In tonight's sleep meditation for kids, we're heading under the sea with Zen. However, the seabed isn’t as calm as usual. A little ink-squirting squid is rocketing around his house, as he just can’t keep his concentration on what he is doing.
Luckily, our little pufferfish friend just knows to guide Sid the Squid to the Crustacean Meditation Station, where a very clever lobster is about to teach him how to work on his concentration. Tonight's sleep meditation for kids will help you unwind just like Sid!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Kohala Moon, a podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Our newest members of the now world famous
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Speaker 1: Cocoa Club are Emmett Maya, Nico g in California, Claire
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Speaker 1: Milman from Illinois, and Tilly. It's incredible to me and
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Speaker 1: to Coco when he thinks about it that some of
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Speaker 1: you have already been listening every night for a year.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm really happy to tell you that tonight
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Speaker 1: we're reuniting with one of our all time favorite characters.
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Speaker 1: He lives in the ocean and is the wisest and
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Speaker 1: calmest of all the sea creatures around Or is he? Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's Zen, of course, and we will once again accompany
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Speaker 1: him as he floats through the sea. But oh, the
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Speaker 1: seabed isn't as calm as usual. The Iikes were about
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Speaker 1: to find a little ink squirting squid rocketing around his
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Speaker 1: house as he just can't keep his concentration on what
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Speaker 1: he's supposed to be doing. Luckily, our little pufferfish friend
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Speaker 1: knows exactly where to guide Sid the squid to the
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Speaker 1: crustationan meditation station where a very clever lobster is about
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Speaker 1: to teach him how to work on his concentration. I
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Speaker 1: think we're all going to learn a thing or two,
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Speaker 1: so let's get started and you'll relax as you listen.
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Speaker 1: This is the concentration Crustation by Luke Prendergast. Good evening, everyone.
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Speaker 1: It's been a long day, but now we're in bed
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Speaker 1: and ready to enjoy a long and rejuvenating sleep, so
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Speaker 1: our bodies have plenty of energy to fuel us through tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: That's what sleep is so important for. So settle down
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Speaker 1: now and close your eyes. If you want to, tug
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Speaker 1: the covers up around you so you're nice and warm,
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Speaker 1: or fluff up your pillow to make sure you're super comfy. Now,
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Speaker 1: give your arms and legs a big stretch, and your
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Speaker 1: toes and fingers to stretch and release ah. Feel all
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Speaker 1: your muscles sigh with relief as the day's tension floats away.
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Speaker 1: You can try that again if you like. Stretch and
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Speaker 1: release ah to day's meditation is all about the art
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Speaker 1: of concentration, which lots of people find difficult to do sometimes.
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Speaker 1: So we're all going to start by thinking of something
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Speaker 1: that's given us a lot of happiness to day. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it's something you did at school, something you saw, or
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Speaker 1: some time you spent with a friend or a member
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Speaker 1: of your family. Hold that thought gently in your mind,
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Speaker 1: as though you were giving it a soft hug. Don't
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Speaker 1: grip it too tightly, just hold it there in a
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Speaker 1: tender embrace. Well done, Let the happiness of that memory
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Speaker 1: linger inside you, cozy as a mug of hot chocolate. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's practice our deep breaths together. Take a big, deep
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Speaker 1: breath in and then slowly let it out again. A
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Speaker 1: big breath in and slowly let it out. Breathe in
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Speaker 1: and once more breathing and very good. It's time to
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Speaker 1: meet up with one of our old pals, Zen, the
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Speaker 1: pufferfish who lives in the deep blue sea. There he
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Speaker 1: is swimming back and forth beneath the waves. Let's wave hello. Then.
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Speaker 1: Today Zen is drifting blissfully through the ocean. His heart
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Speaker 1: feels light and carefree. His tail flaps one way and
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Speaker 1: then the other. From above, beams of sunlight break through
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Speaker 1: the s surface, making the water currants glitter and sparkle.
