The Happy Thoughts Channel

Today's episode is one for the senses - a soundscape.

No intended voices, just the distant sound of church bells and background sounds found in the town of Tenterden on a misty Sunday morning. St Mildred's church shines through the mist on a cool Autumn day.

Please enjoy this brief calm moment in time.

And welcome again to The Happy Thoughts Channel podcast — a place for gentle conversations, reflections and stories about finding joy in everyday moments. 🌼

Some episodes explore simple ways of bringing more calm, gratitude and positivity into everyday life. Other...

Welcome to The Happy Thoughts Channel podcast — a place for gentle conversations, reflections and stories about finding joy in everyday moments. 🌼

This is our Halloween special episode - An otherworldly tale adapted from the story by Lafcadio Hearn called "The Faceless Ghost".

Grab a comfy chair, your favourite drink and let's take a trip into the world of the mysterious realm.

AND... If you'd like to listen to the story eith a spooky mysterious music background, pop over to our YouTube channel- The Happy Thoughts Channel. Here's the link to the story - THE...

Welcome to The Happy Thoughts Channel podcast — a place for gentle conversations, reflections and stories about finding joy in everyday moments. 🌼

In this episode, we have a lovely, pensive calm story for you.

Some episodes explore simple ways of bringing more calm, gratitude and positivity into everyday life. Others are simply a chance to pause, reflect, share a thought, or enjoy a gentle conversation together.

There’s no need to have all the answers. Sometimes it’s enough to slow down, notice the little things, and see where the conversation takes us.

Finding j...

The HAPPY THOUGHTS CHANNEL podcast Description

Welcome to The Happy Thoughts Channel podcast — a place for gentle conversations, reflections and stories about finding joy in everyday moments. 🌼

In this episode, we’re talking about a way to find a little moment of self-confort and kindness in your day! This is a follow-along episode if you're in the mood; or you can just sit back relax and listen.

Some episodes explore simple ways of bringing more calm, gratitude and positivity into everyday life. Others are simply a chance to pause, reflect, share a thought, or enjoy a...

Welcome to The Happy Thoughts Channel podcast — a place for gentle conversations, reflections and stories about finding joy in everyday moments.

 In this episode, we’re talking about EFT-Tapping.. Some episodes explore simple ways of bringing more calm, gratitude and positivity into everyday life. Others are simply a chance to pause, reflect, share a thought, or enjoy a gentle conversation together. There’s no need to have all the answers. Sometimes it’s enough to slow down, notice the little things, and see where the conversation takes us. Finding joy in everyday moments — one conversation at a time. 

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast.

Today's episode is a Little pre-Christmas pick-me-up inspiration. You deserve to feel amazing.

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Today's episode is a little chat on the idea that we deserve to feel amazing every day. And why not!!

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For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got the next section of part 4 - What Beaumains Asked of the King - of our lovely relaxing mystical storybook about King Arthur-“Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table”.  

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Today's episode is a quick mini reminder of your greatness - it's a Morning Wisdom Bits quote and inspirational sharing.


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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – ENCORE Halloween Special – The Monkey’s Paw  

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got a spine tinging Halloween special story. It’s an encore presentation originally published in 2021. We bring it to you now as one complete story, so this time, you don’t have to wait a whole week to find out how it ends, Nice!

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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – What Beaumains Asked of the King    

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got part 4 - What Beaumains Asked of the King- of our lovely relaxing mystical storybook about King Arthur-“Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table”.   Coffee fuels us up ... donations keep us going... please pop over to ko-fi for a coffee donation if you'd like to financially support our work. If you would like to get more inspiration and motivation, there are lots of ins...

Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – Cyndra and the Seven Fairies of Light    

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For this episode’s sleep story, we have an original story - a gentle and peaceful story - about a stressed and tired woman who awakes to the healing power & goodness that is within all of us. .. with a little fairy dream magic sprinkled about!

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got part 3 - The Story of Sir Balin - of our lovely relaxing mystical storybook about King Arthur-“Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table”.  

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got part 2 of our  lovely relaxing mystical story about King Arthur-“How The Round Table Began”.  

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got an lovely relaxing mystical story about King Arthur-‘The Drawing of the Sword”.  

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got an lovely relaxing story  called ‘The Golden Windows~ by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards.  

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And, we'll have a few free, downloadable colouring pages following the theme of...

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got an original, sweet fantasy sleep story – “The Lantern Garden”.  

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Today's episode is a sleep story. It's time to head off to a peaceful enjoyable sleep with a relaxing bedtime story. It's the story of "The Silk Stockings". Sometimes we've just got to let go of planning & thinking & just enjoy the moment. 

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Today's episode is a sleep story. It's time to head off to a peaceful enjoyable sleep with a relaxing bedtime story. We'll drift through the quiet streets of old Rome... Not as tourists, but as dreamers, wrapped in the hush of moonlight and memory.  

