A softly spoken reading of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to help you sleep.  "A Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in 1890" Support the podcast on Patreon and join our secret book club, longer episodes + a bonus episode EVERY WEEK (Exclusive readings and complete readings of Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and more) Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Looking for FREE audio books or physical books to add to your collection? Use the links below and support the podcast! Get Free Audio Books on Amazon USA Get Free Audio Books on Amazon UK Buy books on AMAZON USA Buy books on Amazon UK   Down To Sleep is a podcast to fall asleep to. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Down To Sleep (Audiobooks & Bedtime Stories)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (#2) - Down To Sleep #21

Original Air Date: May 1, 2019
In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, author, spiritual teacher and intuitive Caroline Myss shares a powerful exercise that demonstrates why healing doesn’t begin in the mind, but deep within the soul. Caroline also explains how to know when something is incongruent in your life and how to fix it. Caroline is a five-time New York Times best-selling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality, mysticism, health and the science of medical intuition.

Spirituality

Oprah's Super Soul

Super Soul Special: Caroline Myss: Myths and Truths About Healing

Trailblazing transgender athlete Chris Mosier dives into the complexities of the trans experience, and what it means to truly express your authentic self.

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Owning Your True Identity | Chris Mosier

Welcome welcome welcome to The ASMR Garden! Tonight, we read the final chapters of The Little Prince. This was first suggested by Amber, and I want to give a huge thank you, thank you, thank you, because it has been a joy and a pleasure reading this alongside everyone. I am now open for more book suggestions, so send them my way! I hope you all enjoy! Meli xx :) Subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, Youtube and others to get notified when I post. Support/Interact with me: Tip Jar: paypal.me/theasmrgarden Patreon- The ASMR Garden ASMR & Chill Podcast Instagram - @theasmrgarden Email - asmrmelibusiness@gmail.com Music: Daises --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theasmrgarden/message

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The ASMR Garden

Reading You To Sleep | The Little Prince Part 4

Baseball holds its records sacred. Most home runs, strikeouts, career wins. But what about the longest game ever? That honor goes to a 1981 AAA game, when the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings slugged it out from dusk to dawn. The record-breaking 33 innings brought hope, despair and drama on and off the field. Radio Diaries and 30 for 30 Podcasts take listeners to that frigid, surreal night with the voices who lived it – including Hall of Famers Wade Boggs and Cal Ripken Jr. Most heroes of The Longest Game never made it big, but their unflagging endurance made history.
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30 for 30 Podcasts

The Longest Game

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. Weekly free episodes. Hear 2 readings and get access to every single softly spoken audiobook so far on Patreon. "Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy." Down To Sleep is a podcast to fall asleep to. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dracula Audiobook - Down To Sleep #17

I’m joined by Russell Foster CBE, one of the most prominent sleep experts globally and professor of circadian neuroscience at Oxford University. Russell’s research centres around sleep, the body clock and how the two profoundly affect our biology and our overall health and wellbeing.
We discuss:

Why sleep is important and how much we really need

The link between cravings, hunger, and sleep

Tools for improving sleep quality

Why stress may be at the root of your sleep difficulties

How fine-tuning your internal body clock supports optimal health


Each week I unpack a wellness trend with GP Gemma Newman. This week on Fact or Fad we’re looking at matcha versus coffee, where should we get our caffeine from.
More about Russell:
‘Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How it Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health’ 
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Time-Science-Revolutionize-Health/dp/0241529301
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Health

The Wellness Scoop

How to sleep well, reducing cravings and matcha versus coffee with Russell Foster