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Speaker 1: Zen passes a school of rainbowfish, whose iridescent scales shimmer red, green,
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Speaker 1: and orange. Yellow, indigo, and blue. Hello Zen. They all
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Speaker 1: call to the puffer fish as they drift past him, Hello,
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Speaker 1: Zen calls back. Below him, Zen can see tufts of
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Speaker 1: dark green seaweed swaying this way and that way, as
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Speaker 1: though rippled by a gentle underwater breeze. From out of
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Speaker 1: the curtain of seaweed emerges an anglerfish with a light
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Speaker 1: on top of his head that lets him see in
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Speaker 1: the dark. The anglerfish points his head in one direction,
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Speaker 1: then another, shining his light across the ocean floor. Good day,
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Speaker 1: Zen calls down, and the anglerfish passes his torchlight through
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Speaker 1: the water in a merry greeting. Soon Zen passes a
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Speaker 1: seal basking the dappled sunlight at the water's surface. Every
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Speaker 1: now and then, the seal twists over so that the
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Speaker 1: sun can warm first her tummy, then her back. Hello.
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Speaker 1: The seal waves to Zen with one of her paws.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful day, isn't it? Zen couldn't agree with the seal more.
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Speaker 1: It is a beautiful day, the sea and all the
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Speaker 1: creatures in it seeming calm and at one with the world.
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Speaker 1: Zen swims on through the sunny water until he comes
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Speaker 1: to a large rock beneath this rock is a glittering
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Speaker 1: like and covered grotto which is the home of one
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Speaker 1: of Zen's friends, a squid named Sid. As Zen passes,
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Speaker 1: he wonders whether Sid is at home, when all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, Sid himself shoots out of the hole in
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Speaker 1: the rock that is his front door. For a few seconds,
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Speaker 1: Sid hovers in the water outside his home, seeming to
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Speaker 1: be thinking hard about something. Then there's a sudden puff
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Speaker 1: of black squidd ink clouding the water, and he shoots
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Speaker 1: back into his home. How perplexing, Zen the pufferfish says
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Speaker 1: to himself, what in all the ocean could Sid be
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Speaker 1: up to? Few moments later, it happens again. Sid irrupts
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Speaker 1: from the hole in his rock home, a cloud of
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Speaker 1: squid ink mushrooming behind him. He hovers for a moment
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Speaker 1: or two inside his home, then just as quickly darts
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Speaker 1: inside again. Hmm, Zen says to himself, Now, hmm, all
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Speaker 1: the sea creatures do seem to be very calm today,
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Speaker 1: except that is for Sid the squid. He doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: calm at all, and deciding to go and ask Sid
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Speaker 1: if everything is okay, Zen gives three swishes of his
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Speaker 1: tail and swims up to Sid's door, this time, when
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Speaker 1: he shoots out of his house in a puff of ink,
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Speaker 1: Sid spots Zen.
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Speaker 2: Hot Hello, Zen, He says, how are you?
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Speaker 1: But before Zen can as sir, Sid looks distracted and
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Speaker 1: then zooms back inside his home. Zen has to wait
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Speaker 1: until he's popped outside again to say that what seems
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Speaker 1: more important is how Sid is, because he seems to
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Speaker 1: be zipping around and about a lot. Oh, says Sid
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Speaker 1: the squid. You're right. The thing is, I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: do a bit of a clean out of my grotto,
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Speaker 1: but I seem to be suffering from terrible concentration. I
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Speaker 1: keep getting distracted and forgetting what it is I'm doing,
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Speaker 1: which is why I keep coming out here and then
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Speaker 1: having to go back in. Sid gives Zen a meaningful
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Speaker 1: look and says.
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Speaker 2: I can't help it. I just go pooh, pooh.
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Speaker 1: Pooh, and as though to prove the point, Sid disappears
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Speaker 1: into his house in a cloud of ink. Zen has
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Speaker 1: to agree Sid is going pew pew pew. By the
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Speaker 1: time that Sid returns, though, Zen has had an idea.
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Speaker 1: If Sid needs help with his concentration. Zen tells him
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Speaker 1: he has to meet Lo Morna the lobster. The Morna
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Speaker 1: the lobster, repeats Sid the squid, who's that the Morna,
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Speaker 1: Zen explains, is one of the calmest and wisest creatures
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Speaker 1: in all of the Seven Seas. She's spent all her
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Speaker 1: life honing the art of focus. Lo Morna is famous,
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Speaker 1: Zen says. She's the queen crustation for concentration. She'll be
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Speaker 1: able to give you a helping hand or claw. While
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Speaker 1: Zen is talking, a smile grag actually spreads itself over
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Speaker 1: Sid the Squid's face, and so Zen and Sid set
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Speaker 1: off in the direction of the watery corner where Zen
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Speaker 1: knows Lomrna the lobster lives. For the most part, they
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Speaker 1: glide smoothly through the water together, but from time to
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Speaker 1: time Zen has to do his best not to be
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Speaker 1: shocked when Syd shoots off in a dark billow of squidding.
