#21 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to Sleep Hypnosis Weekly. My name is Jason Newland. Please only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes.

And I'm just going to talk to you like I normally do. And I was thinking, the period between when you wake up in the morning to when you, or in the evening, whatever time you get up, from that period when you get out of your bed to when you get back into your bed, maybe 16 hours later, whatever the amount of time it is. What you think about during that time can have a big impact on your quality of sleep.

So what I thought may be useful is to start to think in a different way, to think differently about the process of going to sleep. Now I've talked about the enjoyment you can gain from just lying on your bed and just enjoying, feeling relaxed, without trying to do anything. Because you can't try and fall asleep.

It doesn't work. It's a natural process, which you know anyway, it's a natural process that you go through. So how else can you enjoy the experience of going to bed? Maybe having a relaxing bath before going to bed.

Maybe reading a book. Maybe not a whole book, but reading a chapter. I always find that whenever I read a book, I just get tired.

Which is why I would never read, I don't read during the day or if I'm awake. Of course, you have to be awake to read a book, but I know that as soon as I start reading a book, if I'm in bed, I'm just gonna, my eyes will just beg me to close. And I just get so tired, so tired.

And it's as if my body becomes heavier at the same time as my eyelids become heavier. And I end up just having to put the book down, take my glasses off and just roll over. And I'm asleep very quickly, but without trying to.

And often in those situations, without even wanting to, because my intention was to read the book. But because I associate a bed mainly for sleeping, which is what a bed has been for since we were young children, whatever age, you know, you first slept in a bed. After sleeping in a cot, or wherever you are when you're a baby.

But it's always been a sleeping place. And just, just thinking about it makes me yawn. Sometimes I do these recordings and I do actually, it's actually more tiring than reading a book in bed.

Sometimes. Right now I could easily just take my glasses off, close my eyes and just roll over, lie down on the bed and roll over. And I just feel so comfortable.

And I like that feeling. Because I realized that recently, the things we perhaps put in our minds sometimes isn't always helpful. For example, thinking about what time you're needing to wake up the next day.

Not helpful. It's something that you obviously maybe need to think about for the duration of setting your clock or your watch or your phone for the alarm to go off. And once that's done, there's no thinking required.

Just like when you switch a light switch on, the light comes on. That's it. Job done.

You don't have to do any more. The light is on. And when you go to switch it off, the light is off.

Job done. Nothing else to think about. And same as with setting your alarm, your clock, watch or phone for waking you up at a certain time.

Once you've done that, there is nothing to think about. Once you've taken your socks off, and you're lying down, you don't need to think about socks. You don't need to think about what socks you're going to wear the next day.

And if you do have the kind of mind that likes to, you know, plan things, get the socks ready, stick them on a chair or something for the coming day ahead. So then you don't need to think about it. There is some benefit to having things in certain places, you know, like having your towel in the bathroom so that you can get to it when you get out of the shower or the bath.

So it's always in the same place. Otherwise, if it's in different places, it would just be a hassle having to think, oh where did I put the bathroom towel? Oh, I left it in the microwave. Oh, I left it in the boot of the car.

Oh, I left it in the supermarket. You know, you keep it in one place. Because then you don't have to think about it.

So if you're in the shower and you get some soap in your eye, some shampoo in your eye, you can just reach out and you can wipe your eyes straight away and you're fine. You haven't got to start walking around your home looking for that towel. You haven't got a plan for when you have your next shower or bath.

And making sure I've got the towel before I get in the bath or the shower, make sure there's a towel. You know there's a towel because there's always a towel. That's why we park, you park your car more than likely in the same place.

It just makes it easier. And if you even if you park in a public car park, you probably try and park in the same space every time. It just makes it easier.

One less thing to think about, which frees your brain and frees your mind to think about more things. Interesting things. Yet when it comes to sleeping, your mind is free to just drift off to sleep.

Because it doesn't doesn't need any further distractions from anyone or from anything. Because this is your time. This is your safe space.

To relax fully and to let go completely. And the more you do this, the more you think about going to sleep. During the day you think about how relaxing it will be when you just lay down on your bed, body relaxes completely, head touches the pillow.

You fall asleep, your mind slows down. And you start to expect to feel tired at the correct time. You expect for your body to relax every muscle completely.

Loose and calm. And when you think about resting your head gently on the supportive pillow, you expect your mind which is already calm and peaceful to slow down even more. And it's it's a nice feeling.

It's a comforting experience to be at work or at college or maybe you're in a supermarket or on a bus and just thinking about how you're going to experience going to sleep later on. This evening maybe. And as you think about that process, whether you brush your teeth and as I said you might have a wash, you might go to the toilet, you might have a bath or a shower.

You might even do 10 minutes of yoga. I don't know. It's whatever is whatever fits your lifestyle.

As you imagine that process of preparing yourself to get ready for sleeping deeply, there's a sense of confidence that arises within your mind. And that in itself spreads a sense of well-being through your body. It's as if you're kind of looking forward to it.

Looking forward to the the pleasure that you can experience when you lay down on the bed and your body is completely relaxed. Your head touches the pillow. Of course your mind slows down even more than it already is because as you prepare doing whatever it is you normally do just prior to actually laying down on your bed, it prepares you and prepares your body and your mind for that sense of deep relaxing comfort that naturally arises, naturally arises as your mind naturally slows down and your body continues to relax.

Your body continues to let go of anything, any emotions or feelings that it may have been holding on to previously. As your body relaxes even further with every passing second. And it's almost as if your body is taking notice of how it feels so relaxed in preparation for your mind to just drift into a deep, healing, safe sleep.

And at the same time preparing to feel confident the next day about how relaxed and calm and easily you'll drift off into a deep, healing, safe sleep the next day or evening. Building that foundation for more and more, so much more quietness of your mind, so much more healing sleep coming your way every day when it's time for you to fall asleep. Now you can gain this sense of gentle confidence in your own natural ability to sleep easily.

In fact, the more you think about falling asleep easily and naturally, the easier you easily and naturally fall asleep. The easier it becomes for you to let go completely. And the more often during your waking hours that you think and expect and imagine yourself when it's time to lay down on your bed, visualizing yourself laying down, your head touches the pillow, your body relaxes is thoroughly sending that signal to your mind to slow down so much slower, nothing needed, nothing wanted.

As you open yourself up to the reality that you deserve to sleep easily, you deserve to sleep naturally, you deserve to sleep so very deeply and safely, so relaxed, so tired as you realize that no effort is required at all. All you need to do is just open your mind, open your heart to the ideas that actually not only do you deserve to be healthy and happy, you also deserve to sleep easily and naturally.

And the more time you spend being kind and gentle to yourself, you'll find that drifting off into a deep, healing, safe sleep is the easiest thing in the world.

To just enjoy the comfort of lying down on your bed and allowing and allowing nature to just do what it does best, allowing you to drift ever so easily, ever so slowly, so calm, so calm, so sleep.