Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Witterschheim.

My book, also called Nothing Much Happens, is available wherever books are sold.

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Now I'm going to tell you a story.

I'll tell it twice, going a little slower the second time through.

All you need to do is to rest your attention on my voice and words.

And this will shift your brain from its busy default mode into task mode where sleep

and rest are accessible.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you could listen again or just think through any

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