Moonrise Bakery 2

On a rainy night like this, we can duck into Moonrise Bakery. They've just rolled out the croissant dough and preheated the ovens. As always, you're welcome to stop in, and now, they're selling coffee. I heard they roast the beans right here at the bakery. Before we say hello, let's settle in for the evening with a short wind down. 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. Enjoy that feeling of having stopped, of having nothing left to do. We are 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 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 switching 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 neck switching off. The head, face, the jaw, the eyes. Any last areas of tension melting away as the muscles shut down, switch off and rest for the night. And allowing thoughts to come and go. Allowing the mind and body the space they need to rest. The bakery is full of treasures from local farms. Squares of butter from brown cows in lavender fields, honey from Hamish's apiary in cozy acres. Coffee beans harvested from aisle of dreams. Every week, a new coffee delivery arrives at Moonrise, swaddled in burlap, freshly harvested. The coffee beans look like green sea glass. Thousands of soft beans slide into a shiny brass roaster echoing the rainstorm passing overhead. Once they're all tucked inside, a gentle heat animates the beams. They swirl and spin past each other, following a delicate choreography. Each little bean finds its place in the slip stream of warm air. As steam builds within the beans, the creamy avocado shell shifts to a honey graham tam. This quick costume change is an effortless metamorphosis. Little pockets of steam burst through the shells singing a chorus of little pop pop pops. This is how we know the beans have reached maturity. They grow up...