Adam Cox

That's it.

Feel the release maybe around your neck or your shoulders.

As nine becomes eight, another step down the staircase, enabling you to just drift deeper within.

That's it.

As eight becomes seven, your breathing is slow and natural and easy.

And then six, nearly halfway down, that wonderful heaviness moving through your arms and your legs, a tingle here, a sensation there.

Five, halfway down the staircase now, and then four, deeper with every number.

Three, getting closer now, almost there.

deeply comfortable, relaxed two and then one all the way down completely safe completely open completely ready and at the bottom of the staircase I want you to imagine yourself standing somewhere that feels completely peaceful

and it might be somewhere that you've been a place that always made you feel calm and free or it could just be your imagination like it does in the dream creating and generating something right now that's just for you maybe it's a place outside like a warm sun-filled garden

or a quiet stretch of coastline or maybe even a room filled with warmth and light and stillness and I want you to be curious and explore your surroundings what's beneath your feet what does the air feel like on your skin

you feel any vibrations, any sounds just connect and breathe in this place and know that it belongs to you a place of safety and clarity where your mind can show you what it already knows and from this place of peace

you're ready to look at something deep within and you're ready to release what has been holding you back and step into what has always been waiting for you because in a moment I want you to imagine that in front of you floating gently in the air there are two objects

they might look like old books, or stones, or tangled threads, or a box that you can open.

Whatever shape feels right is exactly what these objects are.

And these objects represent two stories that you've been carrying

Intuitively you know these are not truths.

They're not facts.

They're not destiny.

They are stories.