Battle Earth

Close your eyes.

Make sure you're in a comfortable position,

either sitting or lying down.

Somewhere quiet,

where you won't be disturbed.

Somewhere you can feel safe and relaxed.

You should not listen to this recording

or operating heavy machinery.

Now, let's begin by taking a deep breath in.

Feel your chest and your lungs

fill with air as you feel a wave of relaxation

wash over your entire body.

Hold it.

Now, slowly exhale.

As you take another deep breath,

I want you to picture yourself

in a beautiful forest.

The leaves and the branches

dance faintly in the breeze.

Rays of sunlight

peak through the forest canopy,

warming the ground below.

A long, slow, winding river

weaves its way carelessly down

through the forest.

I want you to imagine yourself

in the river.

The clear water surrounds you.

You submerse yourself completely,

allowing all the sounds of the world

to fade away into gentle relaxation.

As you reemerge, you leave all

your stress and fears behind you,

to be carried away with the current.

Continue to breathe deeply,

allowing yourself to relax more and more

with every breath.

Ahhhhh!

In... and... out.

Nice and slow.

Allow the forest to slowly engulf you.

Take a moment to listen

to the beautiful sounds of nature,

of all the life that surrounds you.

You feel the energy of each and every tree

flowing through your body as you walk between them.

And as the positive energy of the forest

passes through you,

you feel all your negativity and bad energy fade away.

[soldier softly muttering in Vietnamese]

Imagine birds,

gliding by carelessly in the sky above.

You become one with them,

and all the other creatures of the forest

as they impart a sense of carelessness

onto you.

Allow your breathing to become more natural

as relaxation takes over completely.

All the way from your toes and your shins

through your knees and your thighs.

It surges up

through your hips and your waist,

moving calmly into your stomach and chest.

You feel your fingertips tingle and your forearms rest heavy.

It moves through your upper arms

and your shoulders,

into your back and your neck,

relaxing you deeply.

It continues to your mouth and your nose,

through to your eyes and your ears,

all the way to the tip of your head.

Now, as your body lies completely relaxed,

and your mind is quieted and wandered free,

you feel like the first man or woman

to ever walk the Earth.

You, too, have become an animal.

As I begin to count backwards from ten,

I want you to

picture yourself as that animal,

whatever it may be.

I am going to relax you even further,

even further than you ever thought possible,

as we begin to explore

who you are, who you want to be,

or what you want to achieve in your life.

Ten...

Nine...

Eight...

Seven...

Six...

Five...

Four...

Three...

Two...

One...

You are completely relaxed.

Of all the things you have in your life...

Shit. Sorry.

That's all good.

What's up? More nightmares?

Fuckin' pussy.

Yeah, I was like a...

soldier, in a war...

I don't really remember.

I can't even imagine that.

I mean, I could take a life.

I just prefer saving 'em.

Okay.

I don't know what my problem is,

I just haven't been sleeping lately.

Nah, it's the shift work, man.

It fucks you up.

Yeah, I guess.

I don't know.

You hear from Tracy yet?

No, not yet.

I think I'm going to call her again.

Two more hours, shift's over 'til tomorrow.

Yeah, never ends.

I'm either at work, sleeping, or partying with my girls.

You know what to do.

Copy that, dispatch.

We're on our way now, over.

Ah, we got a three-month-old fitting on the north side.

Let's go.

[sound from television, indistinct]

We interrupt this program to, ah...

How was your night?

Good.

What'd you get up to?

I told you I was going out with Tay.

Right. How was that?

Fine.

In my 25 years of reporting,

I have never seen anything like this before,

in our city.

We are follow up the reports of some...

I'm just trying to finish something.

Okay.

How was your night?

Ah, it was okay, I guess. Kind of slow.

I listened to that relaxation tape you got me.

Neat.

Multiple impacts across the globe, as well...

Hey, um...

How come you didn't answer any of my calls or texts?

Keeping people away. They're barricaded from the impact zone.

- Babe? - Shh.

I understand with a ten kilometer radius

outside the area, until the military arrives.

You can see the military has been deployed, uh,

to patrol the impact zones.

Now early- There have been early reports

of a world wide terrorist attack.

Uh, we can...

again, this is the first time I'm seeing this,

uh, wow.

So we can say that this is not a terrorist attack.

Ah, and we do believe

that the origin of these objects

may be from outer space.

And again, I'm looking at this for the first time,

what appears to be some kind of an alien craft

or alien pods...

Oh my God, there's three of them, there.

We have our live reporter on the scene

just outside the impact zone.

Right now, it's Tom Rolston.

Ah, Tom, can you tell us what you're seeing right now?

Tom, it seems that we're seeing,

or at least we're hearing, some static, and, uh,

we can't hear you.

Can you-can you still hear us?

Tom.

Tom!

Tom, can you hear me? Are you all right?

Clearing the city now.

ETA to crow's nest, approx three zero mikes, over.

Don't point that thing at me.