Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I create everything you hear on nothing much happens with audio engineering by Bob Woodershine.

We give to a different charity each week and this week we are giving to Mona Foundation.

They work to support grassroots initiatives around the world that educate all children,

empower women and girls and enable them to transform their own communities.

You'll find a link to them in our show notes.

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And why not ask your friendly local librarian to order nothing much happens in the book?

There's a beautiful hand drawn map in the front so you can see where all your favorite

nothing much happens locations are in the village.

Now there is a technique to these bedtime stories.

They have just enough happening in them to keep your thinking mind engaged, but not enough to keep you awake.

This engagement shifts your brain activity from its default mode to task mode.

And when you reach task mode, sleep comes easy.

So just listen to the sound of my voice.

Follow along with the general shape of the story, which I'll tell twice, going a little slower the second time through.

And if you wake later in the night to get back to task mode, you can listen again or just think through any part of the story.

You can remember.

This is brain training and you will become more proficient with practice.

Be patient if you're new to it.

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