#27 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Sleep Hypnosis Weekly. Only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes. Just to let you know, there is a new timetable.

Sounds like being back at school, doesn't it? The new timetable is as such, as such, as such. Every Monday, I will be releasing a new Sleep Hypnosis Weekly. And every Tuesday, there will be a Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis.

Every Wednesday, Relaxation Hypnosis for stress, anxiety and panic attacks. Thursday, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. Friday, Deep Sleep Whisper Hypnosis.

Saturday, Relaxation Hypnosis, stress, anxiety, panic attacks. And lastly, Sunday, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. So that, starting from today is the timetable.

So you kind of get an idea when things are going to be coming. What I thought I would do today, before I start, I actually spent a few hours studying and sleep, would you believe? I don't just make this stuff up. I actually do.

I do make it up. But I do also study and a few points came to mind as I was reading this textbook. So I was sitting in the library.

And I've got a bit of a cough at the moment. So just let you know, I have to put it on mute every now and then to cough. Just had it for a couple of weeks.

One of the things that's come along to kind of jumped out of the page to me was that sleep and anxiety are kind of I don't want to use the word war, but opposites. And a lot of reasons that people struggle to get to sleep is because of anxiety or racing thoughts. And a couple of things that they said in this book actually really resonated with me.

And I'll tell you what they are. One of the things was that I don't know if anyone really knows the reason. But the time that we have racing thoughts is generally in the evening.

And you may say, yeah, but that's when we go to sleep. That's the time. You know, that's when we're in bed.

Well, I've tested this theory. Because I go to sleep during the day. Often, as well as in evening, I go to sleep different times.

Not because I've got a sleep issue or sleep problems. I'm just really lazy. And I do different things at different times of the day.

And what I've noticed is I never ever, ever have trouble sleeping when I go for a nap. So it's just a nap. I had one today, I got up at 10 to nine this morning, had breakfast, you know, had a bath, all that stuff went out.

And so I went to the library and I was studying, studying the textbook on sleeping. And when I got home, I was up for a little bit and then I went to, went for a nap about, I don't know, is it just 4.30 something like that. And I just fell asleep instantly.

I woke up probably an hour, maybe later. I felt fine. But there was no thinking.

There was no racing of thoughts. There was no, I didn't want to go to sleep. I just, just decided to lay down and have a rest.

I didn't need to go to sleep. I was a little bit tired. But I just fancied doing nothing, you know, just resting.

But I didn't need to go to sleep. I didn't necessarily want to go to sleep. I wasn't egging myself on, I wasn't putting pressure upon myself.

There was no racing of thoughts. There was no constant, you know, battle between feeling tired and, you know, needing to go to sleep. Because I've got to get up in the morning and I've got to do this and do that.

And I just fall asleep easily. And it just feels very different when pressure is put on. That pressure to sleep.

That pressure to, I must fall asleep now. I've now laying, I'm laying in the particular position, therefore, I must sleep. And what was interesting about this is the book I was reading was talking about children going to sleep.

And actually, if the child is not ready to go to sleep, then sticking them in a bed and force them to stay in that bed can actually cause a sleep disorder within their child. Because they become anxious. And they start listening to things and it's dark and a child's mind is so active and creative, as we all of our minds are.

But with a child, it's like a bit quite, there's a line, isn't it, between reality and fantasy with children, young children. So the kind of the theory or the result of that idea was, actually, is to go to sleep when you're tired. And not try to force yourself to go to sleep.

Because of the anxiety. Because when we sit, lay there in bed, I don't know about you, but I've done this in the past, lay there in bed and said to myself, right, I've got to sleep now. And you know, in the past, I've spent pretty much, I don't know, three, four hours trying to go to sleep.

And looking at the clock thinking, I've got six hours left before I got to get up. I've got five hours left before I got to get up. I've only got four hours left to sleep.

And then the alarm goes off and it's time to get up. And that was four hours of very unpleasant anxiety leading up to actually falling asleep. And I know that not everybody has the opportunity to only go to sleep when they're tired.

You know, it's not everybody can go to bed at 10 o'clock. Excuse me, I'm going to cough in a minute. Go to bed at 10 o'clock.

Because they need to be up at six in the morning. And then they feel wide awake. So they think, well, I'll just get up again, watch telly until I'm tired.

And stay up for another two or three hours. Now, I know not everybody has the luxury of being able to do that. Because then you're left with, you know, very, you know, less sleep than perhaps you need to be functioning in a way that you would like to be the next day fully awake during the day.

