Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups.

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

All stories are written and read by me, Katherine Nicolai, with audio engineering by Bob Witter

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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.

Sometimes when you try to fall asleep, you find that your mind races, and it's tricky to

slow it down or direct it.

While the story is like an inviting, well-organized garage that we steer your racing mind into.

And as you follow along with the simple shape of the story, your mind slows to a stop,

until there is nothing left to do but sleep.

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

If you find yourself still awake at the end of the second telling, don't worry, that's

sometimes how it goes.

You could listen again, or just walk yourself back through the bits you can remember.

You're training 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.

And if you find yourself awake again later in the night, think back through the story

again, to go right back to sleep.

Now it's time to turn off the light, and to put away anything that isn't your sleep

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