Calm your mind and restore your soul with a powerful yoga nidra. Yoga Nidra means Yogic Sleep. You will be guided into the sacred space between sleeping and waking for a deeply nourishing and restorative practice. This yoga nidra is for a calming sleep. Renew the mind, the body, and the soul. Please subscribe to my newsletter to stay updated on new offerings. <a href="https://links.aatmalife.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://links.aatmalife.com/subscribe</a>To learn more about The Aatma Practice, check out <a href="https://my.captivate.fm/www.aatmalife.com/theaatmapractice" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.aatmalife.com/theaatmapractice</a>

Guided

Relieve stress

Relaxation

Yoga Nidra

Soothing

Female voice

The Yoga Nidra Podcast

Yoga Nidra: Calming Sleep

American Sirens author Kevin Hazzard tells the story of a community group in a Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh who helped spark a revolution in emergency medicine. As recently as the 1960s, anyone suffering a heart attack or serious injury who called for help might get a response from the police or funeral home employees in a hearse. They could get the patient to a hospital, but couldn't perform CPR or other treatment on the scene. Freedom House trained some of the nation's first paramedics. Critic at-large John Powers shares a list of things he wish he had reviewed in 2022.

History

Fresh Air

The Surprising History Of The First Paramedics

In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Creativity
(00:04:47) Sponsor: LMNT
(00:08:51) What is Creativity?
(00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy
(00:23:37) Neural Circuits of Creativity
(00:27:54) Sponsor: AG1
(00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking
(00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking
(00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways
(00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking
(01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking
(01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine
(01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine
(01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine
(01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking
(01:43:13) Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking
(01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis
(01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity
(01:54:45) Tool: Movement & Divergent Thinking
(02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity
(02:14:47) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Neural Network Newsletter, Social Media
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Science

Huberman Lab

The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

A reading of "Dracula" by Bram Stoker to help you sleep. Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com BUY THIS BOOK on Amazon to read with me Down To Sleep is a weekly podcast of book readings and bedtime stories. A mixture of classic adult and children's literature read softly as audiobooks to help you sleep. A new free episode every Monday! Down To Sleep is a sleep podcast of bedtime stories designed to help you fall asleep. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories with a side of unintentional softly spoken ASMR. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps. Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Dracula Audiobook Part 7. Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Classics

Fictional

Male voice

60+ min

Down To Sleep (Audiobooks & Bedtime Stories)

Dracula (Audiobook Part 7) - Down To Sleep #67

Clear the mind of stressful thoughts and stress to get to sleep with this 15 minute guided meditation practice. Simply allow the prompts and soothing voice help you fall asleep with mindfulness. #guidedmeditation #stress #mindfulness This guided meditation practice is from our app, Declutter The Mind. You can download it for iOS and Android for free. Declutter The Mind ▶ https://declutterthemind.com/ iOS app ▶ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/declutter-the-mind/id1465713447?ls=1 Android app ▶ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MindDeclutter Consider joining Declutter The Mind Plus on YouTube for $5/mo and support the channel, get access to guided meditation courses, and more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ZvMgbK5X8j-nCY5CR06xw/join

Daily Meditation Podcast

Guided Meditation for Stress and Sleep

Prose

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

16 - Rapunzel

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Piano

Sleep - Meandering Piano

Lower Water

With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. Although she is a gregarious teacher and presence on television, Garten prefers to do her actual cooking alone. “Cooking’s hard for me. I mean, I do it a lot, but it’s really hard and I just love having the space to concentrate on what I’'m doing, so I make sure it comes out well.” Garten joins David Remnick to reflect on her early days in the kitchen, and to answer listener questions about holiday meals and more. Her latest book is “Go-To Dinners.” Plus, Susan Orlean joins with an installment from her column “Afterword.” She writes about the life of a Texas man who founded a rattlesnake handling business. He liked providing a service for his neighbors, and for whatever reason, he just loved rattlesnakes—a passion that proved fatal.

