Billy’s All-Day Car Wash

Hey there. It's a beautiful evening for a drive, and you know where's great to drive to? Billy's Car Wash. It's a family run business that stays open all hours. Billy Junior, who took the place over from his father and now runs it along with his four grown children, likes to joke that the car wash has never been closed a single day in its life. Open ever since we opened a sign boasts next to the turnoff, so you can turn up any time. First, let's pause for a short wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. When you're ready, let's begin. So just take a moment to get comfortable, letting go of the day, enjoying that feeling of having stopped, of having nothing left to do. We're going to focus the attention of the mind on the different parts of the body, watching as the muscles in the body switch off for the night, leaving the body feeling rested and leaving the mind more at ease. So, starting down at the toes and feeling a sense of the muscles switching off the feet, the arches, all those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of legs, notice any tension being let go of as the muscles switch off, shut down. In the upper half of the legs, any tension melting away, being let go of. Into the area of the hips, the pelvis, again, any muscles shutting down for the night completely at rest. Everything from the waist downward is heavy, at ease. The muscles in the lower back and the stomach are now switching off. Middle of the back around the diaphragm, the upper back, the chest, so any muscles not needed shutting down, switching off for the night. The shoulders switching off. The upper half of the arms and the lower half of the arms switching off. The hands, fingers just switching off. Any muscles around the throat and the neck switching off. The head, the face, the jaw, the eyes, any last areas of tension melting away as the muscles shut down, switch off. At rest for the night and allowing thoughts to come and go, allowing the mind and body the space they need to rest. Loretta takes her car to Billy's Car Wash twice a month. The car, which is white, very small, and like Loretta's hair and nails, invariably shiny, doesn't need to be cleaned with anything like such frequency. It usually sits in Loretta's driveway between her bright green, perfectly manicured front lawn and pivot hedge while Loretta is down the street running her busy nail salon. She walks to work. The salon is so close, but taking her car for its regular service wash is Loretta's little treat, the way some people go for a pedicure or a massage. She loves nothing more than sitting in her little white car with the windows up while the car is drenched, then soaped, then drenched again. Today, she...