Aug. 29, 2025

(music) (10 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025

(music) (10 hours) Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025
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Welcome to another episode of Q&A Friday on Let Me Bore You to Sleep with Jason Newland. In this relaxed and often humorous session, Jason answers listener questions ranging from comedy and pets to birthdays and glasses. As always, the conversation wanders into personal stories, reflections, and playful tangents that make this series so engaging. Episode Timestamps

  • 0:00 – 3:22 | Introduction, PayPal gifts, and Jason’s Facebook group.
  • 3:23 – 6:17 | Morning routine with Vinny, running in the rain, and early chatter.
  • 6:20 – 12:07 | Vinny’s barking habits, dog behavior, and Jason’s thoughts on pets.
  • 12:10 – 20:20 | Council flats, new kitchens, and noisy neighbors during recordings.
  • 20:23 – 23:10 | Listener message from Cara, AI video experiments, and teeth talk.
  • 23:15 – 27:28 | Setup for Q&A Friday, questions gathered from the Facebook group.
Listener Questions & Answers
  • 27:29 – 55:09 | Dev’s question: Books, audiobooks, and resources for writing comedy. Jason shares experiences in stand-up, recommendations, and reflections on Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Steve Martin, and others.
  • 55:11 – 1:01:47 | Maria’s question: Glasses—bifocals, varifocals, or contact lenses? Jason talks about his eyesight, glasses journey, and family history of macular degeneration.
  • 1:01:48 – 1:21:48 | Hope’s question: How did Jason end up adopting Andre the ferret? A heartfelt story about falling in love with Andre, bonding, and how he changed Jason’s life.
  • 1:21:50 – 1:23:36 | Rich’s question: When is Vinny’s birthday? Jason shares the details and a little backstory.
  • 1:23:38 – 1:25:49 | Robin’s question: Have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace? Jason recalls his childhood visit and funny memories.
  • 1:25:49 – 1:36:11 | Kathleen’s question: What’s the best birthday present you’ve ever received? Jason reflects on childhood birthdays, his first bike, and sentimental family memories.
  • 1:36:14 – 1:43:00 | Mary’s question: How do you design your episode artwork? Jason explains using AI, Canva, and his creative process for images.


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Hello, Hello, Hello everybody. How are you doing today? Everybody

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you well?

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Are you?

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Oh?

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It's nice?

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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason

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Newland and please only listen when you can safely close

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your eyes. And welcome to Q and A Friday. This

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is Friday's version of let me bore you to sleep.

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LMB white yes, ELM maybe yeah, LMB white yes. And

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Vinnie was all calm and quiet and as soon as

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I start talking, he jumps down and decides to make

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as much sound as he can, bless his little bumb

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So yeah, it's what is it? It's Friday the twenty

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diet for August two thousand and twenty five. And by

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the way, I try to say thank you to everyone

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that sent me a PayPal gift, but there was I

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wasn't able to contact everyone because I couldn't find a

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way to contact see on PayPal usually has like an

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email address or something, but on this one person, it didn't.

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All a couple of people, so I do apologize, but

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I did post thank you on my Facebook group, so

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I should let you know. I've got a Facebook group

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called Jason Newland's Boring Group and as it says, as

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you imagine, it's probably not the most exciting place to be,

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but it's really just for people that love listening to

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the Jason to the Let Me Buoy to Sleep podcasts. Yeah, okay,

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what we've done today. I was going to say, Actually,

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if you want to help me out, and this would

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really really help me out a lot to get more

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placed on Google is and also help the podcast out

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is wherever you're listening to me, could you perhaps leave

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a review that would be brilliant and maybe regularly as well.

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You know, if there's a recording you particular like, maybe

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you can just say what you like about it, because

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the more reviews I get on my podcasts, whether it's

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on Spotify, if you're listening on I don't know, it's

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quite a few different places that you could be listening

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where we've got what we've got Apple Podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify,

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my website, Jasonnuland, dot com, cast Box, Deezer, my Heart Radio, Edge,

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pocket Casts, Chrome and Tenor, pod Speaker, androidapp, Ivo's Audible, VLC, Alexa,

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media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually, if you

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can do that, that would be really really helpful because

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it can help me to reach more people and hopefully

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help more people. Thank you very much. So I haven't

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done a huge amount today. I woke up, had my breakfast,

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took Vanoi out, and then we got rained on. It

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was raining, and to start with, it's just like a

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little bit, you know, spitting, as I say, just a

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little bit weird word, isn't it weird term for rain

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and being spat like yeah, lovely? But that was okay,

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and then it started proper raining and I ran back.

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This is about eight o'clock in the morning, so I'm

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running back with Vinnie, and Vinnie decides he wants to start.

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He wants to start smelling things, sniffing things like why

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but yeah, memo, it's now warm in here. What wasn't

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warm earlier? It wasn't hold, but it was cool. I mean,

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I'm doing my top. Ah, it hasn't made no difference. Scrape,

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just trying to look at some messages. I got here, right,

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So I'll get on with the recording, shall I don't

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normally I've just taken him out again. There's quite a

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lot of screaming outside, but it is in a distance,

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so I'm guessing it's possibly a like a party or

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something kids party, because it's very high pitched, so I'm

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guessing that's what that is. And it's it's not it's

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not close by unless it's in someone's flat, but it

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sounds like it's like a distance away. You might hear it,

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you might not hear it. I've got my curtains drawn,

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the windows are closed, which is probably why it's hot

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in it. They stuffy, and for some reason this is weird.

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For some reason, there's a copweb and it's moving around,

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so I'm wondering if the heating has come on. Shouldn't

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really have come on. It's not that cold. It's not

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warm outside, but it's not cold either. It feels it

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really does feel like autumn is approaching. It's very auetomny

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kind of ish, you know. Yeah. I took him out

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again a little while ago, about an hour ago. And

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it's weird because Vinny's got into this thing like he

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never used to bark at dogs, and he always used

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to love saying loo to everyone, including dogs. Now and

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then he changed and he started to be a bit

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barking towards some dogs, but always like really friendly to

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all people. And more recently over the last few months,

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he's he knows who he likes and he you know,

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he's not he's so, but he knows who he doesn't like.

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And there's this particular couple with a dog and he

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barks every time, and I don't know, they seem to

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be annoyed by it. I can't help him bark it.

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I mean he does. That's what dogs do, isn't it.

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I make sure he keep him away, and he's it's

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not like he's a scary dog or any think. He's

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a tiny little jack Russell. But I don't know if

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it's the dog or the people that he's barking at,

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because I'm pretty sure I saw them out without the

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dog once and there's barking at them. So I don't know.

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He's just got his own sense of I guess who

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he likes and who doesn't like, and I can't figure

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it out. So yeah, it's a shame because he barks

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at the wrong dogs as well. It's just the dogs

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that have got no like the nice dogs. Not always.

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There's a few dogs that are not so good and

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they look like they want to eat him. But a

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few dogs you'll bark at and they're so gentle. But

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then he's got a handful of dogs that he loves

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that he spends time with, and you know, he doesn't

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necessarily play with them, but he's just happy to be

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around them. But he gives the attention to the owner,

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to the human. And then there's three dogs that he's

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friends with that he will play with, and he's not

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particularly interested in the owner. He is still I mean,

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he'll get treats. He's always around. That's his main focus

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in life is to get treats. But at the same time,

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he also likes to play with the dog. I just

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can't keep track of I don't really I wish there

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was a way of communicating with him in a way

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that would make sense of his behavior. I'm no dog expert.

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And before anyone says, why don't you just watch those

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dog those programs on dogs and the dog expert TV

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programs you can probably watch lots of on YouTube, and

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the answer is no, I can't do that because as

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soon as the dog comes on the screen, Vinnie lets

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me go. There's a dog on the screen, which is

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very annoying, especially when I'm watching a movie and it's

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like early hours of the morning or it's the evening

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time when I really don't want him to be barking,

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you know, like nine ten at night, or I'm usually

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in bed by them. But if I'm watching a movie

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and a dog comes on, it's so.

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Rare rah rah rah raight rare right rare rare.

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Okay, he barks. He doesn't do the sound like made,

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but he barks. And there's been times I had to

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turn the movie off because he won't stop barking, and

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it's just like stop it, man, please store pat. So, yeah,

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we went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat is being refurbished.

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This is funny, well it's not funny, but they're putting

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in a brand new kitchen. Now. The person lived down

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there for a year, because that's where Lucas lived. She

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moved in. Two people were getting their bathroom their kitchens done.

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Uncle sausages one of them, and another person downstairs. I

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didn't I have had my kitchen done. She called the council.

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That's what she told me. This is the lady that

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was living in that flat for a year. She moved

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down recently to say when am I getting my kitchen done?

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About herself rather not about me? And they told her

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but this is what she told me. She said they

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said to her that the kitchen had already be done

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a couple of years back, which I know is untrue

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because I probably would have remembered that, wouldn't I don't

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you think it's like nothing that interesting has happened in

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his flat when he lived there, in a sense of anything.

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I mean, his windows were hanging on by a nail.

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Its front windows, they would like rail. When it was windy,

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there'd be a breeze when all the windows were closed,

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they literally it would blow you over. So because it

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was just like all loose, the counselor came around and

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hammered a couple of nails in and that's it. It's like, wow, Okay.

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So when she moved in and she she wanted a

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new kitchen and a new barthroom and all this stuff,

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and the council said no, because I've always been done,

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which I hadn't had been done but maybe twenty years ago.

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And I've been in all the flats except one. Yeah,

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I've not been one flat I've not been in I

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don't think. But I've been in all the other flats,

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not like regularly, but I've seen the kitchens in every flat.

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I mean, downstairs is pretty much identical to my flat

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below me is the same layout, and Luke's old flat

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I'm imagining up theirs, the one that I've never been in,

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would be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps

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not actually because Uncle Sausages a flat. Yeah, that's weird.

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Uncle Sausages flat was Maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No,

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it probably know it's the same layout, the same layout

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as downstairs as well. Yeah, same layout. I'm just trying

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to remember because I've not been in that flat very often.

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It's been a while since I've been in there, and

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I know I've got Sausages Flat layout quite well, and

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my own of course, and you know the one that

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my friend used to live in. I went in there

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a couple of times since the new person moved in.

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I should have moved down now, but by went in

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there a couple of times. It's very weird. I didn't

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like being in there, although it looked nothing like it did.

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It was really if you close your eyes and someone

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took you in there and you didn't know where you was,

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took you into one of the rooms, not the kitchen,

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in the bathroom because it looks the same, but it

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took you into one of the rooms and it's like

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you wouldn't necessarily know where you was to start with.

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I mean, the windows the same, but the decord, the

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furniture is very different, very different. It was much neater, tidier. Yeah,

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it's much more just nicer, very I would say, minimalist.

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Not that he was a hoarder, but it's you know,

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it had less stuff in there, just different kitchen. The

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kitchen look different as well. But then you know he

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had a new fridge, freezer, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster,

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new kettle. And how do I know that because I'm

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the one that bought it all. Yep, yeah, and a

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new TV. I got that for her as well. Why

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did you do that? Then?

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I don't know.

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I just wanted to help. And this is last summer,

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but yeah, hey, not this summer, but last year two

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thousand and twenty four. She did say she was going

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to give me, give me money back for it, but

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she didn't. So I'm trying to think, what is that

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noise out there? Maybe it's a birthday party. Good on them,

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that's the thing I try, you know, if there's if

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I was doing a recording where I needed complete silence.

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I mean, that's the ideal situation personally, But as long

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as I've got Vinnie Ein Treats on the floor, there

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ain't going to be complete silence, And as long as

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I'm talking, it's not going to be complete silence. But

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because I can hear it, I don't know if you

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can hear.

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in a kind of annoying way.

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i'd like to folk, you'd focus on your toenails. We're

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going to relax your toenails, and moving up to your pubes.

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It was that kind of where I would be trying

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to be all sensible and serious and deeply relaxed. It's

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a bit of incongruents when internally I'm thinking, will you

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shut up that noise? You know? And every now and

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the getting up and shouting out the window and sitting

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back down and continue that feeling of your knees knocking together.

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I don't know why that would happen, So I suppose

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I should just get on with the The point the

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reason why I'm doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and

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a Friday, no no jingle us week? Okay, there go,

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there we go. I'm losing laugh Oh okay, sorry, I

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just got a message from Kara. Thanks Carra. That made

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me laugh. Your message made me laugh. I'm going to

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read it out because it's not private, but oh it

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is private, it's not. I'm my good. Oh my gracious,

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I'm losing my marbles laughing over Luke embarrassing you by

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saluting magpies. I love it so much, Thank you, Carra.

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That was yesterday's recording. So, by the way, anyone who

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watched my little I did this little like blowing and

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kiss thing a couple of days ago, and it was AI.

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for your birthday, which is I created this AI video

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from a photo I have better teeth here and it's

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been blowing and then this big smile and like perfect teeth.

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I mean, my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not.

