So go ahead and get yourself in a nice comfortable position.

Close your eyes and be here now.

Effortlessly and gently, breathe all the way in and exhale.

Breathe gently in and exhale. As we go on a journey

into the most wonderful,

deep sleep,

a most restorative sleep,

quicker than you can imagine.

And with each breath out, you will relax deeper and deeper.

Because with your eyes closed, it becomes easier and easier to become aware of many, many things.

Things that would otherwise go overlooked or ignored.

Thoughts, feelings and sensations, as the mind goes deeper and deeper soon.

Because I'm going to count down from 10 to zero and you may begin to notice how you relax deeper and

deeper with each number and you may imagine that you're looking at your body, looking at the muscles,

in the tips of the toes of your left foot.

In your imagination, follow those muscles as they move back into the ball of the foot, back into the arch, and all the way back into the hill.

Now turn all those muscles relaxed and loose.

Because your conscious mind soon can drift far, far away, where you can listen or you may just drift

and that can mean the comfort increases with each moment that passes.

Relaxing down, down from nine, down to 8.

You can allow those muscles to feel lazy and relaxed.

And as the muscles begin to relax

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