- [Male Voice] We are living through hectic, challenging, and unprecedented times.

Life can make you feel as if you're being pulled in 20 different directions simultaneously.

That pulsating stress you're feeling can be overwhelming, but there is an antidote to the crushing demands, a respite from the blaring headlines.

There is a place you can go to slow down, relax, recharge.

To experience moments of harmony and serenity.

And when you do, you can improve your health.

Throughout this program, we'll share wisdom from the ages and how to move away from the toxicity of daily life, and into The World of Wisdom and Wonder.

(gentle piano music) - [Female Voice] Right now, please take a breath with me.

A deep breath.

Feel the air filling your lungs.

Let it out very slowly.

You're on your way.

Open your eyes and your heart.

Listen.

Feel.

And be surrounded by beauty.

(gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited."

Alice Walker.

(gentle violin music) - [Female Voice] Feel the warmth of the sun through the trees.

With each step, find new paths to travel.

Learn by being present.

Be still.

Listen and hear what gifts reside in this moment.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Have you ever thought, "I feel stressed"?

What does that truly mean?

Stress is a reaction to change in your life.

(music continues) (gentle piano music) - [Male Voice] "Traveler, there is no path.

The path is made by walking."

Antonio Machado.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Forge a path of discovery.

Peaceful.

Full of light.

Right now, you can enter The World of Wisdom and Wonder.

All it takes is an open heart and an open mind.

As your body recharges, you are free to explore new potential.

(uplifting orchestral music) - [Female voice] An antidote to stress is cultivating the relaxation response.

It's a state of profound rest that, with regular practice, can create a reservoir of calm that you draw upon.

(soaring string music) (soaring string music) - [Male Voice] "We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity."

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

(music continues) (wind blowing and birds chirping) (energetic orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Feel the mist cooling the air.

We store stress in the tension in our bodies.

Maybe it's your neck.

Maybe it's your shoulders.

Take a moment and concentrate and feel the tension in your shoulders soften.

As you breathe deeply with me, know that this journey is yours.

Within every flower is the promise of abundance.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Mental stress is shown to take an even greater toll than physical stress.

Practicing relaxation can reduce this and you can feel lighter.

Freer.

More alive.

(uplifting orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

(soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] The power of relaxation is scientifically proven and the first step anyone can take.

Make your relaxation a priority.

Make yourself a priority.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) (uplifting string music) - [Male Voice] "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor even touched, but just felt in the heart."

Helen Keller.

(energetic orchestral music) (energetic orchestral music) - [Female Voice] We are surrounded by treasures in this moment and in every moment.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] A beating heart is like the force from a wave Hear the still, small voice inside of all things.

It is peace.

It is calm.

It is you.

(uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Each passing wave is a reminder that every day is a chance for renewal.

You can let your breath out slowly and feel the release as tension leaves your arms, leaves your neck, leaves your back.

And you are floating on an endless sea of possibilities.

(soaring orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "Live in the present.

launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Henry David Thoreau.

(waves gently crashing) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] There are so many ways to relax.

Walk in nature.

Feel the air upon your face.

Change your focus from what is around you to what is inside you, and do it each and every day.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Look around you.

Everywhere, there are marvels.

Above your head, beneath your feet, and within your grasp.

Embrace the wonder of these magnificent sights.

As the mist envelops the ground, the sun extends its warm embrace.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "I try to avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward."

Charlotte Bront ë.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Open your eyes.

Hold the warmth.

Feel the tension dissolve.

The stress melts away.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Exhale.

Let the beauty surround you and taste the sweetness of the breeze.

(music continues) (waves gently crashing) (soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

Rumi.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Rediscover the quiet you have inside.

Find your inner joy.

(uplifting string music) (uplifting string music) (waves gently crashing) - [Female Voice] With each passing wave, relax, refresh, and restore.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] It's natural to find your thoughts drifting away.

As you feel it wandering, slowly bring your mind back to your own body and know that you are where you need to be.

(uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Your heart beats with purpose and the world of worries is a distant and silent memory.

You are here now, floating over a sun-drenched valley, soaring over the world below.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] There is more of The World of Wisdom and Wonder still to come.

Please stay with us.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Male Voice] Starting your own journey of wisdom and wonder is easy.

Just be kind and forgiving to yourself.

Let go of the negativity that surrounds us so much these days.

And feel the tension dissipate.

(soaring string music) - [Female Voice] Slow down.

Pause.

For reflection.

(gentle piano music) (gentle piano music) - [Female Voice] Beauty surrounds us.

In every forest.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] In every stream.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone."

Charles Eastman.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] The field of life lies before us all.

We are witnesses to its joy.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Savor the songs and the silences.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Music profoundly affects us all.

Feel your muscles relax.

Quiet your mind.

(music continues) The sound surrounds you and the stress melts away with each gentle note.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "A quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it."

Sarah Orne Jewett.

(uplifting orchestral music) (birds singing) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Stress happens to everyone but let those negative feelings wash away.

Imagine an ocean wave pulling the negativity away from your body.

Away from your mind.

Away from your soul.

Away from the shore.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Rejoice in the feeling of being.

Just being.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Rise above the day.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Create a quiet space within.

With strength and with gratitude.

(uplifting string music) - [Male Voice] "Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world."

Federico Garcia Lorca.

(uplifting string music) (uplifting string music) (waves gently crashing) (gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Slow your breathing and appreciate your own perfection.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Remember that you are perfect just as you are, right here, right now.

You are perfect.

(uplifting string music) (uplifting string music) - [Male Voice] "Wonder is the first of all the passions."

René Descartes.

(uplifting instrumental music) (uplifting instrumental music) - [Female Voice] Your mind may wander and that's perfectly okay.

