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Childhood Trauma Healing Sleep Hypnosis (Intrusive Thoughts, Nightmares, Flashbacks Healing)

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Summary

This sleep hypnosis guides listeners into deep rest by delegating intrusive thoughts and trauma triggers to an internal subconscious guardian that nurtures and puts to sleep personified inner-child emotions.

Deactivating nocturnal hypervigilance through inner-child reparenting replaces the cycle of resisting intrusive thoughts with somatic safety and emotional resolution before sleep.

Section summaries

0:00-3:10

Induction & Breath Awareness

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The narrator explains how sleep hypnosis differs from meditation, noting that active focus is unnecessary because the subconscious absorbs all suggestions. Listeners are guided to optimize their sleeping area and dim the lights before engaging in a three-count eye-fatigue release. The sequence transitions into breath awareness, drawing attention to air temperature differences and somatic sensations in the belly and chest.

  • Effortless passive listening engages the subconscious without requiring cognitive quiet.
  • A 3-to-1 countdown facilitates intentional muscle release around the eyelids.
  • Breath temperature awareness anchors attention into the physical body.

Crucial for establishing hypnotic rapport and physical grounding.

3:10-11:05

Sanctuary Visualization & Staircase Descent

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The session introduces an internal visual of a 10-step spiral staircase leading downward to an ideal sleep sanctuary. A gradual 10-to-1 descent progressively deepens relaxation, leaving mental noise behind. Upon reaching the floor, the listener is invited to customize the sanctuary's sensory details, including window vistas, plush bedding textures, lavender scents, and tailored mattress support.

  • Descending a 10-step staircase serves as a classic deepening metaphor.
  • Detailed tactile visualization of sheets and scents activates parasympathetic safety.
  • Customizing an ideal mental sleeping room establishes an internal safe container.

Constructs the primary mental sanctuary used for the emotional healing process.

11:05-19:00

Progressive Somatic Release & Trance Deepening

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The narrator leads a comprehensive progressive body scan moving upward and outward from the core to the chest, shoulders, arms, neck, and lower extremities. Facial tension is uncoiled around the forehead, temples, and eyelids, followed by releasing subtle pressure in the jaw and tongue. A final 5-to-1 countdown transitions the physical body into a heavy, peaceful state.

  • Releasing jaw tension and swallowing are bodily confirmations of hypnotic attunement.
  • Progressive head-to-toe scanning eliminates residual muscular bracing.
  • A 5-step countdown induces heavy physical relaxation.

Standard progressive relaxation that can be experienced passively while falling asleep.

19:00-28:30

Inner Guardian & Soothing the Angry Child

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The listener rests in one room while the subconscious is established as a protective guardian in an adjoining room to care for personified thoughts. The first thought encountered is an angry, frustrated child with clenched fists. The guardian listens unconditionally without judgment or prejudice, meeting the child's hidden needs until the anger drops and the child peacefully falls asleep.

  • Intrusive thoughts can be separated into an adjacent mental space managed by the subconscious.
  • Anger often acts as a protective shield over vulnerable, unmet needs.
  • Non-judgmental listening allows defensive rage to soften into sleep.

Introduces the central trauma-healing metaphor and addresses intrusive anger.

28:30-36:25

Comforting the Worried & Fearful Child

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The guardian attends to a second child characterized by doubt, uncertainty, and wide-eyed fear. Seating the child in front of a warm fireplace, the guardian listens to all voiced anxieties and questions with total patience. Through loving reassurance and physical rocking, the worried child's doubts are resolved, allowing her to sigh with relief and drift into sleep.

  • Bedtime worry represents a part of the self seeking safety and answers.
  • Fireplace visualization provides soothing sensory warmth for nervous energy.
  • Patience and validation soothe acute nighttime anxiety.

Directly targets intrusive nighttime worry, catastrophizing, and self-doubt.

36:25-42:45

Reconnecting the Lonely Child

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The guardian turns to a lonely child standing isolated in a corner with downward gaze. To heal this sense of isolation, the guardian engages the child in joyful, shared play until smiles and laughter return. Once the child feels a secure sense of belonging, they choose a bed beside the others and fall asleep with a light heart.

  • Inner loneliness dissolves through active engagement, connection, and play.
  • Experiencing joy within visualization reduces emotional heaviness.
  • Re-establishing belonging is vital for settling nighttime alienation.

Beneficial for listeners working through abandonment or feelings of isolation.