This original story was inspired by "Cecilia:A Story of Modern Rome" by F. Marion Crawford.

Background Music- "Pure Potentiality" by Benjamin Martins

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got the conclusion of the  Greek mythology tale about love and conquer – “Pegasus The Winged Horse”.  

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got a Greek mythology tale about love and conquer – “Pegasus The Winged Horse”.  

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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – The Starfish Story    

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got a beautiful, very short, classic tale about love and valuing life – “The Starfish Story”.  

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We've got the next Violet Strange mystery episode for your bedtime tale! Sit back or lie down and settle in for an engrossing whodunit story. Today’s broadcast bring us to the conclusion of this story – mystery solved for the “The Intangible Clue”.
 
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We've got the next Violet Strange mystery episode for your bedtime tale! Sit back or lie down and settle in for an engrossing whodunit story.
 
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Today we’ve got a guided affirmation session to help us start the day with focus and a more peaceful mind, before all the hustle and mind chatter start creeping or kick in. Feel free to join in or just have a listen and absorb the energy.  

     Affirmations are positive words that we say to ourselves to encourage ourselves, or to feel better about ourselves or to reach certain goals, or to heal or soothe our emotions and feelings.    The more we...

Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got the conclusion of a beautiful classic tale by Oscar Wilde – “The Happy Prince”.

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got a beautiful classic tale by Oscar Wilde – “The Happy Prince”.

Coffee fuels us up ... donations keep us going... please pop over to ko-fi for a coffee donation if you'd like to financially support our work. If you would like to get more inspiration and motivation, there are lots of inspirational positive videos, messages and artwork over there.

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Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast. For this episode’s sleep story, we’ve got a heartfelt classic tale by Oscar Wilde – “The Selfish Giant”.

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Thank you for joining us on this special holiday/Christmas episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast.

Today we've got 12 fun facts about Christmas to keep you amused & enlightened!

You can also find an infographic with the facts on our kofi page.

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Today we're talking and thinking about how to make it through the Holiday period with less stress and more joy, inside and out. What's your feeling about this subject?


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We've got the next Violet Strange mystery episode for your bedtime tale! Sit back or lie down and settle in for an engrossing whodunit story.
 
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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – A Passional Karma-Pt 3

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We’re carrying pn with the conclusion of a  very special Japanese story today, so why not settle in and have a listen! It was written by Lafcadio Hearn. We're continuing with our Sleep Stories series-and this is part 3 of this traditional story. It’s got a bit of mystery and a bit of chill!

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We've got a very special Japanese Halloween story today, so why not settle in and have a listen! It was written by Lafcadio Hearn. We're continuing with our Sleep Stories series-and this is part 2 of this traditional story. It’s got a bit of mystery and a bit of chill!

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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups –Halloween! A Passional Karma-Pt 1   Thank you for joining us on this episode of the Positive Affirmations And Audio Stories podcast.

We've got a very special Japanese Halloween story today, so why not settle in and have a listen! It was written by Lafcadio Hearn. We're continuing with our Sleep Stories series-and this is part 1 of this traditional story. It’s got a bit of mystery and a bit of chill!

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Happy Thoughts – Sleep Story for Grownups – Violet Strange Mystery Stories-Vol 2-5  

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We've got another episode of “The Golden Slipper And Other Problems For Violet Strange” today, so why not settle in and have a listen! We're continuing with our Sleep Stories series-and in the conclusion to this adventure, Violet discovers the truth in this most mysterious & puzzling murder mystery!


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We've got a phone chat recording episode today, so why not settle in and have a listen! Talking and thinking about transforming "bad" habits or those habits that do not sit well with us, into a more self empowering way of thinking, being and living.

Can we be positive in mind, free of so-called bad habits, non-stop every day? Maybe not, but we can certainly make a good start on being more positive thinkers. Lots to think about here! What's...

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We've got a phone chat recording episode today, so why not settle in and have a listen! Talking and thinking about 7 Easy Techniques to Create More Happiness in Your Life.. How can you grow into a greater sense of happiness with all the stress-inducing circumstances around? Lots to think about here! What's your feeling about this subject?


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We've got a phone chat recording episode today, so why not settle in and have a listen! Talking and thinking about a Mindset Makeover - Transformation through Positive Thinking. Can we be positive in mind, non-stop every day? Maybe not, but we can certainly make a good start on being more positive thinkers. Lots to think about here! What's your feeling about this subject?


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We've got a phone chat recording episode today, so why not settle in and have a listen! We're continuing with our Sleep Stories series-The Problems of Violet Strange. Violet is getting much closer to the truth in this most mysterious murder mystery!


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We've got a phone chat recording episode today, so why not settle in and have a listen! Today we've got a sleep story - the continuation of the Violet Strange mysteries. Violet finally meets with the widow in question, & begins her search for the truth of the murder. She'll find it in the end. No doubt about that!🤗


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