– Basically, I ended up in the hospital for seven days. Doctors poked and probed me, and I completely swelled up. I had my ankles drained. I had biopsies. They couldn’t figure out what was going on. And when they finally diagnosed me, I had an autoimmune disorder that basically they think was just manifested by the stress in my life and my party-going ways and things that I was doing. So through the practices with Marlise, I’ve been able to just be more in touch with my feelings and my health and what I’m going through. I don’t have to rely on prescription medications anymore. If I feel myself a little out of whack, I take a step back, take a deep breath, re-energize, and then move forward.

– Niala that’s my daughter was young. She was going through the phases of growth and with every growth spurt, sleeping habits change. And so she hit a point where she was really kind of old enough to fight back about wanting to go to bed. And so, I don’t know, one evening I just thought I’m going to try doing a meditation with her and see if that would calm her down and ease her into sleep. I played one of the SOS meditations, and then all of a sudden she uses sign language and she said more and she loved it so I played her another one, and then that became our evening routine for months.

– Here, you have this little child, who hasn’t been told all the science and research behind why it’s good for you, doesn’t know it’s going to help change your life, and after the first time hearing it more, she wants more. That to me is like, that’s that inner knowing we all have of when something is good for us and it feels good but it also is good for us and can make such a difference. So thanks For sharing that story.

– Thank you for SOS. It’s been an amazing piece of my life for the last year and a half.

– Yeah and it’s–

– Forever grateful.

– Thank you and we’re grateful for you.

– I mean, I just really felt like the sense of synchronicity between my breathing and just where I was and my place, it was kind of surreal. The same sense of, you know, kind of like being around, but, you know, like you’re still in the chair, but not. Just totally relaxed. And, but I found myself drifting off almost ’cause it was so comfortable and I found it surprising as you just noted, we’re in chairs and bright lights. I just felt so relaxed and so calm and to come out of that was just really feeling a sense of rejuvenation, and a like, awareness.