Lavender Fields

The countryside in Southern France is beautiful at this time of year, especially here in this tiny Provencal village along the Mediterranean coast. Located at the base of the Massif des Maures mountain range, this hidden town offers a unique mix of sights and sounds, with rolling green hillsides to the north and long stretches of beaches to the south. With night quickly approaching, the landscape feels even more mysterious and magical, radiating a calming sense of welcome and peace, inviting you to explore. So with the sun slowly falling below the horizon, let's settle in for the evening with a brief wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. 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 put everything down, to let go of any inner chatter and find the 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, taking a big, deep breath, breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, allowing your body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Now, imagining a steady flow of warm sunlight 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, and ease as it continues to travel up through the body. Up past the waist, through the back, and the stomach. It's as though it washes away any discomfort. It continues up through the chest and the upper 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. Down the village main road, you find a stone staircase with wide steps. A little ginger cat comes from a nearby rooftop and trots over to meet you. He rubs gently against your legs, and makes his way up the rocky steps, as if asking you to follow. At the top of the stairs, the little cat ambles towards a small greenhouse covered with ferns, built in the middle of the village. Inside the greenhouse is a hidden garden filled with trees, flowers from all over the world. It is a feast for the senses. An unexpected exotic paradise. The little cat wants to give you a tour of all the plants. He stops in...