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Hello to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Vinnie is licking the sofa for some reason.
It's currently 12 minutes past 6am. I don't normally do them quite this early but I thought why not eh? Why not? I'm actually in the process of rebuilding my website. I want to say rebuilding.
Improving. Just making it better. Making it more useful.
Easier to navigate. Easier to find stuff. Yeah, so better I would say.
And I'm using ChatGPT to help me do this. So it helps me to find stuff to change the pages so that they, well first of all that they're all kind of the same design. Also that they're search engine optional or whatever SEO.
So they're more findable on the internet on the search engines. Yeah, I'll go through in a minute what I've been doing but I'm actually still doing it as we speak because each time I, because I'm basically getting it to redo the code that's already in the page. And each one takes a few minutes to do.
And so yeah. Yes, it takes a while but ChatGPT is doing the hard work. My bit is just basically to give it what it needs.
Tell it what I need and then give it what it needs to change if that makes sense. And I know to some people this is probably the most boring thing I could talk about. But to me it's far from boring.
It's actually exciting. Because if I'd have had these tools available years ago. And yeah, I just, well, I like to think that I would have been able to do more.
Well, I would have been able to do more. But would that also be more that I could have just changed? Or destroyed or whatever, you know? Because I've got a habit of building stuff and then tearing it all down again. Or I used to have a habit of doing that.
My plan now is really to try and stick to, well, if something's how I like it. Then I'm probably, you know, it's more likelihood that I'm going to keep it. If it's how I want it to be.
And my website has never been how I wanted it to be ever in 20 years. Now it's kind of starting to look and feel like I wanted it to. And I was never really able to do it before.
I could do parts of it. And one of the benefits, I mean, I've talked about this before, but one of the benefits that I've really kind of, not that I've got over other people, because there's probably millions of people that know how to read code. But I can edit the computer code.
The website code to a degree, you know, I know how to edit a little bit. So in a sense, I mean, technically, it means I don't have to rely on the AI to do everything. Because I can then change it to how I want it to be.
Rather than, you know, when it comes to like adding links, changing links, images, things like that. Yeah, does that make sense? I think it does, kind of. Yeah.
So before I start, I should, I do want to say a big thank you to three people. First of all, Nicole. Secondly, to Cheryl.
Why is my website just dinged? Did you hear that? Ding. And thirdly, to Jennifer. Thank you, all of you for my, your kind PayPal gifts.
Very, very much appreciated. I feel wanted. Thank you.
So thank you very much for that. Also sending out my love to everyone that listens. And also, obviously, a constant shout out for Molly.
The administrator for my Facebook group, the Jason Newlands Boring Group. And also for Boston Chicky. Hope, hope you're doing okay.
Had anyone else? Perhaps I should just do a shout out, just go through all the members and just like, hey, but that would take longer than the recording. What I'll be doing with this recording today, I'm going to go through the website, just let you know. Some of the things actually might be useful.
If you, you know, if you like listening to my stuff might be useful. It might not be. You know, there's, there's, there's possibilities either way.
But I think it might be. Might, might, might, might, might. So let me just, oh, did you all, we had a bit of rain yesterday.
The air was fresh. It was like, oh, so this is what it's like. I've forgotten all about rain.
50, nearly 56 years living in this country. A very, very rainy country. And we go a few weeks without, without rain and suddenly like, oh, what was it like? Do you remember when that stuff that used to come out of the sky used to drop down and make you wet? What was it called again? What the water stuff? Yeah.
Oh, rain. You're thinking about rain. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, rain. Oh, do you remember those days? Remember? Oh, it was lovely, wasn't it? Oh, we need some rain. Oh, I miss the rain.
No one tells the truth today. We hate the rain. What do you mean miss the rain? I couldn't name probably one time in my life that I enjoyed walking in the rain.
And that was on a summer's day. Really, really, you know, warm summer's day, it's raining and I'm soaked through and I was in a bad mood that day as well, which is why I was walking in the rain. Just walking in the rain.
Ironically, I had a kind of a relationship issue and I bumped into the person I was having a relationship issue with. And we were both getting wet. That's all I remember of that particular memory.
It's a bit of a stationary memory. I just standing in one spot talking. I remember the exact road.
Yeah, I pretty much remember what I was wearing. It would have been a silk shirt, probably black and jeans. Because I used to wear jeans back then.
I don't know why. Jeans have never been comfortable. Why did I wear jeans? Never comfortable.
Yeah, I mean, once I'm probably talking 16, 17, the fashion was to buy jeans, get into the bath so that they I think they were 501s and they would literally stick to your legs. They would shrink. Shrink so you couldn't get them off and you had to you had to wear them until they wore.
Down off your skin. You had them on forever. I've still got them on now.
It was ridiculous. You know, I literally I needed help to get them out off. And it wasn't OK, it was because they were tight on the legs.
But the main issue was the feet. Couldn't get them over my feet. Struggled to get them on my feet to start with, not on my feet, but over my feet to start with.
That would be me getting muddled up between jeans and shoes again. Don't get many shoes made of jeans. Jeans material.