42:45-53:50

Resolving Root Trauma in the Anxious Child

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The session focuses on an insomniac child who has remained hypervigilant and unable to permit sleep for a long time. The guardian invites the child to communicate past experiences and identifies the original memory where chronic anxiety began. By providing the unmet protection and security needed in that formative moment, the guardian lifts the heavy burden, enabling deep, immediate sleep.

  • Chronic insomnia is frequently rooted in unresolved childhood hypervigilance.
  • Reparenting the initial memory of distress releases the long-held need to stay alert.
  • Providing the unmet developmental need resolves somatic sleep resistance.

The emotional climax of the session addressing root-cause trauma and insomnia.

53:50-1:01:45

Delta Sleep Integration & Soundscape

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With all child parts resting peacefully in their beds, the guardian sits in a rocking chair by the fire to maintain watch through the night. The narrator reinforces that all needs are met and will remain protected, prompting the listener to slip into deep Delta sleep. The remaining audio continues with calm ambient music to sustain restorative sleep without further spoken guidance.

  • Internal parts remain protected overnight by the subconscious caretaker.
  • The mind transitions safely from guided hypnosis into uninterrupted Delta brainwaves.
  • Extended ambient music maintains sleep depth without abrupt audio shifts.

Pure ambient sleep music designed for drifting off after guidance concludes.

Key points

  • Subconscious as Inner Guardian — The subconscious mind is framed as an attentive caretaker that takes over the burden of monitoring worries while the conscious self sleeps.
  • Thoughts as Vulnerable Inner Children — Disruptive emotions like anger, fear, loneliness, and hypervigilance are visualized as small children holding specific unmet emotional needs.
  • Reparenting Root Anxiety Memories — The visualization traces long-standing sleep anxiety back to its originating childhood moments and supplies the safety and protection that was missing back then.
  • Somatic Somnolence via Trance Cues — Physical relaxation is achieved by monitoring natural physiological cues such as swallowing reflexes, jaw release, and progressive sensory anchoring.
sleep hypnosis is different to meditation so you do not need to be still or even quiet your mind to benefit Hypnotherapist Narrator
your subconscious mind is the guardian of you and is now taking over the care of your thoughts for you Hypnotherapist Narrator

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welcome to this deep sleep

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hypnosis sleep hypnosis is different to

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meditation so you do not need to be

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still or even quiet your mind to

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benefit your conscious mind May wander

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and chatter but your subconscious mind

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that quiet observer in the back of your

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mind is always paying attention to every

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word I say

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we are going to channel the power of

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your mind in a gentle

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non-confrontational way using techniques

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that can help you from the very first

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time that you

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listen no need to believe simply keep an

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open mind so let's

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begin take a moment to make your bed or

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sleeping area

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comfortable maybe you would like to take

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turn the lights down low or switch them

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off

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completely always choose what feels most

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comfortable to

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you you can blink your eyes as your

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sight adjusts to the light or dark of

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the

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room and as you do so become aware of

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the muscles around your

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eyes and allow your eyelids to close

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with each number

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now three release the muscles around

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your eyes two eyelids lower

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Now One release all

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grip all tension and all those muscles

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holding your eyelids

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now and with eyes close continue to

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breathe and tune in to the perceptions

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of your

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breath notice how your breath

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moves within

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you with eyes closed you

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perhaps attune more to the movement of

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the air in your

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chest or lower

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belly or perhaps you notice the sounds

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more or the change in

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temperature as cooler air

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enters and warmer air flows out through

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your mouth now

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and in the soft Darkness behind your

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eyes allow your mind to

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create a relaxing scene for

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you see a soft Spotlight

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appear in the center of the dark of your

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mind and now I want want you to

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envisage a short spiral

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staircase of 10

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stairs leading you down to the most

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comfortable bed in the

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world where in the world or the

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universe would this room

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be it could be far far

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away in another part of the

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country or another part of the

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world you are standing at the top of the

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stairs looking

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down you place a hand on the

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handrail and notice now if it feels cool

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or

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metallic or like soft wood under your

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hand now

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and as you look down this scene comes

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into more

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Focus you can see a

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room and a

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bed the most comfortable luxurious

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bed visualize the sleeping

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area in viid

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detail the sheets are made of the

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softest

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material perhaps a luxurious

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silk fresh cotton or a warm

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flannel you can already

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anticipate what would feel

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good so allow me to guide you down

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to this perfect place of rest

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now starting at 10 you begin to descend

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the

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staircase slowly and

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steadily and nine another step your

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mental state relaxes more eight sinking

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down a few more

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inches and seven now now as you breathe

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in and

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out six calm air flows through

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you five leaving all noise behind

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you four almost

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floating three mind slowing down

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more two drifting with

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ease and one arriving

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now both feet touching the floor

