Island Drive

Here we are on our lovely island. The sun is just beginning to set, and it's the perfect time to go for a drive. You have the road to yourself with no specific place to be. So you can take your time and enjoy all of the sites around you. It's a particularly pleasant night, and a warm breeze flows through the car's open windows. The beautiful hillside views and the sound of the ocean washing up to the shore are an invitation to drift along with the current of island life. This sense of gliding effortlessly is enhanced by the car's steady pace as it carries you forward. So you can get the most from our tour, let's begin with a little wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So 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, feeling 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 just a sense of the muscles switching off. The feet, the arches. All those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of the legs. So 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 now shutting off. Middle of the back, around the diaphragm. The upper back and 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. Beyond the plump, swaying patty, beyond the coconut groves like sun browned hands greeting you. The sea is visible. You roll down your window and take in the breeze, wet with salt, salt that carries with it traces of pink coral and the determination of fish blooming beneath the water surface. Salt that blesses every meal with the wisdom of rocks from far away shores, through untold miles of cobalt, turquoise, sapphire and cerulean. Salt that binds. You drive up to the edge of the beach and begin to drive leisurely...