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you know, they were like perfectly sparky white and in fact,

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I don't think if I smile my teeth. That amount

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of teeth doesn't show. If that makes sense, I'd have

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to lift my upper lift up like look, I was

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just doing it and it didn't actually make sense. I can't.

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I can't tell you what I had to do and

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do it at the same time because you it's not understandable.

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in order for my or stayfle of up I say

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a game that didn't work, or you know, pushing them

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up somehow me trying to tell you that is this,

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I have a favor on my in order for you

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to see all my teeth. See, it doesn't quite work,

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but it's quite amazing though, because the rest of me

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looks fine. My face looks the same. It's it's kind

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of it does look like me. Well it is me,

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but there's part of it which is quite amazing. I

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think because my face because as you look at it

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like that is how my face would go generalely if

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I smiled. Apart from that, there wouldn't. It's not as

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much too Fitch. Yeah, AI is getting very clever. No

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so Q and A Friday I posted a quh Yeah,

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any questions for Q and A Friday? I posted it

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on Monday, I do believe. So that's what I've tried

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to do because a couple of weeks ago, I think

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I posted it on the Wednesday and I've got one question,

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so and I didn't do I didn't do it because

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one question wasn't enough really to do a whole podcast,

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although technically it probably was. Thinking about it, I mean,

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I've not even started the questions and I'm still down

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nearly half an hour. I can't help it. I just

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can't stop talking. So I've got a new way of

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doing it now. So on a Monday, if I remember,

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I post this image which is on a post on

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Jason Newland's boring group why Not Join, And it's just

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basically color of thing, color thing, and it says any

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questions for this week's Q and a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss,

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and then a couple of arrows either side pointing down

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to a yellow part of the image, and then the

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date when the Q and A Friday will be so,

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in this case to twenty ninth of April. And I'm

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going to post one of those if I remember every Monday,

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but just change the date, you know, I mean, next

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week's one will be Why is this not opening there

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it is, so I want all all comments, right, got it?

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So I've got questions from Maria, Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary,

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Dev and Ryl. So I'm going to ask you. I'm

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going to answer Dev's question first because, as it says here,

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Hello Jason. Also belated birthday greetings to you. Thank you Dev.

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This is a sort of rollover question from last week,

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but I probably posted it too late. Yeah, I think

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you posted it. I'd already made the recording at that point.

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Because this is from last week. As you were involved

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in the comedy scene, I wanted to know, are there

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any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc. That you would recommend

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for learning about writing comedy? Thanks in advance. There what

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I would advise that I didn't do this myself, which

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really explains why I wasn't very good. But there are

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comedy courses you can do depending on where you live,

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of course, so I'm based in England, but at the

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time I lived in London, which is still England, and

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they had a comedy course. I forget what it was called,

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but it was very popular and I would say probably

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sixty percent of the new comedians had been on that course,

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maybe forty percent, but quite a few comedians had been

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on that course, and quite a few of them went

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on to do okay. So I went on to do

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really really well. I didn't do the course, and yeah,

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I didn't. I don't know why. I'm not sure. I

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kind of wish I had. I would have benefited from

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doing that. But then also I think I did go

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to a I did go to a Manday Knight, who

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was really I don't know if she's still doing comedy,

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but she was. I used to going really well with her,

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and she was originally in a double act where she

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did improv. She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady,

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and she held this improv class. So I went along

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to do it, to do it, and thinking about it

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the way I've kind of turned out, I'm I reckon

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I might have been better at doing some kind of improv,

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you know, bouncing off other people. That might have been

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a better way for me to go instead of sit

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standing on stage just trying to, you know, remember something

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that I'd written down at home. So there's lots of

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different ways to do it. So it's I think if

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I'm going to come from the I mean, one answer

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to your question is that our books out there, there

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are where books on how to do stand up So

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I'm going to do all the work for you instead

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of you going online and searching for yourself. I'll do it.

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Don't worry. I've got plenty of time. I'm not busy

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on Amazon. There is as a chicken two books if

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I remember rightly. Okay, this is one I don't know,

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Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's very famous comedian in America.

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How to be a stand up Comedian. So that's a

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hardback book. I've not read that.

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Where is it? This is a book I used to

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have called the Last Laugh of the world of stand

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up comics. Now I almost want to get it again,

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but I'm kind of cutting down on my books now.

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stand up comedy in America, because that's pretty much where originated.

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doing alternative comedy in the fifties. We started doing it

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in the late seventies, you know, I say we, But

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in this country they've always been decades ahead. Of us,

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not anymore, not anymore, but for a long time. And

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the English stand up comedians we've kind of when I

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say the newer breed, I'm talking last few decades, hugely

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influenced by American comedians, hugely influenced. But I would say

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possibly Americans are now influenced by us maybe as well,

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because because of the Internet, everything's kind of in the

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same time span. Now we're not really behind anymore. But

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that book, The Last Laugh, I won't teach you to

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do stand up comedy, but it's really I used to

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have it in one of the first books on comedy

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I ever bought about nineteen ninety one. I lent it

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to someone and I never got it back. Who was

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it that? Anyway, it was a really good book. Talks

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about I'll give you an example of the book. Out

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of it talks about Rodney da Dangerfield. I said, Rodney

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Daingefield was a comedian in the sixties and he went

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he basically quit comedy for about ten years, and then

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he came back and he became famous in the seventies.

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But he was like a lot older. And you know,

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I mean, if you think about Rodney dangefal I don't know.

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He's no longer with us, but I can't even remember

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him being young. Of course he was at one point,

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we all was at one point, but he ay was

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that that look he had made it kind of fitted

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in with his comedy. So maybe he was too young

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before because a lot of the stand up comedy really

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kind of post war, post Second World War. They would

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you know, you know, the forties, late forties, fifties, there'd

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be lots of coffee shops around America and people were

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performing coffee shops. They didn't nothing practically, but you know,

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there's there'd be there'd be a whole alternative kind of culture,

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and that's where people like Lenny Bruce came up, and

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George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor as well. And then

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in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was a huge style in

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America for a while, and Richard Pryor was in the

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sixties to start with. It probably started in the fifties actually,

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but he was in the sixties. He became well known

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in America for a while because he'd I think he

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said something, what did Richard Pryor say? He earned a

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really good living for about five years mimicking Bill Cosby,

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and by that I mean like with the jokes, with

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the act, nothing else. And for those that don't know

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Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere weird with this.

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I think a lot of people outside of America maybe

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don't realize how big Bill Cosby was. And I'm not

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talking about TV wise. I'm talking about before television, not

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before television was invented, but before television. He was on television.

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But anyone in the Western world is probably very well

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aware of the Bill Cosby Show, or maybe remembers it

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if they're you know, over a certain age. Maybe I

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don't think it's shown very often now for some reason,

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the reruns aren't on TV anymore. So he was. He

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was the biggest paid star. It was weird because in

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about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty eight something like that,

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the three biggest paid star, according to the newspapers I

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was reading, were all Americas, and the biggest page stars

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in America anyway entertainers. So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,

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and Prince and they were all making like one hundred

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million a year something like that. Prince was constantly on tour,

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selling millions of albums. Bill Cosby was on TV and

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his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian in

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the world. Although I didn't know he was a comedian.

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I just knew he was Doctor Huxtable. I didn't know

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him as being didn't we know. I mean, I knew

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he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It

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wasn't the Huxtable show, it was it was The Cosby Show.

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Confused me a little bit. That doesn't take much. I mean,

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isn't that amazing? But before that, Bill Cosby, I'm not

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saying that he was more famous, but he was a

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huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,

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Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America

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with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy

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albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He

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was massive, and of course he was massive in the

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eighties as well, for a different thing. He was huge.

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It's really I don't mean to gush. It's a weird word,

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isn't it. I don't mean to be all gushy about it,

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especially as you know, I'm forgetting about any personal stuff

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to do with him. But it was on a level

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that I don't think anyone really reached because he reached

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a much wider audience than someone like Richard Pryor, who

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are a lot of people, because a lot of comedians

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they would say, they may say maybe not now, but

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they used to say, this is Lenny Bruce was pretty

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much the most influential stand up comedian ever. But the

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king of comedy was Richard Pryor, and that used to

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be kind of the pretty much the understood accepted I'm

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not going to say the word narrative, also just said

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it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce, he broke

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through barriers. He got arrested constantly, and he pretty much

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he died for his art, you could say. And he

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was funny, but then he got very he got caught

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up in all the court cases, and that's all he

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did on stage was just talk about his court cases.

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Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos, which

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00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:31.639
more than probably anyone else at the time. But then

450
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:36.360
when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got away with

451
00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:41.119
a lot more because it was you know, it was

452
00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:48.599
years later. And also he could talk about being black

453
00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.039
and he couldn't get in trouble for that Lenny Bruce

454
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:57.239
should talk about the different things between the races in America,

455
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.840
and he got in trouble for it. People got upset.

456
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:04.519
But Richard Pryde, I don't know why that's funny, but

457
00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:06.639
just Richard Pryor did it in a day. I'm just

458
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:10.039
thinking of I'm remembering Richard Pryor. That's all I'm laughing at.

459
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:12.639
It is God remembering some of the stuff that he

460
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:18.159
used to talk about. John And I'll tell you one

461
00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:21.719
of his jukes from his albums Witch Prior. I can't

462
00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:26.719
even tell you the name of the album, okay, I mean,

463
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:34.239
bearing in mind right now, you can't buy the album.

464
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:40.239
They put a sticker over the cut of the image

465
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.519
of it, like if you watch it, if you go

466
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.760
on Amazon or stuff like that, they will cover over

467
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:51.400
the word. But in the seventies they didn't. But one

468
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:57.639
of his names is albums was that N word is

469
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:05.400
crazy by some by centennial N word, and you know,

470
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:08.960
and he used that word a lot, but these albums

471
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:12.760
were named with that word on it. Now, Lenny Bruce,

472
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:18.320
if he'd have done something like that, it'd still be

473
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:25.280
in prison, would still be alive probably well, but Richard

474
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:28.199
Pryor got away with that just shows you how different

475
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:32.159
things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous. But

476
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:34.400
one of his jokes on one of his albums is

477
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:43.639
there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand because

478
00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:47.920
he was talking about the cliche of different body parts

479
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:50.800
and sizes between races and stuff and not go into it.

480
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:53.840
But he said, I won't do that his voice. I

481
00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:55.400
used to be able to do his voice quite well.

482
00:40:56.239 --> 00:41:03.480
Two brothers standing on a bridge, weewie's that's side by side,

483
00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:09.679
we in off a bridge, and one of them says, oh,

484
00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:14.719
the war's cold, and everyone says, yeah, it's deep too,

485
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.880
so it's yeah, it's quite a funny joy. It's funny

486
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:26.320
when he says it. I just think that'sudden the star.

487
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:29.039
I can't tell you this. You know he's worth listening to.

488
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:33.679
If you've never I realized that's not the question. But

489
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.320
if you want to hear something that you've perhaps never

490
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:46.039
heard before, maybe check out a Richard Pryor album, because

491
00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:50.559
if you've seen Richard Pryor just in movies and as

492
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:54.639
I had up to the age of about eighteen or nineteen,

493
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.880
I didn't know he did stand up comedy. Maybe eighteen,

494
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:10.320
I knew he was in Brewster's Millions and See No Evil,

495
00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:14.800
Hear No Evil and Stir Crazy and all those movies

496
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:20.920
that he did with What's his Name and Superman three.

497
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.079
So you know, I loved Richard Pryor when I was

498
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:27.000
a little kid or growing up. I loved him. It

499
00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:31.159
was hilarious, but I didn't know he did stand up comedy.

500
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:33.920
And there's no way in the world that anyone was

501
00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:36.360
going to show me his stand up comedy because I

502
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:40.199
was a little kid, because it was adults rating and

503
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.039
my dad was never into that kind of stuff anyway,

504
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.719
so I never got to hear it. And then when

505
00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:52.320
I was nine to about eighteen, I I thought, well,

506
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.400
I was in the second hand shop, I think, like

507
00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:58.440
a record shop, and I was looking through the albums

508
00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:05.079
because I started listening to albums like Steve Martin, Emo Phillips.

509
00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:08.119
I started buying albums as well, so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin,

510
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:14.920
Steven Wright, Bill Cosby. There's quite a few Bill Cosby albums.

511
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.920
And it was like I was so transfixed. And I

512
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.800
started getting videos as well, so Steve Martin, as I said,

513
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:32.199
comics from here as well, Jerry Sadovich, loads loads of

514
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:34.360
sort of stand up to me. I had quite a

515
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:41.360
nice library actually of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor,

516
00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:45.639
so that the two things that I really remember discovering

517
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:50.199
was well, Steve Main. I had no idea that he

518
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.800
was a comedian. I'd seen him in movies, and some

519
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.440
of his early movies I loved, long before he was

520
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:02.280
famous in this country. I watched these films like Dead

521
00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.719
Men Don't Way Plaid and Lonely Guy and The Man

522
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:11.480
with Two Brains and stuff like that. What's the other

523
00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:15.800
one two of me? Or I forget it, but they

524
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.079
were good with Lily Tomlin that was so funny. And

525
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:24.519
then he did the Jerk and he became more famous worldwide.

