FULL LESSON 2.2: APPLES
✨Practice with your students.
✨Remind students to sit nice and tall while listening and practicing.
✨Ensure everyone follows along—no free-styling.
✨Check for nose-only breathing (no mouth exhales).
✨Encourage gentle, easeful Calm Breathing.
✨Expect four weeks to build habits—extra guidance is normal.
✨Play the follow-up lesson at least once the same week.
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Transcript
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Hi everybody, welcome.
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Ms. Kelly here.
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We practice our school yoga together.
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Very good.
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Have a seat.
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Easy pose.
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Sit down on the ground.
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Cross ankles.
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Sitting up nice and tall.
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Oh yes.
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Hands together.
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Easy pose is a great way to sit
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at school.
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I have a story.
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And thank you for listening.
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I went to the grocery store.
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Yes, shopping for my healthy food.
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I walked down one part of the store
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and I looked on the shelf and I
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saw something that I love so much.
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Everybody on the shelf.
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I saw marshmallows.
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I don't know.
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I just really love marshmallows.
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And I was thinking, oh, I am taking
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a box of these marshmallows.
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Oh yes.
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But before I reached over, I thought, you
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know, Ms. Kelly, this might be a very
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good time to pause.
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Everybody, let's say pause.
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Pause.
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Pause means to stop carefully for a moment
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and just to think carefully.
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I thought, now, is this a good choice?
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Are the marshmallows a good choice?
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And of course, I know what I need
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to do to help me make good choices.
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So a calm breath in and a calm
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breath out.
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That's what I did.
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I know this helps me to make good
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choices.
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Calm breathing, calm hearts.
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I took another calm breath in and a
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calm breath out.
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And then with my calm breathing and calm
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hearts, I thought to myself, okay, the good
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choice is to go back over to the
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fruits and vegetables and get some of those
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delicious red apples.
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Those are great for a snack.
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That's what I did.
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So everybody, please sit tall with me.
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Easy pose.
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Hands into calm hearts.
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And let's say good choices.
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Now, calm breathing, calm hearts helps us to
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make good choices.
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Yes.
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Like in my story, the apples.
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So if we practice our calm breathing, our
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calm hearts, we can make good choices today
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and every day.
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And we, of course, want to make good
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choices in the classroom and at school because
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it helps us to open our learning.
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We really do have better learning when we're
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making good choices.
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Practicing together.
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Here we go.
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Calm breathing, calm hearts.
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And we will sing our hearts are calm
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today.
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Hands into calm hearts.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Thank you, everybody.
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Very good.
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Again, calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Let's sing.
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Calm breath in.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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Easy pose, sitting tall, hands on two knees.
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Let's take our left hand and let's make
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an arm circle.
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How about like an apple?
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Calm breath in.
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Top of the apple.
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Calm breath out.
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I see who's going together everybody does the
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same thing.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Oh, nice apple circles.
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One more.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Okay, we have our calm hearts ready.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Easy pose, sitting tall, hands on two knees.
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Our right hand.
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Mm-hmm.
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Let's make a circle like a healthy orange.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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That's a good healthy snack.
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Yes.
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Calm breath in.
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Orange circle.
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Calm breath out.
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Good, everybody.
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One more.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Wonderful.
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We have our calm hearts ready.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Easy pose, sitting tall, hands on two knees.
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Blueberries.
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Healthy.
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Very, very small.
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We're going to make a circle with our
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head.
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Tiny like a healthy blueberry.
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Here we go.
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And we go together.
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Calm breath in.
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Head is back.
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Calm breath out.
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Head is forward.
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Well, I do see some extra tiny blueberry
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circles.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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One more.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Opposite way.
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When we eat blueberries, we are healthy.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Extra tiny circle.
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One more.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Excellent.
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We have our calm hearts ready.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Easy pose, sitting tall, hands on two knees.
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Well, let's make our shoulder circles back and
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around.
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How about like a tomato?
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Calm bodies.
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Yes, eat healthy, of course.
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Shoulder circles to the front.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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To the center.
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Calm hearts are overhead, everybody.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Okay.
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Easy pose, sitting tall, hands on two knees.
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Now, we're going to imagine that we are
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a spoon in a mixing bowl of only
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healthy food.
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And we're going to mix our healthy food
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like this.
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Go just like me.
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Notice we're not going fast and just careful.
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We are very calm in our mixing bowl.
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Now, everybody, we're thinking about healthy food and
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we're not going to just say it out
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loud.
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We're going to raise our hand.
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Our teacher can call on us.
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If you can think of a healthy food
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in the mixing bowl, raise your hand.
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Ms. Kelly will put in watermelon.
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Who has a healthy suggestion in the mixing
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bowl?
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Very nice.
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Please mix the opposite way.
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And thank you for going carefully, raising our
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hand.
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If we can think of a healthy food,
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our teacher will call on us.
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Good.
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And Ms. Kelly will also add in a
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salad.
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All the wonderful things that go with a
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salad, like lettuce.