By the way, Vinnie's underneath the desk chewing on one of his toy, toy, toy, toy, toy things. Toy, toys. Right.
I just need to quickly do something because otherwise I'm going to. Confuse myself. OK, done, it's fine.
No, wait a minute. Yeah. And that's the problem trying to do.
I can't do more than one thing at a time. It's weird, isn't it? Because our bodies are doing multiple things. All the time and our brains are doing multiple things all the time.
Our eyes. Are looking at multiple things if we can see our ears listening to multiple things if we can hear. Oh, you know, I mean, yeah.
Talking to you and. Trying to juggle these kittens is very difficult. So today is Friday, the 21st of August.
2000 and 26 Friday, 23rd of August. So Thursday or Friday, Friday, Friday, 21st of August. So my birthday, blimey, can you believe it? I'll be 56.
Why am I focusing on this birthday? More than last birthday. I don't know, because 55 is in some ways more prominent than 56. Not that it's really a prominent birthday.
I mean, 50 is, isn't it? I guess as a marker. You know, I think in this country, we kind of go as far as marking a birthday. I think 13 because become a teenager.
Then 16. 18, 21. Seems to be kind of markers, I suppose 16 because in this country.
I'm in England where I live. There's certain things you can do at 16 that you couldn't do before that age. One of which would be get married.
Actually, you get married at 16. Pay tax, all of those kinds of things, you know. I mean, someone once said to me, if you're if you're old enough to pay tax, then you should be able to do anything.
Within the law, and I kind of agree with that. But you can't get a mortgage at 16. And you can't drive a car at 16.
In this country. And the vehicle, the vehicular laws, the vehicle laws are. At 16, you can drive a moped.
You can drive a car on private property. At any age, so. If I was born on a farm.
I always think of being born on a farm Superman. Do you know when they find him in his little spaceship? His mom and dad that live on a farm and he grows up on the farm. But me growing up in a farm wouldn't mean that I had superpowers like Superman at all.
Really, I don't know why I associate farms and Superman. But then you wouldn't need a car, would you? Because you could fly around. It's got to be very difficult.
Being Clark Kent. Imagine, I mean, I don't think they play. Maybe they do, because they, you know, there's been a lot of different Superman TV shows and stuff.
As well as the movies. But imagine if you could literally pretty much do anything. You know, as far as.
You know, physically, pretty much do anything. You're surrounded by people. You lived in a big city, so you can't really do anything too odd.
Because people are going to notice. Which is weird, because in London, I've seen some of the oddest things ever. And no one cares.
I don't know, literally, I think it was during the Christmas period, I'm on a bus and we stop at a bus stop. And there's a lady standing there, and it's, we're talking a cold period, you know, December's normally very, very cold. She's standing there in a dressing gown, eating an ice cream.
Or an ice lolly or something. So, that's the kind of stuff that is just normal in London or big cities. And I'm talking as if I know what it's like there now, it might be different now.
But that's what it used to be like. It was, I guess, just unusual things that aren't as noticeable as it would be in a town, or a small town, or a small village, or in the countryside. And I've lived in all those different places.
So, then you've got smaller, smaller cities like Liverpool, or Newcastle, Luton, Leeds, any of the ones, pretty much Manchester, that are smaller, busy in the centre. But from what I've seen on YouTube, there's some fairly unusual behaviour in those places as well. I guess it's anywhere, isn't it? It's not really, it doesn't feel unusual though.
When I was in London, it was unusual when I first started seeing things that were very different from what I was used to. But it was not, it wasn't different from what was inside my mind. So, seeing someone eating a nice lolly in the dressing gown, you know, in like minus two, minus three degrees, is not that unusual in my mind.
It's interesting, maybe amusing, maybe wondering, I wonder where they are mentally, you know. Or, that's just what they like doing. Maybe they've lived their whole life in the Antarctic, and this is like a summer's day to them.
It might be, you know. I mean, that whole going out in your dressing gown, in your pyjamas, I've never done that, I mean in public. I mean, other than, I suppose to put the rubbish out, kind of put the rubbish out the front.
Yeah, I might have my dressing gown on in the past. I can't remember the last time I actually wore a dressing gown. I do have one now.
My friend downstairs had both my dressing gowns at one point. I don't even know why he had both of them. Oh yeah, someone stole his dressing gown, so I gave him mine.
And then one day he came up here, because he used to love being, like, topless. And I think he was up here and it was cold, so I let him borrow my dressing gown, like while he was up here, and he went downstairs with it, and I never saw it again. I remember when his family came and like looked at the flat.
They said they were going to have to order a skip for all the dressing gowns. We rolled around laughing. No, he only had about five or six hundred.
He liked his dressing gowns. The thing is, on him it was loose, on me it was tight. Thanks, Finn.
So, difference between me and him, he was very tall. Well, I say he was tall. I mean, I'm pretty short for my height.
He was tall, I'm wide, like in comparison, although he was wide as well. I don't know how to explain it. But so my clothes, we didn't swap dress and swap clothes and stuff.
