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Sleep Meditation for Kids _ TREE OF TRUTH _ Bedtime Sleep Story for Children · New Horizon - Meditation & Sleep Stories

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  Speaker 1: Find a nice comfortable place to sit or lie down
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  and just relax. Go to bed if you want to
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  take a deep breath in through your nose and slowly
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  and gently breathe out through your mouth. Again, Deep breath
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  in through your nose and slowly and gently breathe out
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  through your mouth. One more time. Deep breath in through
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  your nose and slowly and gently breathe out through your mouth.
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  Now bring your breathing back to its normal rhythm. Feeling
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  your chest rise and fall gently, feeling all warm and safe,
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  feeling peaceful and calm and very relaxed. And with each
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  breath you take, you can feel yourself becoming more and
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  more relaxed. You feel so peaceful right now, you feel
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  very happy and light, and you're breathing. It's almost still.
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  You're so relaxed. Now, imagine yourself sitting on an old
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  wooden bench in a very beautiful and very big garden.
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  And this garden has a very old brick wall running
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  all the way around it, and there are flowers growing
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  on some part of the wall, and ivy too, and
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  it really does look very beautiful. But some of the
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  wall you can't see, as there is a wooded area
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  filled with many tall trees. You can feel the warmth
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  of the sun as it touches your skin, and you
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  look up at the beautiful blue color of the sky
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  and you can feel a gentle, cool breeze on your face.
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  You see a few fluffy white clouds slowly floating past,
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  just drifting along with nowhere special to be, just like
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  you at this moment in time, just drifting along with
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  nowhere special to be, but here right now, in this moment.
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  You look over towards the trees and decide to take
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  a look, because it kind of looks like a mini forest.
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  And as you get nearer, you see some very big, beautiful,
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  weeping willow trees and their branches are so long they
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  are almost touching the ground. Their leaves glisten in the sunlight,
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  and they shimmer and shine with beautiful, silvery green color.
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  You walk amongst them, touching near leaves with your fingers
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  and they feel smooth and silky to the touch. And
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  as you look up, you can see the sun shining
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  through the branches, almost making it look as if the
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  tree is moving and swaying in the cool breeze. You
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  can hear the rustling of the leaves, and it's like
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  the tree is speaking to you. You just can't understand
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  the words. Suddenly you hear a voice and you think
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  to yourself, who could that be? Maybe it is the
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  tree talking. You hear the voice again and realize that
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  it's coming from above you, and with astonishment, you realize
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  that the tree is talking to you. How cool is that?
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  As you look at the tree, you can see its
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  beautiful face just above you. And the tree has the
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  most amazing face. It has a beautiful big smile and
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  incredible big, soft brown kind eyes. The tree smiles down
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  at you and asks you if you would like to
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  climb up onto one of its branches so you can
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  both have a little chat. Well, that would be good.
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  The tree explains that sometimes he gets a only even
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  though his brothers and sisters are nearby. The tree tells
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  you and his brothers and sisters can't talk human talk,
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  but he can, and they talk to each other with
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  their minds and the swishing of the branches in the wind.
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  But the tree likes to talk to humans, but not
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  many of them come to this special place, so he
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  is really pleased that you've come today. So he climb
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  up on to one of his branches and make yourself
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  comfortable and begin to listen to the beautiful weeping willow.
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  As he begins to talk, he tells you his name
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  is Benny, and you tell him your name too. Benny
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  tells you that you can ask him any questions you want,
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  and he will always tell you the truth. He says,
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  the trees can only ever tell the truth because that
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  is who they are.
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  Speaker 2: They are truth.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us they stand tall and proud and always stand
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  in their own truth because it's impossible for them not to.
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  Benny asks you if you stand in your truth, the
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  truth of who you are, the truth of what you
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  believe in. He says that sometimes he has noticed that
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  some people say things that they don't really mean, but
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  they say it anyway because they think it will make
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  other people happy, even if it's not what they believe themselves.
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  Benny says that this is not a good thing to do.
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  He says, you must always say what you believe to
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  be the truth, your truth. He says, you should always
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  speak your truth, but to do it with kindness in
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  your heart and in your voice. Benny says that it's
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  okay to have a different opinion from some one else,
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  because that is their truth, not yours. Benny then asks
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  you if you would like to sing your truth from
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  the top of his branches without any fear of judgment. Hmmm,
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  you think about it. M okay, he says, to try,
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  and let exercise with and he will help you to
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  sing your truth. So you climb up to Benny's highest branches,
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  feeling very safe and secure as Benny will not let
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  you fall. Benny says to repeat after him.
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  Speaker 2: I use my voice to always speak my truth.
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  Speaker 1: Now you say it out loud from the top of
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  the tree, shout it out for all to hear.
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  Speaker 2: I use my voice to always speak my truth.
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  Speaker 1: Again, out loud from the top of the tree.
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  Speaker 2: I use my voice to always speak my truth.
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  Speaker 1: One last time, I use.
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  Speaker 2: My voice to always speak my truth.
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  Speaker 1: Benny says that now is the time. If there's anything
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  else that you wish to say, be in your own truth.
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  Say your own truth, shout it out now. In fact,
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  Benny suggests you sing it, make a little rhyme of it,
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  and just sing it out loud and allow the truth
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  to fly all the way through you. Be true to
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  you always. Benny says that you were fantastic and he
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  loved how he sang the words out loud. So for
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  a few moments, just sit with Benny and sing out
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  your truth as loud as you can, sing out all
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  of the things you know to be true, and remember,
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  be kind with your truth, but most of all, be
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  kind with yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Ms.
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  Speaker 1: You feel so free here, so relaxed and peaceful and calm,
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  and it feels so wonderful to just sit with Benny
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  and chat and sing your truth out loud from the treetops.
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  But now, though, it's time for you to return. So
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  you climb down from Benny's branches, and when you reach
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  the ground, you throw your arms around his trunk and
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  give him a great, big hug. And Benny is so
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  happy he slowly moves his lower branches and wraps them
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  around you too, giving you a warm and squishy hug.
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  So you say goodbye to Bennie and tell him you
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  will come back very soon to see him. Maybe next
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  time you can both sing a song together. You wave,
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  and you turn and begin your journey home. And you
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  realize now that you're back in your very own bed,
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  breathing softly and gently, and each time you breathe in,
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  you take in all the good thoughts and positive feelings,
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  and you're drifting deeper and deeper into the most wonderful
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  night's sleep ever. So turn over onto your side and
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  snuggle down. You feel so safe, so protected, so loved.
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  And when you wake up in the morning, you will
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  feel completely refreshed, bright, and I lay it and ready
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  to begin the new day ahead. And each night from
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  now on you will sleep better and better, deeper and deeper.
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  But for now, just rest your weary head and just sleep.
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  Speaker 2: Night night.
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