Speaker 1: You do not need to solve anything tonight. You do
Speaker 1: not need to figure anything out. You do not need
Speaker 1: to plan, You do not need to worry. You only
Speaker 1: need to breathe. You only need to let go. Your
Speaker 1: body knows how to sleep. Your body has known since
Speaker 1: you are born. Your body remembers. Your body knows the way.
Speaker 1: Trust your body. Let your body lead. Your mind is
Speaker 1: allowed to wander. Let your tongue rest gently against the
Speaker 1: roof of your mouth, or curl softly at its bottom,
Speaker 1: whichever feels more natural. Either way, the muscles of your
Speaker 1: face are learning to release. Now, let your attention drift
Speaker 1: to the back of your head, to the place where
Speaker 1: your head meets the pillow. Feel the weight of your
Speaker 1: head being held, Feel the pillow receiving you, feel the give,
Speaker 1: feel the support. Not in a rush, You step through
Speaker 1: the way you have been stepping through everything tonight, slowly, gently,
Speaker 1: one breath at a time. The door closes behind you.
Speaker 2: The door makes no sound. The door does not lock.
Speaker 2: You can return whenever you need to. The door will
Speaker 2: be there. The door is always there. On the other
Speaker 2: side of the door.
Speaker 1: The world is soft, The world is far away. The
Speaker 1: lamps have green glass, shades. The light they give is warm.
Speaker 1: The light is gentle on the eyes. The light is
Speaker 1: the kind of light you want. When you are reading
Speaker 1: late into the night. You walk between the shelves. Your
Speaker 1: footsteps are quiet on the thick carpet that covers the floor.
Speaker 1: The carpet is patterned in deep breads and blues. The
Speaker 1: carpet is old. The carpet is soft. Breath in two.
Speaker 2: Three four.
Speaker 3: A talk two three four, five, six, seven eight.
Speaker 4: Let the outbreads threat. Then let the outbreath stretch. It
Speaker 4: stretch by one county tennong not forcing juice dot a
Speaker 4: one four bead out.
Speaker 1: Death's ive. They have been holding expressions all day, surprise, attention, worry, laughter.
Speaker 1: Tonight they are invited to do nothing at all. Let
Speaker 1: the muscles around your eyes soften, Let the small muscles
Speaker 1: of your temples soften, Let your jaw soften. Let the
Speaker 1: space between your teeth widen by a fraction. In this house,
Speaker 1: you can simply walk the hallway, look through the doors,
Speaker 1: rest your forehead against the window, and feel the cool
Speaker 1: glass and the golden light. The house softens, the hallway fades,
Speaker 1: The doors close one by one gently. The way doors
Speaker 1: close in a dream. The window dissolves, the glass becomes air,
Speaker 1: the light becomes memory. The dream is over, but the
Speaker 1: feeling of the dream remains. The echo is the kind
Speaker 1: of echo that belongs in a house like this, a
Speaker 1: house that is too large to be silent, too empty
Speaker 1: to be still. You come to a door that is open.
Speaker 1: Through the door, you can see a room. The room
Speaker 1: is a bedroom. The room has a large bed made
Speaker 1: up with white linens. The room has a window that
Speaker 1: looks out over a garden. The room has a chair
Speaker 1: in the corner and a small table with a book
Speaker 1: on it. You are loved by this moment. You are enough.
Speaker 1: You have always been enough, You will always be enough.
Speaker 1: Let these truths settle. Let them sink into your chest,
Speaker 1: Let them sink into your belly, Let them sink into
Speaker 1: your bones. Let them be there when you wake, Let
Speaker 1: them be there in the morning. You put your hand
Speaker 1: on the knob, you turn it. The door swings inward
Speaker 1: on silent hinges. Beyond the door is the room of rest.
Speaker 1: The room has been waiting for you. The room has
Speaker 1: always been waiting for you, even on the days you
Speaker 1: forgot it existed, even on the days you told yourself
Speaker 1: you did not have time to enter. But tonight you
Speaker 1: have time. Tonight you are stepping through. Let your attention
Speaker 1: rise very gently, to the top of your head, to
Speaker 1: the crown, to the soft place where the hair begins.
Speaker 1: That place is quiet, now that place is letting go.
Speaker 1: Feel the muscles of your forehead, the small muscles above
Speaker 1: your eyebrows, the tiny muscles at the corners of your eyes.
Speaker 1: Feel them soften, feel them release. The fireplace is not lit,
Speaker 1: but you can imagine the fire. You can imagine the warmth.
Speaker 1: You can imagine sitting in the chair beside it, reading,
Speaker 1: listening to the rain. The sitting room is for winter evenings.
Speaker 1: The sitting room is not for tonight. You walk on,
Speaker 1: you come to a staircase. The staircase goes up, the
Speaker 1: staircase goes down. You do not need to take the staircase.
Speaker 1: You only need to see it. Tonight they can do nothing.
Speaker 1: Let your attention return to your chest. Feel your chest rise,
Speaker 1: feel your chest fall, Feel the rhythm of your breathing.
Speaker 1: Do not change the rhythm, just notice it. Notice how
Speaker 1: the breath comes in, Notice how the breath goes out.
Speaker 1: Notice the small pause between That pause is where peace lives.
Speaker 1: Feel your heart beating inside your chest, feel it doing
Speaker 1: its work. Feel the weight of your belly, Feel the
Speaker 1: warmth of your belly. The belly is the soft center
Speaker 1: of you. The belly is where you hold your feelings.
Speaker 1: Let it be soft tonight.