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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. If you would like to support this free service, please go to paypal.me forward slash Jason Newland.
The link is also available on my website and Facebook. Talking about my website, there are pretty much all of my recordings from my podcasts are available on my website. So there are, I'm not sure how many, but well over a thousand, which you can download for free to wherever you want to download it to, or you also have, excuse me, they're available to stream free as well.
And what I do for each recording, I put, I embed all of the different versions of that recording in there. So if you want to listen to the recording without music, the recording with music, which lasts for two hours, or the recording with music that lasts for five hours, they're all available for you to play or to stream. So there you go.
You can, it's just, it's a place to go to if you want. Of course, if you have your favorite podcast player, then you know, please continue using that if that sort of suits you better. So let me see, what should we do today? So I'd like you to just get yourself comfortable, sitting in a comfortable supporting chair or lying down on your bed.
I should warn you that if you are going to lie down, there's, it's going to be difficult to stay awake. Now I realize this, you know, some people, maybe a lot of people will listen to this for the sleep, to go to sleep, but there are also quite a few people I imagine will be listening for the relaxation, got a bit of a cough. So if you're listening to just relax, I suggest you sit in a chair, because the fact is, if I was lying down, talking to you now, I would fall asleep.
Partly because I guess I'm so boring, I actually bore myself. It's my, it's my super power. So you know, just choose what is, what feels right for you and you may also, even if you're sitting in a chair, you may find that your mind starts to wander a little bit, which again is natural.
It's natural really when you're listening to someone like me, even the best will in the world, you may think I'm going to, I'm going to listen, I'm really going to focus and listen to what he's saying, but there may come a time when you just get bored and your mind starts to drift and that's okay. Because it's just a, it's a case of allowing your body and your mind to do whatever feels natural to you.
Another thing that I guess I could mention every time before doing a recording is, it may be worth investing a few minutes to get yourself feeling more comfortable by, you know, putting on some more comfortable clothes, for example, taking off your socks, I don't know, taking off your balaclava, your raincoat, your skis, whatever you're wearing that may be a little bit restrictive.
Now, because I've got a big fat belly, I, if I was sitting down, I would maybe undo my trousers if there's no one else around. Generally, I'd perhaps put some tracksuit bottoms on because they are stretchy, which is handy because when you feel constricted and you feel tight, that's the opposite really of what you want to be feeling. And for those of you listening that have, you know, lots of muscles, you know, you might be walking around flexing your muscles and yeah, your tight t-shirt to show off the muscles and it might be great, but not when you're relaxing.
It's time to, you know, it's not, it's not time for flexing or for worrying about how other people are seeing you. This is about comfort. This is about forgetting about everybody else, forgetting about everything else and just focusing on your own comfort because in this moment, that's all that matters and there's nothing selfish about it.
There's no negativity involved. This is a really, really positive thing and it's a really, really healthy activity to involve yourself in every day for however long you're able to do it for. So if you can allow yourself an hour a day to listen to either your favorite recording or a different one daily, or even if you just are able to sit there and be quiet, maybe meditate, you know, sit with your feelings, sit there and just allow whatever you feel to just be there and any thoughts you have to just float by like clouds in the sky.
Now, I know not everybody perhaps has or feels that they have a whole hour each day to give to yourself, so I guess practically it's about making the most of what time you are willing to give to your own well-being. I want to say well-being. If you listened every day, if you take time out of your day every day, every day of the week, seven days a week, it's a progressive change in your lifestyle.
It's a progressive transformation in your stress levels. You'll find yourself feeling not just more relaxed during the process of sitting or lying down listening to these recordings, but more important than that, much more important is the other 23 hours a day where you feel more relaxed and you can be surprised at how over time you're able to also use positive stress to your advantage, enabling you to excel and to accomplish what you choose to set your mind on.
Yet at the same time, you can still feel a level of comfort and calmness because you're in control of that positive stress that you may be using for your own well-being.
Now, all the books on stress and relaxation and all that stuff, they'll all say the same thing. They'll all say there's good and bad stress and I think the problem is the word stress. We need a different word when it comes to positive because the word stress has a very negative connotation.
No one says I'm stressed with a big smile on their face full of glee celebrating the idea. It's generally not a particularly comfortable feeling. But there is a sense of, you know, when you're really in the middle of something that you're focusing on and you'll have lots of energy and you're really putting everything into this activity, whatever it is.
So that's what these experts would call positive stress, where we use that build-up of energy to our advantage.
Maybe we can call it positive energy instead of stress because for me, what I aim to do in all of my recordings is to eliminate as much stress as possible from your life, from your body, from your mind, so that you can experience more healing, so you can experience more of a sense of comfort, yet still have the availability of that extra energy when required, allowing you to do what you choose to do and to give whatever you're doing your all, giving it everything you've got, feeling great at the same time, yet still being connected to that source of comfort and relaxation is always available to you because you're connected to it, just in the same way as an electric car which is being charged.
Now of course it can only be charged whilst it's stationary, you know, and attached to the battery, but what you can do is have that recharging connection which also allows you to relax, you can have that with you all the time, wherever you go, whoever you're with, whatever you're doing, regardless of how much of that positive energy that you're tapping into in order to have a productive day, you're always, always connected to that source of comfort and relaxation and healing, and even though you may not be thinking about feeling relaxed and calm in the moment when you're being very active,
in the back of your mind, you know that it's there, it almost seems to supply an overflow, almost like an empty overflow, like you're having a bath or a sink, so that the bath, the water can't flood over, so once that overflow is fitted and it's always there because of that connection that you have all the time to feeling relaxed, feeling comfortable and the continuous healing energy flowing through your body, regenerating and healing you and connected to these feelings of comfort, relaxation and healing is positivity, it has to be positive,
healing is always positive, relaxation is always positive, so having that overflow system means that you can enjoy feeling relaxed and calm, as well as at times feeling full of energy, able to do lots of things at a high level of accomplishment, always safe in the knowledge that you have the overflow system which means comfort and relaxation with that healing positivity is always available and always flowing through your body 24 hours a day, it's on automatic and it can be a nice feeling really when you think about it,
when you realise that this is something that is now there, this is something within you that stays with you, automatically protecting you, automatically keeping you safe and well, as well as calm and relaxed when you need to let go of everything, you can so easily and naturally and your mind feels calm so calm, so peaceful, so enjoyable and there is a really special connection that you now have with these feelings and sensations of healing, relaxation, so relaxed and feels enjoying, doing nothing and just knowing, calm, so peaceful, so quiet
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