
Speaker 3: In their own time, in their own way, they will grow.
Speaker 3: They will become part of you. They will speak to
Speaker 3: you when you need them most, rising up from some
Speaker 3: quiet corner of your memory, like the voice of a
Speaker 3: friend who always knows what to say. The light in
Speaker 3: the clearing is changing now. The golden shafts are softening,
Speaker 3: taking on the warm amber tones of late afternoon. The
Speaker 3: forest knows that our time here is drawing to a close,
Speaker 3: and it is preparing to hold you a little more gently.
Speaker 3: As you transition from this inner world back to the
Speaker 3: outer one, take one last look around. The ancient trees,
Speaker 3: their bark thick and furrowed with age, standing like silent
Speaker 3: witnesses to everything that has happened here tonight. The stream
Speaker 3: still flowing, still carrying, still doing its patient, eternal work,
Speaker 3: the moss.
Speaker 20: The wild flowers, the shafts of light filtering through the canopy.
Speaker 20: This place will be here whenever you need it. You
Speaker 20: carry it inside you now, a forest of peace that
Speaker 20: you can visit any time you close your eyes and breathe.
Speaker 20: Place your hand over your heart, feel it beating that steady,
Speaker 20: faithful rhythm that has been with you since before you
Speaker 20: were born, before you had a name, before you had
Speaker 20: a story. It does not ask for your permission, It
Speaker 20: does not need your help.
Speaker 5: It does not care about your plans, or your fears
Speaker 5: or yet to do list. It simply beats, faithfully, constantly,
Speaker 5: without rest, without complaint. Your heart has been carrying you
Speaker 5: your entire life. Perhaps to night you can carry it
Speaker 5: a little more gently. Thank yourself for being here, for
Speaker 5: showing up, for choosing to spend this time on the
Speaker 5: sacred work of release. It would have been easy to
Speaker 5: skip this, to scroll through your phone, to watch something,
Speaker 5: to stay busy, to stay distracted.
Speaker 3: But you chose this. You chose stillness, You chose courage.
Speaker 3: You chose to sit with yourself in the dark and
Speaker 3: do the work that needed doing, and that matters more
Speaker 3: than you know. That choice, repeated night after night, will
Speaker 3: reshape your life in ways you cannot yet imagine. Before
Speaker 3: we leave, let us take one final walk together through
Speaker 3: this clearing not to do anything, not to fix or
Speaker 3: change or release, simply to witness. See this place with
Speaker 3: fresh eyes, knowing what has happened here to night walk slowly.
Speaker 3: Feel the grass beneath your feet cool now as the
Speaker 3: shadow's Lengthen notice the way the light filters through the canopy,
Speaker 3: creating patoons on the ground that shift and change with
Speaker 3: every breeze. Each pattern is unique, Each pattern exists for
Speaker 3: only a moment before it transforms into something new. There
Speaker 3: is a lesson in that nothing is permanent, not even
Speaker 3: the beautiful things and not the painful ones either. Pause
Speaker 3: at the stream one more time. Look at the water.
Speaker 1: It is the same stream it was.
Speaker 3: An hour ago. But you are different.
Speaker 1: You are lighter, you are more open.
Speaker 3: The stream knows this.
Speaker 1: It reflects your face back to you, and the face
Speaker 1: it shows you is clearer than the one you arrived with.
Speaker 1: There is a softness in your expression that was not
Speaker 1: there before. There is a lightness in your eyes. The
Speaker 1: forest breeze with you now. You are not a visitor
Speaker 1: here