As the softness seeps in, even while thoughts do their jumpy dance in my head, it feels like the rigid boundaries of my body release. It’s like I’m undoing a corset, or the button on tight jeans, and my insides are able to gently expand and my cells can stretch out languidly into the space created. My teeth relax in their sockets. The inside of my nostrils release. And if they don’t at first, I focus on them doing so. My fingernails soften in their nail beds. My eyelashes soften. I feel majestic and magnificent and suspended in a duvet-like cloud. Sometimes I get what I call my Michelin Man
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