Welcome to the relaxation study. This 10 cassette series will guide you towards relaxation,

focus and total body awareness. Listen to these guides with authorized headphones provided

to you by the Institute's security team. These cassettes will help to further understand

how your body works from top down, mind, to matter. My voice will guide you through these

exercises. You will trust only my voice and your body to which you are servant. Listen,

remember, comprehend. If you listen carefully to each recorded session, you may find information

in these cassettes useful to you in your daily life. The object is to listen, to remember,

and to comprehend. Before you start the study, find a private spot, alone, away from your

unit mates and security nurse, far from disruptive sounds such as telephone booths and redress

sirens. These cassettes are to be listened to free of external interference.

Step 1. Reducing stress. Side A. Weight of the world.

Start with a breathing exercise. As you inhale through your nose, feel your breath behind

your eyes. Feel the cool air flow below your forehead. Feel it hover under the top of

your skull. Feel it slip down your neck across your shoulders and into your lungs. Breathe

in now. Breathe out slowly through your mouth. Feel the air now stale, now used, rush from

your lungs. Feel your body relax as it lets go of the air, freeing it from the temporary

prison of your ribs. Breathe in. Breathe out. Continue breathing and listen. Invision the air

as a liquid, just like the first time you swam. This was before you were born when you

were floating, unaware, fluid within and without your body. You breathed it just fine. You

don't remember any of this. You shouldn't remember any of this. Inhale the thick liquid

through your nose and out through your mouth. You don't remember the loud thrum of another's

body, a mother's body noisily soothing your unwitting transition into a conscious and

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