Arts

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Ina Garten: Cooking Is Hard; Plus an Essay from Susan Orlean

Enjoy this gratitude meditation for bedtime to help you  prepare you for a deep, nourishing rest. Going to bed in a state of gratitude helps you to wake up with a positive attitude. When we express gratitude at the end of the day, it calms our mind, alleviates anxieties and relaxes our bodies And this positive mindset can enhance dream state and allow you to wake up feeling refreshed, recharged and ready for the new day to come. The more practiced you become at appreciating some of the most basic things about your day, what usually gets taken for granted, the easier it becomes to feel grateful for almost no reason at all.  To receive all the benefits of this meditation, it is best to listen to at the end of the day as you get comfortable in bed and are ready for a peaceful sleep. If you enjoy my meditations and would like to send me a donation on PayPal to support the time and effort in creating quality content, <a href="https://paypal.me/nolitaananda?country.x=TH&locale.x=en_GB">I'll graciously accept via this link</a> Listen to this meditation on <a href="https://insig.ht/bh7ugDW9Kub?utm_source=copy_link&utm_medium=live_stream_share">Insight Timer</a> <a href="https://www.whitemoonbloom.com/">Visit my website </a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whitemoonbloom/">Follow me on Instagram</a> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nolabloom/message

Deep sleep

Guided Meditations with Nola Bloom

Gratitude Meditation for Deep Sleep

Episode No. 580 features artist Sheila Pree Bright. <a href="https://www.sheilapreebright.com/">Sheila Pree Bright</a> is included in <a href= "https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/reckonings-and-reconstructions-southern-photography-from-the-do-good-fund/"> "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund,"</a> which is at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through January 8, 2023.  The Do Good Fund is a Columbus, Ga.-based charity that collects and makes available to museums photography of the American South made from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition includes artists such as Jill Frank, Baldwin Lee, Deborah Luster, Gordon Parks, and RaMell Ross. Bright's work builds narratives about social, political and historical events through series of pictures of landscape, social justice movements, suburbia, and more. Solo exhibitions of Bright's work have been held at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and more. Bright's book "#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests" was published by Chronicle Books in 2018. <a href= "https://amzn.to/3FUhN6U">Amazon</a> and <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781452170725">Indiebound</a> offer it for $18-30. This episode was taped live at the GMOA. Air date: December 15, 2022.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Sheila Pree Bright

Ahead of the release of the next episode of his lecture series on René Girard, Johnathan Bi returns for his second appearance on the show. He and Jim discuss Girard, prestige, innovation, AI, and much more. Enjoy! Important Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://johnathanbi.com">Johnathan’s website</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://twitter.com/johnathanbi?s=21&t=vKmteCq6VwTdw2gXBTBkWQ"> Johnathan’s Twitter</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qu6vBebwwg">Johnathan’s lecture series with David Perell</a> </li> <li><a href="https://substack.com/inbox/post/87143193">Our research note on Johnathan</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/johnathan-bi-girard-desire-and-modernity-ep116/"> Johnathan’s first appearance on the show</a> </li> </ul> Show Notes: <ul> <li>The Girardian notion of prestige </li> <li>What proof is there for mimesis? </li> <li>The difference between mimesis and status signalling </li> <li>Philosophical critiques of Girard </li> <li>Girard on innovation </li> <li>Historical understandings of innovation </li> <li>A conversation between a pessimist and an optimist </li> <li>AI, progress and the panopticon </li> <li>Could we ban innovation? </li> </ul> Books Mentioned: <ul> <li>The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr </li> <li>The Alchemy of Finance; by George Soros </li> <li>The Laws of Imitation; by Gabriel Tarde </li> <li>When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel Treguer; by René Girard </li> <li>The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch </li> <li>The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England; by Paul Slack </li> <li>Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future; by Peter Thiel </li> </ul>

Philosophy

Infinite Loops

Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/sleepwithessentia My guest on this podcast, Jack Dell’Accio, is the Founder and CEO of Essentia, which is the world’s only naturalmemory foam mattress. Jack has dedicated the last 16 years to studying mattresses and...

Ben Greenfield Life

Seven Surprising Reasons Your Sleep Surface & Sleep Environment May Not Be As Optimized As You Think, With Essentia Mattress CEO Jack Dell’Accio.

