(music) #3 Jigsaw pieces - Let me bore your PAIN AWAY (Jason Newland) (3rd October 2022)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is going to be a recording called Let Me Bore Your Pain Away, number three I think. So the whole point of this is I guess it's kind of a distraction, it's a relaxation, it's a kind of a test to see how you feel.

So only listen to this or watch this video when you can safely close your eyes and also you need to know the cause of your chronic pain as well because it's important that you know the cause of your pain before you do anything to reduce it or get rid of it. For example if you had a pain in your stomach and it was appendicitis you know you need to get to the doctor, to the hospital and get those old appendix removed possibly.

You don't want to be masking the pain.

Okay so that's the boring stuff out of the way. It isn't really because the rest of this is going to be even more boring than that. So before we do anything I want you to kind of want you to focus on the creaky chair.

Can you hear that? It's really really creaky. It's got creakier. It's a bit like my body just got creakier as it's got older.

It's not really that old, it's only about three years, probably less than three years old. Anyway I still keep meaning to do something about it to maybe try and de-creak it but I don't, I haven't got around to it yet. To be honest it's not at the top of my list of things to do.

So I think when it comes to chronic pain or listening to a chronic pain reduction audio session such as this, the first thing to do really is to gauge what kind of level the pain is at right now. So this is going to be a very general session. So it could be for any pain that you have in your body, externally, internally, in your head, eyes, hands, fingers, toes, wherever it might be.

And I'm not going to know where it is because I'm not there with you but this will be for any type of pain. And just to let you know that I have done quite a few specific sessions for pain such as for headaches and back and other stuff. And I do intend to do more because that was where I started out.

That was my, I don't know, my passion I guess. And it's not that I've lost my way along, you know, over the last 12 and a half years, but it's just other people have asked me to do other stuff. People have asked me to do, and they started asking me to do sleep sessions and more relaxation sessions and sessions for various issues over the years.

But chronic pain was the only thing that I was ever really interested in when I first started out as a hypnotist. I was, I was just amazed at the stories I heard and read about because I'm quite well read when it comes to hypnosis. I'm also quite well read when it comes to my skin.

I've got quite a red face at the moment. But I look like a drink but I don't. It's that kind of, I've got that kind of face.

But it's the summer so I can kind of get away with it a little bit. It's during the winter, still red, but I just have to pretend I've just been outside all the time. So really it's the stories I've heard and the results that I've seen firsthand as well where the physical pressure or the physical discomfort actually does reduce with a variety of techniques ranging from visualization to distraction, relaxation, manipulation, just to change the way you're thinking by focusing on a different part of your body or by just maybe a mixture of all of those.

And I suppose, I guess, I suppose, I guess I'm kind of doing a mixture of all of those in the format of boredom. So I'll come back to that area of your body and I'll move away again and I'll talk about something else and I'll come back and I'll move away. And what you may notice is something happens that may surprise you.

You may not be surprised but you may be surprised how that level of what you would call chronic pain, discomfort, whatever name that you would give it actually reduces. So it's, I guess it's fairly important just from a gauging perspective, just so you can get an idea of how useful listening to my boring voice can be, is to first of all, maybe mark what level that discomfort is now, or maybe it was before I started talking.

It may already have started to reduce and for those of you that have listened to me before, there'll be an automatic sense of relaxation that just naturally occurs.

It's just my voice can be a trigger to that, a trigger to let go and relax. And those of you that are listening for the first time, it may be different. And just to remind you or to let you know really, there may be background sounds.

I'm not in a recording studio with soundproofed walls paying 40, 50 pound an hour to do this. I can't, you know, I don't have the finances to pay for that stuff. So I'm recording this in my living room, in my home.

And it's being recorded on a, it's like a mini recording studio, a digital recording studio. But as I said, there may be background sounds, but this isn't sleep. Even if you do fall asleep, it's not, that's not what this is necessarily about.

And that's okay. Because even if you were in a cave deep underground, you'd still hear a mouse fart. You know, there's still going to be some kind of sound somewhere.

Of course, it'd be a lot more echoey if I, if I was in a cave, but I don't think I'd really want to go to that length. Although I used to, the therapy room that I used to use years ago when I was a counsellor, and I used to use that room, go there in the middle of the night, late, you know, probably 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, quite late.

And I'd be making recordings because it was the only place I could find that was relatively quiet.

But I don't have access to that room anymore. Because the it's gone. I think it might be knocked down.

I don't know. I made that up. I've got no idea if it's been knocked down.

But so we're going to keep coming back to that level that that area, I'm going to call it an area, the area of your body. And when I say your body, I'm including your head, I'm including your neck, including your fingertips, I'm including every, every single part of you is included. That area, that part.

Okay, that's what I'm talking about. When I say going back to that part, that area. So whether it's your forehead, whether it's the bottom of your foot, you know, wherever it is.

And what you may find, which is weird is not weird, but it's natural is even though the issue that you had, maybe, let's say in your left knee. And as I mentioned, the left knee, you focus on the left knee. It's just natural to do that.

