#17 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (17th April 2018)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. That's my website and this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So basically I'm nearly already bored myself. So I'm just going to talk.

Remember to only watch or listen to this thingy recording. You can safely close your eyes. It's very important because this recording which is aimed at helping you to get some sleep may cause drowsiness.

I love saying that. It's one of my favourite things. Oh that's nice and they're clearing my throat.

So I'm laying on my bed, flat on my bed because I mentioned it yesterday that I was a little bit worried about my neck because sitting up in the bed I think was putting my neck in an awkward position and it was painful for quite a few days. More so than it's been for quite, you know, a long time. So I need to look after my neck.

It's so important. Giving my neck a little bit of rest as far as not forcing it to lean forward like I was. Plus I think the time that I spend on the laptop looking forward and leaning forward is not going to be, I guess it's not going to be delightful.

I think the only, the only people, the only I've ever heard use the word, use that word verbically is Irish people and I've realised my regular connection to Irish people is watching Mrs Brown's Boys on TV. Everyone's so delighted. I'm delighted for you.

I'm delighted. I'm delighted. I don't remember people saying that when I was in Ireland.

I lived there for a while but I hear it on TV shows and other places. Maybe it's just, maybe it's a new thing. Maybe, you know, it's the equivalent to like because in England if you listen to some of the younger population, especially I'll be on the bus and there'll be, I don't know, college age people.

I think they've replaced a breath with like. The word like, I'm not going to do an impression but it's just, I think what it might be is because of, I mean it started a long time before the internet, I mean, but it's become more and more, well not a long time but it's, it's, it's become kind of ingrained. And I'm thinking maybe it's because of soundbites and the way that the internet, especially like YouTube videos and TV shows aimed at the young, young generation.

It has no gaps. There's, everything's very fast and the opposite to me, I guess. So I don't know if there's many young people watching this or listening to this.

I just hope that I'm able to bore everybody equally and I'm not really not picking on young people because they're the future and, you know, if I live to get old I'm going to need people that are young now, I'm going to need them to wipe me bum, you know, wash me and feed me and stuff. So, you know, I want to keep on the right side, side of them. So I think that might be because there's that pressure to be fast, quick, keep going, no breaks, no pauses.

And I don't necessarily think that that's useful. It's a bit like if you watch a TV show, that could be a soap opera, let's say EastEnders. I don't know if you can watch EastEnders in your country.

I'm not sure if it's available or Coronation Street's another one. For those that watch EastEnders, let you know that EastEnders London is nothing at all like that television show. Sorry to break it to you.

Mind you, in Stratford, down Forest Lane, I think it is, or anyway, if you go to, there's a road, I think it's Forest Lane, Forest Lane, and it leads, it's basically the road that leads to Forest Gate. There is a pub called the Queen Vic, or the Queen Victoria. There is, I might be making this next bit up, but I'm pretty sure it's true.

There's a, it's this area, which is around there, called the Albert Square. And here's a bit of trivia for you. A bit of, I wonder what the meaning, the meaning of the word trivia is.

If you look in a dictionary, trivia, look it up. What do you, does anyone look at dictionaries anymore? Just Google it, Google it, Google it. So I was completely forgotten what I was talking about.

Oh yeah, memory. I was watching this, I know I wasn't talking about memory, I was trying to be humorous with my like, remembering. Yeah, this trivia, Pauline Fowler's living room when EastEnders started.

So one of the designers, I think the person who designed that living room, actually designed it on their own living room. And they lived in a little house in Manor Road, Colchester, Essex. How's that for trivia? By the way, there are, there are background sounds occasionally going to just breeze over you at times.

I think that's the difference between the word sounds and the word noise. Because sound, in my mind, sound doesn't have any emotion connected to it at all. No emotions.

Noise, even to say the word noise, I can't even say it without a degree of emotion connected to it. There's, there's stuff connected to that, that word noise. It's an emotional word.

Sound is a neutral word. It really just feels factual. There's no romance attached, no anger.

It's just a sound. It's just a word rather. So you can see the power of changing, making a small change where you, instead of saying the word noise, you transfer it and replace it with sound, the word sound.

And that transforms the sentence that you are saying. It transforms how you feel. I like things like that.

I like, I do like, I do like practical stuff. Not in a sense of digging gardens and gardening and planting trees and plants. Basically anything to do with gardening.

I'm not really into that. But I suppose when I think of practical things, I like the idea of being able to make changes in, you know, very kind of simple manner. Yeah.

