Rainday Antiques 2

The rain comes down hard on a quiet, familiar street. A weathered sign blows gently in the wind. It's one you've seen before and it reads, Rain Day Antiques. Welcome back to the perfect place to spend a rain soaked night exploring some charming pieces of antiquity. Everything seems to be in place. Despite the ebb and flow of the shop stock of antiques, the feeling warmth it provides never changes. However, in the far back, a soft light glows from a room you've never noticed before. The sound of rain seems to be louder there, perhaps because of its large glass dome. Some call this the rain lounge. This special room is the home to antique garden furniture, dozens of plants, and weather-worn statues. A pair of vintage Japanese fishing floats dangle from a hook along the rounded wall. One is still held by a tangled and knotted fishing net. The smell of sea salt, though mostly faded away, still emanates from the throats, a reminder of their previous life before they found their home in the rain lounge. It's easy to lose oneself, imagining where each item came from in Rain Day Antiques. And why not? Tonight you've got all the time in the world to explore. But before you do, let's take a moment for a short exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. 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. 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 feeling a sense of the muscles switching off. The feet, the arches, all those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of the legs. Notice 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. In the area of the hips, the pelvis. Again, any muscles shutting down for the night. Completely addressed. Everything from the waist downward is heavy, at ease. The muscles in the lower back and the stomach are 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 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...