There is something that I think when you listen to these recordings, and you listen to anything, something about the intention, the intention of accepting changes into your life, you know, into your mind in this particular aspect, when it comes to sleeping. And realizing there's lots of different ways to get where you want to be. There's also lots of different ways that are not going to work.

For example, you can't force yourself to go to sleep. You can't force yourself to be relaxed. You can't force yourself to be attracted to someone.

You can't force yourself to feel hungry. You know, those those kind of things, they're natural processes. But the fact that they are natural processes means it's brilliant.

And what I mean by that is, it's natural. You don't really have to do anything, because it's gonna happen anyway. So no matter what you do, no matter what I do, we will eventually fall asleep, whether we want to or not.

So we can all stay awake as long as we can. We can all have a competition. And no matter how much money you're gonna win, you know, someone said to you, you've got to stay awake for seven whole days, not even micro sleep.

You know, there'd be monitors on your eyelids, so they could check whether or not you fell asleep a little bit. But no one would, no one would win, we wouldn't win the money. There might be the, there might be people out there that can do it.

So it's pretty silly to say that no one can. There may be people that can. I imagine drug induced could possibly get someone to that point if they were taking amphetamines and speed.

And, you know, maybe they could stay awake for seven days constantly, I don't know, it'd be very unhealthy, extremely mentally unhealthy, and physically, I'm guessing. But just on a like a general scale of, like, normality, just people, like, general population, you try and stay awake. Someone says to you, if you stay awake for a whole month, I'll give you a billion dollars.

Couldn't do it. Could not do it. Impossible.

I would even go as far as to say if someone said, if you can stay anxious for a whole month, nonstop, you get a billion dollars. You couldn't do it. It doesn't work that way.

Because no one chooses to be anxious. Once you choose to do it, you won't play along. Because it goes against, how can you choose that? It wouldn't happen.

It'd break up the cycle, it'd be an interrupter, it would be like breaking the electrical current. When anxiety goes against sleep, sleep, anxiety being the, we could say, the cause of insomnia, anxiety, stress, you know, that the mind chattering, excessive worrying that maybe is going in a way in the past we've fallen asleep naturally. Sleep always wins.

In the end, sleep always wins. Always. It's not even a maybe or a question mark or a possibility.

It's a definite sleep always wins. Eventually. It may not seem like it.

And that's the other side of things as well, isn't it? That I don't know about you, but I, you know, we all can have a tendency to generalize in a sense of saying, oh, I've had a sleep. I've not been sleeping properly for however long. And it gets to the point where it seems like it's, you've never had a decent night's sleep for years, when actually you have slept thousands of times.

Thousands of thousands of times. And you think 365 times a year. Generally, we all sleep.

Now I'm 49. So I can't work that out. But it's 300, 3000, 36912.

So that's got to be what 15,000 times I've gone to sleep. If I only went to sleep once a day. The idea of all 15,000 of those have been bad night's sleep would be untrue.

And as I continue to speak, I just want you to get in touch with that sense of relaxation that you have in your body. And I'll keep talking. And I keep pointing out some ideas.

I don't know about you, but I like the idea that actually, sleeping is natural. I like the idea that no matter what happens, falling asleep will always occur. I like the idea that it's actually really easy to let nature just do what it does best.

To let your body and mind do what it does best. Drifting off easily because it's natural. Because that's how things are.

We're all born with the ability to sleep. In fact, it's one of the few things that we can actually do when we're very first born. And although we've learned all these other things through our lives, these things that we can now do, walking, talking, reading, writing.

It's just infinite amount of things that we could all now do. Things that we've learned since we were babies. That's exactly what they were.

Things that have been learned. Even potty training had to be learned. But sleeping, that's a skill that we never needed to learn.

Sleeping is so easy because it takes no effort. Just like breathing. It's as automatic as our hearts beating and the blood flowing through our veins.

Because those things take no effort. They don't need or require any conscious attention. It just happens so naturally.

So easily. It's an amazing thing really. When you really give in and face and accept the reality, sleeping, falling asleep is easy.

It takes no effort. It doesn't need or require anything. All you need is to give yourself some space.

Allow yourself permission. It feels nice to just relax without anything, you know, without any need, without any want. Just being open to the idea that you were born with this ability to sleep.

So relaxed. So relaxed. Calm.

So sleepy. So sleepy.