Gently, bring it back to your heart.

Feel the beating in your chest.

Feel your own inner peace.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) (wind gently blowing) - [Female Voice] Let your thoughts drift away to a place of sunbeams and softly rustling leaves.

These thoughts that wander are not always lost.

Slowly bring your mind back to your own body.

Your stress washes away.

Vanishing beneath a stream of beauty and contentment.

(uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Invite serenity into your life.

What is attended to, flourishes.

The spark of the universe is within you.

Alive.

Thriving.

It is waiting, wanting, hoping to be awakened yet again.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come."

Arapaho Teaching.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Joy awaits you.

Inner peace awaits.

Enlightenment is on the sun-kissed horizon as you move forward in your journey.

(soaring string music) - [Female Voice] The world expands as we open our eyes to the sky.

(music continues) -[Female Voice] Find the ripples of nature's whispers.

(soaring instrumental music) (soaring instrumental music) - [Male Voice] "There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton.

(stream trickling) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] For so many of us, our true selves are covered with layers of negativity.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Breathe in - slowly and feel those layers disappear.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Soak up the majesty and the wondrous bounty around you.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Look up to find the possibilities.

(music continues) - [Male Voice] "Heaven is not far away from us but surrounds us on every side."

Annie Besant.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] You are a world of possibilities.

Within each gentle breath, feel the universe come alive within you.

(gentle orchestral music) (waves gently crashing) (gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Your heart will beat stronger.

Your mind will feel clearer.

The waves of concern will slowly glide away.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "It isn't where you came from, it's where you're going that counts."

Ella Fitzgerald.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] You are floating above it all.

Moving toward a calm and unbound tomorrow.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Be released as we soar near the shore.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] You can bring a gift of yourself in every moment.

(gentle string music) this journey together.

Please stay with us.

(gentle string music) (uplifting piano music) - [Male Voice] Your busy life is a distant memory.

With each deepening breath, we travel further away, further away, away from the stress and into a world of positivity, into The World of Wisdom and Wonder.

(gentle piano music) (gentle piano music) (seabirds singing and waves gently crashing) - [Female Voice] Feel your breath rise with the sun.

Center yourself on your heart.

(uplifting piano music) - [Female Voice] You can understand your own stress through heart rate variability.

As you learn to control it, you can improve your response to the challenges in your life.

(gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "There are always sure to be more springs."

Lucy Maud Montgomery.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Every seed is a painterly forest of the future.

Let go of the tension and absorb the marvels around you.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Breathe in.

Feel your arms.

Feel your legs.

Feel your heart with each beat.

Focus on the places where you find happiness.

(gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."

Booker T. Washington.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Nature carries an ancient and essential genius.

Let it guide you on a path to peace and abundance.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Rest and recharge now by inviting it into your heart.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Feel the expanse of joy around you.

(gentle string music) (uplifting string music) - [Female Voice] Listen to the sound of your breathing.

Hear the pulse of your heart.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] By controlling your heart rate variability, you can help yourself respond to life's challenges.

(music continues) - [Male Voice] "All human wisdom is contained in these two words - wait and hope."

Alexandre Dumas.

(gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Every season brings time for renewal.

As you breathe, let it fill your body with hope.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "One must be patient like the earth."

Sarada Devi.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] With each beam of light, you are suffused with love, you are filled with strength and grace.

(wind gently blowing) (uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Allow yourself to soar above the canyons.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] As you relax, your heart rate variability is higher.

You're becoming more resilient.

You are becoming healthier with the rhythm of your heart.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Feel the earth beneath your feet and see the monuments around you.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Take a moment to appreciate your unique gifts.

Do not worry, there is only success as you let your mind wander.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] And find yourself in a happy place.

(energetic orchestral music) (energetic orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Center yourself on each heartbeat.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Let your body soften.

Let your mind go.

Let your breath cascade inward, then outward.

Let go of the worry.

Let go and float above it all.

(gentle orchestral music) - [Female Voice] With each wave, you are approaching your joy.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Let the negative energy float into the distance.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Let your mind wander.

Let it cross the oceans.

Let it loose through the trees.

Let it alight on the clouds.

(soaring orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "Lift up your hearts.

Each new hour holds new chances for a new beginning."

Maya Angelou.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Female Voice] With each awakening, find renewed strength.

Find increased power.

Open yourself to the message of a sun-blessed day.

(music continues) - [Female Voice] Feel the relaxation pull all the toxicity away from you.

All that is left is positive, glowing, renewed.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Your heart beats stronger.

Your breath comes deeper.

You are present and alive.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) (birds singing and water rushing) (gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers."

Zitkala-Sa.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Feel the rising of your body as each breath fills you.

You have retrained your body.

You are worthy of relaxation, the stress diminishes, and you feel a smile through your soul.

(gentle orchestral music) (gentle orchestral music) - [Male Voice] "You are a universe of universes, and your soul, a fountain of song."

Ruben Dario.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) (birds chirping) (gentle string music) - [Female Voice] Soak in the colors of inspiration and let it feed you with healing.

(gentle string music) (gentle string music) - [Male Voice] "If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought there will be no room in it for an ugly one."

Frances Hodgson Burnett.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Embrace the warmth.

Feel all of the tension dissolve, and all of the stress evaporate forever.

(uplifting orchestral music) (uplifting orchestral music) - [Female Voice] Listen to the song as it surrounds you with hope and happiness.

Slowly, bring your mind back to your own body and feel the stress melt away.

(soaring orchestral music) (soaring orchestral music) - [Female Voice] You are complete.

You are whole.

You are healed.

With each breath, you now know that this World of Wisdom and Wonder is yours.

Always.

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