And now you're so beautifully relaxed... nobody wanting anything, nobody expecting anything, and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to do except to relax... I want you just to let your mind and your imagination drift... feeling lazy, easy, and comfortable... and I want you to imagine that you're standing on the terrace of a lovely old house... a house like a stately home or country mansion... you can feel the sun on your head and shoulders... not too hot, just comfortable... and there's a gentle breeze playing against your skin... as you look around you, you notice an elegant marble flight of steps... ten broad steps leading down into a beautiful sunken garden... a garden where you sense peace, well-being and comfort... Make it really vivid in your mind... In a moment I'm going to count down from ten down to zero and as I count all the way down from ten, down to zero, I want you to imagine that each number is a step down on this beautiful staircase... a step down towards this beautiful garden... and each step you take... is another step down into deeper and even deeper levels of relaxation... so that by the time I get to zero, you will be as deeply relaxed as you can ever imagine... whilst still being able to hear and respond to the sound of my voice...

10.. take the first step down now, relaxing and letting go...

9... feeling more and more relaxed... no need to hurry... plenty of time...

8... moving down easily now...

7... deeper and deeper...

6... deeper still, your breathing becoming slower and steadier...

5... really relaxing now... just... let go.

4... becoming calmer and calmer...

3... calmer still now...

2... more and more relaxed.

1... all the way down now to...

0...

And now you find yourself in this wonderful garden... you can feel the softness of the newly cut grass beneath your feet... as the scent of masses upon masses of brightly coloured flowers seems to envelope you... and there's the gentle sound of birds singing... echoing faintly in the stillness of the air... it's almost a magical place, stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see in all directions, with beautiful shrubs, tall elegant trees... and an ornamental fountain which seems to feed in to a gently trickling stream... this fascinates you and you wander to the edge of the stream and gently lower yourself down onto the soft, grassy bank...and just sit for a while, gazing into the cool clear water... marvelling at the sense of tranquillity that sweeps over you... and listening to the faint sound of the fountain splashing into the pool that feeds this gentle stream... after a little while you lay back on the grass and gaze up at the clearest of blue skies... and as you relax more and more, your eyes begin to close and you just drift off into a deep and relaxing sleep... and as you sleep, you have a dream...

You dream that your whole body is becoming lighter... lighter and lighter... so light that you feel you must surely begin to float on air at any moment... and then you feel yourself just floating and drifting, gently borne aloft and supported by the softest of warm breezes... and you can somehow see, through your closed eyelids that you're floating in a sea of colour... a warm sea of colour that relaxes and comforts you as you just drift... suspended in warmth and colour that seems somehow unreal and yet, at the same time, has a comfortingly familiar feel to it... you're aware of misty reds and orange.. soft, muted yellow tones, gentle greens and blues that seem somehow like clouds... and the deepest, softest indigos and violets that you could ever have imagined... and it begins to dawn on you that you're floating in a rainbow, a magical rainbow... because in this rainbow, time and space doesn't exist in the same way that we usually know it... you might have floated there for just a moment... or for a hundred years... maybe for a lifetime... or just perhaps for the blinking of an eye... you could have floated forwards in time, to a time that could be far beyond our future... or maybe back in time, back before your own lifetime... it gradually begins to seem to you that you might even be able to float here for just as long as you wish... with this wonderful relaxed feeling... just floating and drifting through this magical sea of gentle flowing colours where time seems to be suddenly of so little importance...

You are still pondering on these thoughts, when you feel yourself beginning to float gently downwards...lower and lower, softly sinking down, down through this beautiful rainbow... becoming even more relaxed, even more lazy... until, eventually, you realise that you've stopped floating downwards... and you find yourself on the shore of a tranquil lake... a large tranquil lake, surrounded by softly rolling hills that are shrouded in a gentle, silver mist... there are trees and sweetly scented flowering shrubs, and grasses growing at the water's edge... and everything is bathed in a beautiful golden light... a golden light that seems to bathe everything in its warmth... and you find yourself marvelling at the sense of deep calmness and comfort that seems to fill your entire being, as you stroll lazily along the sandy shore of this wonderful lake... noticing with a sort of lazy curiosity that it seems to be constantly changing colour... subtle changes blending so smoothly... that it's difficult for you to know exactly when limpid blue has become a deep, soft violet... or when that deep violet became a relaxing, translucent green... the changes of colour fascinate you, and you settle yourself down onto a small smooth rock and just gaze out across the crystal clear waters...

Every so often, something, a fish maybe... just something... just breaks the surface, creating ripples that seem to flow gently and endlessly in all directions...ripples that eventually lap against the edges of the rock that you're sitting on,.. you smile and lean forward to dabble your hand amongst them... and as you do so, you create yet more ripples, ripples that shimmer in a kaleidoscope of different colours across the lake...interacting with the others and making new, ever changing patterns... you realise that this tranquil place is the pool of all knowledge... that while you are here, you are part of everything and everything a part of you...and you find it easy, so very easy to open your mind... to let go of any barriers to memory or learning...

And now your mind is prepared and receptive to everything I am going to say to you... and everything I say, if it is for your benefit, will be accepted and acted upon by the subconscious... it will have a steadily increasing effect upon the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you behave, and the influence of these suggestions, as they are for your benefit, will continue to increase over the coming days, and weeks, and months...