#802 Let me bore you to sleep - I HAVE THE BEST LISTENERS IN THE WORLD - Jason Newland (5th MARCH 2022)

Hello, is it me you're looking for? I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your smile. You're all I ever wanted.

Now open up wide. No, your arms, our arms are open wide. I forget.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to jasonnewland.com. My website. This is let me bore you to sleep.

Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. How you all doing? Are you well? So let's say thank you to a few people. Let me have a look.

Oh, I'm just gonna get the old laptop out. Look at fake book. Ah, right.

So yeah, I just had some lovely comments on Facebook. So I just wanted to thank those who who commented so far. Thank you.

So a bunch of people, bunch of people, bunch of lovely, lovely, lovely, wonderful, wonderful people. Where are they? Where's it all gone? Is everybody deleted their comments? What? No. That's weird.

I had loads of comments. And I did I like them all. And then they've gone.

They've disappeared from the Jason Newland hypnotist group. So it's a private group for my most grooviest listeners. There was lots and lots unless someone's deleted it.

Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough.

And I just wrote, Hi, everyone, just to let you know I'm fine. Thank you for your kind words and wishes and well wishes. I do appreciate you all had a bit of a brain fart, but I'm back.

More recordings on their way. And few messages. So look, Heidi, glad to see you back and you're fine.

Take your time. Molly glad you're okay. Hi, Molly.

Hi, Heidi. Kissy. Jodie.

Hi, Jodie. Thought you might have gone on holiday. Hope everything's okay.

Hi, Jodie. Hi, Leslie. Glad to see you back, Jason.

Rest well and take good care. How strange. There was about eight or nine comments on this.

And it's gone. Unless it's just being moved, it's moved to a different part of the page. I don't know.

How weird. That's good. Anyway.

Why didn't delete it? So whoever deleted it? I don't know why. Why they deleted it? It's if if indeed they have deleted it. It's not there anymore.

Very, very weird. Very, very weird indeed. Topics.

I don't know if it's topic under topics. No. Discussion.

Maybe it's under discussion. Nothing's coming up under discussion. Oh.

No. Well, I don't understand that. Anyway.

Thank you, everyone. It's very kind of you. For your thoughts and wishes.

I had a couple of messages which I haven't responded to by yet. I was. I thought I'd sort do on Facebook and do it that way.

But yeah. Thank you very much. That's all I have to say on that subject.

All I have to bloody well say is just watch a very interesting documentary on YouTube called Mind Fields. And it was the power of your the power of suggestion. And they used a placebo.

What's those machines they put you in that scan your brain? One of those. And I used to like a placebo one that wasn't a real thing at all. They just played the sounds of the scanner.

Pretended it was a MRI scan or whatever. But anyway, they did it with some children, one who had to see whether or not the power of suggestion could help them in their particular elements. There was a young girl who had eczema, really bad eczema.

There was a young boy who was suffering with migraines. And there was another young boy who was had ADHD. And they told them that they did use say that this machine in the process uses the power of suggestion.

But because the kids didn't understand really what that meant. As opposed to what an adult would understand like what do you mean power of suggestion? You mean like, you know, hypnosis or yeah, an adult would kind of know what that was. But the kids didn't.

And they believe the machine was real. And they were told that the brain would heal itself. The brain would do what it needed to do in order to help the child to overcome their particular ailment.

And in all cases, well, in the case of the young girl, she had skin cleared up. And she didn't have much in the way of eczema anymore. She's so she had pretty much still had the odd flake and stuff.

But she had recovered a lot, pretty much nearly 100%. Her skin had recovered and healed. And the young boy hadn't had a headache or migraine since going in the machine.

And this I think it was like three months later, they did a follow up. And then the young lad with the ADHD, they didn't go too much into his infant his situation, but their mother said that he'd calmed down a lot. And he was able to think before he behaved before he did things.

He was able to sort of take time and think first. And so that was a big success. And then he did it with some students.

17, I guess 18, 19, 20 year old, quite young adults. But this time, they told him afterwards that it was a placebo. So what they did is they said, we're going to be able to read your mind.

We're going to be able to you better think of a number while you're in the machine, and a machine and we'll be able to the machine will tell us what the number is that you're thinking. And they did that. And the man had a board, not skateboard, but just like, I don't know, a flipboard or whatever, you know, the piece of paper on and he'd asked the patient as they were coming out of the machine, what number did you think of? And they'd say, like, 21.