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Speaker 1: Soon they reach a large flat rock rising out of
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Speaker 1: the seabed that forms a circular platform. On this stage,
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Speaker 1: three creatures are seated in a ring, a lobster, a starfish,
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Speaker 1: and a young sea turtle. That's l Morna. Zen whispers
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Speaker 1: to Sid, pointing at the lobster. He whispers because Lo
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Speaker 1: Mourna is clear concentrating deeply in a meditation. She sits
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Speaker 1: with her back, legs folded beneath her, Her bright red
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Speaker 1: pincers press lightly together on her knees. She is very old, indeed,
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Speaker 1: and clearly very wise. She has long, silvery whiskers, as
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Speaker 1: lobsters often do, and many colored ribbons tied all over
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Speaker 1: her body ripple in the water around her. Zen and
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Speaker 1: Sid watch patiently whilst Lo Mourna and her friends finish
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Speaker 1: their meditation. Soon, Lo Morna opens her eyes and smiles.
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Speaker 1: The meditation is over. Zen and Sid swim down to
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Speaker 1: introduce themselves. Welcome, greets them in a voice that is
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Speaker 1: simultaneously sweet as sugar and deep as the rumblings of
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Speaker 1: the ocean itself. How can I help you? Sid? The
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Speaker 1: squid begins to explain his predicament, but halfway through he
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Speaker 1: gets distracted and zips off. Eventually, with Zen's aid, he
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Speaker 1: is able to explain that he's come to see if
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Speaker 1: La Mourna can help him with his concentration. Ah sighs
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Speaker 1: La Morna, clicking her claws together. If you're having trouble concentrating,
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Speaker 1: you've come to the perfect place. This is my cross station,
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Speaker 1: concentration station, a special school inviting all manner of ocean
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Speaker 1: dwellers to come and learn the arts of deep focus.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Morna adds, looking at Sid kindly. Lots
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Speaker 1: of folk find it difficult to concentrate. There are so
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Speaker 1: many distractions in the sea, do they, Sid replies, with
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Speaker 1: a fresh feeling of hope. He thought it might only
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Speaker 1: be he who struggled to concentrate. Oh yes, the Mourna says,
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Speaker 1: She sweeps her clare around in her graceful arm. All
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Speaker 1: of my students here find it difficult to concentrate sometimes,
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Speaker 1: but with a little practice it becomes easier and easier.
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Speaker 1: Come with me and meet the other students, and that
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Speaker 1: way you can hear their stories. The Mourna leads Sid
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Speaker 1: and Zen over to the starfish, who's lying on her
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Speaker 1: back on the rock, staring up at the shifting blue
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Speaker 1: surface far above. Her bumpy skin has the quality of velvet.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it looks orange, other times her deep and golden yellow.
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Speaker 1: She raises one of her five star arms to greet them.
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Speaker 1: When the mourner explains that Zen and Sid are to
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Speaker 1: be the newest students, at the concentration station, the starfish
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Speaker 1: seems to blush with joy.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's wonderful news, she says. The mourners call truly
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Speaker 2: is the best place for learning how to set your
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Speaker 2: mind at rest?
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Speaker 1: Would you like to hear my story? Zen and Sid
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Speaker 1: tell her that they would be delighted to hear her story.
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Speaker 1: The starfish takes a deep gulp of water and tells
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Speaker 1: them that one of the most important things about being
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Speaker 1: a starfish is being able to use your suckers to
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Speaker 1: hold yourself fast to the rocks on the seabed. That's
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Speaker 1: where starfish live, and they need to be there to
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Speaker 1: catch passing bits of food and say hello to all
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Speaker 1: their friends. But it takes quite a bit of concentration
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Speaker 1: to grip on all the time. But she, the starfish
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Speaker 1: went on, wasn't very good at it. Whenever she lay
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Speaker 1: on the rock, she would get distracted by all the
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Speaker 1: strange glittering things stuck up on the sky way above
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Speaker 1: the surface of the sea, and then without realizing it,
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Speaker 1: she would just drift off away from the rock up
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Speaker 1: through the water. My mom, who's to say? I had
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Speaker 1: my head in the clouds, the starfish says, with another blush.
