Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups.

In which nothing much happens, you feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai, my right and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Witter-Shine.

If you're looking for more cozy relaxation in your life, my book, also called Nothing

Much Happens, is available now wherever books are sold.

Let me say something about how to use this podcast.

I'm about to tell you a bedtime story.

It's a simple story without much action, but full of relaxing detail.

The story is like a nest and we're enticing your fluttering mind to settle down into it.

I'll tell the story twice and I'll go a little bit slower the second time through.

If you find yourself still awake at the end of the first or second telling, don't worry.

Relax.

Take your mind back to the beginning of the story and walk yourself back through the

details that you remember, especially any bit that felt particularly cozy.

Retraining your brain and body to wind down.

And the more often you do it, the faster you will fall asleep.

So have a bit of patience at the beginning.

No, it's time to turn off the light and put away anything you've been working on or

looking at.

Take some time to snuggle yourself down into your preferred sleeping position.

Make all the adjustments you need to to feel your body relaxing into your bed.

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