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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is stress and chronic pain relief. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.
This is going to be a practical session. You haven't got to do a lot. It's not like you have to roll around on the floor doing yoga poses and saying namaste or anything like that.
But I will be guiding you through an exercise that then you can do on your own. Of course, if you choose to listen to it again and you know it's it can be easier to listen to me going through it and also if you're used to listening to my voice and you have that connection of relaxing when you hear me speak then you know there's that is an advantage which can I guess fast track the feeling of comfort spreading through your body.
So this is a kind of a newish podcast although I will be spreading and sharing spreading is probably not the right word sharing this with some of my other podcasts and because of the relaxation element and I'll say what I say at the beginning of all of these recordings is that the reason why the same technique for both stress relief and chronic pain relief is because the same techniques work for both.
That's why it's kind of a yeah it's a whatever you want to call it it's useful it's useful for both so I combine rather than having two different sessions I might as well just do one for two if that makes sense it did before I said it. Now there's lots and lots coming in the future and this is something that I've been doing for a long long time 15 years I've made many chronic pain relief sessions as well as many many hundreds and hundreds of relaxation sessions.
So some of the ideas I guess will be repeated or maybe variations of a similar topic or idea but it's okay.
The main thing as far as I'm concerned and I think for yourself should be the only thing that really matters is is it useful. If it's not useful then it's of no use to you. So it has to be useful that's the main thing that's the only really the only important thing is that when you finish this recording when you finish listening that you feel more relaxed than you did before that you the part of your body that had the physical discomfort feels you feel less of that than you did before.
That's the bottom line and it's very easily tested just by listening by following what I say and so basically by listening to me you are giving me permission you're allowing me to temporarily guide your mind towards more comfort and as I said you can then do it in your own time if you choose or you can just re-listen to this recording and gain more benefit each time you listen because the more you listen the easier and more deeply relaxed you become.
Now I'm going to ask you to think about something or rather someone really but it can be a thing but somebody who when you think about that person your body you just feel really good okay and I'm not necessarily thinking about like a romantic partner of course it's up to you who you think about but I was thinking for example I don't know if you've got a think like a small child or if you're you've got a grandparent or maybe it could be a parent that could be your child maybe it could be your cat or your dog or your ferret because I've got a little ferret called Andre.
Now if you haven't or you can't think of any individual person that gives you that warm pleasurable almost joyous feeling then perhaps think of a thing an item it could be your car it could be something you've just purchased maybe I mean I know it might sound silly but it's not really you know it could be an extension or it could be your new double glazing you just purchased and you're feeling really wonderful about it and why not you know whatever it is or the person that gives you that feeling
when you think about it you're like oh really feels nice so it doesn't matter what it is you don't have to tell anybody what it is because I'm just going to ask you to think of that thing or that person it could be a holiday that you had it could be a an experience that just left a lasting wonderfully positive memory in your mind okay so I'm trying to cover all angles here basically think of something nice I could have just said it that but I wouldn't really use it I'd
like you to get into the feeling of something very powerful so if I was to say to my dad for example to think of somebody he would think of one of his grandchildren because you know that joy that real and it's almost like when I see him with his first grandchild his heart melted it's almost like his heart melted with this little girl that was there and he having a grandchild seemed to change him as a person so if there's something that's I'm looking for something emotionally powerful for you but
positive very very positive okay right and if you need to think about something or think of someone or maybe you could go and get a photograph of the person you can press pause uh and then just come back and then continue just press play to continue so now that you've got that person or thing you know the image is in your head of the the feeling the thing connected to the feeling and the feeling is the main thing okay and what we're going to do is we're going to actually fill
a a tub okay it's like a you know a hand tub uh like cream that you put on your face that kind of size tub little it can be a I don't know plasticky tub thing so you're going to put it in there basically you're just going to pour it into that tub that feeling so in your mind imagine just pouring it in and it's creamy the feelings creamy the feelings it can be any color could be white yellow green whatever color you want whatever that feeling that color of that
uh happiness that joy that love as you just pour it into this tub sort of like an ointment like a cream a beauty product you know something like that so you poured that in there and now what you do is put the lid on put the lid on top so what's going to happen now as you count down from 20 down to one that little jar or big jar depending on what you have in your mind it's going to start to ferment it's going to start to develop inside the jar
and that feeling is going to become stronger inside that closed jar so you got the lid on keeping all that positive feelings in there but as you count down from 20 down to one those feelings are going to increase inside the jar so you're not gonna really need to feel anything while you're counting down however because those feelings are connected to you and even though they are separated by space and they're in the jar away from your body there's that connection so as you count down from 20 down to one
and although the feelings of comfort and happiness and love kindness gratitude all those wonderful beautiful feelings all mixed together are now increasing in intensity and power healing power inside that jar which is closed with the lid on top closed tightly you can also get a sense of something happening within yourself as well because that energy is still a part of you even though it's in that jar so whatever happens physically so if you you may find that you feel more relaxed you may find that the feeling of comfort really begins
to get strong you may find that the parts of your body that you know you had tension or physical discomfort before you started listening to me talking those parts start to change as well and you feel more comfort but the counting down from 20 to one isn't really to do that the counting down from 20 to one is for those feelings inside that jar with that healing cream and those feelings those positive feelings to increase as you count down from 20 down to one and any other pleasurable feelings that you
experience in your body or your mind whilst you count down it's just an added benefit which is happening all by itself so we're going to count down from 20 down to one starting now 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and i realize that you may have found yourself beginning to drift due to the increased sense of comfort relaxation and you may have noticed that focusing on anything other than my voice seemed unnecessary even though you can notice
how your body is feeling right now not just the parts that were relaxed before and perhaps feeling a lot more comfortable now a lot more relaxed now i'd like you to focus on those parts maybe choose a particular part of your body which before we started this recording you had either stress or physical discomfort of some kind and as you focus on that part of your body whether it's in your body your torso your limbs or in your head or your face just focus on that part and even though you've
not yet opened or you know undone you're not taking the lid off basically that little jar or the big jar depending on how you decided to proceed you've not taken the lid off you know that the strength of that feeling that positive healing loving feeling has increased you know that because you've counted down from 20 down to one and you've also maybe you've also noticed that as you were counting down from 20 down to one your body also started to have more of those positive feelings spreading through your body so
there's that curiosity that rises in your mind as you wonder to yourself what's going to happen when you take the lid off what's going to happen when you dip your hands into that healing relaxing cream and start to spread it all over that area of your body so you may start to wonder what will happen how will it feel how much more relaxed and comfortable are you going to feel and it only seems right that maybe maybe it would give this little jar of healing energy another countdown from 10 to
1 to allow it to grow even stronger with each number and then we'll take the lid off and then we can spread it over that area of your body 8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 now in your mind remove the lid from that healing relaxing lotion the cream as you take the lid off you can feel the energy the positive healing energy that's being emitted from that jar of cream spreading it even more over that area and taking more out of that jar and spreading it again
on top maybe two three four layers thick on that area and again this time we're going to count down from 10 down to one which will stimulate the cream and then we'll take the lid off and we're going to take a deep breath in just as it did when it was inside the jar and sealed up except this time that increased sense of comfort calmness and deep relaxation will increase twice as strong with every number you hear me say starting now 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Paragraph spacing and recurring name or title errors have been tidied. Because this began as a voice transcription, an occasional word or piece of punctuation may still be incorrect.