Clint Smith is a poet and a staff writer for The Atlantic. His most recent book is How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America and his latest feature is “Monuments to the Unthinkable.”
“I've been to a lot of places that carry a history of death and slaughter and murder. I've been on plantations. I've been in execution chambers. I've sat on electric chairs. I've been on death row. But I have never experienced anything like what I experienced walking through the gas chamber in Dachau. I mean, there's reading books about the Holocaust, and then there's that. And that is something that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life: putting my body where these things happen. Because it completely transforms your understanding of what it was like.”
Show notes:

@ClintSmithIII

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Smith on Longform

Smith's Atlantic archive

00:00 How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little Brown • 2021)

01:00 "Monuments to the Unthinkable" (Atlantic • Nov 2022)

17:00 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond • Crown • 2017)

33:00 The Hemingses of Monticello (Annette Gordon-Reed • W.W. Norton • 2009)

34:00 Counting Descent (Write Bloody Publishing • 2016)

57:00 The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank • 1947)

57:00 Number the Stars (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1989)

1:07:00 "The Stories Tamir Rice Makes Us Remember" (New Yorker • Dec 2015)

1:08:00 Smith's New Yorker archive


1:08:00 "Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game" (New Yorker • Mar 2017)

1:09:00 Above Ground (Little Brown • 2023)

1:09:00 Crash Course Black American History



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Longform

Episode 515: Clint Smith

In our last episode, we look at how estrangement changes shape over the course of a life: how it can bend or harden, and how it affects new relationships, old memories, and the idea of family. 
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Relationships

Death, Sex & Money

Estrangement’s Alternate Endings

Allow yourself to fall into deep relaxation, just before sleeping, with this 30 minute guided meditation practice. Gently unwind and clear the mind with relaxing prompts and mindfulness. #guidedmeditation #sleeping #mindfulness This guided meditation practice is from our app, Declutter The Mind. You can download it for iOS and Android for free. Declutter The Mind ▶ https://declutterthemind.com/ iOS app ▶ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/declutter-the-mind/id1465713447?ls=1 Android app ▶ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MindDeclutter Consider joining Declutter The Mind Plus on YouTube for $5/mo and support the channel, get access to guided meditation courses, and more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ZvMgbK5X8j-nCY5CR06xw/join

Meditation for Sleeping and Deep Relaxation

Managing rapid growth is a huge challenge for young businesses. Even start-ups with glowing reviews and skyrocketing sales can fail. That’s because new ventures and corporate initiatives alike have to sustain profitability at scale, according to Harvard Business School senior lecturer Jeffrey Rayport. He has researched some of the biggest stumbling blocks to long-lasting success and explains how to make the tricky transition out of the start-up phase successfully. With professors Davide Sola and Martin Kupp of ESCP Business School, Rayport cowrote the HBR article “The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up.”

Business

HBR IdeaCast

Why Some Start-Ups Fail to Scale

Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of isolation and darkness, the poet John Lee Clark’s writing is full of joy. It’s funny and surprising, mapping the contours of a regular life marked by common pleasures and frustrations. Clark, who was born Deaf and lost his sight at a young age, has established himself not just as a writer and translator but as a scholar of Deaf and DeafBlind literature. His new collection, “<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324035343">How to Communicate</a>,” includes original works and translations from American Sign Language and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/deafblind-communities-may-be-creating-a-new-language-of-touch">Protactile</a>. He speaks with the contributor Andrew Leland, who is working <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635964/the-country-of-the-blind-by-andrew-leland/">on a book</a> about his own experience of losing his sight in adulthood.

The poet John Lee Clark Translates the DeafBlind Experience to the Page

<h2>Tonight’s reading comes from Lessons in Chalk Modelling. Written by Ida Cassa Heffron, and published in 1900, this story looks at the new method of Map Drawing, as it was at the turn of the 20th Century.</h2>
My name is Teddy and I aim to help people everywhere get a good night’s rest. Sleep is so important and my mission is to help you get the rest you need. The podcast is designed to play in the background while you slowly fall asleep. 
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In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the readings. Sincerely. Teddy 
 
 

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Rambling

Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

Sleep Story 227 – Lessons in Chalk Modelling

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People in every country and culture mark important milestones, such as births, marriages and deaths, with intricately choreographed scripts. We even appeal to supernatural forces to give our favorite sports teams an extra advantage. This week on the show, anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas explains the psychological power behind the sacred and secular rituals that structure our lives.

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