Billy’s All-Day Car Wash

Good evening. Tonight, we're headed to Billy's Car Wash, one of the neighborhood's hidden gems. It's a family business that's been running for 50 years. Okay, so it's not exactly hidden. The name Billy's Car Wash in neon cursive can be seen from quite some distance, a sign for weary travelers driving back via the Coast Road that it won't be long now before they're home. It's more that people are not really accustomed to thinking of a car wash as a gem. That's understandable, but, well, think again. But now let's take a moment for a brief wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is a visualization. So when you're ready, let's begin. So no matter what's been going on today, whether it's been a busy day or a calm one, this is an opportunity to put everything down, to let go of any inner chatter and find a place of rest in both the body and the mind. So first, get yourself comfortable in bed. Just taking a moment to pause and be still. And when you're ready, taking a big deep breath, breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth. And as you breathe out, allowing body to sink down into your bed, feeling the weight of the body, allowing thoughts to come and go. Now imagining a steady flow of warm sunlight flowing down through the body, dissolving any tension, any discomfort as it begins to fill the body. Starting with the toes. Moving up through the feet and the legs, being filled with sunlight. The qualities of warmth, space, and ease as it continues to travel up through the body. Up past the waist, through the back and the stomach. It's as though it washes away any discomfort. It continues up through the chest and the upper back into the shoulders and down the arms, all the way down to the hands and fingers. A sense of relief in the body and stillness in the mind as it continues to travel up through the neck and the throat into the head and face all the way to the very top of the body until there's nothing other than that sense of stillness remaining. And now just gently bringing the attention back to the body. Next in line at the drive-through is Billy Twitch. Billy is a park ranger, so he spends a lot of time driving off-road through the forest up to the mountain and north to the desert. His Jeep is usually pretty grimy by the time he gets round to bringing it in for a clean at the car wash that bears his name. Well, not his name, that's the other Billy, of course, Billy Clean as he's sometimes affectionately known. Whereas Billy Twitch is known locally as Ranger Twitch. He sits in his vehicle feeling pleasantly worn out after a long day clearing fallen wood from the forest trails. As he waits for his turn, he watches the activity on the...