526
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.639
He was famous in America already. I didn't know that

527
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:32.199
he was selling out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now,

528
00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:36.519
Dev you're probably regretting asking me that question, because you

529
00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.599
got me onto a subject that I didn't realize that

530
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:43.440
still had a bit of passion for, which is weird.

531
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:52.440
But yeah, when I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't

532
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:55.400
believe what I was listening to because there was stuff

533
00:44:55.440 --> 00:45:00.800
that I wasn't supposed to be saying, still not allowed

534
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.000
to say, but it was I hadn't heard, hadn't really

535
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:10.480
heard other people say it. And then I discovered George Carlin,

536
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:14.519
who in a way probably made me laugh even more.

537
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.639
Some of his earlier stand up comic albums so funny,

538
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.800
and I really got into him probably in the early

539
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.239
probably about nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I

540
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.679
was listening to him quite a lot. Then when I

541
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:39.039
kind of started out doing comedy, and I had it

542
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:44.159
influenced me in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,

543
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.440
I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,

544
00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:56.079
and it did not improve my performance. And also I

545
00:45:56.199 --> 00:46:02.039
was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly every week,

546
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:07.239
sometimes two three times a week, including those that I

547
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:09.400
used to be on the same bill with, and I

548
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:11.800
still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little

549
00:46:11.800 --> 00:46:17.880
bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the

550
00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:20.679
point where you kind of think I would do being

551
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:26.039
around such talent, which I was for a long time.

552
00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:30.800
I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for

553
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.920
a long time, long long time. But anyway, Yes, So

554
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:43.599
Derek and Clyde was another one was Derek and Clive,

555
00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:52.679
Derek and Clive, which was what was it, Peter Cook

556
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:59.599
and Dudley Moore. I discovered them in nineteen ninety or

557
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.760
maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety. I remember listening

558
00:47:03.800 --> 00:47:06.159
to it during my breaks at work with another colleague

559
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:11.119
at work and we were just laughing. It was so

560
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:17.119
funny because I'd never heard an English person talk like

561
00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:22.360
that say The things that they were saying was so outrageous,

562
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:29.639
so wrong on every level, but hilarious. I just found

563
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:35.760
it absolutely hilarious. And there was three albums, I think,

564
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:41.000
including the live ones, so there's Adnauseum Come Again, and

565
00:47:41.400 --> 00:47:44.199
I think it was just a live one I think,

566
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:49.639
unless there was four albums, I think it was three. Anyway,

567
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:54.840
as far as books go, has it got a couple?

568
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:57.760
I can't find the one I was looking for. So

569
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.760
there are quite a few stand up books Stand Up Comic,

570
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:10.079
How to Become a Stand Up Comic on Amazon, so

571
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:13.840
there's a few. But what I would probably recommend if

572
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:15.519
you if you're living in London, or if you're in

573
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:19.920
a city or just check there might be something local

574
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:24.960
is if you can find a course which you can

575
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:31.360
go to, you like a four week course, one evening

576
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.519
a week or one Saturday afternoon a week for six

577
00:48:34.559 --> 00:48:40.199
weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that is, firstly

578
00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:44.920
you'll be it'll be an introduction to the comedy world.

579
00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:50.000
A much probably quite a gentle way to do it

580
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:53.360
in some ways, because I think quite often the way

581
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:59.760
they they like format it is you go along. You're

582
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:04.079
in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve people

583
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.519
that you've never met before, but they're in the same

584
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.559
they are the same level as you. They're the same

585
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:11.840
if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done a

586
00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:17.280
few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but what

587
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:22.119
they're have in common with you is enthusiasm and you know,

588
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:26.440
the dream of doing it, and maybe most of them

589
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:32.840
have never been on stage before as a comedian. And

590
00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:37.239
then you've got the teacher who is going to be

591
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:41.239
very much likely or have many many years of being

592
00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:47.159
a comedian and thinking about this course. In London, they

593
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:51.679
used to have headliners from the comedy circuit in London

594
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:57.760
every week come along and talk to the group, which

595
00:49:57.800 --> 00:50:00.400
is something you're not going to get in any other city. Cuation.

596
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:06.239
It's you know, it's I mean, you probably can go

597
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.679
to a comedy club and say hello to someone who's

598
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:12.320
been on stage. You know, they'd a headliner and self,

599
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:17.559
I really enjoyed your performance. They might say thanks, But

600
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:20.199
the chances of them sitting down for half an hour

601
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:23.079
and actually going through what it's like to be a

602
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:29.280
comedian and getting advice. Even I struggled to get that.

603
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:34.000
And I was a comic and I knew these people,

604
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:37.199
you know, once I started, I got to know some people,

605
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:42.400
and I didn't get hardly any advice. I think I

606
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.239
was given up as a lost cause first, you know,

607
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:50.679
very early on, and I just it seemed like the

608
00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:55.079
biggest joke of my comedy act was me. That was

609
00:50:55.119 --> 00:51:04.320
the biggest joke. Bless see. I'm sure I've been either

610
00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.840
did Benivo or whatever. I used to have a book.

611
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:13.280
But then another thing in the course they do is generally,

612
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:18.159
as far as I know, they build up to you

613
00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:23.440
doing putting a nice five minutes together, and you're performing.

614
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:25.679
Every week you go and performing something in front of

615
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.400
the rest of the group, with the culmination of an

616
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:33.440
actual gig at the end of it, and all of

617
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:35.320
you will go on stage in front of a paid

618
00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:38.719
audience or maybe a free audience at a comedy club

619
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:43.559
or come a comedy night or something like that, so

620
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:46.280
it'll be an audience, an audience members will be there

621
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.800
and you get a chance to perform in front of

622
00:51:50.840 --> 00:51:56.320
complete strangers, an actual proper comedy audience for the first time.

623
00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:59.599
And the good thing about that is the audience know

624
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:04.000
what come into. It's not like an ordinary open night,

625
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:07.800
spot night where they might be coming to heckel and stuff.

626
00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:11.079
They're come in to support because they know that you've

627
00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:14.199
just gone through a course, a six week course or whatever.

628
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:17.039
So they're going to be supportive. They're not going to

629
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:19.599
laugh if it's not funny, but they're still they're not

630
00:52:19.599 --> 00:52:24.559
going to be hard on the comedians and be open

631
00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:29.880
to like it's nice now. I kind of I've got

632
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:32.679
a lot of information from about these courses because I

633
00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:34.320
know a lot of people that went on them what

634
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:40.239
I did. And yeah, so that's what I would recommend.

635
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:43.760
The books are good. You can learn something from books.

636
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:47.159
Of course, most of my learning has really come from books,

637
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:57.440
I guess, but yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot

638
00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.000
of books on stand up comedy that you can get

639
00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:05.199
hold of. I don't know which one I would necessarily recommend.

640
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:15.880
I'm just looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen,

641
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:19.599
but it's a it's a stand up comic, Okay, So

642
00:53:19.599 --> 00:53:21.239
I can't think that I'm going to put Richard Pryor

643
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.280
in because I just want to see what the if

644
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:37.480
it's censored. Rich Prior. Okay, best I spill his name

645
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:46.639
right here we go? All right, Oh, it's all of

646
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:52.559
his films from eighty to ninety one, blu Ray Richard Pryor.

647
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:57.960
Also WHOA. There's a book about him called Prior Convictions.

648
00:53:59.039 --> 00:54:09.079
Another book called Becoming Richard Pryor. Okay, he did. I

649
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:12.119
still it's really childish. But there's a movie that he

650
00:54:12.159 --> 00:54:17.960
did and he's I think it's called The Toy and

651
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:22.679
he's like looking after this little kid who's rich and

652
00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:25.840
I think he's kind of like the kid's toy, just

653
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:27.559
just to do what the kid wants him to do.

654
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:34.239
And he gets introduced to this little kid and so

655
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.920
this is mister Pryor or whatever his name was in

656
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:42.360
the movie and said, welcome and write you to meet

657
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:51.360
your new boss, Master Bates. Now I saw that when

658
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:57.960
I was what probably about fourteen thirteen, and I'm still

659
00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.639
laughing because I'm so child odish. I still find it hilarious.

660
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:09.079
It's weird about so yeah, that's my answer to your question,

661
00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:21.880
dev is try if you can find a place where

662
00:55:22.119 --> 00:55:29.199
you can maybe do some training, go to a course,

663
00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:34.440
a stand up comedy course, and deleclude things like writing performance,

664
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.239
how to hold a microphone, how far to have the

665
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:41.360
microphone away from from your mouth, where to look when

666
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:45.800
you're on stage. I guess just you know things, all

667
00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:49.519
the things that I still don't know how to do.

668
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:55.559
So thanks to that. So, Maria Hijason. On a recent recording,

669
00:55:55.639 --> 00:56:04.239
you mentioned that you might need new glasses the calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely.

670
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.760
Would you have to be bifocal? Would they have to

671
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:12.199
be by vocal or very focal? Have you ever worn

672
00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:16.480
contact lenses or it's something you consider doing? Thank you well,

673
00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:23.679
thanks Maria. I'll answer the first the second question first, No,

674
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:30.199
and no and no and no and no contact lenses. No,

675
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.440
I could know. It's not something I would do. I know,

676
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:40.000
I understand why people do do it, especially like younger people.

677
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:45.159
I mean not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses,

678
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.840
and it can get in a way, you know, it

679
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:50.880
gets steamed up at times and they get dirty and

680
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:57.719
depending on what you're doing. I mean, I'm a messy eater.

681
00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:03.679
But contact lenses no, I don't know. It doesn't really

682
00:57:03.719 --> 00:57:11.760
appeal to me. Never has. As far as bifocals or

683
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.960
verio focals, I'm not quite sure what very a focal

684
00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.880
is by focal, I think it's I think I have

685
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:22.280
been very a focal is that where like the different

686
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.000
parts kind of you can't see, but that yeah, you

687
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:31.320
can see because the glasses, but my glass at the moment,

688
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:36.119
the bottom part is for reading, and the middle part

689
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:42.920
is for like distance, and supposedly the you know, the

690
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:47.079
highest part is for like computer work, but generally it's

691
00:57:47.119 --> 00:57:49.760
the bottom parts for reading. And it's not big enough

692
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:58.239
because I need separate reading glasses. And maybe that's what

693
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:07.159
the very focal is. I used to have trifocals where

694
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:09.639
I this is years ago when I was in the

695
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:16.719
call center and a was it bifocals? Yeah, but they

696
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:23.000
were almost that had like a line across so the

697
00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:28.079
I could read again read at the bottom. The middle

698
00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:32.719
was for distance, and it was really weird. It's very

699
00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:35.519
It felt very strange because I felt like I was

700
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:44.159
taller than I would normally be because instead of like

701
00:58:44.239 --> 00:58:47.159
the distance, you know, it brings it closer, doesn't it.

702
00:58:47.599 --> 00:58:51.800
But the bottom part was pushing things further away for

703
00:58:51.840 --> 00:58:55.159
some reason. So I felt really tall, which was nice,

704
00:58:55.679 --> 00:58:58.440
but I felt, you know, a bit stumbling a bit.

705
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:03.320
I tripped over a couple times, and I realized, my

706
00:59:03.360 --> 00:59:05.920
shoelace is what I'm done. No, I didn't. That was weird,

707
00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:11.719
but yeah, I think no, no contact lenses. But also

708
00:59:12.239 --> 00:59:15.239
no longer am I going to get any kind of bifocals.

709
00:59:16.239 --> 00:59:20.079
I'm going to stick to from now on. At least,

710
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:26.400
I'm going to stick to glasses for reading, separate glasses

711
00:59:26.480 --> 00:59:30.239
for everyday use for distance, which I definitely need more

712
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:34.519
than anything else, and maybe try and get some glasses

713
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:41.079
for computer use. The three separate things I do have

714
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:48.199
anti glare. I think they're supposed to be anti glare,

715
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:52.039
but I do, you know, video myself, and they do glare,

716
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:56.000
so I'm not sure what that's about. They stare right

717
00:59:56.079 --> 01:00:02.800
at me, but the other act to light active active

718
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:05.320
light or whatever, so they go they turn into kind

719
01:00:05.320 --> 01:00:10.920
of shades when I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something

720
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.760
that I had because in my family we've got macro

721
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:23.239
degeneration is kind of like a hereditary thing, and a

722
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:31.880
few years back, my what's it? Opticians said, yeah, the

723
01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:33.840
best thing to do, because you looked at the back

724
01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:37.519
of my eyes. He said, well, potentially the beginnings of that.

725
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:42.000
You need to just protect your eyes when you're outside.

