Sunset Cruise

Good evening and welcome aboard the Sunset Cruise, a private river tour through the wetlands. These backwaters formed when part of the original river branched off into a closed off lagoon. The water here is calm and creates a relaxing atmosphere as you glide by an abundance of wildlife. Birds, fish, flowers, wild horses, and water buffaloes grace you with their presence on this cruise. Surrounding the atmospheric floodplains and mangroves of this special riverbed, vast skies stretch in all directions. So you can be assured of a glorious sunset as you relax and take in the sights tonight. But before setting off on your journey down the river, let's take a moment to do 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. The same in the lower half of the legs, noticing 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 and at ease. The muscles in the lower back and the stomach are now switching off. The 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 surface of the water is dotted with white and pink water lilies. Their flat green leaves curled at the edges like little dishes float on the water in great numbers. There's something quietly festive about them as if they were once decorations for a party, and the host liked them so much she decided to keep them up all year round. The flowers themselves are like sculptures with their long stalks and pointed pristine petals. The white tinged with blue in the fading light. You watch a group of wadding birds with enormous...