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Sleep Story for Kids THE SLUG WHO HUGGED Sleep Meditation for Children · New Horizon - Meditation & Sleep Stories

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  Speaker 1: M hmmm. Close your eyes and make yourself comfortable. Take
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  a big, deep breath into your nose and slowly and
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  gently breathe out through your mouth. Take another deep breath
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  in and slowly and gen breathe out through your mouth.
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  One last time, deep breath in and slowly and gently
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  breathe out through your mouth. Just feel the gentle rhythm
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  of your breath as it goes in and out. Feel
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  the steady beat of your heart, a gentle thump, thump, thump, thump.
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  Just take a moment to listen to your heartbeat and
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  just feel the gentle rise and fall of your chest
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  as it moves in time with your heartbeat. So comforting.
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  And with each beat of your heart you feel more
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  and more relaxed, more and more calm, and more and
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  more peaceful. And every time you breathe in, you are
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  breathing in deep relaxation, and it's making you feel all
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  warm and fuzzy inside. Now tense off your whole body
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  really tightly. Pull your hands into fists and hold it
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  for just a few seconds. One, two, three, and let go.
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  Now feel your legs coming limp and soft as your
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  muscles relax. Feel your whole body softening as you gently
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  relax your body one more time, Tighten up all of
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  your muscles in your body really tightly, pull your hands
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  into fists and hold it for a few seconds. One, two, three,
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  and let go. That's really really good, well done. Your
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  body is now relaxed, and it's still so very still,
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  so very very heavy, and it feels really nice. Now,
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  imagine yourself in a magical forest with huge, beautiful trees
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  all around you, and you find yourself standing on a narrow,
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  winding path and there are heavenly smelling shrubs and flowers
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  all along this path, and it smells wonderful, and you
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  wonder where this path leads, so you decided to follow
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  it and find out. After a few minutes, you see
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  a sign with a big pointy arrow that says slime
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  City this way. Now, feeling rather curious, you decide to
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  follow it. As you reach the end of the pathway,
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  you find yourself standing in front of a city, well
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  sort of a city, well, a very surreal city, and
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  this city is full of slugs, really yeah, slugs. Youre
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  looking slugs though, with big smiles and very beautiful eyes,
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  and they look very friendly, going about their busy day
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  but they don't look a bit slimy though, But that's okay.
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  You realize that every single one of them has a
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  hat on. Yep, that's right, a hat on, and every
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  single hat is different. No two hats are the same color.
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  Some of them have flowers on them, whilst some of
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  them have feathers stuck in them. Some of them have
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  spots on them, and others well, they've got stripes on them,
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  and zig zags and dotty things and little flowers sticking
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  on them, all kinds of things really, and they are
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  a very colorful bunch of slugs. You think that this
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  place should be called hat City because there are so
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  many hats. You decide to have a look around and
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  see what this little city is like. As you walk,
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  you've noticed a young slug and you overhear him playing
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  in a shell and it is a beautiful sound, but
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  it seems somehow sad. Really, he's all alone in a
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  little side street. The slug stops playing and looks at
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  you and gives you a shy little smile. So you
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  go over to speak to him, and he tells you
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  his name is Doug. So you introduce yourself to him
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  and tell him your name. Doug tells you he is
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  the only slug where he lives, Slime City who has arms,
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  and he feels very sad and ashamed about that because
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  he looks so different from everyone else. He tells you
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  that sometimes the other slugs would make fun of him
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  because he was so different, and this makes him very
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  sad indeed, and it makes you feel a bit sad too.
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  It's not very nice when others are being unkind. Yet
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  Doug seemed very kind and caring, and he loves nothing
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  more than to play his huge shell instruments, and he
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  would hold it with both his hands and just blow gently.
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  He shows you he puts the shell to his mouth
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  and gently blows. The sound the shell makes is truly wonderful.
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  It's so peaceful, so calm and to listen to. But
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  Doug kept it all to himself. He just said it
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  made him feel a little better when he was sad
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  and lonely. But you tell him how amazing and talented
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  he is, and his little face lights up with a grin,
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  and lean towards him and give him a great big hug,
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  and his eyes light up with pure joy and happiness.
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  Doug has never had a hug before, and he tells
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  you it's amazing because he's never loved before, and your
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  hug helped him to feel real love. He made him
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  feel so happy and he wants to hug the whole world.
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  It's so wonderful. So he decided to help Doug with
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  his newfound vocation to help every slug in Slime City
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  to become a happy slug, and that starts with a
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  great big hug.
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  Speaker 2: For all of them.
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  Speaker 1: So you and Doug go around Slime City, hugging anyone
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  you can find, and everyone you both hug feels so
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  very happy, so happy that they too want to hug everybody.
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  How cool is that you and Doug are making their
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  day very very happy. So for a little while, go
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  with Doug and see who else you can find the hug.
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  Maybe you can play the shell with Dug two. Maybe
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  you can find your own shell and the two of
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  you can play duets together. Busking around Slime City, Now
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  that would be very cool. Maybe you can meet his
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  friends and family and then you can tell him all
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  about your friends and your family. So go on, spread
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  the love. Now it's time for you to say you
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  goodbyes and to return back to your own comfy bed.
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  Doug thanks you so much for introducing him to hugs
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  and how they can bring joy to the whole world.
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  He says he will never stop hugging others now, and
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  he really really hopes that you will come back and
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  see him again. I think you will. So take a long,
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  slow breath in through your nose and gently blow it
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  out from your mouth. You feel so very tired now,
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  so sleepy, so happy, and it feels like you don't
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  want to open your eyes right now, you just want
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  to rest them. Well, that's good. You think of your
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  new friend Doug, and you are so grateful to have
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  met him in his big, lovely shell. And one day
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  soon you will go back to see him again. But
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  right now you feel very peaceful and so very relaxed,
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  so calm, so relaxed, so very very sleepy. You just
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  want to sleep now, So to sleep, and remember you
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  are safe, you are loved, and you are protected always
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  night night.
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