Winter Park

Hey there, you've joined us just in time for tonight's tour of the winter park. The sun is setting over the city and the park is wearing a dusting of soft white powder snow. It feels special, the way that snow days always do. Now, it might be cold, but we don't have to worry about keeping warm because we're going to be using a highly unusual mode of transport, a magic bubble. Think of it like a soap bubble but one that you can be inside and just glide through the air. You might not have traveled like this before but I can assure you, there's really nothing like it. It's the perfect vehicle in which to take a tour of the park in the snow. Better than a horse-drawn carriage and warmer too. So just lie back, relax and let yourself drift off. Before we set out, let's begin with a little wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. 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 just the sense of the muscles switching off, the feet, the arches all those muscles switching off. Same in the lower half of the legs. So any tension being let go of as the muscle 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 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. You come across a bridge, while gliding through the sky. Mossy gray stones carefully stacked to span across a half-frozen pond. There are solid guardrails on the sides of the bridge, so a person can lean out and look at the water. In the center of these rails, on each side, you see urns carved from stone. In the summer, these...