726
01:00:42.920 --> 01:00:46.239
So that's what I do. And he said, but you

727
01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:49.679
can wear sunshades. I said, yeah, but I need glasses,

728
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:53.159
so i'd have to get the sunshades in my prescription.

729
01:00:55.079 --> 01:00:58.880
So it'd be easier just to get the them shade,

730
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:04.519
you know, to shade on their own. Yeah, I'm going

731
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:07.440
to get some soon, maybe not for Christmas, but I

732
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.320
will eventually want to get things sorted out. I've got

733
01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:12.400
a few bits going on, so once I get everything

734
01:01:12.440 --> 01:01:17.159
sorted out, I'm going to get myself some glasses and

735
01:01:17.199 --> 01:01:23.920
i'll be it. So that'd be good. Hope asks, how

736
01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:32.840
did you end up adopting Andre? Well, I didn't want

737
01:01:33.000 --> 01:01:36.719
a ferret. That was a good way to start to

738
01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.880
start my story about the one of the lovers of

739
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:46.760
my life, which was still is. Actually I love that

740
01:01:46.800 --> 01:01:55.000
little boy. I love him forever. My Luke downstairs had

741
01:01:55.039 --> 01:01:59.639
a ferret when I moved in. He had a ferret,

742
01:01:59.719 --> 01:02:03.119
and I was like, okay. First of all, I was

743
01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:06.079
very a little bit scared, very a little bit, a

744
01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:13.199
little bit very scared because I just didn't really know

745
01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:16.760
what to do with it. It was very quick and

746
01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:22.519
very sharp teeth, and he was a biter, which put

747
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:26.559
me off. I think it's I think it might be thundering.

748
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:30.719
So it put me off, okay, because I didn't want that.

749
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:32.639
I didn't want something that was going to be biting

750
01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:35.519
people who came around. Not that I get a lot

751
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.599
of people visiting, but I didn't want to be bitten myself.

752
01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:44.320
He found it funny. It'd let l was the name

753
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:46.840
of the ferry. He'd well, it's a pole cat, but

754
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.320
he'd let him bite him, and he just didn't care.

755
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.920
He bit me once, but really bit me on the

756
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.719
on my arm. And what it's to do is to

757
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.800
do like the crocodile role. It's not good and it

758
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:08.280
really hurt. I left a mark on their for weeks.

759
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:13.239
This was early on my time living it. So I

760
01:03:13.320 --> 01:03:16.320
thought no because I considered because I wanted to get

761
01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:20.360
a dog, and he said, oh, I do you could

762
01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:24.159
get a faery. I said no, you're right, and I

763
01:03:24.199 --> 01:03:27.480
was going to get a dog. And then the dog

764
01:03:27.559 --> 01:03:31.239
that I went and visited didn't like me a bit

765
01:03:31.280 --> 01:03:35.760
like Vinnie, just didn't wasn't interested at all, and as

766
01:03:35.800 --> 01:03:37.840
a puppy, but it was in a like a shelter,

767
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:45.239
you know, an animal place, and I just like, I

768
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:51.599
want my feeling, my theory, my idea if I ever

769
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:53.719
got a dog of my own, would be to go

770
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:57.840
and visit that dog, and maybe there's like six dogs

771
01:03:58.840 --> 01:04:03.239
and one comes up to me and chooses me. That's

772
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:05.440
what I wanted. I wanted a dog to choose me.

773
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.679
It didn't happen, so I kind of I visited twice,

774
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:15.559
still didn't really fill any connection with the dog. So

775
01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:19.039
I decided not to get that dog. And they kept

776
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:21.280
saying they calling me, or we've got other people that

777
01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:23.280
want to take us, So would just do that then,

778
01:04:24.280 --> 01:04:27.000
because it just didn't feel a beautiful little dog, but

779
01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:31.719
it just just didn't. It didn't seem like the dog

780
01:04:31.880 --> 01:04:37.440
liked me a bit like Vinny. He doesn't seem to

781
01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:41.199
like me. I think he loves me, but he doesn't

782
01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:48.719
like me, I think sometimes. And so I didn't get

783
01:04:48.719 --> 01:04:50.199
an animal. In the end, it didn't get a pair.

784
01:04:52.599 --> 01:04:55.800
And then around the November time might be in October

785
01:04:55.960 --> 01:05:00.559
November ish, I normally say November, but I don't know.

786
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:07.360
And this is two thy fifteen, Luke says to me, Ah,

787
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:14.840
I said yeah. He said, my friend who breeds ferrets

788
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:24.920
has got two ferrets going needing new homes. And I

789
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:31.440
said yeah. He said, are you interested in getting a ferret? Now? These?

790
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.960
Well you might not know this. Andre was related to L.

791
01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:43.320
So L was Andre's uncle, like blood blood relative, because

792
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.639
he had got L from there as well, from that

793
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:50.559
same friend, like a a couple few years earlier, so

794
01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:57.000
they were related. Anyway, I thought, yeah, maybe I will.

795
01:05:58.119 --> 01:06:00.880
But then I thought, you know, they did stink a bit.

796
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:06.280
I personally loved the smell of Andre, but I know

797
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:11.360
not everybody is into that kind of stinky stink. I

798
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.480
think he's I mean, he didn't always smell good because

799
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:18.880
they are kind of a bit skunky at times. Anyway,

800
01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:24.719
I thought about it. I thought yes, no, yes, no,

801
01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:30.199
And then I thought no no, I've got a brand

802
01:06:30.199 --> 01:06:32.639
new carpet that's only been in there for a few months,

803
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:40.480
the flats looking good. I don't want it ruined. Well.

804
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:46.519
I got a bit interrupted then because Phinnis started barking

805
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.719
and I couldn't figure out why he was barking. And

806
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:56.559
then I heard some thunder. Now we've had thunder before.

807
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.760
I don't mean, you know, in history, but you know,

808
01:07:01.800 --> 01:07:08.519
since I've had Finny, there's been thunder. And normally he

809
01:07:08.559 --> 01:07:13.920
doesn't seem to be too bothered. But it did. I

810
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:16.320
fit lowly. You know, maybe there'd be the TV would

811
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:18.639
be on, so it kind of cover it up a

812
01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:23.400
little bit, but yeah, it was. He didn't like it.

813
01:07:24.960 --> 01:07:27.679
The ely other time I've seen him really disturbed by

814
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:34.599
anything outside, you know, is fireworks. Once we was out

815
01:07:34.599 --> 01:07:37.559
at night and the fireworks were going off and he

816
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.239
pulled me home, so we didn't like that. Another time

817
01:07:41.320 --> 01:07:45.920
he didn't like the aircraft going over to air display

818
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:48.599
because there was lots he didn't like that. Accepts very noisy,

819
01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:52.719
and the air blue in the other day, last week

820
01:07:52.840 --> 01:07:55.920
or whenever it was, he pulled me home from that.

821
01:07:55.960 --> 01:08:00.719
He didn't didn't like that. Most things don't bother him,

822
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:06.880
but just strings from the sky generally. I said to him,

823
01:08:06.920 --> 01:08:10.000
just don't look up, and he told me I was

824
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:13.679
being silly. I haven't got to look up to hear

825
01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:14.599
the thunder.

826
01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:14.480
Have I?

827
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:22.279
I said all right, wow, So yeah, Andre, So at

828
01:08:22.279 --> 01:08:25.760
this point I'm thinking I don't want I think I

829
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.560
don't want someone who's going to bite me and it's

830
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.159
going to make a mess everywhere.

831
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:31.680
And now.

832
01:08:33.520 --> 01:08:39.800
I really decided I was a firm negative, like no, no,

833
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:44.399
not don't want one. I love l I did. I mean,

834
01:08:44.439 --> 01:08:46.319
he was pretty good of me, as long as I

835
01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:50.039
remember to wear a long sleeved shirt or T shirt

836
01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:52.279
because if I kept my off. God did have a

837
01:08:52.319 --> 01:08:55.840
little nibble, but he was really he was a very

838
01:08:55.880 --> 01:09:01.279
loving verrit, you know, very cuddly and but at the

839
01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:03.640
same time, you know he'd like to little bite every

840
01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:09.319
now and then, a little snack, treat himself to be

841
01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:15.920
a human. So and one hundred percent, Nope, none, one one.

842
01:09:16.279 --> 01:09:19.159
So I'm just like going around my life as I do.

843
01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:22.279
And I'm walking home. I don't know where i'd been,

844
01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:26.680
probably been to town or something, or to the garage.

845
01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:34.439
And I'm coming back and I see this bloke holding

846
01:09:35.039 --> 01:09:38.399
he's in looking in the back of a car and

847
01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:42.640
he's holding a cage. Then I see and this is

848
01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:45.439
outside the front of my building. And then I see

849
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:49.000
Luke come out and he waves to me and he says, look,

850
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:53.520
look there, these are the two ferrets, are two baby ferrites.

851
01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:56.560
I said, okay, and he said, come and have a

852
01:09:56.560 --> 01:09:59.520
look at them. He was so excited. That that's one

853
01:09:59.560 --> 01:10:03.319
of the things about Luke. When he was excited, he

854
01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:09.079
brightened up so much. It was very contagious. So I

855
01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:11.960
kind of got very intrigued and he was excited as

856
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:17.880
well to sort of have a look. With no intention

857
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:21.359
had taken one on. I didn't want to take it,

858
01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:24.239
and bearing in mind the bloke didn't want any money.

859
01:10:24.960 --> 01:10:27.039
He wasn't doing it for money. He just loved ferrets.

860
01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:32.800
So there was two ferrets. One of them, you know,

861
01:10:33.039 --> 01:10:36.439
was Andre, one of them was his brother, and one

862
01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:39.880
of them had to be that. He hadn't decided which

863
01:10:39.920 --> 01:10:46.840
one was already been adopted by someone else. That he

864
01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:49.399
was going to deliver that ferret, I think a few

865
01:10:49.479 --> 01:10:54.319
days afterwards, because he had to get a cage and

866
01:10:54.359 --> 01:10:58.000
stuff for it. This bloke who was also a friend

867
01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:11.399
of Luke's. Instead of running around on the floor, I

868
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:18.079
fell in love with Andre. I fell in love with him.

869
01:11:19.399 --> 01:11:23.680
See that that what I wanted to happen to me is,

870
01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.359
you know, like a dog wanted to I wanted a

871
01:11:26.399 --> 01:11:28.359
dog to fall in love with me and to come

872
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:33.359
up to me and like just have that attachment. The

873
01:11:33.479 --> 01:11:40.439
reverse happened with Andre. I absolutely fell head over heels

874
01:11:40.439 --> 01:11:43.479
in love with that little boy in a way that

875
01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:49.079
I'm really so surprised about, because you know, if you

876
01:11:49.159 --> 01:11:51.039
just said to me a few years back before that,

877
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:53.840
like one day, you're going to have a ferret running

878
01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:58.760
around your home, I would have I wouldn't have believed them,

879
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:02.960
I would I just laughed. It's like, no way to me.

880
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:06.199
If Fairy was like a rat, you know, there was

881
01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:09.720
no difference. There's a big difference. But at the time

882
01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:12.479
I didn't really know. I just there was just some

883
01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:16.760
something that was very weak, who wiggly, wibbly wobbly, moved

884
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:21.079
very quickly and bit people. And I didn't want to

885
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:27.000
I didn't want to know. At this time, I knew

886
01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:29.079
a little bit more about Ferris because I'd spend time

887
01:12:29.119 --> 01:12:31.640
with l and he used to come up here and

888
01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:34.479
he was as good as gold, apart from the occasional

889
01:12:34.520 --> 01:12:43.640
snack out of my arm. And so Vinny certainly, Vinnie

890
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:52.000
Andre absolutely hated me. I picked him up and he

891
01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:56.760
bit me every opportunity he bit me, just on that occasion,

892
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:00.399
he really grabbed me in his raisor teeth. Remember it

893
01:13:00.520 --> 01:13:02.920
is tiny at this point, you could like fit them

894
01:13:03.039 --> 01:13:09.279
and pulm my hand. And there's videos. There's probably pictures

895
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:11.920
on Facebook, but there's loads of videos of him on

896
01:13:11.920 --> 01:13:19.199
my YouTube channel. Andre and I had to hold him.

897
01:13:19.199 --> 01:13:24.520
That the bloke who would brought the two around, he

898
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:28.760
showed me how to handle the baby, and so did Luke.

899
01:13:30.319 --> 01:13:32.920
There's a certain way you basically put your finger thumb

900
01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:36.399
around the neck. Because the neck so tiny, you're not

901
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:39.760
choking it. It's just basically there's a lot of loose,

902
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:44.399
loose skin there. It just means that they can't maneuver

903
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:50.880
their mouth to bite you. Another thing is it was

904
01:13:50.920 --> 01:13:57.640
just something that parents do to ferrits is they pick

905
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:00.439
them up by their neck so it doesn't hurt them

906
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.279
the back of the neck the skin, but they just

907
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:09.359
completely stay still. They stop being naughty as soon as

908
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:12.079
that happens. Or you can drag them back like that

909
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:16.600
and they just stay still. So if it doesn't hurt them,

910
01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:23.000
but it makes them be passive, they give up. They

911
01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:27.640
kind of you know. So that's kind of something I

912
01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:30.920
learned to do. But the rest of it was just

913
01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:33.600
made up as I went and on. But Luke kind

914
01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:36.520
of taught me quite a bit, I suppose. Well, yeah, yeah,

915
01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:45.960
and I went from nowhere in the world to all

916
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:48.359
those so many things in my flat.

