Thank you for joining us for today's meditation.

If you're looking for a classic meditative story,

we invite you to explore the rest of our library.

You know, it's always struck me

how the pursuit of better sleep

is so often the way people come to mindfulness and meditation.

I've seen it time and time again over the years,

and it makes total sense.

Given how much meditation and sleep are natural bedfellows, it's also entirely natural

that our show has its companion podcast feed, Sleep Song.

If you've never tried it, you totally should.

The way it works is, well, you know the amazing music that my annoyingly talented colleagues,

Ryan Holliday and Eduardo Rivera, composed for each of our classic episodes.

Well, they take that music from some of our favourite stories and make it the star,

modging it so that it's super conducive to softening the edges of the day gone before,

and taking us closer to that threshold of sleep.

The team talk about it as being your dream score, which I love.

So to celebrate how close mindfulness and sleep are, and to celebrate sleep song, I'm

going to guide you through my favourite sleep meditation.

I came up with the idea many years ago, and to this day, it's probably the practice that people

who know my work love the most.

You might be starting a new year at school,

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