(Originally Aired: January 29th, 2023 Original: Season 11, Episode 5) Our story tonight is called Winter Views, and it’s a story about some different things to enjoy or look forward to in the winter. It’s also about a cardinal singing from the branches, a jar of huckleberry jam, and the extra minutes of light that come with each day after the solstice. Visit bioptimizers.com/nothingmuch and use code NOTHINGMUCH for 10% off any order. For 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use promo code NOTHINGMUCH Order your own NMH weighted pillow now! shop.nothingmuchhappens.com/products/weighted-pillows Subscribe for ad-free, bonus and extra long episodes now, as well as ad-free and early episodes of Stories from the Village of Nothing Much! Search for NMH Premium channel on Apple podcast or follow the link below nothingmuchhappens.com/premium-subscription Listen to our new show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much on your favorite podcast app. nothingmuchhappens.com/stories-from-the-village Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation at nothingmuchhappens.com/first-this Save over $100 on Kathryn’s hand-selected wind-down favorites with the Nothing Much Happens Wind-Down Box. A collection of products from our amazing partners: • Eversio Wellness: Chill Now • Vellabox: Lavender Silk Candle • Alice Mushrooms Nightcap • Nutrachamps Tart Cherry Gummies • A Brighter Year Mini Coloring Book • NuStrips Sleep Strips • Woolzies Lavender Roll-On
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Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good, and then you fall asleep. I'm Katherine Nicolai. I write and read all the stories you hear on Nothing Much Happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim. We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some point in the past.
It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location. And since I'm a person... and not a computer, I sometimes sound just slightly different. But the stories are always soothing and family-friendly, and our wishes for you are always deep rest and sweet dreams. Just by listening to my voice and following along with the general shape of the story,
you'll be able to create a reliable response in your brain and nervous system. So that when you lie in bed at night, when it's time to sleep, you just will. The more you practice it, the stronger the response will become. I'll tell the story twice, and I'll go a bit slower the second time through. If you wake again in the night, don't hesitate to turn this or another story right back on.
Or just think through any detail that you can remember. Our story tonight is called Winter Views. And it's a story about some different things to enjoy or look forward to in the winter. It's also about a cardinal singing from the branches. a jar of huckleberry jam, and the extra minutes of light that come with each day after the solstice.
Okay, lights out campers. It's time.
Set everything down and prioritize your own comfort. How do you need to arrange yourself to feel the most relaxed? Whatever you did today, it was enough. Enough has been done. So take those last lingering thoughts. Let them go. They only have the power you give them. Now, slow breath in. And sigh. Again, in through the nose. Out through the mouth.
Good. Winter views.
Winter isn't just one thing. One feeling. one temperature, one scent. And that was something I always forgot from the distance of July. If I thought of it then, all I could come up with was bitter cold, a memory of icy air stinging my nostrils, one shade of white coating everything.
And so when I was actually there, moving through midwinter, it was always a sweet surprise when the morning air didn't sting, but instead made me feel awake and alive. And I gulped it down in deep, greedy breaths. just as I had the scent of lilacs in the spring or summer tomato vines.
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