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now fully

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relaxed as you slowly take time to

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notice this

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room your perfect place to sleep

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as you step

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forward or perhaps glide

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effortlessly into the center of the

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room if there is a window in this

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room what would you like to

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see when you look

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through what is the view

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and now you turn back towards the

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bed visualize the bed in detail

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now maybe you see it or perhaps you can

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feel the touch of the

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sheets as you reach

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out and brush some fingers is against

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them

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now they are as soft does he want them

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to

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be whether fresh cotton smooth silk or

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something

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else notice the

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color and the texture of the sheets

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and in between my

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words your mind automatically starts to

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add to and shape this

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scene to be the paradise place of

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rest that you

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deserve and

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need with a simple

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wish paint in

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colors create space

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decorate it or keep it simple and

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clutter

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free maybe even the air is centered

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here lavender perhaps

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or fresh air that flows from a

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window you pull back the sheets and

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slide

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in with

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ease and you feel a

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release as you sigh with relief

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you rest your head

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back and sense how the pillows are

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plush not too thick or too

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thin and the sheets magically fold back

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over you

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now the mattress supports you

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perfectly cadal in your

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body as if floating on a

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cloud all pressure points release

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now to see you are fully

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supported head to

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toe and as your breath slows

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down your mind slows

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down

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automatically now

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[Music]

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as you release the grip on

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anything that could restrict your

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breath your breathing flows almost

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without effort

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now easier to breathe in

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in and you simply release the air flow

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out and the same release

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spreads to all of your

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body flowing from your

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core upwards and outwards

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now as your chest r relaxes and

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broadens your heart resounds

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steadily all of you

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feeling more and more in

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harmony your shoulders

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soften and dip down and

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back sinking into this person perfect

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bed your arms rest

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softly hands and

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fingers release any

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grip your neck muscles un coil

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and you feel the same unwinding

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effect Ripple down your

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arms and your legs

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now your hips at

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ease and that same looseness flows down

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your thighs

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bringing relief to your

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muscles and your knee

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joints your calves

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too and your feet are resting

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gently and your face

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softens with every gentle breath now

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your forehead

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melts with the softness of the air

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around

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you a soft wave of

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relaxation flows down your

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temples circles around your

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eyes your eyelids feel heavier and sof

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softer than

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before and it may even

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feel too much

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effort to open them

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again and even if you do you soon want

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to close them

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[Music]

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again eyelids

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heavy closing once more

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doubling your

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relaxation

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[Music]

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now and the subtle pressure

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points now release everywhere all over

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your

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body as your jaw Springs

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loose your mouth can go

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slack your tongue rests

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heavily at the bottom of your

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mouth and you may wish to swallow once

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or twice now

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and if you do this is a good

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sign that your

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mind and my

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words are

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attuned and breathing gets easier and

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easier now

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your entire head feels

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lighter forehead free of

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furrows all pressure from your jaw

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lifted

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now and your entire body gets pleasantly

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heavy now

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and if your subconscious mind can

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release any more of the pressure that

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you typically

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carry please do so with every

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number that I count down

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now from 5 to

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1 and Five release any knot or tension

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anywhere within

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you for infused body and mind with even

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greater

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calm three calmer deeper breathing

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steadily

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now two doubling

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calm and one sinking

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down into a perfect peaceful All

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State in

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body and mind

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and as your conscious mind

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attunes to the good

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feelings you may be aware of Echoes of

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thoughts at the very edge of your

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awareness but your central Focus

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resides remains on the good

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feelings in this perfect place

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face and you in your

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room you carry on

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resting perhaps even

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sleeping as your

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subconscious can still do the good

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work even while you

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sleep as you have carried your thoughts

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throughout the day know that your

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subconscious mind is the guardian of you

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and is now taking over the care of your

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thoughts for

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you you may even envisage this

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part as a guardian or caretaker

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figger as you sleep in one room the

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caretaker or Guardian looks over your

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thoughts in another

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room and you remain

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undisturbed resting

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peacefully as all inside sounds and

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outside sounds fade more and more into

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the

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background and in this other

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room if your thoughts had a

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form perhaps you would see them appear

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as small

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children each carrying a single

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emotion each seeks something before they

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to can

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rest and with the wisdom it

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carries your subconscious mind

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automatically understands and will give

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each child what it needs

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one by

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one even the scariest of thoughts May

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hide a very vulnerable

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feeling notice the the form that your

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subconscious mind takes as the caring

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Guardian feel the peaceful and patient

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energy

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and in the room of the thoughts that are

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still

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awake your subconscious first

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notices any thought that seems angry