917
01:14:51.039 --> 01:14:51.239
Too.

918
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:56.760
I've never wanted anything as much as I ever did

919
01:14:56.840 --> 01:14:59.840
in my life. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration.

920
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:04.640
I really like the other one had no interest in

921
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.640
and it was just as cute as I'm sure every

922
01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:12.239
baby ferret is just as cute as each other. But

923
01:15:12.239 --> 01:15:15.479
there was something about Andre. I don't know what it was.

924
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.159
There was something about him, sorry about his little face

925
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:21.920
and his little mask that he had, like almost like

926
01:15:22.000 --> 01:15:25.000
he had an eye mask on him, like he was

927
01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:30.039
a highway dick turpin or you know, something like that

928
01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.159
bank robbery. Maybe not, but yeah, he's just cute, he's

929
01:15:35.239 --> 01:15:44.479
facial features, and I had to have him. There was

930
01:15:44.520 --> 01:15:48.119
no option. In fact, I think the man said that

931
01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:50.000
he was going to give him to the other bloke,

932
01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:57.119
and Luke said, he won't nobody, he won't know which one.

933
01:15:57.479 --> 01:16:00.880
He just knows he's going to get one. And I

934
01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:07.399
wouldn't have took the other one. However weird that sounds. Andre,

935
01:16:07.720 --> 01:16:10.960
it was him. It wasn't because Andre was a ferret

936
01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.079
that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret. I

937
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:15.720
wanted Andre.

938
01:16:16.119 --> 01:16:16.399
He was.

939
01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:19.279
I just fell in love with him. He's something about him.

940
01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:24.760
And so for the first two weeks I had him,

941
01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:30.000
and all he did was bite me. But I continued

942
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:35.319
to pick him up every single opportunity, cuddle him. And

943
01:16:36.319 --> 01:16:38.199
he never bit me on the face. So I could

944
01:16:38.239 --> 01:16:41.439
literally put my face right up to his. He's probably scared,

945
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:43.920
to be fair, imagine seeing my face so close up,

946
01:16:44.439 --> 01:16:48.119
probably scared the hell out of him. But he never

947
01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:50.960
bit me on the face. It's always my fingers if

948
01:16:50.960 --> 01:16:59.520
he could. And after like a couple of weeks, by

949
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:02.119
after destroyed loads of times. But I was just sitting

950
01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:06.520
down on a Saturday night watching the box in and

951
01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:11.520
he climbed up my leg and I was went dressing

952
01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:13.479
gown and he climbed up my left sleeve of my

953
01:17:13.560 --> 01:17:17.359
dressing gown and went to sleep. And from then on

954
01:17:19.199 --> 01:17:23.560
he was good as gold. We got on perfect. It

955
01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:28.720
never bit me again, not on purpose. He used to

956
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:31.159
bite me when we played, when we had play fights.

957
01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:34.720
It bite me sometimes. You get very carried away. But

958
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:39.840
all I had to say was gentle and it stopped.

959
01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:42.000
So if he bit me too hard to say, gentle,

960
01:17:42.159 --> 01:17:47.640
it just released his jaws, so his teeth would just

961
01:17:47.720 --> 01:17:55.439
kind of touching my skin. We communicated quite well, which

962
01:17:55.479 --> 01:18:01.640
is a bit weird, I think. But yeah, I think

963
01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:03.720
perhaps I should have gotten I should have got another

964
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:08.359
ferre it maybe, But you know what, Vinnie came into

965
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:12.880
my life, and and you know, I'll be honest, when

966
01:18:12.880 --> 01:18:18.119
I lost Andre, it was it was too much. I mean,

967
01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:22.199
I don't I didn't really believe that I could be

968
01:18:22.399 --> 01:18:32.439
so attached to a little thing like that. I was,

969
01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:36.640
and you know my vow and a lot of people

970
01:18:36.680 --> 01:18:38.800
do that. They say, I'll never get I'll never get

971
01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:44.199
another pet, that's it. And I definitely meant that I

972
01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:46.920
wasn't going to get anything, not a dog, not a cat, anything,

973
01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:50.600
not a cat anyway, but not up here. So I'm

974
01:18:50.640 --> 01:19:00.520
on the first floor. The cat can't get out, however,

975
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.399
you know. So this was in the summer two thousand

976
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:16.439
and one, and in two thousand and two, November or December,

977
01:19:18.840 --> 01:19:23.279
Vinnie ran through my legs as I answered the door

978
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.560
to Luke. He was laughing, and this little thing ran

979
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:31.039
through and LOGI was there like looking at me, and

980
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.880
he ran in as well. It's like, what the heck

981
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:39.039
is LOGI chasing? I thought for a second, I thought

982
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:43.680
he'd got another Ferret and it wasn't. It was Vinny.

983
01:19:43.840 --> 01:19:46.680
But Vinnie was ten months old, so he was mean.

984
01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:49.319
He wasn't a hugely smaller than years now, but he

985
01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:54.159
was smaller, and I mean I couldn't see him. He

986
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:59.560
was moving so quick. And you know, that's how I

987
01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.399
ended up him. But with Andre, that's how I ended

988
01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:06.479
up with him. It was just fall in love situation

989
01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:12.680
and no matter how you know, the ending wasn't good,

990
01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:17.800
and I just it was hard. But he did bring

991
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:21.800
a lot of pleasure into my life. He made me

992
01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:31.760
laugh a lot, and yeah, I actually adored him, adored him,

993
01:20:31.880 --> 01:20:33.760
And I know that There's a couple of people over

994
01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:36.720
the years, as I've mentioned, like the same why why

995
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:40.039
does he not to me? But like on the maybe

996
01:20:40.079 --> 01:20:43.000
on a Facebook group or on a Facebook page, why

997
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:45.640
does he keep talking about Andre? He's being gone for ages?

998
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:50.680
That's why. It's the same reason I talk about my men,

999
01:20:52.399 --> 01:20:56.279
and the same reason I'm probably still going to be

1000
01:20:56.319 --> 01:21:01.119
talking about Uncle's sausages in ten years time. The reason

1001
01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:06.279
I'm still talking about Luke, because they were big parts

1002
01:21:06.319 --> 01:21:12.119
of my life and that doesn't change just because they're

1003
01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:16.880
no longer here is you know, they're not. I mean,

1004
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:18.760
they're no longer a big part of my life day

1005
01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:27.000
to day. But I think once someone has that makes

1006
01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:31.560
that impact. I mean Uncle Sausages made his impact more

1007
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:33.840
really over the last year, even though I've known him

1008
01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:37.119
for ten years, and especially more when he got unwell.

1009
01:21:37.960 --> 01:21:42.560
I mean that period that we shared together is something

1010
01:21:42.600 --> 01:21:47.800
that's kind of a bit precious really, that whole situation,

1011
01:21:50.359 --> 01:21:55.039
and there's no way I could ever forget that. And yeah,

1012
01:21:55.079 --> 01:22:01.680
so he's always going to be remembered by me. I hope,

1013
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:09.199
I hope. And even if he's not, the memories recorded

1014
01:22:09.319 --> 01:22:11.039
it's on too, you know what I mean. It's me

1015
01:22:11.159 --> 01:22:13.920
talking about it. So even if in thirty years time,

1016
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:19.520
perhaps for whatever reason, I don't have the actual memory,

1017
01:22:19.880 --> 01:22:25.479
I can listen back and hear about it and think, oh,

1018
01:22:25.720 --> 01:22:34.319
he sounds nice. Who's this bloke that's talking? Why has

1019
01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:38.359
he got such a squeaky voice? So yeah, that's how

1020
01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:42.079
I got Andre. Thank you for that, Rich asks Wedn's

1021
01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:50.640
Finny's birthday. It's the end of February, so you would

1022
01:22:50.680 --> 01:22:57.720
have been born in two thousand and yeah, end of Yeah,

1023
01:22:58.279 --> 01:23:04.520
end of February two thousand and twenty three, No, twenty two.

1024
01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:09.720
So end of February twenty twenty two was when he

1025
01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:15.479
was born. The exact date I used to have. I

1026
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:19.000
could probably get it because I used to have a

1027
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:23.680
picture with a date on where he was literally a baby,

1028
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:28.920
you know, like a It looked like a I don't know,

1029
01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:35.840
like pink, little turnip or something. But yeah, so end

1030
01:23:35.880 --> 01:23:42.680
of February, he'll be four next year. Robin asks me,

1031
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:46.720
have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace. I'd love

1032
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:52.600
to visit there. First of all, I thought I don't know,

1033
01:23:53.079 --> 01:23:58.840
But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace. I'm pretty

1034
01:23:58.840 --> 01:24:02.840
sure it's got a zoo. I don't know why, but

1035
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:08.800
I have a feeling there's a zoo that Hampton Court

1036
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:14.239
Palace zoo.

1037
01:24:20.039 --> 01:24:32.000
Uh hampter then Hampton called mansion, right, it doesn't look.

1038
01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:33.720
There.

1039
01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:44.399
Hampton Court beasts Okay, yeah, there is is there? Okay,

1040
01:24:45.199 --> 01:24:52.279
does I'm gonna change it to does have a zoo.

1041
01:24:57.279 --> 01:25:00.319
Hampton Court Palace does not have a traditional zoo, but

1042
01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:05.079
it's magic card and venture playground features mythical beasts. That's

1043
01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:07.359
what I visited when I was a kid. I thought

1044
01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:12.359
they were real animals. Wow, no wonder I was able

1045
01:25:12.399 --> 01:25:19.439
to kiss a tiger on the lips, all that bragging

1046
01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:24.279
for years afterwards, thinking I was more invincible than tars

1047
01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:31.239
and when clearly I wasn't. It wasn't they wasn't they wasn't. Yeah,

1048
01:25:31.279 --> 01:25:35.359
I have been there, even though I clearly don't know

1049
01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:39.319
where it is, but I have been there. And he

1050
01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:44.680
started barking again and the thunder, and yeah, I have

1051
01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:47.880
been there. It's a long, long, long long time ago,

1052
01:25:48.039 --> 01:25:52.119
like decades ago, so I don't really remember it. But

1053
01:25:52.239 --> 01:25:58.159
I've been to all the main tourist attractions, either when

1054
01:25:58.159 --> 01:26:00.359
I was very young or when I was kind of

1055
01:26:00.359 --> 01:26:04.359
in my twenties. I including all the museums, met in

1056
01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:09.800
two Sorts, Tower of London, the Palace, the whole walk

1057
01:26:09.880 --> 01:26:16.079
up to the Palace, whatever that's called, the zoo, London Zoo,

1058
01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:21.039
the Library, the London Library or whatever. So I've been.

1059
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:25.680
So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not for a very

1060
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:34.079
very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the best birthday present

1061
01:26:34.079 --> 01:26:39.600
you ever received? Well, technically, I would say I know

1062
01:26:39.600 --> 01:26:43.199
it's My birthday was three days ago. But your question, Kathleen,

1063
01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:46.640
that's the birth that's the best present I've ever had.

1064
01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:54.760
I don't know really best birthday present. See, when I

1065
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:56.840
was a kid, not nothing as an adult, But when

1066
01:26:56.880 --> 01:27:00.159
I was a kid, I enjoyed this year. I got

1067
01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:05.000
some payper gifts. Sounds really lovely, kind of I almost

1068
01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:10.359
felt like I was I don't know, just felt quite nice.

1069
01:27:12.359 --> 01:27:16.760
I felt very nice. I think as a kid. As

1070
01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:31.359
an adult, nothing I mean not nothing, but yeah, nothing

1071
01:27:31.439 --> 01:27:34.039
like particularly that I can think of off the top

1072
01:27:34.039 --> 01:27:45.760
of my head as a kid. Yeah, nothing really stands

1073
01:27:45.800 --> 01:27:49.920
out because they're all. The thing is with my dad

1074
01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:53.640
and his wife, they were very generous when it came

1075
01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:57.039
to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying they weren't the

1076
01:27:57.039 --> 01:27:59.199
rest of the time, but they were very I always

1077
01:27:59.199 --> 01:28:02.880
got lots suppressed for birthdays and Christmases from the age

1078
01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:11.399
of seven to fifteen, so it was Yeah, it was

1079
01:28:11.479 --> 01:28:14.920
like every year. I mean fifteen was a bit of

1080
01:28:14.960 --> 01:28:18.039
a slow one, but all the other years it's you know,

1081
01:28:18.079 --> 01:28:22.680
when the whole family was together. Yeah, every year was good,

1082
01:28:23.359 --> 01:28:26.800
you know, like Christmas as well. I never there was

1083
01:28:26.840 --> 01:28:31.119
never any disappointment. It was never like, oh I didn't

1084
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:35.880
get enough presents because I always got more presence than

1085
01:28:35.920 --> 01:28:41.159
I ever needed, you know. It was I was very,

1086
01:28:41.239 --> 01:28:46.399
very fortunate, and the same as with birthdays, I always

1087
01:28:46.439 --> 01:28:52.439
got lots of presents and I liked all of them.

