A basic NLP technique of visualization and anchoring can help you to choose your state and remain in control of your feelings.

Taking Control Of Your State

The stories we tell ourselves create our expectations. And our expectations lead to our experience so if you can begin to notice your language and then change the stories ... you can begin to change your experiences.

Expectation To Experience

They are only words. And the words we choose to express ourselves and express our goals and objectives can have an enormous impact on the way we feel and ultimately on the outcomes we achieve. This short reflection invites you to begin to notice certain crushing words and phrases that sound helpful and at the same time act as demotivators.

You Don't Need To Listen To This

A gentle reminder that you can make any moment ... a mindful moment. And it's really easy. Being Mindful in everyday life can help you develop a mindful mindset.

Make A Moment Mindful

A micro meditation for when you wake in the night and choose to go right back to sleep.

Three Minutes to Sleep

Take 3 minutes out to start your week and focus on the good stuff

Monday Morning Micro Meditation - Mmmm

We all use phrases that lose their meaning over time. This is a very quick reminder of the power of language and your ability to take control and notice the meaning of the phrase "Come to your senses" and an invitation to literally come to your senses and notice what you notice.

Come To Your Senses

Helping you focus on sleeping rather than NOT sleeping. A gentle meditation to prepare you for a good night's sleep.

Meditate To Sleep

How do you sleep? This gentle soothing meditation first takes you through a body-scan relaxation and then leads you through the stages of sleep. Helping you understand the stages of sleep and the importance of the sleep cycle and guiding you to your own sleep cycle.

The 'Teach Yourself Sleeping' Meditation

There are opportunities EVERYWHERE to remind yourself to be mindful. Here's a short reflection on how you can capture a mindful moment in the everyday mundanity.

Orange Juice has Mindfulness Lesson

At moments when you feel overwhelmed and anxious, this very quick guided meditation offers three steps to restore peace & calm. Three steps in three minutes.

3 Steps to Calm

A gentle mental journey...a full body relaxation with an invitation to go deep inside and search for and find your inspiration.

Everyday Inspiration

When 'they' say breathe from the stomach they don't always tell you how. Here's a lesson from 4-month-old Hazel.

Breathe Like A 4 Month Old Baby

A story about dreaming. Georgia knew she had experienced a good dream but she couldn't remember it, so she tried to recreate the conditions that led to the dream. Maybe she was dreaming about dreaming.

The Lost Dream

A soothing voice & a pointless story complete with embedded help to send you off as you learn about dendro-chronology

Counting the Rings of Trees

An unnamed little girl takes a walk in the woods in search of 'treasure'. An allegory to help the listener find their own treasure.

The Girl Who Is Looking For Her Treasure

Starting with a gentle relaxation, this leads into how Patricia discovered the phenomenon that is collecting pieces of old industrial waste

The Story Sea Glass

Just a little meandering story inspired by an item of jewellry ('jewelry' if you're in North America) that I noticed my friend wearing. There's even a life lesson.

The Myths of the Hares

How one baker discovered the delights of sourdough in spite of herself. This is a story laced around a recipe and method of creating sourdough bread. Softly read to relax & unwind you and you might even learn how to make bread.

Making Sourdough ... Slowly

Counting sheep has been thought of as way to send yourself to sleep. In ancient Britain the counting system they used was mesmeric and you can hear it here.

Counting Sheep the Ancient Way

This sleep story begins tells the story of a woman who does a mental journey around a department store where she is a manager.

The Department Store

Starting with a quick guided relaxation, this story is about the phenomenon of adults using coloring books as a way to relax. So a relaxing story about a relaxation technique with a soothing voice. Maybe you'll reach the end. Maybe.

The Colouring Book

This story within a story, within a story, gently calms an over-excited little mind and uses deliberate language patterns to coax the character in the story ... and the listener ... to settle down a go to sleep.

Sleeps To Christmas

Another short story that goes nowhere slowly. Sometimes the content is irrelevant other times not. A late night story can be just enough to keep you interested until you are not. until your mind and body give in to sleep.

Before Tik Tok There Was Tick Tick

A story about a favorite recipe that Victor has been trying to recreate to help him remember his wife.

You might dream about Cake

Starting with a tiny relaxing meditative introduction, this is a gentle meandering story about seeing shapes in the clouds and how there's always a life lesson.

The 'Every Cloud Tells a Story' Story

The Shipping forecast is still broadcast in the UK every day. This essay explains the names of the shipping areas as seen on the maps and heard on the radio. It's read with a soothing lilt which, together with the content, should help you switch off completely.

The Shipping Forecast Essay

Is Julia's connection with her late father deeper and more meaningful than a shared love of antiques?

The Case of Julia's Suitcase

Someone told me a story about how special services personnel are taught how to sleep. It's simple. It's obvious. It's what you can hear on a hundred different Aura recordings. I tell the story and drift into a guided example to help you Sleep like a Soldier. Photo by RODNAE Productions: pexels.com

Sleep Like They Do In The Military

This micro story distracts the listener by showing the workings of a sleep story and the linguistic tricks that storytellers use to help the listener.

"Go To Sleep" Said Person 1

Mindfulness doesn't have to be sitting on a cushion. This story tells of how the most mundane activities can be experienced mindfully.

Rita Has a Mindful Discovery

A very short story. It's just gone 3 am and he's still awake beside his sleeping partner.

While She Was Sleeping

A gentle & simple story within story within another story, laced with a positive suggestion to SLEEEEEP.