And because he, he knew magic, like, you know, slight hand, he was able to. I know how it's done, actually. He was able to put it on, like, have it written down.

So show the show the sheet of paper to the lady or the man or whatever the young person and they'd see what it guessed right. So they did that with everyone. And then afterwards, they just told him it was a placebo.

And it was a like a bit of a magic trick in that. What I would have liked to have seen is the adults coming in the same with the children and with whatever physical difficulty, emotional difficulty, something which and then, you know, the same as I did with the kids, send them home saying the machine has helped and helped to, to stimulate your brain into healing itself. And you should start to feel the benefits pretty much straight away and, and to do that, and then do a follow up.

But there's something I think, I don't know if it's illegal or at least unethical, that they're not allowed to do that with adults. So very interesting, very interesting documentary, the power of suggestion, mind fields, it's called. You can probably watch it on you.

Well, I watched it on YouTube, but I actually subscribe to YouTube pay. I'm a paying member of YouTube. I don't know how many people who are to pay but I pay so so I don't have to watch the adverts.

And with that you get some extra stuff that you don't get unless you pay. But I'd be surprised if someone hasn't copied it and put it onto YouTube anyway. This is a good documentary.

What if you, if you're interested in neuroscience, which is the future, well it's not the future, it's now. Neuroscience isn't the future, it's actually now. It's being able to map the brain, realizing that all this hypnosis stuff, it really does work.

That's what neuroscience has actually discovered, that the power of suggestion is real. You know, the belief system, the things we believe in have a huge effect, like, beyond what we even perhaps could imagine. Not more than I could imagine because I've always, I've always known that the imagination and belief systems are just the biggest thing.

I've always known because I'm a genius. No, I just I've always felt that way. I've always felt that people's beliefs are, well I've just seen it in action, some of the things that people will do based on their belief, or some things that they won't do, but like based on a belief.

And beliefs are not something that we, well a lot of beliefs we're just given them passed down to us from parents and whatever. So, and I think they're the ones that possibly the hardest ones to remove, as opposed to the ones where we think for ourselves, and we come to a conclusion that based on the evidence that's available to us at that time, we can therefore believe a certain proposition. But as kids, you know, it's not based on evidence, it's based on what we're told, isn't it? Like, yep, you must believe in this, or not even you must, just, if you don't know any different, you just go along with it.

And it's as, you know, things like religion or superstition, it's as real to people, to some people it's as real as the oxygen that they breathe. You can't get much more realer than that. Can ya? No! So, beliefs, suggestions, what we believe and the things that we tell ourselves, let's say suggestions, hugely powerful.

So, if anybody has any scepticism about hypnosis, then you can let that go, because this is based on science. Science, baby! Science! Neuroscience! And this is real. Or it's not real, the effects are real.

Yeah, the effects are real. You could say, well, is hypnosis real? Well, you can't see it. You can't hold hypnosis in your hand.

You know, it's a bunch of words, it's a thinking process, it's an act, but it's not something you can actually hold in your hand, or kick around, or eat. So, from that perspective, yeah, it's not real. But from a perspective of results, really, really, really real.

And I love the idea of people getting angry about that. Just, that tickles me. Because, I think it's brilliant.

It's brilliant, it's something that I've spent, how many years studying? How many years? What is it? 2000, no, 1998, 2008, 2018, 1920, 21, 22. So, 24 years of my life, I've been involved in hypnosis. And it's, this is new information to me, by the way, I know I'm passing this on and saying, oh, watch this documentary.

I've known this for a long time. I've read studies and, you know, research papers and books and stuff that have already shown this to be true anyway. But it's quite nice for it to be in the public domain a bit more, a bit more accessible, to show public in a sense of, if someone sees it in a documentary, they're more likely to believe it.

Because it's being explained and demonstrated by scientists. As opposed to maybe reading it in a newspaper or a magazine or, I don't know, hearing about it from some weirdo like me on a podcast or a YouTube video. You know, it has more credibility when it's, when it comes from a scientist, you know, a doctor, PhD, someone that's devoted their professional life to studying the brain.

To then say, yeah, the power suggestion is real, really powerful. And it's real. And hypnosis, I mean, in a way, the power suggestion is, it's like a very good way to describe hypnosis.

There's more to it than that, but the power of suggestion, suggestion therapy. And you know what, for the last probably four or five years, I've really moved, maybe six years, I've moved more into suggestions, as opposed to necessarily focusing on trying to do some kind of deep hypnotic induction. It seems to be that I have moved more towards, with the use, you know, of relaxing people with the hypnosis sessions, with relaxation, also offering suggestions and compounding the suggestions with more suggestions.