But then when I talk about your forehead, might be in your forehead, your shoulder, you focus on those areas. And as you focus on those other areas, your focus of attention, then it kind of dissipates the, the irritant, the irritating area. It kind of gives it less pressure, gives it less importance as far as your attention goes.

Not that it's not important. Of course it is. Your whole body is equally as important.

And that's another thing is with chronic pain. And I'm not talking about acute pain, which would be a fresh injury, a broken hand, you know, something that maybe needs a doctor, you know, a doctor or hospital. That would be acute pain.

Chronic pain is really when you've already, you don't need the pain anymore to know you don't need. So if you've got a broken leg, once you've had your leg plastered, you know, it's broken. You don't need that pain anymore.

You just need to remember not to put any weight on it. And if you put weight on it, then good, you get that pain because that pain is there to protect you and to remind you not to put weight on that leg until it's healed. So the pain is a good thing.

It's there to protect you. It's your body caring for you. It's, you know, basically yourself loving yourself, you know, looking after you.

But if you're sitting in a chair, you've got a broken leg, it's, you know, it's in plaster or in some kind of a sling or whatever it is that the hospital's put in. You don't need it to hurt. It doesn't need to be in pain because you're being careful.

So you don't need to be reminded. Nobody that's got a broken leg needs to be reminded that they've got a broken leg. You know, you can see it.

I broke my hand about four or five months ago and I knew I'd broken it. I didn't need it to hurt. You know, once, once I'd got it checked out, x-rayed, got it plastered, but it was more of a, you know, one of those strap-on plaster things that you put onto it.

So I had that. The pain was unnecessary, providing I stopped trying to use it. I couldn't use my hand and I needed to be reminded of that every time I went to try and do things like, you know, go and type on my keyboard, on my laptop.

So I couldn't use my right hand. It was, you know, there was this, just couldn't do it. And I wasn't supposed to be using my right hand because it was broken and it needed to heal.

It needed to be left alone to heal. So when I went to use it, the pain went up and I was reminded to actually behave myself and care for myself. But when I stopped using my hand, it was okay.

And it was just a feeling of healing. So maybe sometimes there's that feeling of healing that can be perhaps mistaken for pain when actually it's a different kind of feeling. It's a sensation and it's an unusual sensation that you wouldn't get generally in a normal situation.

Maybe your hand wouldn't normally feel like that, but it's a healing sensation. So it's, and there's nothing to worry about when you know what it is. Once you know that it's broken, once you know that, you know, you've got a knee that needs to replace him, for example, then you don't need to worry about it because you know what it is.

And taking away that worry, taking away that stress reduces the pain. For example, so I might have a left shoulder. Most people have got left shoulders, haven't they? But it might have a, you know, issue with a left shoulder.

But once a diagnosis has been made, whether it's, it may be a chronic pain condition, fibromyalgia and so many different types of conditions that illnesses, diseases, that could be responsible for feelings of chronic pain. Well, that can reduce. When the stress levels reduce, the feelings reduce, the sensations start to just change in a way.

It's a little bit like an ice cube. You know, when you put an ice cube and it's just an average day. It's not, it doesn't have to be a really hot day or anything, but you get an ice cube and you just put it onto the table, put it on a table in your living room or put it on a table in the kitchen.

And to start with, that ice cube is solid, isn't it? You could break it. You could break it into pieces and crush it or whatever. But as it is, it's fairly solid and that can be what chronic pain feels like.

I don't mean cold, but, because obviously in some ways having an ice cube put into that area where you've been dealing with, you know, discomfort, that ice cube could actually spread some relief, deep relief. So you've got that, let's say you've got an ice cube on a table, you just put it there and eventually you haven't got to watch it, but it will melt in its own time, no matter how, unless your kitchen is a freezer itself.

But generally, as long as the temperature is just normal room temperature, the ice cube will melt in the same way that when you kind of let go of some of the stress, the worrying that you had before, then the, in the same way as the ice cube melts naturally, so does that area of your body or wherever it is in your body, starts to just feel more comfortable, feel more relaxed.

I think that's quite a groovy thing really. It's quite a cool thing to actually acknowledge because there's, you know, one of the things that I remember when I was a counsellor, and this is something that I think all humans seem to do, is we generalise perhaps a bit too much for our own health. And if you speak to someone that's got depression, they will say that they're always depressed, and it's not true.

Regardless of how depressed they are, there are moments when they're not depressed, but they just don't realise it, they don't acknowledge it, or they forget it quite quickly. So even someone that's really depressed can laugh, and then forget instantly that they've laughed, and then go back to thinking that they're always just in one state the whole time. And none of us are in one state the whole time.

No one's happy all the time, no one's sad all the time, no one's angry all the time. Although there may seem that way on the outside, I've met people that always seem angry, but I'm not with them all the time. So that's the thing, we're not with people all the time, and we don't know what's going on inside their minds, and maybe they're not aware.

