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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. I hope you are well and I hope that you can allow yourself just a short time to let go.
This is something that I actually do myself. I've got a history of meditating. I learnt to meditate properly back in 2002, November to be exact.
I started learning to meditate. So that's nearly 20 years ago. But this, what we are going to do now is not an official meditation technique necessarily.
It's a lot more relaxed, without any rules really. Because all it is, is just you being aware of how you are feeling while you listen to me. So you may be sitting down, you may be lying down.
Whatever feels comfortable for you. Remember that if you lie down, there is more chance that you may pop off to sleep. I know that I do.
I can't listen to anything, even if I was listening to hard metal thrash music. If I was lying down, I would fall asleep. And I'm aware that there is a possibility that you may find yourself getting bored listening to my voice.
But it's not really about my voice or what I say. It's more about this moment. Just allowing yourself to just be here.
Because as you sit there or lie there, you may, part of your mind, your focus is going to be on me, my voice. But you might also have other stuff going on in your mind. Things that you should be doing, or things that you perhaps shouldn't be doing, or how you'd like things to be.
Regrets, maybe planning for the future, thinking about the past, all that kind of stuff. So what we do in this situation is, we just start to gradually give more and more of your focus and attention just to how you're feeling, emotionally. So it's not even just about how you physically feel.
But the more time you spend sitting or lying there with your eyes closed, the more in touch with your body you become. And it's very natural to start to notice and focus on parts of your body that maybe feel awkward, or maybe there's some physical pain or, you know, uncomfortable feelings. But you'll also start to notice as you focus on every part of your body, that there are lots of parts of your body that feel okay.
Maybe you may even think of the word neutral when you think of those parts. For example, my right thigh, it's just there. There's no discomfort, there's no particular feelings of pleasure or anything.
However, as I relax my mind and as I focus on my right thigh, I start to notice that the sides, like the top side, is starting to feel a sense of looseness, maybe as the muscles are relaxing more. And as I focus on my lower back, there is a fair bit of discomfort there because I have arthritis in my lower back. The thing is, as I focus on that area, I don't have the internal dialogue going on.
You know, those feelings and thoughts where maybe I'm feeling sorry for myself. Oh, I've got a bad back and I shouldn't have a bad back, why should I have to have a bad back? It almost feels as if that physical sensation in my lower back has changed. It's not feeling nice, it's not even at the point of feeling neutral, but it feels different.
There's less tightness and that feeling that perhaps I would have given the word throbbing, although still there, kind of still there, but feels different, feels very different. It's almost as if by observing a feeling, a part of your body, or even emotions, something happens to that feeling, like naturally, the feeling changes, and not because you're trying to change how you feel, not doing any kind of technique to change the physical sensation, not using a distracting technique or a transformational technique, a disruptional, you know, disrupting your pattern of thinking, nothing like that.
Not a distraction, no, not even a, you know, that sense of distance, because you're still observing closely all the parts of your body, just in case you hear a strange panting in the background, it's a dog by the way, there's a dog on the floor near me, my friend's dog I'm looking after.
So as I mention the parts of my body that I'm noticing, if you choose, you can choose to notice the same parts of your own body, or you can start to focus on other parts, because this is your time, this is your mind, and it's your body, because you've decided to step out of your day-to-day life and spend a little bit of time sitting down or lying down with your eyes closed, with an open mind, with that flexibility, to be able to just say, okay, I have feelings, I have physical feelings,
I have emotions, and just allow them to be there, without judgment, without getting angry, without trying to push away the feelings that were unpleasant, and at the same time not trying to grasp hold of pleasant feelings, because there's parts of your body that feel nice, that you may not have been aware of before.
As I focus on my eyes, my eyes are closed, my eyes, they do, they feel nice, they actually feel relaxed, and there's a degree of pleasure coming from my eyelids, and let's face it, we spend so much of our time with our eyes open, using them, you know, reading, looking at computer screens, television, driving, looking at people, whatever we do, our eyes are being used so much, and to just take a break from using your eyes, in the same way, sitting down, pretty much gives your whole body a rest.
Lying down, to me, feels a lot even more, there's something about stretching out my body, stretching out my spine, taking the weight off my feet, and even knowing you're sitting down, you haven't got any weight on your feet necessarily, but lying down just feels that much more, just letting go completely, although it's very easy to do so sitting down as well, taking a break from using your legs, your feet, your arms, your hands, your back, all the different muscles in your body that that we use every day, just for basic,
simple movement, all the muscles it takes just to pick up a cup of tea, basically using all of your upper body, you're not using all of your upper body strength, unless the tea cup's massive, full of concrete or something, but you're still using all those muscles, and there's that correlation between your body relaxing and your mind feeling karma, and it's nice, it's nice to just not do anything, to really just almost switch off, but you've not switched off because you're still aware, you're still alert, although your mind may start to drift,
it's nice to rest your throat and your mouth, and it doesn't have to be completely silent either, because those background sounds sometimes can help you to feel even more relaxed, because of the mindfulness of being aware of your surroundings, and of course when your eyes are closed, we rely more on our ears to keep track of what's around us, for example, I can hear the train in the distance, it's a very distant sound, there's a dog lying on the floor, sometimes he gets up and moves around, begs for a biscuit or something,
so there's always, there's always the odd sound, even if it's just the central heating or the fridge in the kitchen clicking, or the sound of your own breathing, it's just there, and in this space, this safe space, your emotions have time to just relax, relax, nothing needed from you at all, nothing to think about, nothing to worry about, nothing to plan, nothing to say, this is the very safe space to just be you, just be yourself, without any expectations, without any judgment from others or from yourself, because let's face it,
we do have a tendency of judging ourselves, so that internal voice that we all have, if it already hasn't done so, starts to quieten down, maybe it slows down first, and becomes gradually quieter, slow and quiet, slow and quiet, and to know that there's nothing to do, nothing for you to do or say or think, is a really nice feeling, there's a sense of freedom connected to being able to just be with yourself, not need in anything, not need in anyone, enjoying the experience of letting go of everything, calm and loose,
free from everything, free from everything, and that healing energy that arises, fills your body with a sense of positivity and love, positivity and love, spreading through your body, positivity and love, spreading through your mind, feeling so calm, peaceful, and loose, continuing this feeling of freedom for as long as you choose, and let go even further, loose and peaceful, loose and safe, and let go.
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