Are you ready to meditate with Kari?
Make sure that you're in your bed.
You're all comfortable.
The covers are pulled up close to your chin and you're ready to try and stay as still as you possibly can and so,
So quiet.
This is a very sleepy story.
It's about a train,
A train that's called Billy.
Billy the train.
Billy the train was on his way to Sleepy Town.
He had lots and lots of people in different carriages on his train.
Sleepy Town was exactly what it sounds like.
It's a very slow,
Peaceful,
Quiet town.
And when you're on the train,
It feels like Sleepy Town is at the other side of the world.
But that's part of the journey.
It takes a long,
Long time to get to Sleepy Town.
What's comfortable and magical and very special about Billy's train is that no matter what time of day,
No matter how energized you are,
No matter if you are never the type to have a nap in the day,
It doesn't matter.
There's something about Billy's train that just naturally makes you want to fall to sleep.
Now people talk about Billy's train.
It's almost like a challenge.
People say,
If I go to Sleepy Town on Billy's train,
I bet you any money,
I don't fall asleep.
Or they'll bet with each other about who falls to sleep first.
Or maybe there's always that one person that thinks that they can stay awake the whole way there.
But these people have no clue.
They don't realize what they're getting into.
Billy's train was at the station and all the people piled on and got settled in their own little carriages ready to head to Sleepy Town.
The first thing that you may or may not notice is the lights.
The light is just right on the train.
It's not too bright.
There's only enough daylight coming in through the shades.
It's the perfect glow that's warm and comforting and very friendly.
So people automatically feel safe and at ease on Billy's train.
The next thing that you may or may not notice is the temperature.
The airflow is just right.
Very gentle breeze blows through the vents.
And there's a warmth that makes you want to snuggle down and get comfortable.
It's never too hot and it's never too cold on Billy's train.
The floor in the cabins has the softest carpet and you can feel it through your shoes.
And subconsciously everyone seems to want to kick off their shoes and feel the furry carpet underneath their feet.
And then the seats are very comfortable.
They're soft and they lay back just enough for you to be able to close your eyes and fall asleep if you needed to.
Your head wouldn't be bobbing and banging forward and moving all over the place.
The pillows behind your head seem to just fit perfectly.
And then there's the secret ingredient.
The sound of the train.
That repetitive relaxing white noise that the train makes as it moves over the tracks.
That gets everyone.
So what normally happens is people get on the train.
They feel this lovely soft breeze.
The light is just right.
It's nice and warm and comfortable.
The floor feels so good.
Squishing the carpet in your toes.
And then you lean back into the most comfortable seats in the world and then before you know it,
The rumbling relaxing soothing sound of Billy as he goes over the tracks as the finishing ticket you're done for.
You close your eyes and you listen.
There's no one talking because everyone is relaxing.
You feel the soft carpet underneath your feet and it feels warm and spongy as if your feet are gently laying on the top of giant marshmallows.
Your legs start to feel very comfortable.
Your whole body is supported and relaxed.
You notice any tension that you have in your feet seems to just melt away as if the marshmallows are melting on the top of a cup of hot chocolate.
And you're slowly sliding into the warm,
Soft,
Sweet bathtub of chocolate.
The warmth relaxes your ankles.
All your toes get squishy and soft and comfortable.
The muscles at the bottoms of your legs seem to just ah and completely relax.
Your legs feel all floaty and tingly as if you can feel in the tingles the tiniest little cells all talking to each other saying in the sweetest voice,
Relax,
Relax,
Relax.
Just relax.
And your muscles and your bones,
Everything is listening and responding in deep relaxation.
You feel the bottom of your spine soften like jello on a plate.
Your hips get all wobbly and heavy and comfortable.
You start to notice that Billy is working his magic on you but you cannot open your eyes.
You don't want to open your eyes.
It feels so good to have your eyes closed because your eyelids are so,
So heavy.
Like something is weighing them down.
