Rolling Dunes

Welcome to the Southern coast of Western Australia and it's stunning coastal dunes. The sky above slowly fades from blue into the very beginning of a pink sunset. There is a gentle cool breeze which pushes a few dancing clouds among the horizon. Despite the warmth from the last beams of sunlight, there is enough shade to keep you perfectly comfortable here. The sound of the ocean gently echoes in the distance with each wave cresting and breaking. At your back, stretching into the distant horizon is arid country. Pink-hued salmon gums and gold and grasslands in front of you. The low rolling dunes a covered with shore scrap. But through the leaves and branches, you can just see that the sand beneath is clean and pure white. So white it sparkles as if someone had dropped millions of perfectly round diamonds along the beach. One of the very best parts of this coastline is the water, so clear that it blends together the ocean floor below and the blue sky above. The cool water beckons any visitor in veered for a swim or just the timid dip of a toe. Out here there is no rush. There are no expectations. The landscape is yours to enjoy however you like. But before we explore further, let's take a moment for a relaxing wind down 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 off. 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. 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...