I've been watching some videos online about what's mainly stuff connected to the brain, which I found really, really fascinating. Yesterday I watched a video which was focusing on, yeah, it was focusing on pain. So it was a BBC documentary, lasted just under an hour, about 53 minutes or 57 minutes.

I'm not sure what it is. And it talked about people and showed them, interviewed them, people that some didn't actually have never, ever felt physical pain. And these experts really couldn't figure it out.

And it turned out that they were mutants, real life mutants. One of their, I don't mean they could fly or turn green or anything like that. One of their cells had mutated.

So there really are mutants already walking the earth. How fascinating. Whether there are any ones that can fly out of their fingertips.

I don't know. I'm guessing not. But how exciting that they're able to discover this, which means that the experts can actually, well, they can map the brain now.

And there's this thing, I don't really know what they were doing. You know, I don't know the technology behind it. But there was this lady that had a stroke.

She was young. And she pretty much made a full recovery, other than she had pain on one side of her body. And the specialists couldn't really figure out why she had that pain, because she'd healed and there was no reason for that.

Where it turned out they did a brain scan, didn't stick her into one of those big tubey things, you know, that buzz. I don't know if they buzz. Maybe it's something else I'm thinking about.

But, you know, it's not one of those things. They actually put her, you know, just some bits on her head to scan her brain while she was there. And he triggered, he said a pulse into her brain.

He could actually, the specialist could trigger a part of her brain which would make her feel her hand based on a normal connections that most people have. She was feeling it in her arm, not her hand. So he surmised from this that, this is the doctor, that she, her brain had rewired itself, you know, to heal and to recover so that she could walk and talk and have normal movement.

But in the process, it got a bit jumbled. Some of the connections were not connected properly, which was causing pain. So another person that was with this doctor had this little thing.

It looked like a bit like the old fashioned barcode beep machines they used to get in supermarkets. And he put it on her head. And there's lots of clicking sounds.

And he was doing it just over the area responsible for that part of the hand and the arm. Did it a few times. And eventually, she could feel her hand when it was triggered in her brain.

Not only that, she didn't have any more pain in her arm. And she started crying with the emotion she was experiencing. Maybe she was just happy to be on television.

No, probably not. I found that very fascinating. The idea that, you know, also they had this man and he was in hospital.

Severely, you know, a large portion of his body had been burnt. And he was having to have treatment every day, which is was causing him. I think discomfort is not anywhere near the degree, the proper right word to explain how he was feeling.

So what this hospital came up with or this specialist unit came up with was this virtual reality headset, which he could play, this patient could play a game called snowman or something about snowmen. And it's just throwing snowballs and it's, well, he liked it anyway. He enjoyed playing.

And he had the treatment on his leg, on his legs. And he said that it just really didn't bother him the way it had before having the treatment. And it was the theory behind this whole thing was his focus was taken up so much on the game that he was playing.

He didn't have enough focus for the pain. I find that fascinating. Don't know why, because I know that focus of attention is the, is the pillar, one of the main pillars of hypnosis is focusing on me, focusing on my voice, on my words.

So that all those things that perhaps previously to listening to me, those things can just be left. And the mind focuses on just one thing, letting go various unimportant thoughts. And I just find that fascinating that things can be that simple.

And I suppose that is why I am making these sessions, because there's a few reasons, I suppose. I like to feel useful. I like to feel that I'm helping.

I like to feel that I'm contributing towards society. And maybe not so much in my local area, but worldwide. I think the idea is when you focus just on my voice, the only way you're able to do that is by letting stuff go.

You give yourself a rest. You allow yourself time and space to be you. Give yourself space to let go of stuff.

And if this is the first time that you have listened or watched me, you can't really watch me because it's an audio recording, which is then turned into a video. But there are videos of me where I move around and they call them talking pictures. They used to, I suppose now it's just video.

But one of the main reasons for doing these is to gradually reduce the amount of things that you're focusing on. So by listening to my voice, the more you focus on me, the less things you're able to focus on. And that stuff can just vanish in its own time.

You can notice those things that you say to yourself, maybe on a daily basis, and you can decide what's good for you. You can just let go of bits that are no longer useful. You can enjoy the journey of becoming less cluttered.

Rhea, to use more of your brain, focused on more of those things that you can enjoy. And I do believe that this brings me to the end of this. Let me bore you to sleep.

It is available on iTunes and SoundCloud and Spreaker, various others. It will be all available on YouTube as well. I hope you have a lovely sleep when you need to let go safely.

Now I shall depart. Bye.