A Happy Place

'Relax...relax…feel yourself sinking down, deeper and deeper. The relaxation flowing through you...from your head to your torso...down your arms and into your fingers...floating down through your stomach and down your legs…all tension floating away…you’re in your happy place…a safe place…where relaxation is your only goal…total relaxation…feel it embracing you…’

The bucket of cold water brought Sanchez round with a start. In his shock, he found his neck, wrists and ankles secured to a metal slab by heavy shackles. As the grinning man holding a chainsaw stepped into view, he screamed, realising his happy place was a long, long way away.