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Sleep Story for Kids _ THE SLEEPY DOUGHNUTS _ Sleep Meditation for Children · New Horizon - Meditation & Sleep Stories

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  Speaker 1: Lumbe your eyes and make yourself comfortable. Take a deep
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  breath in through your nose mhm, and slowly and gently
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  breathe out through your mouth. Again, take a deep breath
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  in through your nose and slowly and gently breathe out
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  through your mouth. One more time. Deep breath in through
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  your nose and slowly and gently breathe out through your mouth. Fantastic,
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  You're doing really really well. Imagine that your feet feel
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  all floppy and loose, but very very relaxed, almost as
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  if the falling asleep by themselves. And now all of
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  your body feels the same way too, all floppy and loose,
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  and you're so relaxed, but you feel ever so happy. Now,
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  imagine that you have roots growing out from the soles
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  of your feet, roots that look just like the roots
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  of a tree, very long and very nobly. And you
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  can hear your roots growing through the ground, and you
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  can hear them as they push their way through the soil,
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  and it tickles a little bit. Can you feel it?
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  Can you feel the soil under your feet? Can you
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  hear it? This is called grounding, and this keeps your
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  energy planted in the ground so that you too can
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  grow big and strong, just like the tree. Now, imagine
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  a beautiful white light that's your whole body, a light
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  so bright that you shine much brighter than the brighter star.
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  But it doesn't hurt you to look at it. And
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  this beautiful, pure white light is always protecting you, and
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  it's with you always, even if you can't see it,
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  It's always there. Now, imagine that you're standing on a
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  bright pink path and it feels very soft as you
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  begin to walk on it, and as you walk, it
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  feels like your feet are sticking to it a little bit,
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  how strange. So you keep walking. You look ahead of
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  you and you see that the path is a bit windy,
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  it's not straight at all, and you wonder where it leads,
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  so you decide to follow it and see. And as
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  you walk, you notice the tall trees swaying gently in
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  the breeze, and you can hear the sounds of the
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  birds singing to each other. You can even hear some
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  small animals scurrying in the grass, and you wonder what
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  they're doing. You think that they're probably looking for something
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  to eat, and maybe just having fun playing with their friends.
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  You can't see them now, they're moving far too quickly.
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  You follow the path as it sneaks through the trees,
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  and they are so tall, these trees, that you can't
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  see the top of them. But you can see the
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  sunshine breaking through the tops of the branches though, and
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  it almost looks like stars shining in the daylight as
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  it peeks out through the highest branches. Suddenly you come
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  across a bright, pink fence with a gate in the
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  middle of it. A sign on the gate, and it says,
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  please enter if you want to have the best night's sleep. Ever,
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  you think that sounds like a very good idea. Indeed,
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  the fence and the gate are made of the same
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  stuff that the path is made of. Can you think
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  to yourself that the more you look at the fence
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  and the gate and the path, it kind of looks
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  like icing, sticky, gooey icing. Well, that would explain why
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  your feet have been feeling like they were sticking to
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  the path, now, wouldn't it. You open the gate and
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  walk through. On the other side of the gate is
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  something quite amazing. You can see a big blue lake
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  and it has an island in the middle of it.
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  The pink, sticky, gooey path is still there, and it
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  leads down to the water's edge, where there's a little
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  bow waiting just for you. You hurry down the path,
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  feeling ever so excited now, and as you've reached the
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  little boat, you see that someone is waiting for you.
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  That someone is a very cheeky monkey with a big
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  grin on his face, and he says, come on, now,
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  come on, I've been waiting for you. The monkey has
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  on a striped green and yellow T shirt, bright range
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  short and a big purple hat with a feather sticking
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  out of it. He's very colorful. You happily jump into
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  the boat and sit down next to the monkey, whose
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  name is Sausage, by the way. He says this is
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  because he just loves sausages. He has them for his breakfast,
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  he has them for his lunch, he has them for
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  his dinner. He even has them for a bedtime snack too.
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  My word, at a lot of sausages, no wonder. They
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  call him Sausage, and you think that if he keeps
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  eating that many sausages, he'll start to look like one.
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  Now that you've settled in your seat, Sausage begins to row.
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  He is really quite strong, and he seems to be
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  rowing very quickly, indeed, because within minutes you've arrived at
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  the island in the middle of the lake. He jump
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  out of the boat and turned to thank Sausage for
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  bringing you here. But he's already off. He's rowing again.