1088
01:28:52.920 --> 01:28:53.279
Really.

1089
01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:59.119
I remember one year when I was probably about ten, eleven, ten,

1090
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:05.399
I don't know, and I had a video game, so

1091
01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:09.199
that was cool, like a kind of First Space Invaders

1092
01:29:10.439 --> 01:29:13.920
Asteroids kind of game that was handheld, but a big

1093
01:29:13.960 --> 01:29:18.960
old thing. Batteries. Batteries were the size of a calor.

1094
01:29:20.039 --> 01:29:22.119
There was a big thing, but I always loved it.

1095
01:29:23.039 --> 01:29:32.439
Do you do do? Yeah, things like that. That was

1096
01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:36.720
nothing like how it sounded. But I can't think of

1097
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:42.479
any particular presence that had off the top of my head.

1098
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:45.960
That is, I'm not saying there wasn't any particular presence

1099
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:49.239
that I liked most of all, and I'm trying to

1100
01:29:50.880 --> 01:29:55.279
The big presents really, I think were Christmas time, because

1101
01:29:55.319 --> 01:29:58.479
I got a couple of the two biggest presents I

1102
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:05.920
remember at Christmas. Oh No, I got the best present

1103
01:30:06.000 --> 01:30:12.920
I ever got for my birthday was when I was seven.

1104
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.680
I mean it might have not been on my birthday,

1105
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.079
it was around that time because we all got bike,

1106
01:30:18.479 --> 01:30:20.479
but it was a bike. I got a new and

1107
01:30:20.560 --> 01:30:25.039
my first ever bike when I was seven, my seventh birthday,

1108
01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:28.520
and my dad taught me to ride, and he did

1109
01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:31.479
that whole thing where he's like holding onto the because

1110
01:30:31.479 --> 01:30:37.880
I had fallen off, and he put stabilizers on, and

1111
01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:41.079
he kind of he said, I'm holding on. And he

1112
01:30:41.239 --> 01:30:46.640
was behind me and I was cycling and I said,

1113
01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:50.199
he's still holding on. He said, yeah, he's still holding on.

1114
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:54.199
He said, yeah, I'm still holding on. I'm thinking, why

1115
01:30:54.239 --> 01:30:56.920
are you doing such a soft voice. I said, he's

1116
01:30:56.920 --> 01:30:57.600
still holding on?

1117
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:00.840
What?

1118
01:31:02.439 --> 01:31:04.640
And I shared, he's still holding on and my phone

1119
01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:08.079
rings and he said, yeah, I'm still holding on. And

1120
01:31:08.119 --> 01:31:12.079
I'm thinking maybe our phones aren't even invented yet. This

1121
01:31:12.199 --> 01:31:16.640
is nineteen seventy seven. This is really weird. One if

1122
01:31:16.640 --> 01:31:20.760
it's real, and I look behind me and there's nowhere

1123
01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:28.520
to be seen. I'd cycled into a different town. I've

1124
01:31:28.520 --> 01:31:33.039
been gone for about six hours. Never really could gauge

1125
01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:39.119
time back then, So yeah, that's what I realized. I

1126
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:43.800
could cycle without him like holding on me, but I

1127
01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:47.840
did have stabilizers. Stabilizers are good. I think everyone should

1128
01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:52.920
have stabilizers all the time. It just makes sense, doesn't it,

1129
01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:55.720
Because at least then you can just stop your bike

1130
01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:57.720
where if you are and just leave it standing up.

1131
01:31:59.399 --> 01:32:05.840
There's no not to have stabilizers. I remember seeing someone

1132
01:32:05.960 --> 01:32:08.439
years ago in a park having a go at their

1133
01:32:08.520 --> 01:32:12.560
kid because they had stabilizers. Are almost like, you can't

1134
01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:16.319
have you have stabilizes. You're nine now, and me like,

1135
01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:21.880
give the kid a break. You know, what does it matter?

1136
01:32:23.840 --> 01:32:34.479
Really may Yeah, the bike that was the best present

1137
01:32:34.720 --> 01:32:40.239
birthday present I got was that bike. I did get

1138
01:32:40.279 --> 01:32:43.199
another bike at a Christmas quite a few years later

1139
01:32:43.279 --> 01:32:51.199
when I was about thirteen and maybe fourteen thirteen something

1140
01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:56.800
like that, and it was a racer and earlier on

1141
01:32:56.920 --> 01:33:02.520
but probably about age ten nine ten or maybe a

1142
01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:08.399
leathern even I'd got a telescope for Christmas. I think

1143
01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:10.520
it was Christmas. It might have been for my birthday.

1144
01:33:11.960 --> 01:33:18.520
It's possible. I don't remember exactly, but yeah, I've got

1145
01:33:18.520 --> 01:33:24.960
this telescope, really nice telescope. But yeah, so I can't

1146
01:33:25.000 --> 01:33:27.199
really I would say I would go with the bike,

1147
01:33:27.600 --> 01:33:32.359
and it was a grift of I think, and it

1148
01:33:32.399 --> 01:33:36.479
was the first time I ever had a bike, and

1149
01:33:38.920 --> 01:33:44.960
I mean that was the best summer of my life.

1150
01:33:46.439 --> 01:33:49.920
It was There's no other summer. It wasn't about the heat.

1151
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:52.079
It wasn't about the weather. You know, we may it

1152
01:33:52.079 --> 01:33:54.840
makes such a big deal about all. It wasn't as

1153
01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:58.720
hot as it normally is. What's been too hot? When

1154
01:33:58.720 --> 01:34:03.760
I was a kid, I couldn't care at all if

1155
01:34:03.760 --> 01:34:07.960
it was raining or if it was sunny. That was

1156
01:34:08.000 --> 01:34:14.199
my first time with a family, like an actual family living.

1157
01:34:16.359 --> 01:34:18.760
The next year was good as well, but that was

1158
01:34:18.800 --> 01:34:25.079
the first year, the first summer, which is nineteen seventy seven,

1159
01:34:25.239 --> 01:34:27.920
when I was well, I was lee, I was just

1160
01:34:27.960 --> 01:34:31.079
before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven in August.

1161
01:34:33.640 --> 01:34:38.880
So that was the best summer of my life, well

1162
01:34:38.960 --> 01:34:43.560
in my memory anyway. And the next year was really

1163
01:34:43.560 --> 01:34:48.840
good as well. So I basically seventy seven seventy eight

1164
01:34:49.359 --> 01:34:53.840
were the best summers that I ever had. But seventy

1165
01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:58.800
seven especially because we lived near the well, were lived

1166
01:34:58.840 --> 01:35:03.119
near the beach as well, actually lived near the beach

1167
01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:06.479
in the big family house. But this was like just

1168
01:35:06.560 --> 01:35:10.039
up the road to the beach, a bit of a walk,

1169
01:35:10.119 --> 01:35:19.479
but not too far. It was a straight walk. Yeah,

1170
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:22.760
So that's what I would say for that. The bike

1171
01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:25.479
that was my favorite, the best person I ever got,

1172
01:35:27.760 --> 01:35:30.479
but technically not really the best present I ever got

1173
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:33.279
was a family, if we're going to be if I'm

1174
01:35:33.279 --> 01:35:35.960
going to be sentimental, So we moved out of the

1175
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:39.279
children's home and lived with my dad and his new

1176
01:35:39.279 --> 01:35:47.760
wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven, possibly June,

1177
01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:53.800
maybe July. It was back in them days. A couple

1178
01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:55.880
of weeks was like a few months to a little

1179
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:58.000
kid in it, it's like a long time. So he

1180
01:35:58.119 --> 01:36:03.439
probably moved there after school finished. So I went there,

1181
01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.479
left South End and we moved there instead of visiting

1182
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:16.640
at weekends. Who moved there forever? And it was technically

1183
01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:19.760
that was like the best birthday present I ever had

1184
01:36:19.800 --> 01:36:24.880
because for the first time, well since I was a baby,

1185
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:31.760
I was had two parents and my brothers all together

1186
01:36:31.840 --> 01:36:39.159
in one house. And yeah, that was brilliant. Yep. And

1187
01:36:39.239 --> 01:36:43.479
I was the baby for one more year, but just

1188
01:36:43.479 --> 01:36:52.960
for one year. Move on, Joe, Joe. Mary asks me,

1189
01:36:53.359 --> 01:36:56.159
how do you design the episode titled artwork you use

1190
01:36:56.680 --> 01:37:04.680
it's always so creative? Well, thank you. I use different things.

1191
01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:13.720
So I use a mixture of a canva and chetch

1192
01:37:13.720 --> 01:37:21.760
Ept five and sometimes other things to put together. Maybe

1193
01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:25.439
some images I've got, maybe images that I've found online

1194
01:37:26.439 --> 01:37:29.000
to put together what I want to kind of express.

1195
01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:35.039
Usually it's something to do with the recording. It might

1196
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:37.920
be hidden in the recording, but it's quite often there's

1197
01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:43.239
a little hint in the image, or sometimes I hide

1198
01:37:43.239 --> 01:37:46.520
a little things in the image where you'd have to

1199
01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:49.600
really have a close look to see it what it is.

1200
01:37:50.560 --> 01:37:55.920
But generally I have to think what I want, what

1201
01:37:56.000 --> 01:37:58.600
I want the record, what I want the image to be.

1202
01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:01.800
So I think that up and then I asked chat

1203
01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:07.720
GP two five to maybe create that image. This is

1204
01:38:07.760 --> 01:38:11.199
one way of doing it. And then I get it

1205
01:38:11.279 --> 01:38:14.720
to redo it and to change things, and it takes

1206
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:19.520
quite a while, sometimes sometimes half hour an hour to

1207
01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:23.960
get the image done, depends on how well it comes

1208
01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:27.920
out first time. And then I go into Canva and

1209
01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:33.079
I edit the image. And sometimes I do multiple images

1210
01:38:33.119 --> 01:38:36.000
and put them all together, taken off the background to

1211
01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:38.880
put them into Canva, editing it so it looks like

1212
01:38:38.960 --> 01:38:45.640
one image. Yes, so that's kind of what I do.

1213
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:49.119
I used to sometimes again, I'd take stuff them online

1214
01:38:49.159 --> 01:38:53.800
and i'd change the image editor or pictures of myself

1215
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:59.640
or pictures of Vinnie, you know, just or put in

1216
01:38:59.640 --> 01:39:03.159
my picture and make me be in this scenario, and

1217
01:39:03.560 --> 01:39:10.279
you know, things like that. So the Quine Friday images

1218
01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:15.239
just generally just Queo Friday. But like I did an

1219
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:21.239
image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages, and it was a nice image.

1220
01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:24.279
It was a picture, not when I made up, just

1221
01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:29.520
one that had been taken yesterday. So I do sometimes

1222
01:39:29.560 --> 01:39:33.960
do that as well. And there's pictures of me and

1223
01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:38.079
my secret at uniform, pictures of me in my karate

1224
01:39:38.399 --> 01:39:42.920
uniform when I was a kid, that is. So there's

1225
01:39:42.960 --> 01:39:47.079
lots of different images. I mean, I've done what fourteen

1226
01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:52.600
one thousand and four hundred, and I don't know how

1227
01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:56.479
many I've done. Now let's have a look. See yesterday's

1228
01:39:56.479 --> 01:40:00.800
one with number one four hundred and twenty four, So

1229
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:03.359
this is one thing I was four hundred and twenty five.

1230
01:40:04.039 --> 01:40:08.520
So that's how many images I suppose I've done, although

1231
01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:10.760
I think some of the earlier ones didn't have images.

1232
01:40:12.000 --> 01:40:17.079
But I started doing images a few years back. I

1233
01:40:17.119 --> 01:40:19.760
do wonder, you know, because I listened to some of

1234
01:40:19.760 --> 01:40:24.720
my old stuff from I don't know, fifteen years ago,

1235
01:40:25.560 --> 01:40:27.640
and I think, oh, I can't believe I did stuff

1236
01:40:27.720 --> 01:40:32.760
that that wasn't good at all, and I've really improved

1237
01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:35.199
what I do is I mean, the quality of the

1238
01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:39.439
sound is better that it used to be. But I

1239
01:40:39.479 --> 01:40:41.000
wonder if that's what it's going to be like in

1240
01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:44.960
ten years time. If I look back at let's say

1241
01:40:44.960 --> 01:40:48.439
today's recording, all the recordings that I've been doing in

1242
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:50.880
the last year or so, When I look back at

1243
01:40:50.920 --> 01:40:56.720
these recordings, I think, Oh, my goodness, I don't believe

1244
01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:01.960
that I used to make such recordings as that. I'm

1245
01:41:02.119 --> 01:41:06.600
so glad that I managed to improve the quality of

1246
01:41:06.680 --> 01:41:10.680
the content. I don't know, I might look back at

1247
01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:17.000
this and think, God, what was I doing. It's possible.

