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. "Opened 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 the 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. A beat up blue hatchback is pulling into the lot. It belongs to a high school teacher named Carolina. Carolina has no interest in getting her car cleaned as such, and given the state of the vehicle, it probably wouldn't be money well spent. But she's discovered that a trip to the car wash is a great way to get her daughter to sleep. The little girl, Teresa, is two years old. Strapped into her baby seat in the back, her face sticky from the juice she just drank, she's already looking comfortably sleepy, lulled by the motion of the car and the sound of water gushing from hoses. Carolina pulls into a bay for customers who want their car washed by hand....