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image: Close your eyes. Breathe in and out three times. Find yourself walking through an immense field of short green grass. The smooth emerald perfection spreads out for miles around. Notice that you feel proud of this endless lawn and that you identify with its perfection. Let yourself feel that your body has traveled over a long distance quickly. All around you the same perfection continues, until suddenly you come upon an area ravaged by gophers. Each hole that they have cut into the ground is accompanied by a small eruption of waste. You feel so upset, that it is as if each violation of the perfection were burned into your own skin. Realize that the prospect of dead gophers adds nothing to the feeling of perfection that you wish to regain. Notice that though the gophers are acting according to their nature, they have come from far away and don't feel especially comfortable here in the perfect lawn. Look up into the sky, scanning carefully until you see a small bird. You will have no difficulty communicating with this particular bird, as you know its language. Whistle and notice just how quickly the bird flies to you. Letting the bird serve as translator, have it ask the gophers why they have set up shop here on your lawn, far from their natural homes. Listen carefully. Whatever the answer, offer to right any wrongs and replace any losses and wish them Godspeed, if they will only be on their way back to their native habitat. Let it also be known, that the consequences of staying will be that they will be eaten by other birds that you have the power to call to this place. When an agreement has been reached, turn and face a stretch of emerald that is still perfect and let yourself bask in satisfaction, knowing that all will be as it was again. Let your eyes open once again. (Chavez)

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