And those suggestions are compounded, because you've listened, maybe or watched a video, listened to a podcast previously, you know, previously listened to a, let me, let me, let's say a deep sleep whisper or daily relax and sleep hypnosis. And as you listen more often to the hypnosis recordings, the more benefit you get from them, which is, which makes me think that in a way, doing these, let me bore you to sleep podcasts is almost perhaps, I don't know, maybe contradicting what I do with the hypnosis recordings, maybe getting in the way of the benefit that people can experience with the hypnosis sessions.

Because I think some people listen to let me bore you to sleep thinking that it's hypnosis and it's not, it's just me talking about stuff.

And it's different, you know, it's different. But I don't know how I'm able to really divide it. I mean, it's a different podcast.

It's got a different name, hasn't got the word hypnosis in it. But it's a sleep recording as far as, you know, just listening and being bored. Let me bore you so that you just drift off to sleep, our sheer boredom.

Because I'm perhaps maybe talking about something that you've got no interest in hearing about or maybe you just bored by the tone of my voice or the whistling in the wind, the wind behind my words, whistling in the air like a train covered in poo. I don't know. I was thinking I'd do a little rhyming but it didn't work.

So, you know, different podcast, different type of thing. But is it getting in the way of the hypnosis stuff that I do? Because that's more important. Although is it more important if, if these recordings are helping people in whatever way that they're helping, then how, what, you know, how is this less, less important than the sleep relax, like relaxation hypnosis podcast or pain relief podcast or, you know, all the other different ones I do.

So that's a question. And these are, these seem to be the ones that get missed when, when I haven't made a recording for a week or whatever. These seem to be, this podcast specifically seems to be the one podcast that just is missed compared to the others.

I mean, the others might be missed too, but the listeners, that was a weird noise. It's very wet. It's very wet.

I know I've got a very wet mouth. I remember someone saying, I can't, I can't bear to listening to you. I can hear the saliva in your mouth.

Like actually that description does sound quite gross. Until you realize that everybody has saliva in their mouth. That's what mouth does.

It holds saliva. And we did that. If you didn't have saliva, you'd be coughing, you'd be have a dry mouth and you probably wouldn't, I don't know, you probably wouldn't be able to talk.

And you might actually be really unwell, you know, saliva is good. In fact, the more saliva you've got in your mouth, the more relaxed you are because the saliva has those enzymes that cause relaxation. Didn't know that, did you? Ah, see.

So hence panic attacks and anxiety often leads to a dry mouth. So if you can imagine doing something, some people find imagining biting into a lemon or an orange or some kind of fruit stimulates the salivary gland, if that's where it comes from, so that when your mouth starts to have more saliva in, that will actually calm you down. Calm your mind, calm your body.

That's a little bit of nugget there that might be useful. So a couple of things I've done this week is yesterday. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Yes. No, Thursday. Yeah, Thursday I went to the opticians.

So I basically went into town I was going to get something to eat, go to the bookshop and then kind of come home. That was the plan just to get out. I haven't been into town for months and months and months and I thought it was a nice day.

It was really, really sunny to the point of not really needing my jacket on. So I kept it on, but it wasn't, it wasn't, you know, it was nice, really nice, really nice day. And by the afternoon it turned cold and by late afternoon it was cold, cold, like needed gloves.

Couldn't believe it. And then I reminded myself that I've lived here for 52 years nearly. I really should be used to the weather by now.

And then I thought to myself, yeah, but I don't have to have a go at myself about it, do I? You know, give myself a break. It's okay to, you know, expect the weather to be nice, the nice weather to last for more than a couple of hours in a day. You know, so I got to stop having these arguments with myself.

It's only weather. That's the thing, for those of you that don't know or haven't experienced the English weather or never been here or don't know, we have, we can have different seasons, literally all four seasons in one day. It's the weirdest weather that we have here.

You can, like, it's just honestly, I mean, you know, I don't even have to, like I'm about to explain the weather, but you don't need me to do that, do you really? I was about to say it can be sunny and then it can be chilly and then it can be really windy and then it could be, then the daffodils sprout out of your ears and then it's snowing. Like, it really can be that extreme. You know, it's weird, very strange, very, but why am I surprised? I shouldn't be surprised.