<a href= "https://peterattiamd.com/shireenrizvi/?utm_source=podcast-feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=220822-pod-shireenrizvi&utm_content=220822-pod-shireenrizvi-podfeed"> View the Show Notes Page for This Episode</a> <a href= "https://peterattiamd.com/subscribe/?utm_source=podcast-feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=220822-pod-shireenrizvi&utm_content=220822-pod-shireenrizvi-podfeed"> Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content</a> <a href= "https://peterattiamd.com/newsletter/?utm_source=podcast-feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=220822-pod-shireenrizvi&utm_content=220822-pod-shireenrizvi-podfeed"> Sign Up to Receive Peter’s Weekly Newsletter</a> Shireen Rizvi is a Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Rutgers University, where she is also the Director of the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic. This episode focuses specifically on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a skills-based technique which was originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD) and has since been adapted to treat depression and other mental health conditions, as well as to help people who have difficulty with emotional regulation and self-destructive behaviors. Shireen explains the origins of DBT and how its creator, Dr. Marsha Linehan, came to find a need for something beyond cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) when attempting to treat patients with suicidal behavior. From there, Shireen dives into how DBT works to resolve the apparent contradiction between self-acceptance and change to bring about positive changes in emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and more. She also provides examples for how one can apply specific skills taught with DBT such as accessing the “wise mind,” applying radical acceptance, using the “DEAR MAN” technique, and utilizing an emotion regulation skill called “opposite action.” Finally, she explains how the tenets of DBT offer benefits to anyone, and she provides insights and resources for people wanting to further explore DBT. We discuss: <ul> <li>The basics of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and how it differs from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) [3:00];</li> <li>Treating depression with CBT: history, effectiveness, and how it laid the groundwork for DBT [8:15];</li> <li>Marsha Linehan’s inspiration for developing DBT [16:00];</li> <li>Explaining borderline personality disorder (and associated conditions) through the lens of DBT [20:00];</li> <li>How work with suicidal patients led to the development of DBT—a dialectic between change and acceptance [35:30];</li> <li>Details of DBT: defining the term “dialectical” and how to access the “wise mind” [44:30];</li> <li>Practicing mindfulness and radical acceptance in the context of DBT [51:00];</li> <li>Applying “radical acceptance” to tragic scenarios [1:02:00];</li> <li>The five domains of skills taught in DBT [1:07:15];</li> <li>Why Marsha chose borderline personality disorder as her focus when developing DBT [1:13:30];</li> <li>Is there any benefit in doing DBT for someone without a pathological condition? [1:15:45];</li> <li>The DEAR MAN skill of DBT [1:20:00];</li> <li>Adapting DBT skills for adolescents and families [1:31:00];</li> <li>Identifying vulnerability factors, increasing distress tolerance, and the impact of physical pain [1:33:45];</li> <li>The DBT chain analysis: assessing problem behaviors and identifying vulnerability factors [1:44:30];</li> <li>Why the regulation of emotions can be so challenging [1:50:30];</li> <li>The importance of mindfulness skills in DBT [1:53:30];</li> <li>Opposite action: an emotion regulation skill [1:57:00];</li> <li>Advice for those wanting to explore DBT [2:03:15];</li> <li>Finding a well-trained DBT therapist [2:08:15];</li> <li>More.</li> </ul> Connect With Peter on <a href= "https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD">Twitter</a>, <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/peterattiamd/">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/peterattiamd/">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8kGsMa0LygSX9nkBcBH1Sg">YouTube</a>

Psychology

The Peter Attia Drive

#219 ‒ Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT): skills for overcoming depression , emotional dysregulation, and more | Shireen Rizvi, Ph.D., ABPP

Welcome welcome welcome to The ASMR Garden! Tonight, I pull out my notes and we get to learning about the history, symbolism, and philosophy of yin and yang! This was inspired by the many long documentaries that lulled me to sleep over the many years of my life. Listening to the calming topics of many late night Youtube deep dives also brought about my love for researching and learning. I hope you all enjoy! Meli xx :)  https://phiyakushi.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/misconceptions-about-yin-yang-the-goal-is-not-balance-but-is-imbalance/ Subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, Youtube and others to get notified when I post. Support/Interact with me: Tip Jar: paypal.me/theasmrgarden Patreon- The ASMR Garden ASMR & Chill Podcast Instagram - @theasmrgarden Email - asmrmelibusiness@gmail.com Music: Daises --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theasmrgarden/message

The History Of | Yin and Yang

Anything can happen when you leave your window open on a warm night. Tony, Oscar and Pulitzer Prize winner <a href= "https://playingonair.org/john-patrick-shanley-1">John Patrick Shanley</a> (Doubt, Moonstruck, Outside Mullingar) wrote and directed this week's summer re-release about a curious banshee, a fantastical Irish spirit, who pays an ailing teacher a visit and makes him an otherworldly proposal. The mystical comedy features <a href= "https://playingonair.org/geraldine-hughes">Geraldine Hughes</a> (<a href= "https://playingonair.org/new-releases/the-mandela-effect" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">THE MANDELA EFFECT</a>, <a href= "https://playingonair.org/new-releases/two-crows-apart" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">TWO CROWS APART</a>, Jerusalem, Gran Torino) and <a href= "https://playingonair.org/aidan-quinn">Aidan Quinn</a> (“Elementary,” Michael Collins, Desperately Seeking Susan). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation between the playwright, actors, and founder and consulting director Claudia Catania that includes a few delightfully surprising responses.

