Rainday Antiques

Hello again, I'm so glad you could join us for tonight's visit Rainday Antiques. It's a great place to go and soak up the atmosphere, but especially when the rain is bucketing down outside. It's a haven of calm, of coziness. It's almost as though it exists outside normal space and time, a shelter from more than just the weather. Before we begin our visit, I think it's nice to start with a quick wind down. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. Just take a moment to get comfortable, letting go of the day, enjoying that feeling of having stopped, of having nothing left to do. Begin to focus the attention of the mind on the different parts of the body, just 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, your 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. 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 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. Underlying thoughts, come and go, allowing the mind and body the space they need to rest. If you've ever found yourself one evening wandering down a quiet street in the rain, looking for somewhere to take shelter, you'll know what a blessed relief it is, to find such a place as rain day antiques. It (murmurs) into view between two residential buildings. A beautiful double fronted store with a big window, on either side of the entrance. The windows are divided up into square panes, and the glass between the metal bars, is ever so slightly wavy giving the place a dreamlike quality. This quaint little establishment, stays open 24/7, if you can believe it. Catering to international antique connoisseurs who might arrive at any hour, and casual passersby. Which of these categories you fall into? Well, that's up to you. On a night like tonight, when the streetlamps are fuzzy halos, and the rain starts coming down harder, so that your footsteps make little slaps...