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Speaker 1: But by learning from Lemurna, I've got much better at focusing,
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Speaker 1: and now I don't drift off most of the time.
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Speaker 1: Sid thanks the starfish for telling her tale. It has
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Speaker 1: given him a lot of hope, he says. Now, the
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Speaker 1: young sea turtle crawls over to meet them. His shell,
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Speaker 1: which is as green as an emerald, is decorated with seaweed.
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Speaker 1: Would you like to hear my story? He asks a
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Speaker 1: little bashfully. Zen and Sid tell him they'd love to
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Speaker 1: hear his story. The sea turtle tells them that he
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Speaker 1: attends a local ocean school where he learns all kinds
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Speaker 1: of marvelous things, like counting sea shirts and grains of sand,
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Speaker 1: and how to spell words like crustacean and tortoise. But
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Speaker 1: the problem is, even though he loves his classes at
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Speaker 1: the ocean school and really wants to learn, sometimes the
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Speaker 1: sea turtle has a problem with his concentration. He can't
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Speaker 1: help it. Sometimes he finds his mind wanders off, and
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Speaker 1: soon enough he's imagining what it would be like to
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Speaker 1: be a flying fish and take a trip to the moon.
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Speaker 1: I'm a daydreamer, the sea turtle says with a nod,
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Speaker 1: and even their daydreaming is a wonderful activity because it's
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Speaker 1: fun to imagine magical things and invent incredible stories. There
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Speaker 1: is a time and a place for everything, and the
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Speaker 1: daydreaming gets in the way of my learning. But the
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Speaker 1: Morna the lobster has helped me tremendously, and now I
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Speaker 1: can concentrate all the way through class. Then, and Sid
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Speaker 1: thank the sea turtle for telling his story. Sid feels
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Speaker 1: very moved. That's just the kind of help I need
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Speaker 1: to The water around them is warm all day, it
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Speaker 1: has been gently heated by the sun, and now small
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Speaker 1: flumes of bubbles float through it and up to the
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Speaker 1: surface to quietly pop. A shoal of pale silver fish
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Speaker 1: glide past, slowly carried on a warm motion current, where
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Speaker 1: says Lo Morna the lobster, clicking her claws kindly, as
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Speaker 1: I say, you've come to the right place. Why don't
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Speaker 1: you join us for our sunset meditation. Now the light
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Speaker 1: is just beginning to fade, and now is the perfect
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Speaker 1: time to free your mind from all distractions and a
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Speaker 1: jeeva top crustation level of concentration. And so all of
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Speaker 1: them gather on the stony platform, sitting in a wide circle.
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Speaker 1: Zen and Sid Lo Moonna the Lobster, and their new friends,
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Speaker 1: the starfish and a little sea turtle. Too. Lo Morna
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Speaker 1: tells them to close their eyes and listen to her
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Speaker 1: voice as she guides them through the meditation. Let's join
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Speaker 1: them in solidarity. Let's listen to Lo Morna's voice. Too.
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Speaker 1: Close your eyes, says Lo Mona, and let all of
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Speaker 1: the thoughts of the day simply drift away like specks
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Speaker 1: of glitter on the wind. Let your mind relax and
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Speaker 1: loosen your body. Imagine that your brain is a room
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Speaker 1: full of stuff. Now open the door and let all
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Speaker 1: that stuff tumble away. Good. Now, let's begin to practice concentration.
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Speaker 1: Think of something wonderful that happened to you today, whatever
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Speaker 1: it might be, Hold it gently in your mind. This
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Speaker 1: is the most important part of concentration. Don't try to
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Speaker 1: grip things too tightly with your mind, as though you're
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Speaker 1: trying to crush it. Hold it gently and delicately. Sid does,
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Speaker 1: as Lemonna, the wise old lobster says, he pictures the
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Speaker 1: moment earlier that day, when he found Zen at his
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Speaker 1: door offering to help him with his concentration. That was
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Speaker 1: a wonderful moment for sure. Sid holds it in his
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Speaker 1: mind gently, and after a few seconds he finds meself
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Speaker 1: drifting off. Distracted. If you get distracted, says le Morna,
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Speaker 1: as though reading inside his mind, don't worry. Just take
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Speaker 1: a pause and bring yourself back to concentrating on what
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Speaker 1: you were thinking about before. Don't get upset with yourself.
