Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
RICHARD YOUNG: I'd be happy to do one of those. How about
the beach one?
TRIP: Okay.
RICHARD YOUNG: How long do you want me to take with it,
Trip?
TRIP: Like three minutes or something.
RICHARD YOUNG: All right, I'll do that. Okay, everybody who's
listening to the sound of my voice, close your eyes. Take a nice
deep breath, hold the breath for a moment, when you let it out, let
it all the way out, and force it all the way out of your lungs. And
then just breathe normally. Now listen to the sound of my voice.
Use my voice to help you relax, block out all distraction. And now
I'm going to ask you to picture in your mind the scene that I will
paint for you with words. Try to picture it as best you can, don't
worry if you're not very visual, just try to feel the experience if you
like. But I want you to imagine that you're at the beach, it maybe a
beach that you visited sometime in your life or maybe it's a place
you've just created right Now in your imagination. But you're
walking along the edge of the water and on the hard packed sand,
and you're barefoot, and it's a warm day, but not too hot. And you
walk along and you listen to the sound of the waves as they crash
and turn and make their way to shore where they dissolve into
foam on the sand. You feel the cool breeze blowing in from the
water and caressing your face, blowing through your hair. The
warm sun on your back, and oh the wonderful aroma of the sea,
the salt in the air, you drink it in. When you look out passed the
breakwater, out there towards the horizon, you can see the
sunlight sparkling on the ripples of the water like millions of
starbursts dancing on the water. And as you walk along play tag
with the water, just like a little kid would where sometimes you let
that cold water come up over the tops of your feet, but then other
times you dance out of the way at the last second. As you walk
along, you realize this is a perfect moment where everything is just
right, nothing is wrong, no concerns enter your mind, and you’re
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