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frustrated or

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tense see this thought embodied as a

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child the child clenches their

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fists their face shows that they are

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clearly

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upset what is behind this

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anger more specifically what is their

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need and this feeling may come from the

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past

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or the present

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day see the guardian

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calm

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clearheaded and carrying an

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energy of complete love and

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peace they approach the angry

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child allow these parts of your mind to

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speak the child to speak their

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frustrations and the guardian to

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interpret and give the child what they

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need no

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Prejudice no

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silencing no judgment

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here let this communication take place

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in in the quiet

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that

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and now you see the expression on the

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child's face change

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his face

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relaxes and looks more reassured

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now he exhales with

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relief The Shield of anger

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drops and their tiny body

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softens f Mists

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unclench the child knows they are safe

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and understood here they have been

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heard and know that they are cared

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for they are secure and protected

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here he turns and walks towards the

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guardian Karm and now ready for

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sleep and the guardian puts him into one

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of the small beds in this

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room and the

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child in the way that children

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do falls

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asleep almost instantly

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another child is

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worried full of doubts and

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uncertainties she wraps her arms around

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herself

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eyes wide as if searching for

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answers or Comfort

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maybe the guardian steps forward to her

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now and you see a soft fireplace in this

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room a gentle glow

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and a chair in front of

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it and the guardian guides the

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child lifts her and cradles her

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now and the child is free to

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speak to voice any and un

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certainties any

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fears and with total

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patience the guardian

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listens really hears not just the

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words but what is behind the

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words they answer the child's

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questions plate any

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doubt allow the scene to play out and

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notice what you

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perceive of the

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conversation as they speak

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that

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the guardian has a gentle

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affection that is both protective and

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soothing and after some time

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the small child sigh

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deeply and

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now

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comforted

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reassured she turns to the guardian and

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states she is ready for sleep

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they lift her up

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lightly Place her gently down into bed

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and so she starts to sleep

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and the guardian turns now to one child

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in the

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corner he is standing looking

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down he is the lonely

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child and needs company

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what does this child need to relieve

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this

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loneliness what would bring a smile to

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their face

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they take time to speak

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up and together they find a way to play

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until the child

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relaxes and even begins to

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smile and shared laughter hums through

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the

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air reaches the edges of your awareness

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and you may find that you

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too smile in your

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sleep as this lonely

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child is no longer

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lonely allow the play to carry on and

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enjoy whatever sounds reach you from

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this

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seen in the quiet now

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that

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that

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and now as the child has played

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enough all traces of loneliness have

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faded from their

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expression replaced with a relaxed

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smile and eyes that blink

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heavily showing the need to sleep

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as this Sweet Child knows now that they

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do belong here he chooses his bed next

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to one child already

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sleeping and gets in with a light

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heart no longer

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heavy relaxing easily

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into a deep

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sleep and finally there is one child

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they have been so anxious that they

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cannot

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sleep and although they want to they

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cannot permit themselves to

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sleep it's been so long now the guardian

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asks them to

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understand more of what happened in the

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past the child may speak first or

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Express even without words how they

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feel the guardian is

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patient allow the child to communicate

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now in the quiet that follows

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for

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and as the guardian looks with tender

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care at the child they understand the

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unmet need behind the tired eye

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and they know exactly what this tired

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child

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needs to be able to relax again and

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sleep so the subconscious mind

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Guardian may ask the child and find the

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very first moment of

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anxiety that led to sleepless nights

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in this memory the guardian will find

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the unmet

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need and gives this

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child what they need to be able to sleep

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again take some time here

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for

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and now the

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child looking tired but

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relieved rubs his

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eyes his movements are

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slow his body softening

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already so tired with the weight of what

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they have had to carry

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now he needs

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sleep the guardian of your

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mind carefully places the child

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down and almost as soon as he comes to

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rest on the bed the child's eyes close

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instantly

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breathing slows down to a deep and even

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rhythm

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now all the

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children of your

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sorts have received what they

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needed each one is in their small small

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bed side by side deeply

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asleep and the guardian now takes a

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seat in The Rocking Chair by the

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fire to watch over them all and keep

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them safe as they sleep through the

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night

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and just as your subconscious

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mind is always looking out for you all

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parts of

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you will also

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ensure that your thoughts

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remain peacefully

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asleep meeting all of your needs

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tonight and every night from now

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on and as they sit by the

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fire and watch over the sleeping

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children each one cozy in their

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bed we will leave them

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now and you in your bed can drift to an

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even

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deeper Delta sleep

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now

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enjoying a

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deep and nourishing night's sleep

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that

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for

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that

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