Speaker 1: The lamps have green glass shades. The light they give
Speaker 1: is warm. The light is gentle on the ice. The
Speaker 1: light is the kind of light you want. When you
Speaker 1: are reading late into the night. You walk between the shelves.
Speaker 1: Your footsteps are quiet on the thick carpet that covers
Speaker 1: the floor. The carpet is patterned in deep breads and blues.
Speaker 1: The carpet is old, The carpet is soft.
Speaker 2: You feel held by the garden. You feel held by
Speaker 2: the moment. In the garden, nothing is asked of you,
Speaker 2: nothing is needed from you, nothing is waiting for you.
Speaker 2: You can stay here as long as you like. The
Speaker 2: garden does not track the time. The garden does not
Speaker 2: keep count. The garden simply holds you the way the
Speaker 2: tree holds the birds that nest in its branches. The
Speaker 2: dream softens at the edges.
Speaker 1: The day is finished. Whatever you carried through it, the meetings,
Speaker 1: the errands, the conversations that asked more of you than
Speaker 1: you had to give, you can set it all down now,
Speaker 1: not tomorrow, not in an hour. Now. Picture yourself walking
Speaker 1: to the door of a room you have not entered
Speaker 1: in a long time. The door is old, the door
Speaker 1: is heavy, It has a brass knob that is slightly
Speaker 1: cool to the touch. Your feet sink slightly into it
Speaker 1: as you walk. You read, chuck, and pull a book
Speaker 1: from a shelf. The book is small. The book is
Speaker 1: bound in soft brown leather. The title on the spine
Speaker 1: is in gold, but you cannot read the language. You
Speaker 1: open the book. The pages are thin. The pages are creamy.
Speaker 1: The pages are filled with words in a script you
Speaker 1: do not know, but you do not need to know
Speaker 1: the words.
Speaker 3: The shelves fade, the lamps stem. The chair dissolves into
Speaker 3: the feeling of being held. The dream becomes the sense
Speaker 3: of being in a place that is vast and quiet, mankind.
Speaker 3: The lamp has a soft fabric shade. The lamp is
Speaker 3: the kind of lamp that gives the kind of light
Speaker 3: you would want if you were reading a book late
Speaker 3: at night. But to night, the lamp is off to night.
Speaker 3: The only light in the room is the light from
Speaker 3: the window. The light from the window is the light
Speaker 3: of the moon. The room is quiet. The room is patient.
Speaker 3: The room is waiting for you to settle in. Feel
Speaker 3: it steady, feel it sure. You do not need to
Speaker 3: do anything about your heart. Your heart knows what to do.
Speaker 3: Your heart has been beating since before you were born.
Speaker 3: It will beat long after this moment has passed. Trust it,
Speaker 3: Trust it to keep going while you rest. Let your
Speaker 3: attention sink to your belly. Let your belly.
Speaker 1: Soften, Let it rise with thee in breath, Let it
Speaker 1: fall with the out breath. Feel the weight of them sinking.
Speaker 1: Feel the way the bed accepts them. Feel the slow
Speaker 1: release of tension you may not have known was there
Speaker 1: now your arms. Let your upper arms feel heavy, Let
Speaker 1: your elbows feel soft. Let your forearms rest. What your
Speaker 1: wrists be still, What your hands open, What your fingers
Speaker 1: curl softly, not cripping, not reaching, just resting. The hounds
Speaker 1: have done so much today. Tonight you are allowing yourself
Speaker 1: to enter.
Speaker 4: The room is large. The room is exactly the size
Speaker 4: it needs to be. The ceiling is high, high enough
Speaker 4: that the air in the room has room to move.
Speaker 1: The floor is made of wide wooden planks, polished soft
Speaker 1: by years of other feet.
Speaker 5: Tonight they can do nothing. Let your attention return to
Speaker 5: your chest. Feel your chest rise, feel your chest fall,
Speaker 5: Feel the rhythm of your breathing. Do not change the rhythm,
Speaker 5: just notice it. Notice how the breath comes in. Notice
Speaker 5: how the breath goes out. Notice the small paws between
Speaker 5: That pause is where peace lives. Feel your heart beating
Speaker 5: inside your chest, Feel it doing its work. The grass
Speaker 5: is the green of new growth. In the center of
Speaker 5: the circle, there is a single tree. The tree is old.
Speaker 5: The tree is large. The tree's branches spread wide, making
Speaker 5: a canopy of leaves that filters the light into dappled
Speaker 5: patterns on the grass. You sit beneath the tree. You
Speaker 5: lean against the trunk. The trunk is solid, The trunk
Speaker 5: is warm from the sun. You feel held by the tree.
Speaker 5: But the garden does not feel smaller. As you go deeper,
Speaker 5: the garden feels larger. The garden seems to expand as
Speaker 5: you move through it, the way a dream expands as
Speaker 5: you move through it. The garden has no edges. The
Speaker 5: garden has no end. There is always more garden. There
Speaker 5: is always more quiet. You come to a clearing in
Speaker 5: the center of the garden. In the clearing, there is
Speaker 5: a circle of grass.
Speaker 4: The grass is soft.
Speaker 1: The world will still be there in the morning, but
Speaker 1: it does not need you tonight. On the other side
Speaker 1: of the door, the body rests. The body is heavy.
Speaker 1: The body is warm. The body is held by the bed,
Speaker 1: the body is held by the blankets, the body is
Speaker 1: held by the night. On the other side of the door,
Speaker 1: the breath slows, The breath becomes almost nothing, The breath
Speaker 1: becomes the smallest, rise and fall.
Speaker 3: Breathe in.
Speaker 5: Two three four.
Speaker 4: Talk two three four, five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 1: Let the outbreaths treat