That sounds a bit strange, doesn't it? So, he gave me a cardigan, and actually it fitted me fine. The sleeves were too long, but because he'd had it when he was a lot bigger, because he lost a lot of weight over the years, but he had it. This is from like quite a while ago, and it's a designer cardigan.
I think I've still got it. It just reminds me of him, so I kept it. It's a nice, he didn't wear it.
Because it was too big for him. So, he let me have that, and then I let him have my dressing gown that was baggy on him. But the sleeves were too short.
It was funny, this honestly, but if I get an ordinary dressing gown, I generally have to roll up the sleeves if I do washing up, because I don't have long arms. I'm like, what are those dinosaurs with the tiny arms? That's me. So, he put on the dressing gown.
So, the upper body, he'd have loads of room, you know. So, it'd be loose around his waist, because he was very slim, and his upper body, you know. But his arms, the sleeves would be up to pretty much his elbows.
We're very, very, very different body shapes. It's weird, but I think we both wanted to be a little bit like each other, because he wanted to get more weight on him, because he used to be a lot heavier when he was younger, and I wanted to be taller. Now, he's the one that had more chance of succeeding than I did.
Because I can't, you know, obviously. But, you know, I think when he was older, even when he was younger, he was always slim, but he was just bigger, because he was tall, you know. Because that's the thing, with tall people, like really tall people, they can weigh quite a bit without looking like they've got an inch of fat on them.
Because just the bones alone are heavy, aren't they? Now, I've never weighed someone's bones, I'm not a bone expert, you know. I mean, it's hard to, yeah, no, I've never weighed anyone's bones. But I realised that about myself, because I was so slim when I was younger, and the body weight, as I kind of got big, got older, put on muscle, and some of the other stuff that I don't like to talk about, it sounds like fat, and my bone structure was clearly built for this type of body.
It's weird, you know, for years and years, when I was younger, I wanted to be a bodybuilder, I wanted to have big muscles, I wanted to be, I suppose I wanted to be like my dad, because he was big and stocky, which still is. He wasn't a bodybuilder, but he was just naturally big and strong. And I didn't think it was because of my dad, like, I want to be like my dad, but maybe inside there was probably, I suppose a little bit jealous, because, not jealous, it's not the right word, but yeah, I suppose I did want to be big and strong.
And both my brothers are much taller than me, one's like about 5'4, 5'5, 5'4, 5, 6'4, 6'5, blimey, I mean, how tall are you then? If you're as tall as really tall brother's 5'5, what are you, 3'2? No, there's a certain difference, like my other brother, he was over 6', probably, maybe 6'1, it's a guess, I never measured, it's a weird thing, isn't it, measuring your siblings?
I never measured him, you know, never woke up one day in a bed like, what are you doing Jason? What are you doing that tape measure?
You know, I wasn't, nothing weird like that, I didn't measure them, but when someone's like 6'4, 6'5, when they stand next to me, they look huge, lengthwise, they really do, and nearly all, I don't know, I've noticed a lot of people slouch, my brother used to slouch, maybe he was self-conscious, I don't know, I'd love to be tall, I'd love to be 6'5, 6'6, 6'9, 7', yeah, I'd probably get annoyed with some of the comments, you know, like people say, oh what's the weather like up there?
That would probably get a bit tiring after the first 30 years, but it is, you know, the only time I ever felt tall in my life, twice, when I was counselling, I used to go, one of my, I had three, what did I have?
Apart, outside of private practice, I also had, I worked for MIND, I worked for a children charity, where it was like a young person's charity counselling, so I did those as well, so that's four, three different places, included my own place, and I also did another place, which was a subsection of MIND, and it was for children, and it wasn't, it wasn't technically a counselling position, but they were only employing counsellors to do the job, so what my job was, is to go into schools, and sit for an hour,
or 50 minutes, whatever, not necessarily just sit with them, but be with a kid, who's got problems, and they don't know what's going on with the kid, whether it's behavioural problems, or maybe the kid's just stopped interacting, whatever it might be, and I went, I think I went into about six different schools, it took forever to travel between them, because I didn't have a car, so relying on buses, it was, in some ways, it was my favourite job, the favourite thing I'd ever done, because it was rewarding, and it was fun, and it was, it's kind of what I got into counselling for, that and the working with the kids, at the youth charity.
I guess I wanted to count, I wanted to be, to be what I didn't have, to be, you know, to be able to help kids, not necessarily in the same position that I was when I was little, but just, yeah, to be someone that I would have perhaps benefited from meeting, or spending time with, when I was maybe five, or six, or seven, you know what I mean, so that was, I think becoming a counsellor, or trying to become a counsellor, it wasn't a straightforward process of, like, why I was doing it, I mean, part of the reason was, I'm going to have a drink of water first.
Ooh, water! I got a delivery a few days ago, and they delivered everything but the water, and that was really the only thing that I really needed, because it was a hot day, I needed the water, because I get through a fair bit.
Why don't you drink it out of the tap? Why don't you shut up? So, I, I suppose for me, the reasons why I, I fantasised about becoming a counsellor, many years before I did it. I want to say I fantasised, I mean, I just imagined what it would be like. Yeah, we know what fantasise means.
