#22 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Sleep Hypnosis Weekly. Now, I haven't made one of these for probably a couple of weeks, so apologies for the delay in the latest recording, which is this one. But I'm here now, so that's the main thing.

So what I thought we can do is, obviously before we go any further, just tell you to please only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes. And ideally get yourself into a comfortable position, lying down on a comfortable bed. Maybe you're reclined in a chair that supports your body.

Perhaps you're sitting up in bed for whatever reason. The main thing is that you're comfortable and remember that you can change your physical position at any time you need. Because there are no awards given for discomfort.

There are no medals going to be sent to you in the post for laying there. Unless you're, you know, if you're feeling uncomfortable, change the position of your body if it's, you know, safer to do so. So what I thought would be quite nice is for me and you to kind of sink, get in sync with each other.

And I realize you can't tell me how you're feeling, but I can, I can focus on my body and tell you how I feel in each part. So it's, you know, doing a body scan, but I do it out loud and I tell you how the different parts feel. So for this, I'm going to actually lie down or I am lying down on the bed.

Normally I don't lie down on the bed because there's a large chance that I will fall asleep. Because I associate the bed with sleeping. I, you know, I'm an adult, I realize that beds can be used for more than just sleeping in.

For example, you can watch television or read a book. But predominantly, from a very, very early age, I don't know how old I was when I first slept in a bed. Because, you know, like most babies, I'm sure I was in a cot, you know, for some time.

But you know, I've been sleeping in beds for a long, long time. And I'm sure that you also, like me, have probably slept in quite a few different beds over the years. Unless, of course, you've, you're still sleeping in the bed that you grew up with, which is possible.

The main thing is that the bed is comfortable. And what I like to do, and I realize it's personal for everyone. And you will hear the bed squeaking a bit and you'll hear a bit of movement, because I am moving.

So when I lay down on the bed, to start with, I can just feel a sense of comfort. Just that sense of, you know, just letting go. It's almost like floating in a way.

Yeah, I know, I am aware that there's a mattress and, you know, I can feel it underneath my body, supporting my body. Yeah, at the same time, I know that I'm, I don't know, two foot off the ground. Two or three foot off the ground, probably two and a half, two foot, maybe.

So it's almost like floating. And technically, the earth is supporting me because the, the earth is supporting the foundations, which supports the house or the flat that I'm in or the house that you're in, which supports the floor, which supports the bed, which is supported by the floor, which supports you. So there's a lot of supporting going on there.

There's a lot involved, which doesn't need your conscious attention. What I like to do is I like to take my socks off. And even if it's a bit, I generally don't go to sleep when it's cold, I have the heating on in the winter.

And I turn it off just before I go to bed. Or if it's the summer, then I don't have the heating on because it's warm, or warm enough. I like the freedom of taking my socks off.

So in the winter, I wear clothes in bed. I don't mean you know, jeans or a suit or a tie and a coat and a hat. I don't mean like wearing lots of clothes, but you know, pyjamas kind of thing.

I wear tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt. In the summer, if it's warm enough, then I don't. And I love that feeling of freedom.

Just having the air touching my body, instead of just touching my face or my hands, maybe my arms and my toes and my feet. That feels lovely. But in the summer to be able to have that on my chest and my legs just feels really freeing.

But there's something about my feet. Having that freedom once the socks have been taken off, and I can wiggle my toes. I just feel so free and relaxed.

And I'm doing it now. I'm just moving my feet around, moving my ankles. It feels nice.

Of course, if you have any physical issues in any part of your body, then you wouldn't be moving it around because that may irritate it. And that's the opposite to what we're doing here. Because this is relaxation.

And this is sharing an experience. So just notice how your feet feel. Of course, you don't need to take your socks off.

You can do whatever you want to do. You can wear shoes and boots and bed if you want. But I would suggest do whatever you can so that you feel physically comfortable.

So make sure that your stomach isn't, you know, you're not wearing something with tight elastic around your stomach. And make sure that if you were wearing a t-shirt, for example, that it's not restricting your movement. Maybe nice and loose.

Perhaps even a size too big, just so you can move and feel comfortable. And I have to get like extra, extra, extra large if I want to feel, if I want to, you know, have an extra big top. But it's worth it.

Because it feels so relaxing. And not restricting. Or restrictive.

Probably the better word. Now most people when we get older, it could be any age. It could be 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.

It could be teenage years. We've all, you know, some people have physical issues from birth. Some people sort of gain a physical issue in later life.