I mean, the weather's been, is a bit more chaotic these days than it used to be. The, I don't know, the, it's, it's very easy to get caught up in nostalgia. You know, if you talk to anyone, they'll, everyone will say the same thing.

When I was a kid, when I was a kid, it was sunny all the time during the summer. Always sunny, always sunny. Not now though, no, but it used to be always sunny, all day long, 24 hours a day, the sun.

Honestly, we had to put, we had to put newspaper in the windows just to block out the sun so we could get to sleep at night. Always sunny, like, no, you're lying. You're really, you're remembering wrongly.

It's wrong. But it used to, in my memory, we used to have a lot more sun, but I also remember it raining a lot as well. It's always been, it's always been rainy.

You know, I went, I went to Wales. Admittedly, rain is not the, it's not a foreign object in Wales. Rain is definitely a connection there between rain and Wales.

But we, I went in the summer, and again, if you've never been to Wales, wherever you are in the world, visit Wales. It's a beautiful, beautiful place. It's the, some of the, you won't get better beaches anywhere in the world, I don't think.

They're equal for beauty, for sand, for the water, for everything. Absolutely beautiful. Beautiful, it really is.

So, you know, when, when all these, um, uh, restrictions for traveling drop off, which hopefully they will, come visit Wales. And I'm saying come visit, I'm not living in Wales. Um, although, it'd be a beautiful place to live.

And, but go visit Wales. It's, it's an amazing place. Um, it's got lots of stuff there as well.

Um, but I'm, I mean, it's, you know, Snowdonia, the mountain, the mountain. I went, I went up, I went up Snowdon, I think, three times. One in, once in a train.

And I think I, what was it, twice. But I walked up it once, I know. And I went up on a train.

I'm sure I did it three times. Because, um, Wales was our, I don't know why, but it was our choice of holiday destination every year in the summer. And I don't know, I'm not sure why, um, why the parents chose Wales as opposed to other places.

I'm not sure. But it was beautiful, beautiful place. We stayed on campsites and, um, because we always went camping.

And I mean, because we had quite a big family, it was, it would have cost an absolute fortune to stay in hotels. I would have preferred that. But not really an out, I don't know.

There's something, I wouldn't class myself as an outdoorsy person. Really. Um, however, I think I'd be okay in a caravan.

So staying on a tent site or camping site with a caravan, and then me pulling out a tent from the side of the caravan, you know, hauling or whatever. And that, I think would probably suit me for life. I mean, I could live like that quite comfortably.

As long as I had a shower, and a toilet and the you know, the things and I was able to keep warm. And in the winter, and it was big enough, but like a big one, you know, not big, but just a nice size caravan. So one of those, what do they have them in America, you know, they might have them here as well, but they're way too big for the English roads.

And the ones you drive, but they're just huge, huge old things that are lorries, but inside, you've got a house basically, see that that would suit me. Now I know that they're probably the pretty much the price of a house. So it's possibly not the most economical way to live, because it's so expensive.

But if I could get like a miniature version of that, I would need to learn to drive though. But it'd be quite nice to travel around. Maybe, I don't know.

I'd like to go back to Wales, just to visit. I mean, I don't know if my dad would even remember the campsites that we stayed at, probably wouldn't now, such a long time ago. You know, it's 30 odd years.

And yeah, blimey, more than 30 odd years, 40. Wow, yeah, probably 35, 36, 37 years ago, since we last went camping. So I remember we went when I was about 10.

Now it's 1980. So 1980 is 41 years ago. And then we went again, probably when I was 11, 12, 13.

I think that was it. We might gone two or three times, maybe four times even. Although I have more of a remembrance of us going to other places.

Because Wales is, well, from where we lived to travel, it took about 12 hours, if not more. It's a long, long journey. Long, long, long, long journey.

And there's one, I probably told you this story, but we, it was weird, actually, because I've, I don't know, I've probably never been particularly sympathetic towards my, towards my dad, in some ways, not perhaps really given consideration to how difficult things must have been for him. You know, being a young man with lots of children, because he was 25 years older than me. So I was seven.

So what does that make him? 32? Yeah, 32. So from the age of 20, 26 to 32, he didn't have really any children to look after, because my mom up and left and stuff. So suddenly, at the age of 32, just got married freshly to his new wife, a 21 year old.

And he had, you know, he's probably all happy and he was doing really well financially for his situation. And then suddenly to have three quite grown up children, 17, 19, 11, must have been a huge, a big change to his life. Huge for his 21 year old new wife.

