Starlight Diner

Hello and welcome to the Starlight Diner, the perfect roadside resting spot on this dark clear night. Most people only notice the Starlight Diner when they're crossing through the desert in the middle of the night. In fact, some locals like to say that the Starlight Diner can only be seen at night. It's soft pink walls, dissolving with every sunrise and reappearing again, when the stars come out. From a distance, you might not think to stop, but something about the Starlight Diner draws you in. A pink neon sign at the edge of the parking lot announces its presence. Its warm glow washes over the people inside and dances across the navy candle lit tabletops. The booths are soft indigo flannel, perfect for spending the evening under the stars. And that's exactly what you do at the Starlight Diner. It's domed glass ceiling offers a view of every star in the sky, allowing you to count the constellations above while sipping on a milkshake. As you settle into your corner booth, let's begin the evening with a short 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. 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. The way Donna carries dishes, you can tell she treats it as an art form. She takes tomato soup, a stack of pancakes, a grilled cheese sandwich, and a Cobb salad from the window and...