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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. This is relaxation and sleep hypnosis daily. Thank you for listening.
Hope you're well and please only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes. There'll be two versions of this recording, one with and one without music. The one with music lasts for two hours and the music is from Kevin Macleod and the details will be in the description of how you can contact him and visit his website.
So I'm going to do something that's a little bit weird but that's not that unusual for me. This is almost in the maybe tree hugging fashion but I'm a little bit of a tree hugger. It's not that I've met that many trees I could actually get my arms all the way around but I do think there's something very very special maybe even sacred about trees.
Where I'm coming from with this is the age, the fact that they are more connected to the planet, to the earth than we are, than pretty much any of the animals that are above the earth. The roots, I think there's something about the roots I think, that connection and that ability to withhold or stand up to the most harshest of weathers, the strongest of winds. I know some trees will fall down but most trees don't.
Most trees stand and keep standing no matter what the weather is, no matter what nature throws at it. It doesn't complain, it just stands there, watches the world, you know, just also offers itself as a home for birds and other animals and it's, you know, and then it sheds its leaves which give nutrients to the surrounding earth. There's something special about a tree, you know, offers shelter from the sun, offers shelter from rain sometimes and it's something, I don't know, I just, I'm not really a tree hugger but I do think trees are quite amazing.
And you may be wondering, well that's nice, are you going to get on with this session then? What are you talking about trees for? Well, I'd like us today to get in touch with the feeling of being a tree, the feeling of being grounded because one of the things that I discovered or I've noticed about myself when it came to extreme stress and anxiety is the lack of groundedness, the lack of sometimes awareness but that's probably not true because I was aware that I was stressed and, you know, unhappy with the situation and frustrated and all those other, all those other emotions connected.
So what I'm going to ask you to do is either sit in a comfortable chair if you're not already or, you know, if you're listening to this to go to sleep then maybe you can lay down on your bed, whatever suits you. Now I would just warn you that if you're listening just solely for the relaxation aspect, if you lie down there's a really good chance that you're just going to fall asleep.
Now you may fall asleep anyway even sitting in a chair which is why you need to make sure that the chair supports your body and we're going to do, it's almost like a visualization exercise but in a sense it's kind of, you could say it's coloring in the energy that we already have because our energy moves from our body, we are connected and we are just energy ultimately.
Everything's energy and what we can do because we are connected to the earth, of course you've got, we're being kept on the ground and we can't just float away so we are almost magnified to the ground in a sense, we are part of the ground, we can jump up, we always land back down so we are connected to the earth.
So what I'd like you to do with your eyes closed, we're just going to focus, I'm sitting in a chair so I've got my feet on the ground, I'm just going to imagine, maybe you'd like to do that too, is just imagine the roots growing out of your body, so if you're sitting down you can imagine the roots growing out of your feet, the bottom of your feet, maybe also out of your legs, out the back of your thighs, your bum, your back, whatever and just the roots moving downward into the earth.
If you're lying down you can imagine those roots all the way up your legs, your arms, your back, even the back of your head and your neck, those roots just moving down, travelling down and even if you're in a block of flats or a high-rise apartment, it doesn't matter, the roots can just keep moving all the way down until it hits the ground and then just keeps moving into the ground, moving through concrete, moving through metal, whatever, it doesn't matter.
Until your roots reach soil, reaches the mud and the soil and there can be a degree of refreshment from that, a change in energy, as all those roots that are now attached into the earth feed you that energy and it may feel a bit weird to start with, but it's a nice weird, it's an unusual feeling as your roots continue to move deeper into the earth and something that does happen is I've noticed is I'm starting to feel a bit more stable emotionally as well as I guess physically as well because those roots sinking deep into the earth can give me a sense of confidence actually,
a sense of confidence within myself knowing that you have this connection, this deep connection with our life force as the roots continue to grow and expand and move further underground, spreading by quite a distance so that you realize that actually you feel stronger, you actually physically feel stronger and your mind starts to feel clearer it's almost as if the doubt, whatever doubt you were experiencing before, like self-doubt seems to have crumbled and instead a sense of security has arisen within you, stability another thing I've just noticed is there's a sense of balance a sense of everything balancing out perfectly,
feeling very connected to this planet that we live and feeling part of the planet not just for being rooted deeply inside the earth but there's also that the magic of being like a tree and producing oxygen so it's almost that when you breathe out you're oxygenating and providing oxygen for others regardless of whether that is factual it's still a nice feeling that you're helping others just by being here that you are worthwhile,
an important part of the world just by existing and you may not have ever considered these feelings before but you may have considered the pleasure that you can experience in stillness the feelings that you can enjoy by doing absolutely nothing just by being deeply rooted into the planet, in the soil, the earth, spreading those roots increasing your relaxation and you can actually feel the tension because those roots just suck out any tension you can actually feel the tension being sucked out of your body through the roots and as i count
down from 10 to 1 you can allow yourself to just enjoy the feeling as the roots suck away those feelings those remaining sensations of tension or stress just being removed from your body through those roots and being sent into the earth where they'll just be processed and cleaned and become part of nature 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 2 1 feeling so relaxed so relaxed with that security and that strength and connection to the earth which allows you to really really relax every single part of your body
so calm you are so very calm and now the earth starts to send healing energy up through the roots into your body and this time i'm going to count from 20 all the way down to 1 and as i count down you'll experience the sensation of that healing energy moving through the roots and into your body and spreading around your body filling every particle with this healing energy now 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 11 10 9 9 9 8 7 5 4 3 2 1
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