No, I want to be, I want to be particularly descriptive of this one. Because, you know, you can go different directions with the word fantasy, can't you? I wonder what it would be like to help people. You know, and I'm talking from the late 90s, long before I got into, okay, not long before I got into hypnosis, but because I got into hypnosis in 98.
But long before I was doing the free service that I do, before I started doing this stuff, online. And yeah, so I kind of, because I was reading, I had quite a few Carl Rogers books, and also what's his name, Gestalt Therapy, Jungian, Freud, Whittaker. Then I had the Richard Bandler stuff.
I'm just trying to think what other, Viktor Frankl. Various different kind of, you know, psychotherapies, counselling, kind of stuff that I was just interested. So I was interested.
I thought that it would help me by reading that stuff. It would help me internally. I'd absorb it and natural changes would occur, natural positive changes would occur.
But I did also read it from the perspective of being a therapist one day, doing that. But I didn't really expect to ever do it. And I suppose the circumstances came, the stars aligned, as it were.
And I was in a position to do it. I'd looked into it. I'd started so many different training courses that I didn't complete.
I mean, the only courses I ever really completed was the NLP and hypnosis courses up to that point. And so I suppose one of the main reasons, okay, at the time, I'd lost my job. Well, they'd forced me out by saying, go full time again or leave.
So I left. Because I couldn't, I'd been ill. So that's why I was on part time.
And it just suited me better. I could never be full time. Just for whatever reason, I just didn't.
Just too lazy, maybe. I'm not lazy at all. If you saw how much stuff I do here, you'd think, wow, he watches a lot of television.
Wow, he eats a lot of chocolate. He doesn't do anything. No, I do.
I do. A fair bit, actually. Just a lot of it is behind the scenes.
See, you can't, well, I can say you can't see me doing it. You can't see me doing this, can you? This might not really happened. How do you know it's real if you can't see it? So the circumstances kind of came right in a way.
It's like, okay, well, this is the beginning. It's really about June time. And I thought, I'd already been looking at the course online.
I think I maybe had the, the, the mag, not the magazine, the, no, I did. I had the university magazine of courses at home. So I knew which course I wanted to do, which was the, what was the, the university magazine was counselling studies.
But the first two years was person centred counselling diploma, which meant that I'd be a qualified counsellor. And then the final year was the, what's it, the degree part that turned it into a degree. So I didn't have a job.
I signed on for a little while without the intention of staying signed on, because I decided pretty much as soon as I, as soon as they sort of gave me that ultimatum to leave or go full time. Plus they were making, they were like laying people off and the place closed down about a year. Year or so later, maybe a little bit longer.
So I kind of knew like the place was going. So I thought, it's not really an investment to stay. I'm just going to be in the same situation in a year or two.
So I thought, no, I'll take a gamble. I was very lucky because where I was living, because I was in the Buddhist community. So I knew that if I didn't have rent for a few weeks, I wasn't going to get kicked out.
But they needed the money, they needed to pay the rent and you know, the mortgage and stuff. But I knew that I wouldn't, you know, they'd be kind, which I think is valuable. So, because in a way, my, my landlord was a close friend.
So, you know, made it a bit easier. But I did pay the rent in the end, but there was a few weeks waiting. So I thought about it and I thought, well, basically what happened to start with is because I was volunteering at both a alcohol charity and a drug rehab place.
So I know I've told this story probably a few times, but not today. Never today, not today. It was ages ago, ages.
Because basically the previous year. So I started university in, I guess it was September 2007. I became unwell at work in, I think it was around August 2006.
Maybe I'd been kind of doing a bit too much outside of work. Because from January, as well as building my new website, I was doing the free pain relief service. And I started making recordings.
And so there was a lot going on. And I was doing the, you know, basically this whole thing started in the beginning of 2006. And I was seeing people in real life as well, doing therapy and hypnosis anyway, not, not counselling.
And doing the free pain relief service, going to people's houses, handing out thousands and thousands of leaflets around the town for the free pain relief service, which I was doing during my lunch break, after work, before work, weekends. So I was kind of knackering myself out to be fair. So I, I thought I was even working on a website while I was at work.
The works, the works, did I say worksite? A website? I was working on a worksite when I was a web. And yeah, I kind of, it was a bit too much. Yeah, there was, there was a few bits, it wasn't just that, it was just a few bits going on.
But so I got a bit unwell, but they, I had a couple of weeks off or whatever, but then they allowed me to go back part time. Then it worked out perfectly for me. Because when I went in, I worked hard.
I got a lot done, because I knew I didn't have to be there for long. So I'd go in from nine to two, something like that. Nine, 10, 11, 12, one, so I think five hours a day.
Perfect for me. Absolutely perfect. And it wasn't perfect for them though.
So yeah, dude, that was one of my, I look back on it quite fondly, actually. What is fondly sometimes? Sounds weird. Look back, look back on it like a bit of a fondle, in a fondly way.
Fondly, fondly. Never thought about that before. So yeah, I, I really made use of that time when I wasn't working, which made the days I was still probably doing a bit too much, but I didn't have to rush around.
