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Sleep Meditation for Kids THE GLASS SUBMARINE Sleep Story for Children · New Horizon - Meditation & Sleep Stories

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  Speaker 1: Close your eyes and make yourself comfortable. Just allow your
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  eyes to gently close and focus on your breathing. Just
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  let all your troubles just float away. Take a deep
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  breath in through your nose and slowly and gently breathe
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  out through your mouth. Again, take another deep breath, slowly
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  and gently breathe out through your mouth. One last time,
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  deep breath in and slowly and gently breathe out through
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  your mouth. Just bring your breathing back to its normal
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  rhythm and just relax, letting all your thoughts just drift away. Now,
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  imagine yourself standing on your own private, magical island, a
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  place that is just yours. And here in this place
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  you are safe, you are loved, and you are protected always. Now,
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  this magic island of yours is surrounded by the bluest ocean,
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  and the water sparkles and shines like thousands of diamonds,
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  all glittering in the sunlight. And above your island is
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  a rainbow, a beautiful, huge rainbow of many colors. Can
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  you see it floating above your island? Can you see
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  it's magnificence in the sky above you, The purples and
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  the blues, the greens and the yellows, the oranges, and
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  the reds. You can even see silver and gold to
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  what were the colors? Can you see? Each time you
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  breathe in, your rainbow becomes larger and larger, until it
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  fills the whole sky above you with so many beautiful colors.
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  It's amazing that you're standing on a long, sandy beach
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  and you can smell the fresh, clean, salty air, and
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  it tickles your nose a little bit, but it feels
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  warm and nice on your skin. You can hear the
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  sound of seagulls flying above you, rising so high and
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  then swooping down towards the gentle waves, trying to catch
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  their dinner. But the fish are very quick, and they
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  swim off at a rate of knots, laughing very loudly
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  as they go. Can you see them? Can you hear them?
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  You turn your attention to the beautiful, deep blue ocean
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  and you watch each gentle wave moving so gracefully, and
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  you watch the sparkles from the sunlight bounce on the
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  surface of the water. It's so bright, but it doesn't
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  hurt to look at it. You start to walk towards
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  a vast ocean, feeling the sand beneath your feet and
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  in between your toes, and it feels so warm and
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  soft on your skin, breathing fresh ocean air. Oh, you
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  feel so peaceful here, so calm and relaxed, and it's
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  all yours. As you look around you you notice of
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  ahead a long wooden dock leading out into the beautiful
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  blue water. So you decide to go and have a
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  look around it, wondering if you might see anything else?
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  Is there anything else to see? As you walk along
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  the dock, you can see below you the crystal clear water,
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  and you can even see the most colorful fish swimming
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  on by. It's then that you notice that there is
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  something at the end of the dock kind of looks
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  bit odd. It looks like a big glass ball, and
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  it's just floating in the water, and you wonder what
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  on earth could it be. As you reach the big
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  glass ball, you realize that it's a small well, kind
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  of like a submarine. Really. Its glass door is open,
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  and you see inside that there is the most amazing
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  chair filled with soft cushions of many, many different colors.
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  You decide to climb inside and sit down on the chair,
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  and you find that it is the softest chair you
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  have ever sat on, and it completely fits your body.
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  You think that this would make an amazing place to sleep.
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  As you sit there, the door gently closes and you
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  see in front of you a little note and it sets. Friend,
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  this glass submarine is just for you. It's for you
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  to go on a journey beneath the sea, to venture
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  out and to explore the world under the big blue ocean. Wow.
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  How exciting is that. You can't wait to explore? But
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  how do you start the engine? You wonder. You look
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  down at your feet and you see that there are pedals,
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  just like on your bicycle at home. There is also
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  a steering reel, like the ones in a car. Well.
