Soak up Acadia’s Ocean Sounds

It is late fall here at Acadia National Park. The colors of the setting sun match those of the nearby tree lines. A mosaic of orange gold and deep red. The expansive Atlantic ocean shimmers beneath the fading rays. As knight quickly approaches, this vast amphibious landscape is home to a wide range of native flora and fauna, stretching from coastal waters to the towering peaks of nearby Cadillac Mountain. There is much to see here and experience. So as we prepare for tonight's journey through this unique park, let's begin our evening with a brief wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. When you are 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 are 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. Sloping pink granite makes up most of Acadia's land. The rocks ranging from dark salmon to gray blush an igneous rock. This granite was once magma beneath the Earth's crust. When visitors step foot on Cadillac Mountain, the highest summit on the eastern seaboard, they are coming into contact with stone that is hundreds of millions of years old. On closer look the earth tells a story of glacial movements, volcanic episodes, and traumatic shimmies of the tectonic plates. Much later in time, but long before humans met the land, large glaciers traveled across the granite surface. Guided by gravity, these icy beings drifted along, creating distinct scratches and crescent shaped cuts in the earth. A path was set for the glaciers to meet the ocean, but fairly young. Rocky mountains...