Salon Nights

Salon nights are the kind of nights spent at everybody's favorite all-night hair salon. You might not know it's your favorite yet, but give it time. SerenSnippity's, catering to all styles of hair at all times of night is a home away from home where you can rest, hang out, and just generally wile away the hours. No appointment necessary. Before we begin, let's start with a little wind down exercise. Tonight's wind down is visualization. So 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 just a 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 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 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 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're sitting on a wonderfully comfortable couch. It's firm, but with just the right amount of give. There's a stack of magazines on the glass coffee table in front of you and a folder containing pictures of every hairstyle imaginable. If there's anything you need, a hot or cold drink, an extra cushion for your back, you only need to say the word. You could kick off your shoes if you wanted to and put your feet up. This is the sort of place where they wouldn't mind that at all. In fact, they'd encourage it. You're watching one of the clients having her hair layered. Over and over the stylist takes a segment of shiny black hair, combs it out, and holds it straight up above the woman's head, where it gleams like unspooled video tape. Then she takes her shears and snips rapidly into the fringe of the hair...