 Better Listen presents Shakti Gawain live from New York City with Shakti Gawain, best-selling author of Creative Visualization. I'm Shakti Gawain. During the workshop, I lead some meditations and processes. I'd like to invite you to close your eyes and follow along with us during the meditations. After the workshop segment of the tape, I'll be back and I'll be leading you directly in a meditation. See you then. I like to start workshops with a meditation because it gives you a chance to get centered and relaxed. And most importantly, it gives me a chance to get centered and relaxed. So I'd like you to close your eyes, take a deep breath, and as you exhale, think of relaxing your body. Let your consciousness move through your body now and check to see if there are any places in your physical body where you feel tight or tense, where you're holding your energy or blocking energy. And if so, see if you can put your mind into that place and just relax it. Let it go. Take another deep breath and as you exhale, relax your mind. See if you can let go of holding on to any particular thoughts. You can't stop your mind from thinking because the nature of the mind is to think. But as soon as you have a thought, you can just kind of let it float on past. And then the next thought that comes up, let that one float on by. And just keep letting the thoughts float by rather than focusing on them or concentrating on them. We spend so much time thinking and worrying and trying to figure things out and trying to understand things. And this is a time to let go and simply allow your mind to relax. As you relax your body and relax your mind, you naturally move into a very deep...