1248
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:26.800
So what was the question again? What's the best birthdate?

1249
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:27.159
No?

1250
01:41:27.159 --> 01:41:29.840
No, how do you design an episode? Yeah? So that

1251
01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:36.000
that's kind of how I do it. Is they're creative,

1252
01:41:36.319 --> 01:41:40.399
but I have to say what I want, So I

1253
01:41:40.479 --> 01:41:43.640
have to create it kind of in my mind roughly

1254
01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:46.159
what I want, and then I have to find a

1255
01:41:46.159 --> 01:41:50.000
way to put that together because I'm not an artist.

1256
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:58.279
Like as far as creative images, which you can do,

1257
01:41:58.439 --> 01:42:00.600
you know, there are there are programs so that you could

1258
01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:03.800
put an image together and make it from scratch. That's

1259
01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:07.279
that's not something I could do, or something that I

1260
01:42:07.319 --> 01:42:11.279
even want to learn to do. But I know what

1261
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.399
I want. Does that make sense if I want? Like

1262
01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:18.439
the other day, I wanted an image of a baby

1263
01:42:18.520 --> 01:42:22.239
jumping out a cake, but chat ept wouldn't allow it,

1264
01:42:25.039 --> 01:42:27.880
even though it's basically just my little brother ruining my

1265
01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:31.199
eighth birthday party because it was just born the day

1266
01:42:31.239 --> 01:42:33.319
before my birthday party, and that's what it was supposed

1267
01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:35.840
to be, him jumping out of the cake, ruining my party,

1268
01:42:37.359 --> 01:42:42.560
like a jokey kind of thing. But they could they wouldn't.

1269
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:45.279
It was hard to get it done because it was

1270
01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:49.159
it took ages to put that image together. Let me

1271
01:42:49.199 --> 01:42:53.560
ever look at it. I did that on my day

1272
01:42:53.600 --> 01:42:59.039
before my birthday. I think the internet's shut down for

1273
01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:06.720
some reason. Why. That's very strange? Oh it is? Why

1274
01:43:06.840 --> 01:43:07.560
is it hidden?

1275
01:43:08.439 --> 01:43:08.720
Oh?

1276
01:43:08.960 --> 01:43:13.399
I know why? So Okay, the image I ended up

1277
01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:19.159
with with how my brother ruined my eighth birthday, there's

1278
01:43:19.159 --> 01:43:22.560
a number one, four hundred and twenty two, so that

1279
01:43:22.720 --> 01:43:27.640
was on Monday, and it's an image of me frowning

1280
01:43:27.760 --> 01:43:32.680
with birthday borrow a T shirt. There's my dad with

1281
01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:40.439
his beard, there's my stepmom holding a new baby. And

1282
01:43:40.479 --> 01:43:44.279
then there's my oldest brother and my other brother, so

1283
01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:47.479
it's all kind of, you know, planned, and it's got

1284
01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:52.000
number eight. So on a birthday cake, everyone's laughing except me,

1285
01:43:52.079 --> 01:43:55.399
and I'm just frowning. And then there's a big speech

1286
01:43:55.479 --> 01:43:58.960
bubble aimed to supposed to be aimed towards the baby,

1287
01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:07.159
saying I'm the baby now. So it's not always easy

1288
01:44:07.279 --> 01:44:13.800
to put it all together, but other times it works

1289
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:18.960
quite nice. So it's a very simple thing, like Vinnie

1290
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:21.119
woke me up. This is what I did on the

1291
01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:29.920
twenty fourth of August, and I wanted to be like

1292
01:44:30.000 --> 01:44:33.720
an image of me. It never always comes up right,

1293
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:37.079
but it's kind of an image of me in bed.

1294
01:44:37.560 --> 01:44:42.800
But I wanted to me to be wearing old Victorian

1295
01:44:43.079 --> 01:44:50.319
type bedclothes, a bit like Scrooge Dickenson kind of thing.

1296
01:44:50.600 --> 01:44:53.079
But then it wouldn't allow that because that was copyright,

1297
01:44:53.119 --> 01:44:56.239
and like, okay, how can I get around that? And

1298
01:44:57.239 --> 01:45:02.479
I wanted Vinnie basically the same wake up and there's

1299
01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:05.880
a little tag with video on it. So I just

1300
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:08.520
kind of played around and in the end managed to

1301
01:45:09.079 --> 01:45:13.239
get an image that kind of worked. And then the

1302
01:45:13.319 --> 01:45:16.199
day before that I did call one called good Morning

1303
01:45:18.680 --> 01:45:21.319
and basically what I was talking about was working at

1304
01:45:21.359 --> 01:45:23.079
different jobs, and I was at at one point I

1305
01:45:23.079 --> 01:45:28.359
was talking about working in the bakery and how if

1306
01:45:28.840 --> 01:45:33.439
the conveyor belt never stopped hardly, so sometimes you'd end

1307
01:45:33.520 --> 01:45:37.800
up with bread rolls all over the floor. So I

1308
01:45:37.840 --> 01:45:42.479
thought I wanted an image of me with bread rolls

1309
01:45:42.560 --> 01:45:48.119
kind of up to my waist and then falling off

1310
01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:52.600
the conveyor belt. And it took quite a while for

1311
01:45:52.720 --> 01:45:56.239
me to get it done, you know, lots of different versions,

1312
01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:59.159
and then I found it. So even though the image

1313
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:03.359
is it probably looks like quite an easy image to do,

1314
01:46:03.760 --> 01:46:06.039
it took a while to kind of put it together

1315
01:46:09.319 --> 01:46:13.479
and then I did one last week, twenty second August

1316
01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:23.159
twenty twenty five. It was it Friday, last Friday, and

1317
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:25.479
I wanted to talk about bottles because I got ninety

1318
01:46:25.479 --> 01:46:29.840
six bottles of water delivered and I wanted a house

1319
01:46:29.880 --> 01:46:34.760
and made of bottles. And in the end, it didn't

1320
01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:36.760
come out how I wanted it to come out as

1321
01:46:38.039 --> 01:46:39.960
but I had, you know, I spent so long on it.

1322
01:46:40.039 --> 01:46:44.520
I just thought it's you're going to have to do,

1323
01:46:45.560 --> 01:46:49.920
so you know, I did that. I wasn't it wasn't

1324
01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:55.319
crazy about the text, but you know it ended up okay,

1325
01:46:55.319 --> 01:46:58.119
I shouldn't get If I did any game now, i'd

1326
01:46:58.159 --> 01:47:02.600
make a few changes, and I didn't run. The day before,

1327
01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:08.920
I bought myself to sleep. So I've got a sheep

1328
01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:15.680
in a chair asleep but dreaming or thinking or whatever,

1329
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:20.760
dreaming of Instead of sheep jumping running around, he's got humans.

1330
01:47:21.039 --> 01:47:23.840
He's got a human jumping over a fence and two

1331
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:27.640
humans like running around. It's just little things like that.

1332
01:47:29.439 --> 01:47:31.560
It's another one called thin Legs that I did the

1333
01:47:31.640 --> 01:47:38.640
day before, and it's basically a caricature of me with

1334
01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:44.479
a big upper body and tiny little legs because I

1335
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:52.520
bought some Yeah, I bought some tracksuponds. And then Teddy Bears.

1336
01:47:52.560 --> 01:47:57.760
That's Trivia Tuesday last week. So I've got a picture

1337
01:47:57.800 --> 01:48:03.199
of a Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears or hats

1338
01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:09.199
on drinking through straws for some glasses with some burgers

1339
01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:14.800
and stuff, you know, on the on the blanket checker blanket,

1340
01:48:15.279 --> 01:48:17.279
but in the background because we're in the park, in

1341
01:48:17.279 --> 01:48:19.800
the background like all these humans just running away around

1342
01:48:19.880 --> 01:48:27.239
screaming and running away screaming. So I like that. And

1343
01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:31.439
then another one mental health review. I seem to be

1344
01:48:31.479 --> 01:48:33.680
doing one every day. If I have, I've been quite

1345
01:48:33.720 --> 01:48:40.520
good recently. Mental health review is there's bugs bunny sitting

1346
01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:45.720
on it like a psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist is

1347
01:48:46.840 --> 01:48:51.880
looks a bit like Freud and there's that whole thing,

1348
01:48:52.079 --> 01:48:55.640
you know, Christine pointing out what's up, doc? And it

1349
01:48:55.720 --> 01:48:58.079
is the cult. Yeah, so it's quite because I just

1350
01:48:58.119 --> 01:49:02.399
had a mental health review on a Monday, and then

1351
01:49:02.439 --> 01:49:04.439
I got one. I don't know what I'm telling you.

1352
01:49:04.439 --> 01:49:06.359
You might already know this. You might have seen them.

1353
01:49:07.000 --> 01:49:10.680
I have to go outside and this was I think

1354
01:49:10.680 --> 01:49:14.720
this was Sunday the eighteenth, So it's me. What's kind

1355
01:49:14.720 --> 01:49:16.800
of not really me, but it's kind of a me

1356
01:49:17.039 --> 01:49:22.199
kind of picture a middle aged man, more hair, and

1357
01:49:22.199 --> 01:49:24.039
it's like, I have to go outside at the top,

1358
01:49:24.720 --> 01:49:27.159
but he's in a kind of a very gray kind

1359
01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.119
of room and there's a doorway, but everything outside the

1360
01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:34.920
doorway is very bright, right and colorful, kind of like

1361
01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:37.039
the Wizard of Us. So that was what I was

1362
01:49:37.079 --> 01:49:41.359
looking for. It took a while to get that together,

1363
01:49:42.760 --> 01:49:47.680
but I was pleased. I mean, I had to make

1364
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:50.279
a lot of changes to get it to where it was,

1365
01:49:51.680 --> 01:50:06.640
so Yeah, that's kind of is that. Sometimes it's quite easy,

1366
01:50:07.520 --> 01:50:10.239
you know, like Trivia Tuesday. A couple of weeks ago,

1367
01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:15.199
I was talking about vikings, I think, so I just

1368
01:50:15.199 --> 01:50:20.319
wanted to be a viking with green Beard with a

1369
01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:24.640
helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday, and that's what it did,

1370
01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:27.600
and it did it very quickly. Well. I took a

1371
01:50:27.640 --> 01:50:34.279
few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was pretty much perfect straightaway.

1372
01:50:34.479 --> 01:50:36.600
So there's times like that when it's really good, and

1373
01:50:36.640 --> 01:50:41.560
other times when it takes absolutely what it seemed to

1374
01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:49.079
take a long time, and sometimes I can't even bothered.

1375
01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:52.760
It's like, just I don't want to spend so long

1376
01:50:52.840 --> 01:50:55.720
working on images to want to get the thing out.

1377
01:50:56.800 --> 01:51:01.880
I've made the recording, just doing the editing. There's been

1378
01:51:01.920 --> 01:51:03.640
times where I've actually just put it out without an

1379
01:51:03.680 --> 01:51:07.600
image because I just like it. It's taken way too long,

1380
01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:10.600
especially when I had to keep going up to the hospital,

1381
01:51:11.039 --> 01:51:14.800
so I'd edit and then I'd just like post it

1382
01:51:14.840 --> 01:51:20.479
without an image. So that's kind of my creative take

1383
01:51:20.560 --> 01:51:23.319
on that. So some would argue maybe that it's not

1384
01:51:23.439 --> 01:51:25.960
creative at all because I'm not the one really doing anything.

1385
01:51:26.600 --> 01:51:32.239
I'm giving the instructions, but yeah, it's coming out of

1386
01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:34.560
my head. It's coming out of my mind, a lot

1387
01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:37.560
of it. And I also have to do the editing,

1388
01:51:37.680 --> 01:51:42.079
and I know what I'm looking for, So yeah, thank

1389
01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:46.079
you for that. So sharel asks. Since you seem concerned

1390
01:51:46.119 --> 01:51:54.680
about your forehead getting larger, Oh my goodness, would you

1391
01:51:54.760 --> 01:52:05.600
consider getting their hair piece? No? Never, ever, ever, ever, Ever, however,

1392
01:52:07.920 --> 01:52:10.319
I think the only reason that only time I would

1393
01:52:10.319 --> 01:52:16.079
ever get a hair piece, it would be probably in

1394
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:19.920
the event of if I was in a play or

1395
01:52:19.920 --> 01:52:22.479
if I was in in some kind of fancy dress situation.