But even for him, like, must be massive. A choice that he didn't need, a change he chose to have. And he chose to sort of take us on.

But never really kind of gave much consideration to what he sacrificed, maybe is the right word, maybe it's not, from his own life to look after us. Because I think if it hadn't been for us, he'd have been very wealthy. He was very successful at what he was doing.

But, you know, children are very expensive, aren't they? And to run a home and all that stuff. And so yeah, he, he worked all the time to sort of pay for it all. I don't know what my point is here.

Yeah, I suppose just maybe I didn't haven't given, given enough respect or enough thought to maybe how he felt or how it was for him. And perhaps I would benefit from doing that. I don't know.

Maybe I'll talk to him about it one day. Ask him what it was like. It's hard though, because he's a very positive person, my dad.

He's very glass half full of whiskey, most of the time. Scotch, single brand, single malt or whatever. Loves his scotch.

Always got a half glass full. But you know, he's a positive person. What, can you hear that? That's a plane.

Oh, by the way, I live near a military base. If you realize that. So I'm in a squaddy town, a military town.

So, you know, I just want to chuck that out there just so you, it's the local population sometimes depletes. There was once where, I think they sent out, how many, I think 10,000, it might be more, 10,000 soldiers out of my town to Afghanistan. 10,000 in one day just left.

And left the town like a little ghost town for a while. All these people that were coming into town, because they're not all wearing uniforms, some of them do, but most of them don't seem to. So they're just dressed normally, going into town, going into the bars, shopping, just like anyone else.

So you wouldn't know that they were soldiers. Necessarily, some look like soldiers, you know, the typical, you know, some of the young lads, big, strong, kind of covered in tattoos, almost like, back very straight, standing up, walking along, almost marching. So there's, there's some that do look like typical, say typical, probably, maybe not typical at all, but that idea of what a soldier is, you know.

But they might not be soldiers at all, some of them. Just wanting people to think they are, for some weird reason, I don't know why that would be. But there's a lot of soldiers, there's lots, there's lots of ex-soldiers living in my town.

So people came here, lived on the barracks, liked the town, maybe fell in love with, met a partner living here, because they were stationed here. So met their boyfriend or girlfriend, and then maybe got married, had kids. So there's thousands upon thousands upon thousands of ex-military that stayed in this town.

And are just living, almost like they're living among us, almost like they're aliens or something. But yeah, so it's the same with university as well, isn't it? The amount of people that I've known, that have gone to university in Leeds or Liverpool or Manchester or something like that, and they've ended up staying. Once their university course finishes, they stay in Leeds, or they stay in Manchester or Newcastle or Edinburgh or wherever their Luton or, you know, wherever their university is, because they've made all these new friends.

I suppose I can understand it in a way, because if you're born or if you grow up in a little town somewhere, and everybody knows you right from when you're a little kid, all the way up to being an adult, you know, or young, you know, a young adult of 17, 18, 19, they have a specific opinion of who you are. And I think it's, it can be difficult to change people's opinions about your personality, even if you transform, completely transform yourself, which a lot of people can do if they choose to. And life has a habit of changing this anyway.

Although there are some people very proud of the fact that they're still the same person. Basically, what they're saying is they've learned nothing new. They've managed to their whole life, avoid learning new things, and adapting and growing as a person, and a growing emotion, growing emotionally.

So some people are very proud of that. I've noticed this, I find that amusing, but a little bit sad, because I know change is hard, very hard at times. It's so essential.

I mean, how would I, I don't know how I would even be, if I was the same person I was when I was 18, 19, even the same person as was when I was 30, or 40. I've changed so much over the years. It's not always necessarily in a good, in a good way.

I think I was possibly a much nicer person in the past, but I'm not sure. There's, it's hard, it's hard to know, but I had no confidence when I was younger, not really. And I didn't, didn't have any self-belief.

And I know that's, a lot of people listening to this may relate to that, you know, that, that feeling that not really knowing what's gonna happen, what I should, what am I gonna do with my life? What am I, you know, what now? The one thing I noticed for me, and I know I'm going in all different directions, and that's, that's how this podcast works. I know it must be frustrating sometimes if you're actually waiting to hear what I'm gonna say when I start the recording, and the fact that I never actually say what I started off to say. But that's, that's part of what this is, because I can't remember what I was talking about 47 minutes ago when I started this podcast episode.

I genuinely don't remember. Oh yeah, I had, I had my eye, I had my eye tests. I went to the opticians, and now I'm going to talk about the opticians, and I've completely forgotten about the other stuff, but I can pull it back.

