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This meditation and guided exercise will help you find softness and ease in both your mind and body. Lean into it. Guided by leading experts and personalities in wellness, sleep meditations are brief listens focused specifically on helping you decompress before bed. They don’t require any previous experience - they're easy to get into and designed to help you take a moment at day’s end to just relax.

In The Unappreciated Power of Naps, sleep researcher and clinical psychologist Dr. Jade Wu will uncover the truth about napping and its amazing benefits for both mind and body. Across six revealing lectures, you’ll examine what science tells us about the benefits—and, yes, the potential downsides—of napping.

Studies show that getting out into nature, ideally somewhere green or near water and trees, helps to restore the balance of oxytocin and serotonin in your body. But what if you don't have access to nature? This meditation takes you there mentally, guiding your imagination to create the same restorative effects.

Dreams are memories, feelings, and reflections that bubble up into your conscious mind during certain stages of sleep, and much can be gleaned from them if you know how to pay attention. This gentle morning meditation helps you learn how to remember your dreams and capture their insights and guidance.

Spend a Sunday night nodding off in the backseat with Sophia and her parents as they drive the winding road home from dinner in this Audible Sleep story told by Eva Longoria.

Hello Sleep's guided meditations are based on the techniques and practices of mindfulness meditation which have been scientifically investigated and found to help insomnia.

Film and TV star Keke Palmer tenderly shares the Ojibwe folk tale of the first dreamcatcher and shows how its message of our connection to the natural world persists to this day. Bedtime stories are narrated by the world’s most celebrated voices and written with no beginning, middle, or end so you don’t stay up to hear what happens next. They're interesting enough to give your mind something to focus on, but delivered in a way that encourages sleep.

Dung beetles might sound dirty, but the ancient Egyptians believed their god took the form of a dung beetle to roll the morning sun across the sky every day. In this episode, we roll with dung beetles around the world as they push their precious dung—often in balls many times larger than they are—over Florida pastures, Armenian highlands, and the vast South African savanna.

Dogs are a familiar and comforting part of many of our lives. In this episode, we take a walk with a pet xoloitzcuintli, or Mexican hairless dog, as he greets his blocks by smell. Along the way, we learn the backstory of squirrels in U.S. cities and observe the very smart and clean neighborhood raccoon.

If your bedroom isn't a sanctuary for sleep, perhaps it's time for a revamp. Making these small but consistent changes to your room and routine will do the trick.

In this brief educational piece by renowned sound therapist Sara Auster, you'll learn how the reverberating tones from certain instruments create a deeply immersive experience that may help relax your body and mind. Sara is the leading voice in sound bath experiences and is considered a pioneer and master of the form. She's been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, TIME, and O, The Oprah Magazine and has facilitated large-scale, site-specific sound bath experiences at iconic venues around the world.

With a warm and welcoming voice, Bram Barouh leads you to cast a light on the many aspects of your life worthy of thanks. This kind of gratitude can shift you into a more relaxed and happier state of mind. Bram, a mindfulness educator, has a lighthearted nature and approachable wisdom that makes practicing meditation seem effortless. With his guidance, it's never been easier to take part in a moment of positive thinking.

There's no avoiding stress in life, but there's a better way to counteract it (which will also improve your sleep). In this brief educational piece, Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet, shows you how meditation is the yin to stress' yang.

Tonight, travel with Candace Parker deep into the Appalachian mountains to visit one of the most famous homes in the world: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Candace Parker is an entrepreneur, an activist, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and one of the most decorated women’s basketball players of all-time with two WNBA MVP Awards. Off the court, Parker is a bold, insightful, and inspiring thought leader who is passionate about the importance of women’s rights, voters’ rights, and Black Lives Matter.

As a professional makeup artist warmly pampers you with tea and cookies in her backstage dressing room, she introduces you to her wide array of cosmetics and brushes, then lovingly does your makeup. Whisperlodge is a pioneering New York-based company that performs live ASMR events around the country. Their collaboration with us is the first time they've allowed their work to be recorded, and you can now experience the talent of their renowned ASMRtists at home.

There's a reason our bodies need eight hours of sleep - so much happens while our heads are on the pillow. From non-REM, to slow-wave, to REM sleep - find out how every stage performs a vital function.

Let the hush of ocean waves, soft music, and the warm voice of Agapi Stassinopoulos help you envision a state of harmonious calm and put the stresses of the day to bed. Agapi, the meditation guide for Thrive Global (Arianna Huffington's wellness and technology company), has dedicated her life to helping people live more mindful and open-hearted lives. She regularly leads meditation trainings for major corporations like Nike and Starbucks, but here it's just you and her.

From your body temperature to your bedtime rituals, you might be surprised at what could help you sleep better at night - and what could be making you sleep worse. Here are some easy microsteps you can start implementing tonight.

You know screens are bad before bed, but do you know why? Find out how blue light isn't the only way these devices are getting in the way of you and your sleep.

Surrender to total relaxation with this hypnotic sound bath that evokes a sense of safety and security. The resonant hum of crystal bowls has been shown to relax your body and nervous system, the perfect first step to deep sleep.