Be aware that actually things change. The way we feel is changing all the time. If you look at a heartbeat, look at a monitor in a hospital, always changing.

Heartbeat, blood pressure, oxygen level, all those kind of things, it's minute changes sometimes, but it's always changing. Nothing really stays on one level, it's always changing. The way you feel is always changing, your temperature is always changing.

Very, very, very tiny amounts usually. The way you feel physically is changing, your awareness of different parts of your body changes. Right now I'm aware of my right foot, especially the toes on my right foot, but now I'm aware of my left ear for some reason.

Just inside my ear, it's a bit itchy actually, but I'm going to ignore it and see what's the next thing to feel. I'm still on my left ear, so that's not going anywhere. I'm now aware of my stomach, the right hand side of my abdomen, underneath my belly button to the right, so I'm just aware of that.

Now I'm aware I've got an itch just below my lips, so it's just above my chin, that area between your lower lip and my chin, a big hairy chin. It's not that big, it is hairy though. Now the different sensations that I noticed, so there is the irritant sensation, so the left ear is a bit irritating because it's a bit itchy.

Not enough that I had to scratch it, but below my lip, near my chin, that was a bit itchy. Now I can feel my right shin is a little bit itchy, which is weird. I don't know where all these itches are coming from, but at the same time, I just noticed my eyelids, so I've got my eyes closed.

My eyes feel really relaxed, really calm. So there's different things going on at the same time really, but it's not really at the same time because this happened, then that happened, I felt this, then I felt that. It's continuously changing.

Now I'm aware of my breathing. I don't know why, but I'm just aware of the cold air, because I'm breathing through my mouth, just aware of the cold air. Now I can hear the train, I can hear a train in the background, and my awareness has moved from my body to outside what I'm hearing, and that's actually transferred.

Well, now I'm kind of going in and out of physical to hearing stuff, so I can hear the sound of the fridge just humming away. I don't mean like whistling and humming and cheering, but just the electrical thing, whatever it does. It's not alive.

Well, it is, I suppose, technically, because it's energy, raw energy, but I'm forgetting that. Now I can feel the lower, it's more like middle back, actually, not lower back, the middle of my back. It feels like it kind of just stretched on its own there, just with the chair, as if my lower back just, I guess it must have relaxed on my middle back, rather.

I'm just saying that my lower back as well, because it's all connected, isn't it? Yeah, I now feel my back of my neck feels really relaxed, actually. Again, I surprise myself sometimes, constantly surprised when I look in the mirror, or a mixture between surprise and horror, but yeah, my neck just feels really loose. I just, but loose, sort of a bit too loose to hold my head up, I decided to lean back, which is a bit weird, but it's relaxing.

And the calmness just generally in the atmosphere just feels quite calm in this room right now. I'd just like you to focus back on that part of you, that part that was causing problems, and just gauge how it feels now, compared to how it did before. Even though it might be difficult to get back to even thinking about how it was before, because you could be enjoying the sensation of feeling calmer, more relaxed, more at peace within yourself.

It's as if your mind has just decided to just go a little bit slower, and your body feels more relaxed, just generally, as a whole. And that's one of those weird things that I didn't really, never really understood, but I'm grateful for it, is that when one part of your body starts to feel relaxed, it then spreads to another part, and then keeps spreading, so the different parts of your body feel more and more relaxed.

And even when you're no longer focusing on the original part of your body that you wanted to relax, that part still continues to relax even further.

Maybe you can even start to think more clearly. You know that feeling when you've been shopping, and you're carrying carrier bags full of shopping from the grocery store, and it's heavy. Maybe you've carried it all the way from the shops.

Maybe you're unloading it from your car, but it's heavy, and you get it into your front door, and you put it down on the floor, and you feel so much relief. Or when you've been out, and you've had a busy day, and you get home, and you sit down in a comfortable chair, and it just feels so good. It feels so, so much relief.

You can just enjoy the feelings that you experience now. And you can go back to that part of your body, and notice how it feels right now. Noticing how it changes, constantly changing.

You can enjoy those changes. You can enjoy being you. You can enjoy being bored by me, and I can enjoy boring you.

You can notice some of those familiar feelings coming back that you used to have before dealing with that chronic pain. Those feelings and thoughts, positivity, remembering how you used to physically feel before you had those physical issues. Remembering a time when your body felt fit, and healthy, and loose, and free.

And you can enjoy that feeling, and you can keep whatever physical feelings that you wish to keep in your body, so that you can appreciate yourself, and feel more comfort, both physically and emotionally. And as I bring this session to a close, just remember that every time you hear my voice, you can naturally feel relaxed, and calm, confident, and you can remember, remember that you can change.

You can allow any feeling to change, because everything changes anyway.

And you can enjoy feeling more, much more comfort, with a relaxed mind, with more optimism towards the future. Opening up your mind to be able to think about the things that you can do in the future. Opening up your mind to think about the experiences that you can, that you can enjoy in the future.

And now, that is the end of this session. Thank you for listening, and I will speak to you next time. Bye.