I can use my brain, I can use my concentration. So, that self-belief, I didn't have much self-belief when I was young. I didn't, I really did think that I was unintelligent.

Another military plane or helicopter going past. You hear that sound? That's my bum hole become very tight. That's like, oh.

So, yeah, I didn't have, I didn't have any direction. Now, I've had direction. I started to get direction, I think.

I think when I started taking control of my life. The first time I took control was when I started to sell things when I was about 17. I decided that I didn't want to live in complete poverty and be working 50 hours a week as well, and still live in poverty.

I mean, that didn't make any sense to me at all, and I did. I was living in absolute poverty. I had no money for food or pretty much anything.

Yeah, I was still working, so it was a ridiculous situation. One that I got myself into, I must add, so I can't really blame anyone else. I just didn't know what I was getting into, because I didn't have any guidance.

But at the same time, I didn't ask for any guidance. So, you know, it goes different ways, doesn't it? So, when I started selling things, I was making little bits of money. But for the first time, I had just the tiniest bit of self esteem.

Tiniest bit of, oh, I can accomplish something. I do have some kind of ability. To make a, make a change in my life.

And I remember I bought, I bought a little fridge freezer. Well, it might not, it might just been a little freezer, a little stand up freezer, you know, the ones we open the door, not a flat top, but you got maybe four compartments. I bought it for £15.

And I sold it for £45. And bearing in mind, I was living off of at that time, probably about £10 a week. Because yeah, I was just, I probably had reached the £10 a week point at that point.

So that was how much I had after I paid my rent. Or was it £12? But anyway, you can see it's not a huge amount of money. So suddenly I've got £45.

So that's £30. That's three weeks money, pretty much just for one little deal. My self esteem was high at that point, probably the highest it had ever been.

And the only time my self esteem was high as a kid was probably when I did the karate gradings. Because every grade and I got a first class pass, which is the highest you can get unless they skip you on to the next belt, which someone did do in my school, in my karate school. They were so good, they got moved up to the next belt.

Now, I think it's quite an unusual thing to happen. And I was annoyed, not annoyed for them, I was pleased for them, because he was my friend. But I was annoyed because up to that point, I thought first class passes was the highest you could get.

And, but it is generally the highest you get. Generally, like as far as, you know, it's first class, it's the first, you know, it's the best grade you can get. And I've always got that was every grading I've ever had, whether it's karate, or taekwondo, which I did up to about six months to a year before I moved in here, I was doing taekwondo.

And I had to stop because of my lower back. The pain in my lower back was so much, I just couldn't do it anymore. It was the kicking, punching, I can punch all day long, kicking, I can't, I just can't do it.

I can kick as far as I can physically, I can physically do the activity. But when you're doing doing taekwondo, it's constantly kicking and kicking and kicking. And it's not just a couple of kicks.

I mean, I can, I can do a couple of kicks, and they wouldn't hurt me at all. Not high kicks. High kicks have been off the agenda for a long, long time.

Probably the last time I could do high kicks was probably 2004, when I was doing Wing Chun. And I had no problems with my back back then. Back, back, back, back, when, then, back, back, back, then, back then.

No problems with my back. When I was doing Wing Chun, I used to do a thing on a Friday. Was it Friday? Monday? When? I think I used to go Tuesday and Wednesday for Wing Chun Kung Fu.

And a Friday was leg spa. And a popular, popular night, it'd be probably 20 people. And you just power up, a pair up rather.

And you couldn't use your hands. I think if I remember rightly, I think you could use your hands to block. But you couldn't use your hands, you couldn't punch or anything like that.

But I might be wrong. I think you even used your legs to block. Because when someone goes to kick in Wing Chun, and also did Jiu Jitsu, Jeet Kune Do as well, learned some of that.

But you'd use your legs to block the kick. So in my memory, I'm pretty sure we were able to use our hands to block. But it might have just been legs because it was leg spa.

It was really because if you use your hands to block, you'd be hurting the person. Because with Wing Chun, it's not like karate or Taekwondo where you block, and you block the leg. And you go with Wing Chun, or I'm not sure if it was a Wing Chun or a Jeet Kune Do, but you hurt them.

You hurt you hurt the leg. When you block, so it's not just blocking, you actually, you go, how pleasant. What pleasant.

Now he's talking about damaging people's legs. Now I'm just saying it's a martial arts. It's not my creation.