So I'd finish work, and it got to the point where I would, because at this point, because I started off at a place called Norcas, which is a alcohol charity. They also dealt with gambling as well. I don't know if they're still there, or if they change what they deal with, because what I've noticed is sometimes charities, they change the client base, based upon what funding is available.
So they might have a bunch of counsellors. But if there's no funding for alcohol, then they might start to see people for relationship issues, or for maybe military or, you know, it could be so. I guess they have to go where the money is.
And I started off there on a Monday evening. This is like early, early in the year, 2006, while I was still full time. So I was going there one, one evening a week on a Monday.
And I started off by doing a course. And I was doing six week courses, where I was basically doing some hypnosis, some NLP, some exercises to help people to kind of move away from and cope with like not drinking and stuff. And that then and at the end of the week, at the night, we did like a half an hour, 40 minute relaxation session.
Then I started recording them and putting them online. And, or uploading them onto the podcast. That's it.
That's right. Anyway, I'm a little bit muddled, what happened in what order to be fair. Because sometimes I think that that when we started doing the CDs, which would have been early 2007, or late 2006.
We kept running out of CDs. So used to give people was sort of saying, Oh, I like the relaxation groups you do. But what about when I'm not here? Can't listen to your voice when I'm not here? Can I? I said, Well, for you had voices, can you just change them to me one of them to me and relax yourself? I didn't say that.
And and someone said, Why can't you make a CD? Can you make a CD? And I thought no. Because I'm thinking quality wise. No, it's gonna be rubbish.
And it was rubbish, but people liked it. So what I did is I did a CD of a live recording. Converted to CD and with the help and this was at the alcohol charity.
So we did that this is early 2007. I think I started handing out the CDs, but they kept going. Honestly, they're doing like 20, 3040 is putting themselves you know, getting blank CDs and just printing out a cover and just putting them in and they just go people will be getting people will be taking them.
And in the end, they just said this is too expensive. So we can't do this anymore. So what that's what I felt like really got more into.
Okay, I need to start putting them onto my website, the recordings. So that's when I start putting all the live recordings I've previously done. And then started to make recordings at home a bit more, like more often.
But I was already doing a previous in 2006. But it was I guess, the podcast I was putting online, it wasn't for people that I knew. This that was more Yeah, I don't know.
It just seemed different. Knowing the people that were listening is a bit more because you know, if you just like this, this recording, I know that no one pretty much that I'm, I'm contacted with in real life is going to be listening to this. Which means, you know, like my dad, I can swear and say naughty words like poo and Willy.
So now that my dad's not going to be listening. If you are daddy, I'm sorry. I said naughty naughty words.
Please forgive me. Please. I'm only 55.
I can't help it. As you told me off swearing the other day. The grandkids are here.
I said, the grandkids. I said, I'm 55. He's 80.
Wow. Still getting told off. So yeah, I think one of the reasons I like to want to do the counselling course was it was an opportunity to get a degree.
I didn't really believe that I was ever, ever going to get a degree. Yeah, I left school with zero, less than zero. You know, I've been watching on TV on the news that young people now have to keep redoing the exams until they pass.
And I kind of thought about that and I thought, well, why? Once you leave school, that's it, isn't it? Who's going to drag you into school to take an exam? And what's the punishment if you don't do the exam? What are you going to be put in prison? For not turning up for an exam that you don't want to do anyway. That flummoxed me. Now I understand, you know, if someone fails an exam, but they need it to complete the course and they need that course to be completed for the, you know, the diploma or the qualification so that they can move on with their education somewhere else.
But if it's just like a 16 year old leaving school and they've got no interest in academic stuff, why should they have to redo it? I mean, I literally and I'm not I'm not saying this is a good idea, but I didn't even attempt to, apart from maybe English, but I still didn't win that one either. But I didn't put much effort into. Well, not even to pass the exams, but, you know, I just scribble and write stuff on it and just just fill in the answers, multiple choice questions.
And I just tick, I wouldn't even read the questions, I just tick whatever. You know, A, B, C, I just tick, tick, tick. All the way through it like 50 or 60 pages tick, tick, tick, tick.
And I figured that you know If I just tick randomly, there's a chance that I could get a good grade. There's a chance. I was wrong.
I got the worst grade in history. and I've researched this I've traveled the world and it was the worst grade in the whole history of education but yeah I just didn't care just didn't care at the time back then I wasn't it didn't I wasn't interested in school or getting qualifications and as it was what we used to have basically CSEs O levels and A levels CSEs and O levels at 16 or in the fifth year we didn't have year 3 or year 6 none of that we weren't that's all
kind of Americanized that's been going on for quite a while now but we didn't have it like that when I was at school so when I started high school it was the first year then the second year was the second year third year fourth fifth in the fifth year would be the first lot of exams I don't know if the mock exams were in the the fourth year or early on in the fifth year I forget but anyone anyway I did I didn't do O levels now it's they've got GCSEs which has been for decades they've had GCSEs but when I was there was CSEs or O levels.
O levels were for the more academic people CSEs were for less academic people I guess which meant if you did a CSE well if you wanted to do A levels which would be you know the next year I think you would have to pass your O level.