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Speaker 1: Be very gentle with your mind. Sid does as le
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Speaker 1: Morna advises, and brings his mind back to his happy memory.
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Speaker 1: It is as though his memory is a small boat
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Speaker 1: bobby up and down on the water, and when it
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Speaker 1: begins to drift away from him, all he has to
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Speaker 1: do is pause, pull on a rope, and draw the
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Speaker 1: boat softly back towards him. Sid finds that after a
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Speaker 1: few times of losing his concentration and finding it again,
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Speaker 1: it becomes easier. The memory stays in his mind a
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Speaker 1: little longer than it did before. Now, the morner says,
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Speaker 1: I want you to imagine that your mind is a
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Speaker 1: traveling ball of light that can move anywhere through your body.
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Speaker 1: You can send it down to the t lips of
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Speaker 1: your fingers or to the very ends of your toes.
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Speaker 1: Try it now. Put your mind in your toes, that
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Speaker 1: it rests gently on the sensations it feels there, the
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Speaker 1: heat and cold, the feelings of touch. Sid does as
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Speaker 1: she says. He lets his mind wander down the length
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Speaker 1: of his body, down his limbs, to the very tip
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Speaker 1: of a tentacle, and he holds it there. It is
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Speaker 1: a funny feeling. It is as though his brain is
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Speaker 1: in his tentacle, hovering there, concentrated there. When he gets distracted,
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Speaker 1: the Morna very gently reminds him to pour, take a breath,
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Speaker 1: and then try again, sending his mind down the length
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Speaker 1: of his body, and once again. After a few times
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Speaker 1: of losing his concentration and gently getting it back again,
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Speaker 1: he finds it easier each time, easier and easier. At last,
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Speaker 1: lo Morna tells them all to open their eyes. They
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Speaker 1: sit there, blinking for a few moments. At the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the sea. Lo Morna congratulates Zen and Sid on
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Speaker 1: completing their first Crustace meditation class. What did you learn?
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Speaker 1: She asks? Sid thinks for a moment or two, and
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Speaker 1: then tells her that what he's learned is that concentration
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Speaker 1: is not a button you can switch on and off. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it is something that you have to practice gently, and
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Speaker 1: that with each bit of practice it gets easier and easier, exactly,
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Speaker 1: says Lamonna the lobster, smiling at him proudly. Each time
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Speaker 1: it gets a little easier. But it's never perfect, not
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Speaker 1: for me, not for you, not for anyone. And that's okay,
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Speaker 1: because we don't need to be perfect. We are just
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Speaker 1: a bunch of wonderful creatures in the sea. Words fill
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Speaker 1: Sid with a deep sense of gratitude, and he gives
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Speaker 1: her a big hug. Thank you, he says, And with
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Speaker 1: that Zen and Sids swim away from the crustacean meditation station.
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Speaker 1: Sid yawns, and when Sid yorns, it makes Zen yorn too.
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Speaker 1: They agree that they're both very tired. Up above the
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Speaker 1: gleaming surface of the water. The sun is setting and
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Speaker 1: all that concentrating has really taken it out of them.
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Speaker 1: It is time for bed. As they swim back to
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Speaker 1: Sid's home, the little squid fill calm. His zippy distraction
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Speaker 1: seems to have calmed down. He also feels grateful. He
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Speaker 1: remembers how Zen arrived at his house and offered to
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Speaker 1: help him. He remembers the starfish and the young turtle
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Speaker 1: sharing their heartwarming stories, and he remembers Lemonna teaching him
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Speaker 1: about concentration and how it's something you practice over a
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Speaker 1: long period of time. So as he says good night
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Speaker 1: to Zen and goes into his home and tucks himself
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Speaker 1: into his little squid bed, Sid feels terribly grateful, and
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Speaker 1: as he closes his eyes and falls asleep, he whispers
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Speaker 1: a final thank you to all of his friends.