I didn't make it up. It's just the way it is. So I'm guessing, I'm thinking that maybe it was just leg spa, and you had to block with your legs.

And I loved it. I mean, the one of the greatest things ever in my life was, I broke my rib. That wasn't the greatest thing.

But I broke my rib when I was there. And I had to take some time off. And once the rib was starting to heal, I went back and I trained, but I wasn't allowed to do anything.

I could do some of the the movements and stuff. But because it was full contact, and there's a lot of bruises and people punching each other and stuff, not in the face or anything, but there was always, there was a lot of physical contact within the training. So my teach aid, it's weird because you know, he's a maths teacher from a school.

What are you doing there? He said, I tell you all Jason, I am martial artist. He didn't say that. He had a beard.

Not that he wouldn't talk like that if he had a beard. No, my master, Master Wong. That was his name.

His name was Master Wong. It was brilliant. Very, very funny.

He's like, good idea. Good idea. And he was so full of energy.

So full of energy. And he was hilarious. And he Yeah, so anyway, I was allowed, he said, Well, come in, just go on the punch bag, practice your kicks.

And whatever, as soon as you, you're well enough to move around without it hurting anymore. Come in, practice your kicks, go gently. But I couldn't take any punches to the body or kicks because it was still healing.

But I was able to punch and do some kicking and stuff. Well, I was there. And there was, you know, everyone was doing everyone was sparring and I was just on my own with a punch bag in the corner.

And I punched it. And the punch bag, it basically went flying. And if it ripped off the cord, it was attached to this.

The hall was really, really tall, almost built for giants. Seriously, really, really tall. And I don't know how he managed to get the punch bag even attached to that ceiling.

Because he was only about four foot tall. But he must have got a crane or something. Anyway, the punch bag, the punch bag just came off the cord.

So I broke the punch bag, went flying, and it landed on the floor. And to this day, there's not many parts of my life I'd like to have been filmed. I know I've filmed stuff with Andre.

I kind of wish I'd filmed more stuff. But I did film a lot of stuff with him. But I remember, you know, I don't need a video to remember him.

But it's not many times in my life I'd like to be filmed. Probably when I was doing the karate and I got my got my certificate, stuff like that. That would have been nice.

But that moment of me punching that big heavy punch bag, and it ripping away and just going flying and smashing against the wall, and then landing on the floor. Now that I would love to have on camera on film. I mean, that's that's a potential viral video on YouTube.

You know, because it looked really like I'd done it. I did do it. But you know, let's face it, it was just, it was clearly on its last thread or something.

But when I punched it, it really felt like I'd done it. Because I'd punched it and I don't know, it would have looked really good. If someone but back then 2004 didn't have smartphones, did we? So I mean to you're lucky if you don't think you had cameras.

Some phones, some of the phones had cameras, but we didn't have video. Pretty sure there was no video available on on on on on on on mobile phones at that time. Yeah.

But I went to went to the opticians. First of all, I just went in, I just I wasn't going to go and I just went and I said, Listen, do you have any spaces? Any cancellations or anything like that? And they said, No. They said, Wait a minute.

And she found one. And because Okay, I'll tell you the whole story. She said no.

And I looked her in the eyes and I said, You will find a slot vacant for me. And you will do it now. That sounded weird in there.

You will discover yourself feeling wonderful. As soon as you find the slot. And yeah, so they they had found one.

But it was like 10 past four in the afternoon. This was a one o'clock. So it's quite a while quite a way off.

And I said, Also, can I get an eye test? a hearing test rather? Because they said, Yeah, we're having an eye test. There's no hearing test. Because they do hearing tests in there.

And they said, Okay, come back at two o'clock. Because a lady that does it is on lunch break. I said, Okay.

So I go back and I haven't I have a hearing test. And it turns out my hearing is pretty much okay. So for quite a while, I've been thinking that my hearing is not good because I don't hear what other people are saying.

Maybe I'm just not listening. I'm not listening. When I came out the I came out of the opticians haven't haven't had the hearing test.

One ear is a bit bit lower than the other one. But I think that's kind of normal, really. But not a lot.

You know, it's not doing all right with my hearing apparently. So I come outside. And there's three of my friends were actually outside waiting for me.

Because I knew what one was there, but the other two turned up. Okay. So most amount of people I've met in town for a long time.

And I said to them all said, Oh, it turns out that you're mumbling too much. There's nothing wrong with my hearing. You're all mumblers.

And I laughed. They didn't. There you go.

