Books at Bedtime By Calming Anxiety - THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO - By Rudyard Kipling
About this episode
This episode features a soothing reading of Rudyard Kipling's The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, designed to help listeners drift off to sleep.
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo by Rudyard Kipling — A Calming Bedtime Story for Sleep & Insomnia | Books at Bedtime A soothing bedtime story to help you drift off tonight: Rudyard Kipling's rhythmic, chant-like Just So Story The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, read slowly and gently for sleep and insomnia relief. Kipling wrote the Just So Stories specifically as bedtime tales, to be told "just so," word for word, until his own daughter drifted off to sleep — which makes this one of the most naturally hypnotic stories in the whole Books at Bedtime strand, also known as Coffee Break for the Soul, from the Calming Anxiety podcast. For the full library, plus ambient night-light features for the small hours, download Anchored: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martinhewlett.anchored (Android) or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anchored-panic-anxiety/id6785035669 (iPhone). Narrated softly by Martin Hewlett, clinical hypnotherapist and former paramedic, this reading follows an ordinary, four-legged grey kangaroo whose wish to be "wonderfully run after" is granted by the little god Nikaar, in the form of Yellow Dog Dingo chasing him right across the middle of…
People in this episode
Host: Martin Hewlett
Topics covered
- bedtime stories
- sleep
- insomnia relief
- hypnosis
- anxiety
- children's literature
Keywords
- bedtime story
- Rudyard Kipling
- sleep hypnosis
- insomnia
- Calming Anxiety
- Just So Stories
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Calming Anxiety, Anchored
Books & works: The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo, Just So Stories
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