Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone 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 with audio engineering

by Bob Witter-Shine.

Before I was a full-time storyteller, I was a yoga and meditation teacher.

And I guess even then, I was a storyteller because I've always learned best, understood

the most when I learned through stories and examples.

So that's how I teach meditation over at my other podcast called First This.

It uses a simple approach, clear instructions, and a few stories along the way.

Why not sit with me tomorrow morning?

Just search First This on any podcast app.

Now your brain needs a job to do and without one it will wander off and get into trouble.

But the job can be easy and such a pleasure.

I'll tell you a story.

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

Our job is just to listen and pull the details of it around you like a blanket.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you could listen again or just walk yourself

back through any part of it that you can remember.

This trains the brain over time to shift out of its wandering default mode and into the

restful response that happens in task mode.

It will get easier and more automatic over time, but have some patience if you're new

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