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Sleepy Nights
by Aaron Smith
Sleepy Nights is a calming podcast designed to help listeners of all ages slow down, settle their minds, and ease into sleep.Each episode offers a gentle mix of guided imagery, relaxing stories, breathing exercises, body relaxation, mindfulness, and soothing reflections. Some nights may take you somewhere peaceful through imagination. Others may help quiet racing thoughts, release the stresses of the day, or simply give your mind something soft and comforting to follow as you drift off.Get comfortable, turn down the lights, close your eyes, and let the day fade away.
Episodes
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The Garden at Dusk
Missing someone, feeling homesick, feeling alone, or simply having a hard time can become much stronger at night. This gentle guided imagery meditation takes you through a peaceful garden at dusk, where familiar memories and small lights remind you that connection does not disappear just because...
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The Library
A peaceful, imaginative journey through a library filled with fascinating books, forgotten stories, and endless possibilities. Explore the shelves at your own pace, choose the books that draw you in, and settle into a cozy chair as your mind gently unwinds and drifts toward sleep.
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The Lighthouse
When fear or uncertainty makes everything feel stormy,imagine a lighthouse standing steadily beside the sea. This guided meditation uses that image to help you remember that feelings can move and change around you without carrying you away. You can stay grounded while the waves roll.
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The Blanket Body Scan
Let your attention move slowly from the top of your head all the way down to your toes while imagining the comforting weight of a soft blanket resting over you. This body scan meditation helps you notice where you are still holding tension and gradually invites each part of your body to become...
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When You’re Anxious About Sleep
This gentle pre-sleep meditation is designed for anyone whose anxiety about sleep makes it harder to drift off. Rather than trying to force sleep, it encourages you to let go of pressure, notice anxious thoughts without engaging with them, and allow rest to be enough. With calming breathing, body...
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Tomorrow Can Handle Tomorrow
If your brain likes to start tomorrow before today has evenfinished, this meditation is for you. Through gentle self-talk and simple imagery, you’ll practise putting tomorrow’s worries, responsibilities, questions, and what-ifs aside until morning - because tonight is for resting, and tomorrow is...
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Rainy Night in the Attic
Curl up somewhere warm and cozy while rain taps gentlyagainst the roof outside. This soothing sleep story creates a feeling of comfort, shelter, and safety, inviting you to listen to the quiet rhythm of rain while the world outside grows darker and your body grows sleepier.
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The Elevator Down to Sleep
Step into a quiet, comfortable elevator and take a slow journey downward, one peaceful floor at a time. With each level, you’ll release a little more tension from your body and a little more activity from your mind. There is nowhere to rush. The deeper you travel, the less there is to do.
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When You Feel Sad
You do not have to make yourself happy before you are allowed to sleep. This gentle meditation creates space for sadness without trying to fix it, push it away, or explain it. With the image of rain falling safely outside a warm window, you’ll be reminded that difficult feelings can be present...
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Cloud Breathing
When your thoughts feel busy and your mind won’t seem to slow down, this gentle breathing meditation gives you something soft and simple to focus on. Imagine clouds that drift slowly across the sky, carrying tension and racing thoughts farther away as your body settles into rest.
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The Harbour
For nights when everything feels like too much, imaginea small boat coming safely back into harbour. This calming guided imagery meditation helps you unload the expectations, unfinished tasks, worries, other people’s feelings, and responsibilities you have been carrying. The boat is tied securely...
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Five-Finger Breathing
When anxiety feels too big, sometimes it helps to make your world very small: one finger and one breath at a time. This simple breathing meditation uses five-finger tracing, slow breaths, and five calming words (safe, here, rest, quiet, sleep) to give a busy mind something gentle to focus on as...
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The Night Train
Climb aboard a quiet nighttime train and let yourself be carried toward sleep. As fields, houses, memories, worries, and thoughts drift past the window, this guided imagery meditation helps you practice noticing what enters your mind without stopping to follow it. You don’t need to steer, know…
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The Worry Lanterns
What if you didn’t have to solve every worry before you went to sleep? In this extended guided imagery meditation, you’ll sit beside a peaceful river at dusk and place worries, fears, memories, what-ifs, and difficult feelings into glowing lanterns before letting the current carry them away....
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The Long Exhale
When your mind is racing and your body still feels switched on, this gentle breathing meditation helps you slow everything down. Using easy, extended exhales and calming reminders, The Long Exhale guides you away from the pressure to fall asleep and toward simply resting, breathing, and letting…
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Melting into the Mattress
Sometimes your mind is ready for sleep, but your body is still holding onto the day. This progressive muscle relaxation guides you gently through releasing tension from your feet to your face, helping your whole body feel heavier, softer, and more supported by the bed beneath you.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Sleepy Nights is a calming podcast designed to help listeners of all ages slow down, settle their minds, and ease into sleep.Each episode offers a gentle mix of guided imagery, relaxing stories, breathing exercises, body relaxation, mindfulness, and soothing reflections. Some nights may take you somewhere peaceful through imagination. Others may help quiet racing thoughts, release the stresses of the day, or simply give your mind something soft and comforting to follow as you drift off.Get comfortable, turn down the lights, close your eyes, and let the day fade away.
HOSTED BY
Aaron Smith
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Sleepy Nights have?
Sleepy Nights currently has 16 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Sleepy Nights about?
Sleepy Nights is a calming podcast designed to help listeners of all ages slow down, settle their minds, and ease into sleep.Each episode offers a gentle mix of guided imagery, relaxing stories, breathing exercises, body relaxation, mindfulness, and soothing reflections. Some nights may take you...
How often does Sleepy Nights release new episodes?
Sleepy Nights has 16 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Sleepy Nights?
You can listen to Sleepy Nights on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts Sleepy Nights?
Sleepy Nights is created and hosted by Aaron Smith.
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