Dawes Life Relaxation Exercise

It's already very late in the afternoon, and you're only just now emerging from the solitude of your log cabin to go on a springtime hike in the Blue Ridge mountains – northeast Georgia's silent woods. You first stoop down to tie your bootlaces (downward stretch). When you've finished, you slowly straighten (arms hanging, bring head up last) and reach to grab your insulated coat from the closet's uppermost shelf (stretch arms high). You wrap your body in warm layers and pull the downy hood over the crown of your head (spread and pull with arms). Leaving the cabin's oak door ajar, you slowly turn (gently turn head right, then left) to survey Georgia's sprawling forests. What cold sylvan beauty! You inhale wooden, dusky scents (three sniffs) and release a velvet sigh into the sharp evening air (easy exhalation). Just before you slip between the dark trunks, you turn and call into the cabin's open door: "Bye, mom! I love you!" (calling).