Roving Mars Buggy

There was a time when the planet Mars was just a bright reddish star in the sky glimpsed from Earth over 265 million miles away. Sure, people dreamed of visiting it but did anyone really believe that they could be sitting here as you are now as comfortable as can be in a state of the art Mars buggy gliding across the surface of that distant planet? Remember when trips to the moon were all the rage? Well, these days Mars is having a bit of a moment which is not to say that touring the red planet is anything out of the ordinary. If you wanted to, you could visit every single night and yet even for the most seasoned space traveler a trip to Mars is always a delight and a novelty. Settle into the Mars buggy with its adjustable seats and it's gleaming clean white interior. The variable lighting adjusts to the rider's delight. For this trip, let's try a nice mix of purple and pink to mimic some far flung nebula. Looking out of the windows. Mars' reddish, brown surface is stunning from this elevation. There's really nowhere else quite like it. But before we begin, let's start with a brief 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 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 and body the space they need to rest. We're now gliding close to the summit of the Arsia Mons...