772. The Cheerful Cardinal: a relaxing bedtime story for children
Be Calm on Ahway Island | Bedtime Stories & Meditations for Kids
Sheep Jam Productions
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Narrator: Female
Story Begins: 3:53
The Cheerful Cardinal Excerpt:
It was a gloomy, cloudy fall afternoon on Ahway Island. Owen was looking out the window, bored. Being on fall break from school, Owen thought he was going to be able to play outside today. Owen’s parents said that he would have to play inside. His mom thought it looked like it was going to rain today, and she didn’t want Owen to get muddy and wet. Owen didn’t really see what the problem was because he thought playing in the rain seemed like a fun idea. But his mom had already made upher mind. So, instead of playing outside, Owen sat by the window, wishing he could be outside playing with his toys.
Carrie Cardinal sat on her branch in the maple tree outside Owen’s window. She often spent her time looking into Owen’s window. The world of humans often fascinated her. As she peered into the window, she saw Owen longingly looking outside. She wondered why a bright, energetic little boy looked so glum. She sat there and thought and thought. She remembered seeing Owen frequently play with his toys outside and wondered why he wasn’t outside today. Maybe, the reason why he wasn’t outside had something to do with why he looked so glum.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Awe Islanders. If you want more Away Island content, check out our Patreon |
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| 0:32.0 | That's P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com forward slash A-E-Iland. And now it's time for a relaxing meditation and a new story. You're going to do. Hello. Hello, Ahway Islanders. We're so glad you're here. Let's see if you have everything you want to be calm on Highway Island. Are the lights in your room dim or |
| 1:26.7 | off? Do you have your favorite blanket or listening buddy? Before we begin our story, let's relax by taking a deep dragon breath. |
| 1:40.5 | Breathe in through your nose, filling up your lungs, and then out through your mouth, |
| 1:47.0 | imagining you are breathing fire, like a dragon. |
| 1:52.0 | Okay, Deep breath in and out Good. |
| 2:07.0 | Imagine you are a graceful willow tree swaying in the gentle breeze. |
| 2:17.0 | Pretend your feet are the roots of the willow tree. |
| 2:21.9 | Feel your roots, stretch through the grass and into the earth. |
| 2:27.0 | The warm soil hugs you as your roots reach deeper and deeper and you feel safe and secure in the |
| 2:38.2 | earth's embrace. Take a deep dragon breath in and out. Think of your legs, tummy and neck as the trunk of the willow tree. |
| 3:04.0 | Warm energy flows up from the earth, |
| 3:08.0 | into your roots and up through your trunk. |
| 3:16.5 | Now pretend that your arms and head are flexible, |
| 3:25.0 | leafy willow branches. Imagine them swinging gently in the warm breeze, |
| 3:32.3 | back and forth as you take one more deep dragon breath in and cozy. |
| 3:50.0 | And now we're ready to begin our story. Let's be calm on Away Island. Our story today is the cheerful Cardinal. |
| 4:18.8 | It was a gloomy, cloudy fall afternoon on Away Island. |
| 4:24.0 | Owen was looking out the window, bored. |
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