CSEs didn't lead anywhere you know it didn't really it was just a there you go like a consolation prize I guess it's like well you attended you turned up there you go and to go to university at that time you needed A levels like a certain amount of A levels that were relevant I guess to the university subject that you wanted to study so it's very it's quite precise so it mapped out very very easily just sort of like so you know what you had to do to get where you
wanted to go but I didn't want to go anywhere so there was no map for me there was no I guess there was no future it was just foggy like looking into the fog that was apart from Christmas the night before Christmas it was still kind of foggy in the future but it was had a lot of Christmas lights in there as well it's a lot brighter and cheerful but I didn't really really kind of think about the future as in what I wanted to be what I wanted to do
I didn't imagine living in my own home or having kids getting married having a car mortgage just having a good job I didn't didn't think of any of that stuff it just the kind of things I used to think about was I'd focus on debate when I was at school it was karate you know the last couple of years of my schooling all about karate and training and hitting a punch bag and practicing my kicks in the garden and lifting weights and just that was the only thing I was really
interested in and I suppose if I if I was to do anything there is to yeah I think I wanted to go to where was it Australia and become a monkey boxer which was a style of kung-fu monkey boxing a little bit of water again so I had a collection of martial art books which would actually show the styles of kung-fu and it map it out so you could practice and you know so I used to love all that stuff monkey monkey boxing that's what I wanted to do and I
suppose me for me it was fantasy there was no reality in the future it was fantasy so I'd kind of daydream of being going to Australia and rolling around on the floor like a monkey yeah it never happened funny enough didn't didn't happen but I had no academic dreams as such well not as such at all but I did like the idea as I got older of having a degree just not necessarily doing the degree I feel the only the only thing that appealed to me about doing the degree is
to have three weeks three years of having to go to work full-time that appealed to me just to have a break where I could focus on something that I was interested in and that's kind of what I did but it wasn't the it wasn't the counseling I concentrated on it was this making recordings making videos that's what I focused on while I was at university as well as you know the course the coursework and the training and you know the counseling part but it freed my time up to do that's
this stuff so that was in some ways there were three good years wasn't you know all good but there was some good parts of it so suppose it was kind of like a dream I never expected I would ever ever ever ever get a degree just basically well based on my past academic inability but what I did is I applied for the course I lied I said that I had a levels but I didn't have any access to them because I said I had GC no I levels and a levels
but didn't have access to those because they were all destroyed and I explained that I lived on my own at 15 and you know I didn't the life was a little bit up in the air when I just you know when I left school when I was doing the exams while I was I don't think I was even living at home at that time I might have been I lose track I was working full time at the chip shop I know that I'd have a bit of time off to go
and do my exam so I turn up and the rules were I mean the exam lasted for maybe two hours but we could leave every time the bell went you know because the bells were on there's every 40 minutes or something so every time the bell went if we'd finished we could leave so I would just finish it and just wait to leave when the bell went and just hand it in just with a lot of nonsense on it now if I had my time back again you might think to
you might think I'd say I'd put more effort in no probably not I just wouldn't have turned up which I didn't to a couple of delight the later exams so I started realizing why am I turning up I've left school I've literally left school I'm not at school anymore I'm working full time I've got nothing to do with school what they're gonna do they're gonna come and arrest me they didn't and I why was I sitting there because you know I had to wait 40 minutes to the next bell and
I'd be sitting there and I'd have the exam done within about three or four minutes just randomly just ticking here and putting weird answers and that was it I'm not proud of this by the way a little bit no I'm not it you know I yeah it just is what it is it's just what happened and it's not the right way to do exams obviously but I started thinking to myself why am I sitting here waiting in this big hall loads of people still writing and I'm just sitting there waiting
for a bell to go why am I just sitting here I think that the time before I actually didn't turn up anymore I just said I'm going to toilet and I just didn't go back and I realized after like you know a few hours of hiding that the police weren't gonna come and get me so I thought okay there's nothing they didn't care it was done when it it's like probably didn't even but they wouldn't have even noticed there's a lot of students to deal with that wouldn't have noticed a
couple missing so I mean obviously I have to have a register to tick everyone off and stuff Newland here miss or sir I used to like to misgender the teachers that's one of my hobbies back then call the lady teachers sir and the male teachers miss not all of them not definitely not all of them because not all of them would play but my maths teacher I'd definitely call her sir yeah used to call her a lot of things we didn't get on I think she wanted to be I guess
she wanted to be a teacher and she wanted to be in charge and in control of me and it wasn't gonna happen I think she struggled with that a little bit yeah yeah I just just didn't just wasn't my thing I know I mentioned it before but only three teachers I liked during high school two of them were RE teachers the religious education teachers and the one I had for the first couple of years he retired and then the one that replaced him she was lovely as well so they're both lovely and in the first year my maths teacher mr.
Johnson he was lovely but then I think he got ill or something and he didn't come back but he was the very very first teacher when it came to an academic subject I didn't read class RE as an academic subject it was more it was compulsory due to at the time living in a Christian country so we used to sing hymns at the beginning of the day in an assembly we just you know so it's just it was kind of spread throughout the whole school it was just back then most schools were Christian schools or Catholic schools what was my point in that what was I saying this for oh yes the RE teachers they were just quite chilled out really the maths teacher mr.
