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"How to feel alive again."
Stephanie Preuthen
Berlin, GERMANY
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REPORTS:
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Put on 'Let Down' from Radiohead.
Turn off the lights.
Lie down on your back.
Hold someone's hand: Your lover's. Your brother's. Your sister's. Your mother's.
And don't let go.
Stare into the dark.
And don't say a word.
Wait for the moment
Where there'll be actual healing
After three minutes and forty-one seconds.
After exactly three minutes and forty-one seconds.
Be excited.
Smile.
Start turning up the volume at 03:39.
Keep doing it. Keep on going. Don't you stop!
Can you feel it?
Can you feel the blood rushing through your veins?
Can you feel the hairs on your arms rising, pointing towards star-spattered skies?
Can you feel it?
There it is:
Healing.
And in that moment...
Thom Yorke delivers the appropriate soundtrack when he sings, in perfectly designed beauty, the sublime lines:
You know, you know where you are with
You know where you are with
Floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back
And one day, I am gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction, hysterical and useless.
Hysterical and...
Can you hear it?
It is everywhere.
In the darkness.
In his voice.
In their palm.
It is all around you:
Healing
All you have to do is open yourself up.
All you have to do is...
Listen.
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