Weighted down so that they're really,
Really heavy.
And you can try and pull and push and open them but you don't want to because it feels perfect to let your eyes be closed.
You take a nice big deep breath down into your tummy and that's when you feel your tummy relaxing.
It's softening.
When you breathe in,
You breathe in the warm gentle breeze in the cabin.
Wouldn't be surprising if that breeze had some magical fairy dust or sprinkles of unicorn,
Something that's working its magic.
Because every time you breathe in,
It feels like a happy warm glow is coming into your body.
And this happy warm glow makes you feel very safe,
Like nothing bad is happening.
Everything is good in the world.
Right now,
In this moment,
You feel very happy.
You feel very,
Very comfortable.
So so safe.
You take a nice big deep breath in and welcome the happy warm glow down deep into your tummy.
And it feels like gentle butterflies are swimming around inside you.
You cling with the wings,
Relaxing every part of your tummy.
The butterflies fly around your ribs,
In and out and through and around.
And every time they touch with their tiny gentle wings.
You take another big deep breath in and the happy feeling flies and swirls and moves around your heart.
Your heart feels good.
It feels full of love.
Surrounded by love.
Touched by love.
It feels like there's so much love in the middle of your chest.
And when you breathe out,
You seem to breathe out this magical potion that swirls around in Billy's cabins,
As if you're sending love to everyone on the train.
And of course,
Everyone on the train is doing the same as you.
There's so much relaxation.
There's so much happy warm glow.
There's so much love swirling and flowing through all of Billy's cabins.
Releasing everyone deeper and deeper and deeper.
You can feel your legs relaxing.
You can feel a tingle in the tips of your fingers.
Like your hands and your arms are super super sleepy.
You can feel the muscles in your thighs get really heavy.
You can feel the muscles in your chest as you breathe in and as you breathe out,
Get really really heavy.
Your shoulders feel warm.
As if you're standing under the shower and all the warm water is falling onto your shoulders.
The melting all of your troubles away.
Washing them down into the drain one by one.
Any worries you have about your friends just seem to fall off your shoulders.
Roll all the way down your arms.
And then drip off each one of your fingers and fall into the drain.
Any worries you have at home with your family,
Your grandparents or your guardian,
Your foster parents or your other parents.
Any worries you have at home are just being warmed and dissolved and washed away by the warm gentle shower.
Any worries you have about school,
The same thing.
Everything's just being washed away.
So all that is left is that warm happy glow that's blowing through the breeze in the cabin.
Your heart feels really peaceful as you breathe in and out.
As it pulses.
It sounds a little bit like Billy the train on the tracks.
And that sweet sound over and over again.
Ba-bum.
Ba-bum.
Ba-bum.
If your heart was full right now it would be full of all the things that you love in the world.
Whatever they are.
All of the good things that makes you happy.
If your heart feels like that right now.
You relax your head even deeper into the back of the seat.
The top of your head relaxes.
The left side of your head.
And then the right side of your head relaxes.
The relaxation starts to flow down onto your forehead.
It swirls around your eyes.
Around your temples.
It softens all the tiny little muscles.
And melts away any tight frown lines across your forehead.
Your nose relaxes.
Your cheeks soften and relax.
Let your tongue inside of your mouth relax away from the roof of your mouth.
Any tension that you have in your jaw just melts away.
Your entire body,
Even your ears have been relaxed by the magic of Billy's train.
The ride to sleepy town has taken over your body.
You're so comfortable.
You're so happy and peaceful.
You feel very,
Very relaxed.
You're relaxed to the point where you could be asleep.
You don't even know.
You could be fast asleep right now in this moment.
It's because Billy's slow train to sleepy town is the bestest,
Most comfortable train you'll ever ride on.
Just listen.
Relax.
And let go.
Let your whole body surrender into sleep.
Feeling heavier and heavier.
So so heavy.
So sleepy.
Just let go.
You're safe.