Johnson he literally I remember I was just like sitting there and he was explaining something to me making it much easier I remember his big beard was tickling the back of my neck and eventually said I'm getting a bit uncomfortably can you get off my lap he was lovely I really liked him so friendly he had this hair I know a lot of people have hair but it's more like a lion's mane and it was fine I don't mean that like quar I just generally very fine hair and it was
quite long probably down to his shoulders and he had it back it was just really perfect and his big beard lovely big beard I like big beards I don't know what it is I think there's a safety in it my dad has a beard now never used to well he did used to when he was young but then I think that became unfashionable or his wife at the time said no more beards so when I was before I was even eight I think or maybe eight he shaved it off I
remember he came downstairs this is this is my dad not my teacher he came downstairs and we were looking at me my brothers and there's something about him it was weird he said well have you noticed anything different I said is it the bucket on your head he said no my brother said is it because you're standing in the toilet my dad said no and how would I do that if I was downstairs my brother said well there is a toilet downstairs and my dad said oh yeah I forgot about
that I keep forgetting about that house you see makes sense in the story but you've ruined the story by kind of doing this it's a bit of a distraction to be moving around like this in a story need to kind of just tell the story as it was my oldest brother said yeah but that isn't really how Jason does it is it in his podcasts he moves around doesn't stay static in a particular story and that can cause a degree of drowsiness and calmness to fall over a person to calm
their mind because they realize they don't they don't have to listen if they don't want to which is potentially a nice thing and I looked at my oldest brother thinking what are you going on about he's had his shade off his beard isn't he so I think what my oldest brother was doing he was yabbering on while he's trying to figure out what my dad had done different what is weird because once we realized he shaved his beard off we rolled around on the floor hysterically laughing now I don't remember
why I don't if I was doing it because my brothers were doing it and I was just copying them like a little monkey that I was or if my dad just looked silly or silly you know as in like so different that it was funny compared to how he looked before or the fact more likely the absurdity of not noticing something like that and it's not like he didn't just have a little beard he had a big bushy beard kind of the kind of beard you just want to grab hold
of and there's a degree of you know feel safe being around it you know as a little kid I used to I used to hold on to his beard and he'd walk around and sometimes I'd actually hide in it hide in his beard I didn't why am I saying stuff like that it's weird so that first year living with my dad and his new wife because I didn't know my dad before the age of just before I was seven and I mean I met him when I was a baby I
guess but I didn't remember him and he he's I was basically like a little baby for a year I was the tiny I was tiny so I kind of got away with it but I was the baby of the family for a year until my little brother came along the day before I was eight so I used to ride on my dad's shoulders you know do the old giddy up giddy up holding on to his hair and his ears and my dad was so patient and then sometimes he'd have to
kind of let me off you know so we're getting too heavy now I didn't realize that he had a bad neck like really bad neck from an injury you know previous and my dad was probably absolutely not enjoying it at all especially having his ears pulled I don't think anyone enjoys having their ears pulled giddy up giddy up remember I was on his shoulders once and I said my dad's I said I said to my dad can you take me to the sea he said well I will walk you to
the cruise on the beach I was on his shoulders he said it'd be easier if you actually get the other way around because I can't see so I got around and he said if you face the same way that I'm facing so I did that and it was easier for him so I was on his shoulders I was faced the wrong way so he couldn't see well because that's a really silly no one would do that because it's just absurd you know the visual you sit down you get on the
shoulders and you face the way the person if you're a little kid you don't get on the shoulders it's just the silliness of it you know I can't be bothered to explain it and what else yeah I used to sleep on my my new mummies on her lap when we was out in the car and go to sleep and cuddle up to her that was nice and I used to get in the bed with them try and crawl in between them I was like a little baby I hadn't done any
of this ever probably in my life and suddenly I mean I was seven it's not like I was old but I was probably quite old mentally for a seven-year-old not educationally but just quite streetwise I suppose because I had to be and I regressed to being a baby basically I mean I'm not literally it wasn't like I wasn't any of that stuff but I was very clingy especially to my new mum I mean in a way I was like a monkey just keep coming back to the monkey idea I was
like a monkey I suppose when I was on my dad's shoulders hitting them on the head giddy up giddy up I was like a little monkey I was about the size of a little monkey Wow that was my favorite year probably the favorite year of my life that was between seven and eight it was just it was a happy year generally it was just you know yeah special year special oh my website I'm half fallen asleep now I think I need to go back to bed for a little bit and
so my website here's what I've done right it's a jasonnewland.com when you go on to the first page so you've got one two three four five six seven eight nine there's ten boxes about this service Let Me Bore You To Sleep send me PayPal gift latest recordings podcasts stream podcasts podcast apps Facebook group social media and contact me that may change in the future but that's what I've got there at the moment so if you click on about this service about this free service it just goes through you know who