Arts

Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays

BANSHEE by John Patrick Shanley (Summer 2022 Re-Release)

Today we cover thought provoking pieces of an early work by a great philosopher named Bruno Latour. Hope you love it.

Philosophy

Philosophize This!

Episode #169 ... Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern

Ryan talks to author Steven Pressfield about his new book Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be, how to do good work consistently, the importance of discipline, and more.

Steven Pressfield wrote for 27 years before he got his first novel published. During that time he worked 21 different jobs in eleven states. Steven taught school, drove tractor-trailers, worked in advertising and as a screenwriter in Hollywood. He worked on offshore oil rigs, and picked fruit as a migrant worker. His books include The War of Art and Gates of Fire.

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Steven Pressfield on Consistency, Overcoming Resistance and Discipline

Neil Gaiman, one of the great fantasy writers of our time, first started writing his comic series “The Sandman” in the nineteen-eightiess. Decades later, a TV adaptation is a huge hit on Netflix, topping the platform’s charts in countries across the globe. Gaiman talks with the producer Ngofeen Mputubwele about the powerful role that fantasy can play in helping audiences process real experiences in their lives. “You’re making things that aren’t true,” he says, “and you’re giving them to people in order to allow them to see—we hope—greater truths.” Though the Netflix début marks a major expansion of “The Sandman” ’s visibility, the series has long attracted audiences beyond ardent comic fans. Looking back to the early success of his comics, Gaiman recalls, “I would go to conventions and large, sweaty gentlemen would come over to me, grab my hands and say, ‘You brought women into my store. . . . Let me shake your hand.’ ”

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Neil Gaiman on the Power of Fantasy in our Lives

In Episode 88 of The ASMR Podcast we welcome back Lucy with her Whisper You To Sleep… show. Today she has some interesting facts about animals to share. You can find Lucy’s podcast at Buzzsprout and on Spotify.

The ASMR Podcast

88: Whisper You to Sleep… 5

Can you manifest better sleep? Are positive thoughts alone enough to improve your sleep? I'll tell you what I think in this episode. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Calm & Cozy Podcast

Can You Manifest Better Sleep?

In Episode 87 of The ASMR Podcast we welcome back Lucy with her Whisper You To Sleep… show. Today she is going to lead you in a forest-themed meditation. You can find Lucy’s podcast at Buzzsprout and on Spotify.

87: Whisper You To Sleep… 4

Welcome welcome welcome to The ASMR Garden! Tonight I am fulfilling another request to do some more ramblings! Inspired by my high school art teacher, I use a random topic generator to lead my rambles. If you'd like to hear more of these, or provide me with the topics, let me know! Enjoy friends! Meli xx :) Subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Youtube and others to get notified when I post. Support/Interact with me: Tip Jar - paypal.me/theasmrgarden Patreon - The ASMR Garden Youtube - The ASMR Garden Instagram – @theasmrgarden Email – asmrmelibusiness@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theasmrgarden/message

Rambling Topics | Mic Scratching & Whispers

In Episode 86 of The ASMR Podcast we welcome back Lucy with her Whisper You To Sleep… show. Today she is going to explore some soothing sounds produced with household objects. You can find Lucy’s podcast at Buzzsprout and on Spotify.

86: Whisper You To Sleep… 3

Zzz. . . drift off into a deep slumber while Kristen reads "Anne of Green Gables," by Lucy Maud Montgomery zz Subscribe and listen to new episodes every Monday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and everywhere else. If the show works for you, be sure to leave a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts – where you can also leave requests of books you'd like to hear on the show. Thanks y'all. Sweet dreams zzz

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28 – Anne of Green Gables

Andrew snores so badly that his cats won’t sleep in the same room as him. He’s desperate to sleep better at night, and breathe more easily during the day. As a trans man, Andrew spent most of his life training to be a soprano opera singer only to become a baritone when he transitioned in his early 20s. On this episode of How To!, we bring on James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, to share the history of why we breathe the way we do. Turns out being a “mouth-breather” is more than just an insult, it’s harmful to our health. James gives Andrew some nasal breathing exercises to improve his snoring, anxiety, and overall wellness. If you liked this episode, check out “How To Sleep.” Do you have a problem you can’t get out of your head? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. Podcast production by Derek John, Rachael Allen, and Rosemary Belson. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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