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The speaker guides listeners to relax by focusing on their breathing and imagining a peaceful scene by a stream with lush greenery, sunshine, and the sound of nature. Listeners are encouraged to visualize themselves with a baby and a younger version of themselves, showing love and compassion. The exercise ends with a gentle return to reality, reassuring listeners that this safe space is always available to them. Hello, friends, and welcome. Find a comfortable place to sit or lay down, and just begin to notice that you're breathing. Notice your belly fill in with air, pause, and release. Breathe in, hold, breathe out. Let your shoulders drop, free the body from its tension, soften your eyes from strain or squint. Relax the face muscles, you're safe. Allow your mind to go fuzzy, maybe blank. Introduce some light to the mind. Now, as you breathe deeply, I invite you to picture yourself sitting in a safe place. I invite you to envision the shallow water of the stream. The water is soft and refreshing against your skin, wrapping around your legs and carrying on down the stream. Sunshine from above warms your face and your back. Soft sand moves under you. All around you is lush greenery. You hear the water wobble around you, maybe birds, maybe trees swaying, the sounds of nature. You smell fresh air, clean water, leaves, summer smells. Nearby, your baby delights in the water. They are safe. They have you. You both sit in the water, letting it hold you two together in its natural, gentle force. They are with you and they are so happy. You feel delight in their beautiful, playful joy. Also nearby, I invite you to envision a younger you. You may be a baby, a child, or a teenager. You watch them play. They're having a beautiful moment, playing in the water, reaching into the sky, smiling. They don't have to perform or peace keep here. They just get to be a kid. They deserve to let go and be a kid. Extend to them the love they deserve. Breathe in and out and send them love. Only you know what is going on in their life and inside their mind. So show them the compassion they need from you. Watch them play. Watch your baby play. Everyone is safe in the water here together. Take in the scenery. Smell, see, hear, feel the safe space around you and your young ones. Continue breathing in and out. Look around and know that this space is always here for you when you need it. Look to little you and say goodbye. Say thank you for the visit. Wrap your baby up in your arms and wave out of the water. The air is warm. Come back to the room. Keep breathing. Settle back in. When you are ready, you can open your eyes and be safe here with me.