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To the center.
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Well, we put some healthy food in our
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mixing bowl.
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Good, everybody.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Yes.
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Healthy food.
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Good choice.
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So let's practice our school meditation.
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Remember, we sit tall.
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We move our hands carefully.
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It helps us to have our focus, our
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calm brain.
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Everybody say calm brain.
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Our school meditation.
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Remember, it helps us to have calm hearts,
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calm hearts with ourselves and with others.
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We're peaceful.
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And when we are focused, we're making good
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choices.
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And when we are peaceful and making good
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choices, our learning is the best.
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We open our learning.
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Let's begin.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Please sit tall.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Nice hands.
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Thank you.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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I see wonderful students.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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One more.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Very nice.
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Calm hearts, everybody.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Hands are down.
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Let's remember Miss Kelly's story.
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Hmm.
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I went to the grocery store.
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What did I see on the shelf that
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I love so much?
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Marshmallows.
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I don't know.
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I really love them.
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When I saw the marshmallows, I paused.
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Remember the word pause.
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Wait for a moment.
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Stop carefully for a moment.
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Think.
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Hmm.
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I paused and I thought, now, is this
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a good choice, these marshmallows?
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Listen to my question.
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What did Miss Kelly do?
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What did I do to help me make
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a good choice?
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What did I do?
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Calm breathing, calm hearts.
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They helped us to make good choices.
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Yes.
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So then I made a good choice and
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what did I get instead of the marshmallows?
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Apples.
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Good, everybody.
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Please lift your calm hearts if you're going
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to make good choices in your classroom today.
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You can do it.
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Lift your calm hearts if you're going to
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make good choices at home with our families.
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Yes.
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Everywhere we go, we can do it.
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Calm breathing, calm hearts.
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Good choices and great learning.
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All right.
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Let's end our class.
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Show me calm hearts.
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Sit tall.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Calm breath in.
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Smiling, calm hearts.
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Thank you, everybody.
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Thank you.
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We practice our calm breathing, calm hearts every
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day.
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Smiling, calm hearts.
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Open our learning.
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See you soon.
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Transcript
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CLASSICAL
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MUSIC Hi, everybody.
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Welcome.
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Miss Kelly here.
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Let's practice our school yoga together.
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Sitting in easy pose.
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Let's see who's sitting in easy pose now.
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Yes, sitting down on the ground, crossed ankles,
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sitting up nice and tall.
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That's a good choice.
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Hands together.
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Easy pose.
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We learned that calm breathing, calm hearts helps
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us to make what kind of choices?
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Good choices.
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Well, we feel better when we're making good
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choices.
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And the people around us also feel great
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when we're making good choices.
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So that's what we want to do.
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Yes.
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We practice our calm breathing, calm hearts.
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We make good choices in our classroom.
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Right, everybody?
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Good choices with our classmates.
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We can even make good choices with our
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words.
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And of course, like in my story, we
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can make good choices with our food.
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Well, let's practice.
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Let's practice our calm breathing, calm hearts, good
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choices today.
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Hands together.
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Hands together.
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And we will sing our hearts are calm
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today.
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Hands are too calm hearts.
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Oh, thank you.
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That looks great.
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Thank you all together.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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And calm breath in.
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We sing our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Our hearts are calm today.
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Good.
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Calm breath in and calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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Hands are down.
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So we will move our arms and hands
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in a pattern.
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It repeats.
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And we will say our nice words together.
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It helps us to focus together and to
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be peaceful together.
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You ready?
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This is what we're doing today.
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Sit nice and tall.
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We're going to say this and do this.
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Calm hearts.
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Make good choices.
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Here we go together.
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Calm hearts.
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Make good choices.
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Again.
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Calm hearts.
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Make good choices.
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One more.
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Calm hearts.
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Make good choices.
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We practice our calm breathing, calm hearts every
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day.
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Let's go.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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Calm breath in.
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And calm breath out.
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I see who's making a good choice.
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Peaceful.
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Yes.
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This moment.
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Good.
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Calm breath in.
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And calm breath out.
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Calm breath in.
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And calm breath out.
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Learning together.
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Peaceful together.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Two more.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Good choices at school, at home, everywhere.
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Calm breath in.
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And calm breath out.
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Very nice.
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Hands are down.
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So remember, we can always use our calm
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breathing, calm hearts to make good choices.
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How do we feel when we make good
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choices?
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We feel good.
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We feel peaceful.
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And we like to make good choices with
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others too.
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Right, everybody?
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Peaceful with others.
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It just helps us to learn every day.
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And that's what we want to do.
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No matter what grade or what age, we're
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all wanting to learn every day.
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Calm breathing, calm hearts.
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Good choices.
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Let's end our class.
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Calm breath in.
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Calm breath out.
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Calm breath in.
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Smiling, calm hearts.
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Thank you, everybody.
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Well, we do practice our calm breathing, calm
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hearts every day.
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Smiling, calm hearts.
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Open our learning.
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See you soon.