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  He shouts goodbye, but carries on rowing. Wow, he really
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  does row fast. He's halfway across the lake already. You
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  take a good look around you, and what you see
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  is wonderful. The whole island. Well, it looks like everything's
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  made of sweets. Oh like, I like sweets. There is
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  icing all over the ground and it's very spongy. The
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  trees have made of sweets. The flowers are made of sweets.
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  And there are massive doughnuts all over the place. Doughnuts, yeah,
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  big donuts. Doughnut with blue icing, yellow icing, chocolate icing,
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  every kind of icing. They're everywhere. And it's then you
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  see another sign, and this sign says this is where
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  the sleepy donuts live. So please don't shout, thank you
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  sleepy donuts. Who on earth could they be? Wonder As
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  you take a close look around, you see that all
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  the doughnuts are actually asleep. Some are sleeping in hammocks,
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  some are sleeping on bean bags, and some of them
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  are just sitting propped up by the trees and are
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  quietly snoring as this lumber. Oh wow, you think this
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  place is so fabulous. You walk quietly aroun, taking care
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  not to wake the sleeping doughnuts, and soon you come
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  across a little house. Now, this house is made of licorice,
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  red licorice. It has a marshmallow chimney. It has sponge
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  cake windows, and its roof is made of toffees, lots
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  and lots of toffees. Ooh, look, ever, some eyes. It
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  has flowers all around it, and they are all made
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  of sweets, sweets of every kind. How fantastic is that?
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  As you stand there looking at the amazing little house,
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  you hear a voice call your name, and it says,
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  come in. I've been waiting for you. Arrive. Sash's told
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  me you were coming. You've no idea how Sausage could
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  have told him you were coming. Maybe he had a
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  mobile phone let him know that way. You walk inside
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  and you see before you another great big donut. This
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  one is all covered in pink icing, and he has
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  the most amazing, sleepy brown eyes with the kindest smile.
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  You have ever seen. He crims at you and tells
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  you his name is Cecil, and this is Doughnut Island.
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  He already knows your name. He tells you that this
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  is the place to come if you want to have
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  a wonderful night's sleep. You look around the little house
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  and you see that it's enchanting. It has a little
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  log fire burning brightly and giving off the most wonderful glow.
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  It has doughnut shaped bean bags everywhere, and there are
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  little lamps in each corner of the room, and there's
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  a big old bookcase filled with all the stories that
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  you love best. Cecel tells you to take a seat
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  in one of the beanbags, so you choose the most
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  comfiest one and sit down. Oh my, you think you
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  could go to sleep right now. It's so comfy. It's
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  like this beanbag was made to fit your body. Cecil
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  hands you a great big mug of hot chocolate to drink.
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  It has marshmallows in it, and it has lovely thick,
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  squirty cream on the top of it. Hmm, and it
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  smells lovely. You take a sip, and it really is delicious.
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  It makes you feel all warm and tingly inside. Then
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  Cecil tells you that everyone that comes here, they come
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  to have a nap or to have a great night's sleep.
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  He asks you which one you would like, so you
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  tell him you would like a great night's sleep. Cecil
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  tells you that he can help you to sleep. He
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  tells you the hero make sure that this would be
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  your best night's sleep ever. First, he gives you a
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  marshmallow pillow. First, he gives you a marshmallow pillow for
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  your head and he can rest it. Then he places
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  a marshmallow blanket on you that is so soft and
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  squishy you can already feel yourself getting sleepy. Cecil picks
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  up a little bag and puts his hand inside, and
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  he tells you it's full of stardust, twinkling beautiful star dust,
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  and he takes some of it out with his hand
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  and he sprinkles it all over your head. Oh my,
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  you feel your eyes closing, You begin to feel your
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  feet falling asleep. Cecil tells you it's time to rest now,
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  after all, that is what you came here for. You
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  are all snuggled up when your being back now with
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  your marshmallow pillow and your marshmallow blanket. Feeling all yummy
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  inside with your hot chocolate drink, and your breathing started
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  to slow down, and your little eyes don't want to open.
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  You can feel yourself drifting to sleep. You can hear
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  Cecil's voice quietly in the background. You have no idea
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  what he's saying. You only know that you feel so
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  safe and so loved that she drift deeper and deeper
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  into a lovely night's sleep such as sleep now. And
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  with Cecil's help, you will have the sweetest dream. I played,
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  said Muss said Us said