So I don't know what it is. I think it's weird. I really thought that my hearing would diminish somewhat.

But yeah, well, I think I think with me, though, is there's a concentration issue that I've got very good concentration under the correct circumstances. But I need it to be quiet. If someone's talking at me or to me, or even to someone else near me, it can be a distraction.

And I can't focus on what I'm doing. So sometimes I have to ask people just to stop talking, or to turn the television down and to stop because I'm focusing on what I'm doing. And maybe it's because I focus so well.

I can't have half hearted conversations with two or three people at the same time. And I just can't do that. I don't seem to have the ability.

Being in a room with three or four people to me is just unnatural. And I don't like it. Too many people all talking at the same time.

Even if I really like the people it's not about liking. It's just, I find it difficult to focus on. It's amazing how often I'll have two people talk to me at the same time.

And they're both next to each other. They're both talking to me about two different things. How can they not be aware that they're doing that? How can they not be aware that someone else also talking to me? We can only have one conversation at a time.

Well, I can. It's weird. I had my eyes tested.

And yeah, they have diminished a bit. But see, my dad has got macro degeneration. And I think his sister and his, I think both his sisters have got it.

And my nan had it. So I'm figuring it's potentially hereditary. I mean, it's to me, it's like, obviously is hereditary, but whether or not I've inherited it is a different thing.

Because, you know, we're 50% of, I'm 50% of my mum as well, aren't I? Which explains my breasts. So I had, they did, they did a mirror, a mirror and imaging magnifying thing where they actually took photographs of the back of my eyes. Because that's where the macro degeneration is, starts at the back of the eyes, apparently.

And I'm fine. Really well. And the other thing, what is it called? I forget what it's called.

But you know, a visual thing that people get, that's very, I was gonna say, popular, obviously, it's not popular. But it's, it's a lot of people have it, I forget what it's called now. But I haven't got that either.

My eyesight has reduced. Although my close, close sight is good. My distance, not so much.

It's almost like my close sight is improved. Because if you were sitting here in front of me, you know, like a couple of foot away, it is literally 4k. High definition 4k.

Perfect picture. But if you're too close to me, you tend to be distorted. Too far away distorted.

So for close up, I need glasses to, I don't need glasses to read but I get, I get, I get headaches, you know, I get eye strain if I read for too long without glasses. For the computer screen, I need glasses because the basically the some of the, some of the numbers and the words kind of mix together a little bit. So I do need a bit of help with that.

Distance. So they've been corrected. So that's good.

So the new glasses I pick up next week. So a week today, Saturday today, next Saturday, which is, you know, look forward to that. And I've got some really nice new frames.

They've given me a two for one. So I've got two frames exactly the same. One will be a spare pair in case I sit on this one.

Because I do have a habit of sitting on my glasses. And I don't know if you've ever seen my big fat bum. But trust me, you wouldn't want me sitting on your glasses.

That is, is, is not good. So at least now I've got a spare, a spare pair. And they're going to be anti glare, which should be good.

So if I make videos, that should be good for that. Also good for when I'm using a computer screen. And they've got an active light, same as what I've currently got.

So it'll go turn into like shades when I'm in the sun or out in the brightness. And also that thing, they're mixed lenses. So the top half, they're not, they're not got a line through them.

But the, the glass kind of like mixes together. So distance is the top part and reading is the bottom part or close work. So yeah, I'm really looking forward to getting them because it means I haven't got to keep changing my glasses.

Also, they're lighter. They're a lot lighter than these ones. Although these aren't heavy, but this, they just felt considerably lighter.

So that's good. So I'm, I'm pleased. It's another expense, but how you know, it's your eyes, you have to, especially for me, I use my eyes.

I mean, I just use them a lot, a lot of computer work. And it's probably put quite a bit of pressure on my eyes. So need to be looked after.

If you can hear that, all the neighbors are outside shouting and stuff. There you go. Why not shout? Some person, there's the old joke where you talk to a whisperer in a helicopter.

That kind of, she can't, she just, he or she is very loud, very loud. But I'm glad I got my eyes done. The next thing I need to do really is work.

I need to book an appointment with a dentist, get my teeth sorted out. But for some reason, I can't pull, I'm not in a hurry to do that for some weird reason. I don't, I can't figure it out.

Anyway, I'm going to go. Thank you very much. If you're still awake, thank you for listening.

Thank you for all your support. I really do appreciate it. And I'm going to go.

So remember to be kind to yourself. Okay. Lots of love.

Bye.