Roving Mars Buggy

Technology can be quite wonderful. There was a time when 265 million miles seemed like an impossible distance to travel. Then, we found a way to easily travel to the moon, and the guided buggy tours, available to anyone with a desire to explore beyond this earth, were brilliant. But now, we've set our sights even further into space. Tonight, you're in for a treat. Welcome to the Mars buggy. Even for the most seasoned space traveler, a trip to Mars is always a delight. The new Mars buggy's interior is fully customizable. My favorite part is the variable lighting. Let's go with a nice auburn, a great mood setter for one's first trip to the red planet. The most practical feature of the buggy is the magnetic suspension system which means you can barely feel the craters or the atmospheric pressures of Mars where the atmosphere is, of course, so much less dense than what we're used to on earth. Our team took special care to make the experience as comfortable and relaxing as possible. And after all, Mars's surface is over 60% craters. From the air, they look like someone was eating ice cream straight from the carton with a tiny spoon, but up close, it feels more like a giant scooper did the work. There's really nowhere else quite like Mars. But before we begin, let's start with a brief exercise. Tonight's wind down is an exercise we call noting. It helps to soothe the mind, and once you've learned it you can even use it if you wake up in the night. We're going to be counting our breaths and then just gently noting thoughts and feelings as they arise. We're not trying to change them. We're simply labeling thinking as thinking, feeling as feeling. It may sound incredibly simple, but it can help to create distance between ourselves and the thought, and ourselves and the feeling, so we don't get so involved in it. That, in turn, creates a more restful state of mind. In other words, the perfect conditions for gentle, restful sleep. So to begin, just take a moment or two to get comfortable. Make sure you're nice and cool. Just starting with some big, deep breaths. Breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And with the next out breath, allow the breath to return to its natural rhythm, in and out through the nose, and feeling the weight of the body pressing you down into your bed. And in your own time, starting to count the breaths as they pass. One with the rise, two with the fall, just up to a count of 10. When you get to 10, you can stop and start again at one. And remember, anytime you get distracted, the moment you realize you're distracted by thought, simply note it thinking, and return to the breath. Or if a feeling arises, note it as feeling and return to the breath. Noting is very gentle,...