I am and how long I've been doing it and all that stuff okay the next one is the Let Me Bore You To Sleep so that takes you to all the episodes that you can download so there are 1,652 different recordings that you can download for free on the Let Me Bore You To Sleep and some of them have just one recording probably the least the first thousand do after that especially all the latest ones have six different recordings all included in the free download so but there's 1,652 to choose
from so you can just go down and just literally you can you can download the whole lot if you want it's all free and then the next one is so send me a PayPal gift just a bit of information of what I do and why I do it and stuff and the next one is latest recordings so whenever I upload a new recording it will be on that page in a playlist so there's a playlist there of 2,240 episodes 14,280 hours and 35 minutes so if you played it it would
continue playing for 14,280 hours and 30 don't forget the 35 minutes so yeah I mean there's a lot of stuff there a lot of recordings the next one is podcasts let's say here's a list of all my podcasts a little bit of information about each one so let's click on let me bore your pain away so again it takes you the same as with the Let Me Bore You To Sleep before you know with the 1,600 different recordings so I got 43 different let me bore your pain aways the same
kind of thing some will have just one recording some will have all six depending on how many I had saved anything new that I do will have all six recordings and what's another one that relaxes stress and panic attacks 205 recordings so yes that's one all the different podcasts are there so Let Me Bore You To Sleep deep sleep whisper Jason's bedtime story time let me bore your pain away relaxation for stress and panic attacks relaxes sleep hypnosis daily Jason Newland sleepy boring objects stop nail-biting stop smoking stress and pain
relief breaking from control breaking free from control and manipulation chronic pain healing from the inside Q&A Friday sleep hypnosis and lastly requested recordings so that's cool oh so that all the different ones and you click on those and it will take you to pay a list that you could just download for free all for free and then you've got stream podcasts so this is basically it's the same podcast as I just mentioned and you can click on it on this one I've got the hypnosis for sleeping deeply because that's a
podcast on its own with the other ones it's a mixture of podcast or go on to hypnosis for sleeping deeply so you can click on that one and it's basically an embedded player which would be that be exactly the same as latest recordings so that's there and you got 14,280 hours but if you used to click on Let Me Bore You To Sleep 8,115 hours 1,723 episodes but that's including the six versions of each still quite a few you know so it's there's there's a lot there so that's a stream
so basically the stream podcast it just it's the embedded player within the website for each podcast the podcasts link takes you to the to the the actual recordings where you can download podcast apps this is something that we've had a few issues with over the years but I've tried to sort it out now if this is a podcast you like and you want to know where it is you know if you can't find it because Spotify maybe it's got too many of the same recording in my name that it might
not be playing properly or just you know it's hard to find it if you go to this one which is podcast apps that's the page there's they're gonna be more but at the moment there's Spreaker Apple Podcasts Spotify iHeartRadio Amazon Music Dash Audible Castbox Deezer Podcast Addict and Podchaser I haven't got SoundCloud so maybe I need to do that but there's only two recordings on SoundCloud that I couldn't go in it's up to you I could do that I fell asleep while I was talking then so what I've got is
so if I click on Apple view podcasts it's all the podcasts I mentioned earlier so click on let's go to relax and sleep hypnosis daily click on that one and that takes me to the Apple page for that podcast or if I want to see Let Me Bore You To Sleep Let Me Bore You To Sleep listen on Apple podcasts Let Me Bore You To Sleep and I can play it there so and it's the same for all the different apps so it's the same list all my podcasts on all
the different apps so let's say who Podchaser kind of Podchaser and I want to watch maybe that's where I have my I want to listen to Let Me Bore You To Sleep on Podchaser because that's my favorite thing and it comes up and then what you can do is you can subscribe or follow yeah do it from there so this is all it's all good really but there are more podcast apps out there but these are the main ones at the moment you know as far as for me so what
is it one two three three six nine three six nine this is nine but I can probably add another 10 or 20 possibly but I don't know how many of them will have all of my recordings on there but you know Apple podcasts and Spotify definitely the two main ones out there I don't know how many of mine I mean I'm gonna have to sort of every now and then just check the links to make sure it's all on there listen on Spotify listen on Spotify listen on Spotify oh okay
interesting listen on Spotify oh well it looks like this they're all available apart from one how strange so you know if you're if you're struggling to find stuff see this is what I don't understand like the Spotify one has not updated so it hasn't got the one that I did last it's got the one from the 10th of August but it hasn't hasn't updated to the last one I did and I don't understand why why because it's definitely been updated uploaded I wonder where where where where wonder but yeah and
that's it really so I'm gonna what's not it let's do this if there's anything else I need to show you I mean I might have to do some fine tuning along the way but that's okay a little bit of a little bit of this little bit of that you know just to make it oh brilliant I managed to really really I managed to come out of everything look myself out of everything that was not my intention I mean really it was not I can't tell you how much it wasn't my
intention to come out of all the websites I was using and I had a lot going on and now it's all been it hasn't deleted what I was doing but it makes it a little bit more not quite as easy to find what I was doing let's see if I could find it let's see right hopefully if I go to pages oh okay so cast box just check that's all done it's all done yeah it's all done that's cool right I'm tired yes I am all right well thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe lots of love bye
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