5 Podcasts To Help You Sleep Better
About 40% of Australians experience sleep problems, not getting the quality they need for enough energy the following day. If you struggle to fall asleep, if you’re tossing and turning and awake for hours in the middle of the night, the selected podcasts below will help.
You’ll find bedtime stories for adults, nature sounds, deep energy music and classical tunes all designed to help you wind down at night and drift off for a restorative and refreshing night’s sleep.
Why is sleep essential for good health? There are many important things that happen to your body while you sleep. The brain sorts and consolidates information, creating long term memories. Your immune system releases anti-inflammatories, your sympathetic nervous systems which controls the flight/fright response relaxes, and your cortisol levels (the stress hormone) come down.
7 Amazing Things That Happen To Your Body While You Sleep
The Sleep Health Foundation’s Good Sleep Habits check list is an excellent resource that ahs helped me sleep better.
Sleep Hygiene: Good Sleep Habits
When you sleep well, you feel better physically and mentally, you make better decisions, you’re less reactive and more emotionally steady throughout the day.
Check out these five sleep podcasts below:
1. Sleep Whispers
Sleep Whispers is a podcast of whispered readings and ramblings for relaxation and sleeping. You’ll find over 250 episodes of soothing meditations, interesting stories and tranquil poems.
Listen to on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleep-whispers/id1092800054
2. Deep Energy Podcast
These hour long podcasts by Jim Butler combine sounds of nature with ambient music to bring on sleep, for meditation and relaxation. If you don’t want any voices, just the sounds, then this one is perfect for you.
Listen to on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-energy-podcast/id511265415?mt=2
3. ABC Classic
The ABC has created an almost two-hour playlist of classical music to help you drift off to sleep. If you like your classical tunes, this beautifully relaxing playlist is for you.
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/special-features/feature-classical-sleep/11958944
4. Nothing Much Happens
Creator Kathryn Nicolai says “Bedtime stories are like a soft nest for the mind. They are a place for it to rest so that it doesn’t wander away and get into trouble, and in the world we’re living in now it is so easy for it to find trouble.”
These bedtime stories for adults will help you drift away into a restful slumber.
Listen to on Apple Podcasts
5. Sleep Cove
Sleep Cove “the podcast to get a good night’s sleep” has sleep hypnosis recordings, meditations and bedtime stories, all designed to help you relax and get a peaceful night’s sleep.
Listen to on Apple Podcasts
For me, a good bedtime routine helps me get a good night’s sleep. The hour before a restful slumber will often determine the quality of my sleep. Here are some of the things I might do in that final hour of the day, depending on how ready, or not ready, for sleep I am:
I get to sleep at the same time each night which is around 9.30pm
I have relaxing playlists and will pick one to play from about 8pm
I make a cup of tea intended for sleep or relaxation like chamomile or one that has the words “relax” or “sleep” on the label
I have a warm shower which helps me to switch off the day
I have a glass of water with magnesium (not always) before I go to bed
I may put on one of the podcasts above especially if sleep I’m feeling restless or I wake up in the middle of the night
I read a few pages of my book for 10-30 minutes before sleep.
Wellbeing is the greatest asset you will ever have and sleeping well is essential to maintaining this. It’s worth trying a few of the tips and podcasts above to find your own personal way of ensuring a good night’s sleep.
Angels on your pillow.
With love, Gina Kasmas
#verywellthankyou #keepgoing #freedbreed
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