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  You think it looks easy enough, so you take hold
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  of the steering reel and begin to pedal. The glass
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  submarine moves slowly and gently forward, and you can see
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  the small waves washing all around you. As you move,
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  you begin to pick up a bit of speed. Pedal
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  through the beautiful waves, and as you do, you hear
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  in the distance the sound of whales as they sing
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  to each other. You can't see them, but you can't
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  hear them. As you pedal, you notice that your little
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  glass submarine has now started to go beneath the waves,
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  and you watch as the water rises and rises until
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  you're completely under the water. Wow, this is amazing. The
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  water is so clear, and you can see a very
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  very long way, and you can now see the whales
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  far out ahead of you, and you watch them as
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  they swim so gracefully with long, slow movements, and you
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  think that they are very beautiful. Indeed, you see all
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  around you lots and lots of colorful fish, big ones,
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  small ones, even squat fat ones. And you see floating
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  past you two jellyfish deep in conversation with each other,
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  and they smile at you as they pass by. How
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  wonderful is that? You see a family of octopus darting
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  past and as if they are playing a game of catch,
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  chasing each other and having lots of fun. And then
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  they disappear off into the distance. You see a sharks
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  went by with the top hat on and a cane
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  tucked under his fin. How what he raises his hat
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  as he passes you, and he says good day. He
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  is followed by lots of baby shorts, all swimming quickly
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  trying to keep up with him. And it's then that
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  you realize that well, actually he's a teacher and he's
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  taking the baby sharks out on a field trip. Look
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  around you and you keep pedaling along in your glass submarine,
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  thoroughly enjoying yourself, and you can see so many different
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  underwater creatures that you don't even recognize some of them. Well,
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  that's because you've never seen them before. There's so many
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  of them. You decide to go deeper down into the ocean,
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  and as you do, you see something swimming towards you.
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  As it gets closer, you see that it is a
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  mermaid with very beautiful and very very long blonde hair
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  floating all around her. She gives you the biggest grin
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  and waves hello to you, and you wave back as
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  she swims on by, followed by all her dolphin friends,
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  and there are lots of them. You can see the
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  coral on the ocean floor, and it is wonderful, so
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  many different shapes and sizes, so many beautiful colors. Some
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  of the coral remains still and just stays upright, whilst
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  other coral gently floats backwards and forwards, just swaying in
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  the cool, calm waters. You can even see tiny little
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  fish sheltering in amongst it swimming in and out looking
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  for some food, or you think this is so wonderful.
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  Coup ahead of you you see little twinkling lights. Can
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  you wonder what it is? It kind of looks like
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  a pathway leading you to somewhere, and there are lots
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  of those little lights too. So for just a little while,
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  go and explore this underwater world. Follow the lights where
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  they lead you to. Maybe it's an underwater city, maybe
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  other people live there, maybe it's a mair made city,
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  or maybe it's just full of all the different secretures,
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  all living together very happily in their very own underwater world.
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  Now wouldn't that be fun? Et? Wow, now that was exciting,
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  wasn't it? How lovely? But now it's time for you
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  to return. But it's a long trip home, so you
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  decide to lie back and have a little sleep, just
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  for a few minutes. Of course, you lean back in
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  your comfy chair and close your eyes for just a
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  little bit. And even though your eyes are closed, you
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  remember in your mind all of the wonderful things that
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  you have seen today, And don't worry, your little glass
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  submarine will guide you gently home. It knows the way,
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  you know. You smile to yourself, feeling so peaceful, so calm,
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  so relaxed. As you sink deeper and deeper into your
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  comfy chair with lots of soft cushions, you take a
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  deep sigh, relaxing even further, sinking down and down, sinking
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  down and down into blissful sleep, feeling ever so happy.
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  You take a breath and you sigh it back out,
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  big long sigh as you go deeper and deeper into sleep,
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  and your eyes feel so heavy now, so relaxed, so
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  peaceful and calm, but you feel so very very happy,
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  and you drift off to sleep, feeling so peaceful, so wonderful,
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  and dreaming all about the things you've seen today. And
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  the really best bit about this day is that when
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  you wake up, you will be back in your very
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  own bed. And don't forget there are many more places
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  for you to visit in this beautiful underwater world. But
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  for now, have a little sleep and just rest. Night
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  night at the the the cho at the Batta, at
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  the Scho