I want you to take a deep breath
Can you feel the air going into your lungs?
Does it feel heavy?
Does it smell good?
Does the air feel cool?
Does it feel clear?
Does it feel fresh?
I want you to stand up
Can you feel the floor push against your feet?
Can you stomp on it?
Does it push back?
Lie down
Can you feel the floor on your back?
I want you to close your eyes and listen
What do you hear?
Can you hear the birds?
Can you hear the wind through the trees?
Can you hear other people?
Do you hear cars and trains and buses?
Do you hear nothing?
I want you to visit the rivers and streams, the beaches and lakes
Take your shoes off and walk in the water
Is the water blue and clear?
Is the water littered and murky?
Does it feel good on your feet?
Is there anything living in it?
Would you like to live in this water?
I want you to think about what you had for lunch
Where did it come from?
Who grew the vegetables?
Who cared for the animals?
How did they get here?
I want you to take a look in the rubbish bin
What is in there?
What did you use it for?
Why did you use it?Where did it come from?
Where is it going?
Look out the window of your house, your car, your school
Do you like what you see?
What do you like about it?
What don’t you like?
If you could change something,
What would you change?
I want you to look at your hands
What can they do?
Can you wiggle your fingers?
Can you be in charge of your hands?
Can you tell them what to do?
Do they do things you don’t like?
I want you to take a step forward
And another
Can you be in charge of which direction you go?
Can you aim where you are walking?
Do you ever walk the wrong way without thinking?
I want you to make a loud noise
Roar like a lion
Whoosh like the wind
Be silent
Can you be in charge of what your mouth says?
Can you say what you think?
Can anyone else be in charge what you say?
I want you to close your eyes and imagine
A place where you can’t wiggle your fingers
You can’t control them
A place where you can’t choose the direction you walk in
You walk where someone else wants you to
A place where you can’t speak
You say something someone else wants to
Is this a nice place?
Do you like it?
Does it feel good?
Does it feel bad?
Why?
I want you to open your eyes now
This world is different
Is our world
We don’t need to imagine it
In this place you can use your hands for only what you feel like
It feels good doesn’t it?
In this place you can choose the direction you walk
Any direction you want!
In this place you can use your voice
To say anything!
In this place you can imagine whatever you want!
You can imagine anything
And if you can imagine it, you can create it
With your hands
With your feet
With your voice
They are your tools
Look out your window
Do you like what you see?
Is it clean air?
Clean water?
Clean soil?
Is it what you want it to be?
If it is what you want it to be
Use your tools to make sure it stays that way
Make sure other people get to be glad about it
Tell your friends how wonderful it is
If it isn’t what you want it to be
Use your tools to change it
Get your friends to help
Tell important people what you want
Get your friends to tell them too
Because, if no one says anything
And no one does anything
Then we might loose what is important
We might loose the things that are good
And end up with a place we don’t like
But if we all say
What we want
And what we like
And help to get it
Then we can do anything
We can create it,
It you ever doubt that
Open your eyes
Shake you hands
Stomp your feet
Yell out LOUD!
Think of the world you want
Imagine it
And build it
The power you hold within you is huge!
Your potential is far from what you can know
Your unique gift is waiting to be made
A place for you in the making of our future is here
I have placed a cushion on the chair
I have made you a warm hot chocolate
I have told everyone you are coming
They are all excited to meet you
All you need do
Is take a deep breath
I believe in you