So for me, my lower back is an issue. So what I do is I stretch it, but very, very gently. I just move my hips from side to side.

Just gently stretching my lower back. I kind of push upwards and push down with my lower back and my buttocks. It's all about being gentle with it.

And only you know what feels right for you. And you may think, well, why am I talking about physical issues and maybe going into the category, the domain of chronic pain possibly? Well, that's one of the biggest causes of insomnia. Having a physical issue that can feel too uncomfortable and prevents a person from relaxing and feeling relaxed throughout their body enough to just let go and fall asleep.

When actually it is possible. Because when you relax the rest of the body, the majority starts to take over and rule. So when the majority of your body is relaxed, it starts to move into the part that perhaps wasn't feeling particularly relaxed before.

Causing that part to also feel relaxed. And when that part feels relaxed, the physical experience and sensations change. And they literally have no choice but to change.

Because our physical feelings are always changing, just as a way as our emotional feelings are always changing. We just don't notice it. Just in the same way as, we don't realize that the planet we're on is spinning around.

It looks like everything's just still. When actually it's not, it's just energy and it's moving, everything's moving all the time. But it doesn't feel like that to us.

So it's about how you experience yourself in a way that allows you, you're giving yourself permission to relax all of your body. Including those parts that maybe needed, needed the most relaxation. And maybe you felt you couldn't quite reach it before.

But now your body does it automatically. Because your whole body is connected. There isn't one part of your body that's separate from the rest of your body.

I know we call our head, you know, like a body and then there's the head, but the head is part of the body, it's connected. A little thing called the neck, you know, and the spinal cord. It's all connected.

There isn't anything that's not connected to us as far as our bodies go. Which means that feeling of relaxation and tiredness that spreads throughout your body. It's not, it's not going to miss out one part.

That would be rude. You wouldn't have a house party and not invite one, one person that lives in the house, but invite everybody else. That'd be rude.

So when your feet feel relaxed, even though you may not be aware of it at the time, your hands become relaxed. When your eyelids feel relaxed, you may not connect the feelings, but your back will start to feel relaxed. And, you know, logically in our brains, we kind of don't connect those parts.

What's the eyes got to do with the back? What's your legs got to do with your hands or your arms got to do with your ears? It's all connected. I suppose it's just like if you've got a bath full of water and you splash your hand in one side of the bath, it affects the whole of the bath. It affects, you know, the vibrations go through all the way to the other end of the bath.

So those vibrations of sleepiness and relaxation that you feel in maybe your stomach. So I'm feeling quite relaxed now. I always know when I've really got relaxed.

When I'm laying down, I know when I've kind of reached that point of comfort. It's because I've stopped moving my head. I don't mean I'm continuously nodding, but I like to move my head from left to right, probably every few minutes just to get comfortable.

And eventually, I stopped noticing my neck and I stopped really being aware of any specific part of my body. As it all seems to feel relaxed as one. That's a really comfortable feeling because I can feel my lower back, but there's no pain there.

There's no discomfort there. It's just a feeling. It's really no different to how my right calf feels.

Very little difference. It's not completely joined my body in the exact same level of relaxation. But when I focus on it, I notice it a bit more than when I'm just observing my entire body.

Like right now, as I focus on my feet and just do a rough scan of the top of my body, I feel completely, completely comfortable and calm and relaxed completely. There's not one part of my body that's anything other than relaxed and sleepy. And it actually feels really nice, regardless of the whole falling asleep thing.

It just feels really nice to lay here, to feel safely supported. By the bed. To know that I don't have to do anything.

I don't have to feel anything. I don't have to think about anything. I don't have to feel relaxed.

And I don't have to feel sleepy. There are no rules. I can just allow yourself to feel how you feel right now in this moment.

And that sense of tiredness and sleepiness is moving throughout your body and your mind. It's natural. It can't be forced.

Therefore, there's no point even trying to force it. Because when you stop trying to feel sleepy, that's when sleepiness comes naturally. Sleepiness comes naturally.

There's nothing whatsoever to do. There's nothing to think about. You can just relax into that relaxation.

Knowing that you're safe, and feeling that sense of safety, enjoying the comfort that comes from just being you. And just lying here, comfortable and calm. So calm.

I'm going to count from 20 down to one. And you can just allow that sense of comfortable relaxation to turn and transform into safe sleepiness, with each number relaxing you even more, even sleepier. Now, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,