Desert Campfire

Thanks for joining me around our campfire tonight. On nights like this, I like to sit and watch the stars come out. From here we have an amazing view of this ancient landscape. There's nothing like it, for getting everything right sized. It's a great place to let go of stress and worry and find rest. Each night, we like to start with a short exercise which we call a wind down. Tonight's exercise is a visualization. It's designed to sooth the body and relax the mind. So when you're ready, let's begin. So no matter what's been going on today, whether it's been a busy day or a calm one this is an opportunity to just put everything down. To let go of any inner chatter and just find a place of rest in both the body and the mind. So first get yourself comfortable in bed, just taking a moment to pause and be still. And when you're ready, just taking a big, deep breath breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, just allowing the body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Just imagining, a steady flow of warm sunlight, just flowing down through the body, dissolving any tension any discomfort as it begins to fill the body, starting with the toes. Moving up through the feet and the legs being filled with sunlight. The qualities of warmth, space, ease as it continues to travel up through the body. Up past the waist, to the back and the stomach. It's as though it just washes away any discomfort, it continues up through the chest and the back into the shoulders and down the arms, all the way down to the hands and fingers. A sense of relief in the body and stillness in the mind as it continues to travel up through the neck and the throat into the head and face all the way to the very top of the body. Until there's nothing other than that sense of stillness remaining. And now just gently bringing the attention back to the body. We often don't think of it this way, but moonlight is really a result of sunshine. The sun shines and the moon reflects its rays. The moon is so bright that when the orbit's angle is just right we can even see it during the daytime. Now, it's night and the desert sky has darkened to the color of blue velvet. The moon is the brightest light around us. It's so bright, the moon dims the stars around it in a silvery halo. The glow of the moon falls upon the ground like a mist. Every speck of sand around us, every pebble and stone they all glint as though the moonlight has turned them to diamonds and pearls. You can see all the way to the mountains by the light of the moon. There,...