Night Town

Welcome to Night Town, it's a very sleepy town nestled between two hills. A river passes through the town, running under a bridge at the end of the main street. There are shops all down the main street, the local school is here too. Most of the townspeople live in small houses on the two streets which cross at the town center. If you looked at the town from above, maybe if you were passing over in a plane at night, it would look like a small, twinkling X. Not much happens here, it's a great place to get away from it all. It's also the perfect place for a night walk. The people are all sleeping, it's very quiet, the only sounds are the wind and the crackle of the electricity wires. As we tour Night Town, I'd like to encourage you just to close your eyes and imagine each place that we visit, maybe it will remind you of somewhere you've been or somewhere you'd like to go, that's fine too. Just be confident that whatever you see in your mind's eye is the right thing to be seeing. So before we set out tonight, we're going to do a brief visualization, it's all about switching off the body and preparing for sleep. So just lying flat on your back, just feeling the weight of the body against the bed, and taking a big, deep breath. Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. As you breathe out, just leaving the day behind and just feeling the weight of the body sinking into the bed beneath you, noticing how the body feels, noticing any areas of tension, and we're just going to bring our attention to each part of the body, and as we do, just imagining that the muscles are switching off, shutting down for the night, just ensuring that the body is at ease and at rest. So just starting down at the toes, imagining those muscles just switching off now and in the feet, the arches, the heels, the ankles, just switching off. The lower half of the legs, just switching off. Upper half of the legs, the hips, pelvis, just switching off, any tension just disappearing as the muscles relax. The stomach and the lower back, any muscles, just switching off. The middle of the back, diaphragm, just switching off any muscles that don't need to be used. The chest and the upper back, again, just imagining those muscles switching off for the night. The muscles in the shoulders now, the upper arms, just switching off. Forearms, switching off. The hands, the fingers, and the thumbs, switching off. Any muscles in the neck, throat, again, just releasing as they switch off. Any muscles in the head, the face, behind the mouth, the nose, the eyes, just switching off for the night so the entire body at ease, at rest. Just feeling the weight of the body pressing down into the bed, allowing...