Let's settle in so we can wind down from the day. If you haven't already done so, you can find a comfortable posture, perhaps sitting or lying down. And if it feels okay to do so, you can close your eyes. We'll start by taking a deep breath together. In through the nose.

Slowly out through the mouth. Inviting the jaw to relax. Letting the shoulders be at ease. And inviting the hands and the belly to soften. Remembering in this moment, there's no place else you need to be, nothing else you need to do, nothing you need to accomplish, especially after a long day.

So see if you can give yourself the permission to be here. To help us do that, we'll take a few moments to tune into the body breathing as a way to anchor our attention and connect to this moment of aliveness. You may notice the mind swirling with thoughts, from earlier today or about tomorrow. For right now, we just get to notice those thoughts as mental activity. Just a thought, just a little flickering in the brain.

We don't have to get consumed by it, overly identified with it. Give it some soft awareness and then bring that presence back to this breath. Letting each inhale and exhale ground you a little bit more deeply into what's here right now, right now. To help us let go of whatever's happened today and to really unwind and ground ourselves in this moment, we're going to do something that might seem to contradict the intention of being present. We're going to actively reflect on our day from the first moment you can remember all the way up until now.

The reason for this is because we often move through our moments so quickly that we don't always get the chance to process what happened in real time. And so the mind can be subconsciously ruminating about experiences that it didn't feel complete with. And so, as you replay the day, you're just going through as many moments as you can remember, moving through and notice if there's anything that has an emotional charge that comes up. An event that happened, something that feels unresolved. And when you encounter that moment in your reflection, take a breath, acknowledge it, thank your mind for thinking about something that might be important and then let it know that for right now, there's nothing we can do about it.

So let's let it go and we'll revisit it if it's still important tomorrow. So you can start this reflection now. Just think to the earliest moment of the day that you can remember. And then visualize and feel yourself moving through the moments of your day. And it's okay to accelerate the process so that this visualization can happen over the course of a few minutes.

And with each passing stage of reflection throughout the day, just feel your body settling in more, letting it go, releasing. If at any point you get snagged and the mind starts ruminating about something that happened, take a breath, reground yourself, thank your mind for thinking about this and then let it know for right now, there's nothing we can do. It's okay to let go. And we'll revisit it if it's still important tomorrow. And continue this reflection until you come back to the present moment where you are right now.

Taking a few more moments to arrive into the present. And now as you're here, notice what it's like to feel the momentum of the day, to let it exist as a memory knowing that we can't change anything about how the day unfolded. It happened. It's gone. But we can meet this moment with grounded-ness with equanimity, with curiosity and with presence.

So see if you can relax into being here. Grounding into your body. Feeling where it makes contact with the surface beneath you. And remembering that this moment right now is the beginning of the rest of your evening and also the rest of your life. So it's okay to let go for this evening, to unwind and start fresh tomorrow.

We'll take one more deep breath together before we close. In through the nose. Out through the mouth. And if you're ready to do so, you can reorient yourself back into this space and invite your eyes to open. Great job.

So as you continue to unwind before sleep, take this time to be grounded, to be present and to be at ease in your mind and body. Enjoy the rest of your evening and take care.