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Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is Sleep Hypnosis Weekly. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
I'm lying down on my bed as I record this. I don't do that with any of the other recordings, but I quite like to actually make a recording whilst at the same time I'm actually drifting off to sleep, which happens most times when I lie down on my bed. You'll hear the ruffling of my pillow, possibly as the bedclothes, the duvet are moving that.
I'm just laying down on my left side. I really can feel my body just letting go. You can just join me in this experience, this shared experience.
Not just with me, but with other people around the world who are listening to this. Now, find yourself a comfortable position. Maybe the same as mine.
Maybe you want to lay on the left side on your bed. Maybe you prefer to lie on your back or the right side or maybe on your front. You can change your position at any time in order to increase your comfort.
Just letting you know when I yawn, it's a genuine yawn. I don't do fake yawns. Unless I'm on a first date and it's going really badly.
Then I'll start yawning. Oh, I feel so tired all of a sudden. I must leave.
I think there's something really, really nice about just lying down. You know, I think there's sometimes a bit too much pressure that we put on ourselves when it comes to sleeping. It's almost a chore, like it's a challenge or something.
Instead of the natural thing that we're born to do so easily. So then maybe we sometimes put unnecessary pressure on ourselves almost to perform, to perform sleeping. Even though sleeping isn't a performance, it's just a natural thing.
It's almost the opposite of action. Because falling asleep, drifting off, it's literally doing nothing. It's just laying there.
It may take a little bit of time to just get your mind around the idea that there's nothing magical about sleeping. It just happens. It's an automatic process.
Just like going to the toilet. Just like digesting food. When you have your meal, you eat something, you don't spend the next four hours concentrating on the digesting of that food.
If you asked anybody if they did that, they'd say no. Probably laugh at the idea. And if you said to them, why don't you focus for four hours on the digestion system? Why don't you focus on that food digesting in your stomach? And they'll say because I don't need to.
It happens automatically. And no one would question that. I think very few people in the world would question that logic.
It happens automatically. In the same way we don't need to focus on our kidneys. Or our liver, or our lungs, or our heart, or our brain, or our spine.
All that stuff happens automatically. The same way sleep happens automatically. It's just an automatic process.
That for whatever reason, we may have built up some kind of drama and tension around that process. Almost like a blockage that needs to be removed. If your toilet was blocked, you wouldn't ignore it.
You'd get it sorted, you'd unblock it yourself if you could. Ideally get someone else to do it. You wouldn't ignore it.
So if there's a blockage that's been getting in the way of that natural sleep process. It needs a little bit of attention to remove that blockage. So that from now on, you get back to the process of being able to drift off.
To sleep in that natural way that you were born to do. This so easily. Just let go of that blockage.
You can almost feel like you're resetting your sleep. You're resetting the button back to the factory settings like a computer. You're resetting it so that you can go back to the process.
The ability to just sleep easily and effortlessly. Without any kind of drama or thoughts or worries or concerns. Because that stuff just needs to be left on the bedroom floor.
So when you get into bed, maybe the last item of clothing you take off, for me it's my socks. You can have those socks represent all of those concerns that were in your mind before you took your socks off. Just let them drop to the floor.
And when you actually get onto your bed, even sitting on the bed, you can experience a sense of relaxation. It's naturally attached to the bed. Has a deep connection with your sleeping state.
And the two go together so well. Your bed and your sleep fit together like a glove. So cosy.
So connected. So safe. Just that deep connection of just sinking into the mattress of your bed.
Just really enjoying the feeling of that connection between sleeping and letting go. As soon as your head touches the pillow, your body automatically relaxes. And your mind automatically slows down.
Because there is nothing that needs your attention. There's nothing to think about. There's nothing to say and there's nothing to do.
Just a really nice and calm experience. Just enjoy feeling relaxed and tired. So relaxed.
So very tired. So relaxed and so tired. Twenty.
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