1396
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:25.720
Then you know, perhaps I would wear like a wig

1397
01:52:25.840 --> 01:52:32.439
or something. But and you know, I do understand why

1398
01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:38.640
people do need to wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff,

1399
01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:43.640
but I don't, especially as although I go on about

1400
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:47.880
my hair and stuff, I've spent many years bored. I've

1401
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:51.439
been shaving my head on purpose. It's hard to do accidentally.

1402
01:52:51.800 --> 01:52:55.640
But you know, basically, I don't care that much. I'm

1403
01:52:55.680 --> 01:52:57.960
just a little bit annoyed that I don't have control

1404
01:52:58.000 --> 01:53:01.000
over it anymore, because before I shave it off and

1405
01:53:01.079 --> 01:53:03.680
I was in control. Now I don't have to shave

1406
01:53:03.760 --> 01:53:05.520
it all off because it kind of does it. It

1407
01:53:05.600 --> 01:53:10.880
doesn't grow back, so it's a little bit annoying my

1408
01:53:11.000 --> 01:53:19.479
forehead getting larger. I like that. No, never, No, I wouldn't.

1409
01:53:19.520 --> 01:53:24.319
I don't. I understand, you know, it's some famous people.

1410
01:53:26.279 --> 01:53:31.039
I don't think i'd look younger because that's the thing, like, okay,

1411
01:53:31.199 --> 01:53:34.079
I could be in my sixties when I'm nearly fifty

1412
01:53:34.079 --> 01:53:38.079
five now. I don't think I'm going to look younger

1413
01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:44.479
with a hair piece. I think the only thing that

1414
01:53:44.520 --> 01:53:46.479
would make me perhaps look a bit younger if I

1415
01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:49.119
didn't have the gray. But then my hair is not

1416
01:53:49.319 --> 01:53:52.840
that gray. It's gray, but it's gray at the sides

1417
01:53:53.000 --> 01:53:57.479
at the top. But there's a lot of hair that's

1418
01:53:57.640 --> 01:54:02.960
still dark dark brown my head, but my beard less.

1419
01:54:03.000 --> 01:54:06.640
So I got Yeah, my beard's definitely got much more

1420
01:54:06.640 --> 01:54:15.079
grayer than my hair on my head. And no, I wouldn't.

1421
01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:18.760
I wouldn't get a hair piece. And I think if

1422
01:54:18.760 --> 01:54:23.039
I met someone and they kind of were really like, well,

1423
01:54:23.039 --> 01:54:24.880
I want you to get a hair piece, I don't like.

1424
01:54:25.359 --> 01:54:31.760
I don't like being with someone that's bored, mate, I don't. Yeah,

1425
01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:34.359
I'd probably just say well I'll see it then, you know,

1426
01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:37.520
find someone else that's got hair or just willing to

1427
01:54:37.560 --> 01:54:41.239
wear a hair piece because I don't. Don't date someone

1428
01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:44.000
that's bald, if you don't want to be with someone

1429
01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:47.840
that's bored. That's the way I see it is, if

1430
01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:50.199
you want to date someone that's tall, don't date someone

1431
01:54:50.239 --> 01:54:53.159
as short. Or if you want someone that's short, don't

1432
01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:56.399
date someone that's tall, expect them to crouch all the time,

1433
01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:02.479
walk on their knees. Well, you know, it's like things

1434
01:55:02.520 --> 01:55:07.399
like that are controllable, not meeting someone that you feel.

1435
01:55:07.560 --> 01:55:10.119
You know, you might meet someone that they've tick all

1436
01:55:10.159 --> 01:55:16.880
the other boxes, but ultimately, why walk up to someone

1437
01:55:17.920 --> 01:55:23.880
and start talking to them? If it's a big no no.

1438
01:55:24.239 --> 01:55:28.119
Then being seven foot tall and maybe you're four foot

1439
01:55:28.199 --> 01:55:32.199
five and you know your limit of height is only

1440
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:35.680
it only go as high as six foot two. As

1441
01:55:36.159 --> 01:55:40.560
for a partner, you know, or you want someone shorter,

1442
01:55:43.960 --> 01:55:46.800
or if you've got to really if that's a thing,

1443
01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:53.960
if you've got to really a thing, you know, whatever

1444
01:55:54.199 --> 01:55:57.199
the person is, whether you're a male, female or whatever,

1445
01:55:57.840 --> 01:55:59.960
if you've got a particular.

1446
01:56:00.920 --> 01:56:03.239
Like so.

1447
01:56:04.840 --> 01:56:07.079
I would say go with that, like go with it.

1448
01:56:08.399 --> 01:56:13.520
Whether you've really got a thing for someone with a

1449
01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:18.920
certain color hair or someone with a type of maybe

1450
01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:24.159
from a certain part of the world, or someone who's

1451
01:56:24.800 --> 01:56:31.039
really really really tall or whatever. If you've got something,

1452
01:56:31.279 --> 01:56:35.000
if that really has a big impact on how you

1453
01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:39.039
feel physically and emotionally, then it makes sense to kind

1454
01:56:39.079 --> 01:56:44.560
of go towards that, you know, or body size even

1455
01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:48.000
But then body size, like heighth is not really going

1456
01:56:48.079 --> 01:56:50.119
to change. Is he going to get a bit short

1457
01:56:50.199 --> 01:56:57.399
of age, It's not really going to change too much. Glasses,

1458
01:56:59.600 --> 01:57:05.279
you know, you know, I guess if you're date in

1459
01:57:05.359 --> 01:57:07.960
someone who doesn't have glasses and they start wearing glasses,

1460
01:57:08.439 --> 01:57:10.720
maybe you've got an issue of people wearing glasses. Some

1461
01:57:10.760 --> 01:57:16.039
people do. I used to be a bit weird towards

1462
01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:20.079
glasses where I wearers. Even though I wore glasses myself.

1463
01:57:20.880 --> 01:57:23.319
My attitude was, why would I want to date someone

1464
01:57:23.359 --> 01:57:27.039
that's wears glasses, because it'd be like having a relationship

1465
01:57:28.439 --> 01:57:32.560
through a window. Because I wear glasses as well, it'd

1466
01:57:32.600 --> 01:57:34.640
be like wearing you know, or I didn't wear them

1467
01:57:34.640 --> 01:57:36.720
all the time, but it'd be like having a relationship

1468
01:57:36.760 --> 01:57:40.800
through a window, which is rude, and I shouldn't have

1469
01:57:40.800 --> 01:57:44.800
said that out to people loud in public, but I

1470
01:57:44.840 --> 01:57:49.239
thought it was kind of funny. But at the time.

1471
01:57:49.279 --> 01:57:52.039
I didn't wear glasses all the time. I just had

1472
01:57:52.119 --> 01:57:56.960
to wear them for reading. So I don't feel that

1473
01:57:57.000 --> 01:58:00.199
way anymore. It's not like having a relationship through you know,

1474
01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:04.600
if I date song of glasses, it's what it's double

1475
01:58:04.600 --> 01:58:15.800
glazer now, isn't it pretty much? And yeah, what was

1476
01:58:15.840 --> 01:58:20.720
I gonna say? What was the question? Oh? Hair pieces?

1477
01:58:21.239 --> 01:58:25.199
So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a lot of the

1478
01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:30.239
old movie stars, like from the old days. It used

1479
01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:33.439
to wear wigs, and you could see it with wigs,

1480
01:58:37.199 --> 01:58:44.159
but it kind of didn't matter. It's kind of one

1481
01:58:44.159 --> 01:58:52.000
of those weird things is if I'm boarding, I'm not

1482
01:58:52.199 --> 01:58:55.239
like I've got a bald patch in the back. I'm receding.

1483
01:58:55.319 --> 01:59:01.760
I've been receding for decades and my hair and I

1484
01:59:01.840 --> 01:59:04.520
moan about it. But firstly, I can't see the back

1485
01:59:04.560 --> 01:59:06.279
of my head, so I can't see the ball patch.

1486
01:59:06.359 --> 01:59:09.119
I forget it's there most of the time until people

1487
01:59:09.239 --> 01:59:11.439
just start laughing at me when I'm walking down the street.

1488
01:59:14.119 --> 01:59:17.159
But I wouldn't, I mean, I wouldn't get You can't

1489
01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:19.640
really get balled. You can't get the hair piece just

1490
01:59:19.680 --> 01:59:23.199
for one tiny little ball patch, can you? Or one

1491
01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:31.359
average size growing ever increasing balld patch. I don't care.

1492
01:59:31.600 --> 01:59:35.479
I'm at an age now where having a board patch

1493
01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:38.520
there's no shame. There's no shame in never having a

1494
01:59:38.520 --> 01:59:42.159
ball patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed to have

1495
01:59:42.760 --> 01:59:47.680
a board patch without having to explain myself, you know,

1496
01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:51.399
I mean everyone is. It doesn't matter what age you are.

1497
01:59:51.760 --> 01:59:55.279
Some people go bored and in their teenage years. I

1498
01:59:55.399 --> 01:59:58.119
know people. I know a girl that went completely gray

1499
01:59:58.159 --> 02:00:04.199
when she was fourteen, and it's like she dye her hair.

1500
02:00:04.319 --> 02:00:06.960
Of course she dyed her hair. What else is she

1501
02:00:07.000 --> 02:00:12.159
going to do? But nowadays having gray hair is almost

1502
02:00:12.199 --> 02:00:15.640
a fashion, isn't it with young people? Or blue hair

1503
02:00:15.760 --> 02:00:21.760
or green hair. So yeah, I don't. I would never

1504
02:00:21.800 --> 02:00:29.199
wear it. Well, I do do. Actually, sometimes there's a

1505
02:00:29.199 --> 02:00:54.000
lot of banging around what they is. It's weird. I oh,

1506
02:00:54.279 --> 02:01:03.720
so I don't think I was talking about I can't

1507
02:01:03.720 --> 02:01:06.000
remember what I was talking about now, but yeah, no,

1508
02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:11.119
I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece. I think

1509
02:01:11.159 --> 02:01:14.720
it's okay. Love me for how I am and love

1510
02:01:14.840 --> 02:01:20.319
me for how I will be because you can't have

1511
02:01:20.399 --> 02:01:23.720
how I used to be because that's gone. So all

1512
02:01:23.720 --> 02:01:26.640
you've got is how I am now and if you

1513
02:01:26.680 --> 02:01:29.760
want to stick around, you'll be You'll see how I

1514
02:01:30.079 --> 02:01:35.159
will be, mind you, if you listen to the podcast,

1515
02:01:35.159 --> 02:01:37.600
you'll find out how I was as well. Because I

1516
02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:40.479
do talk about the past. It's hard to talk about

1517
02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:43.279
the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened yet apparently,

1518
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:54.039
And I do believe that is all the questions. So

1519
02:01:54.079 --> 02:01:57.000
thank you very much for listening. Remember to be kind

1520
02:01:57.079 --> 02:01:59.000
to yourself, and thank you for all the questions. I

1521
02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:06.520
say you were Hope, Rich Robin, Kathleen, Mary, dev Sheryl,

1522
02:02:06.920 --> 02:02:10.279
So thank you all of you a few questions, and

1523
02:02:10.319 --> 02:02:12.920
remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve

1524
02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.640
to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve

1525
02:02:16.760 --> 02:02:39.359
to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye. Relax in a

1526
02:02:39.439 --> 02:02:50.319
more deep and meaningful way, maybe in a way that

1527
02:02:50.520 --> 02:02:59.840
can not just allow you to feel calmer now and

1528
02:03:01.039 --> 02:03:09.399
throughout the time we spend together here, not just relaxed

1529
02:03:11.640 --> 02:03:15.880
at the end of the recording when it's finished and

1530
02:03:15.920 --> 02:03:25.800
you can enjoy that sense of comfort and peace, But

1531
02:03:25.960 --> 02:03:39.359
also I think it would be nice to have those

1532
02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:56.680
feelings of relaxation continue for longer after the recording has ended,

1533
02:04:01.800 --> 02:04:10.760
so that you can still benefit from listening to my

1534
02:04:10.920 --> 02:04:25.560
voice maybe in a few hours time, perhaps tomorrow, and

1535
02:04:25.600 --> 02:04:33.479
then by listening regularly, especially if you find like some

1536
02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:37.560
people do and myself as well, sometimes I find one

1537
02:04:37.600 --> 02:04:47.960
particular recording that really resonates with me, and I just

1538
02:04:48.079 --> 02:04:53.720
listen to it over and over again every morning, every evening.

1539
02:05:01.359 --> 02:05:06.000
There was this recording from We're going back to about

1540
02:05:06.159 --> 02:05:11.399
nineteen ninety nine. It wasn't hypnosis, but it was a

1541
02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:20.960
guided visualizations. It kind of was hypnosis, really, and I

1542
02:05:21.039 --> 02:05:24.359
managed to find it again and it still has the

1543
02:05:24.399 --> 02:05:33.600
same effect on me. And part of it was the

1544
02:05:33.720 --> 02:05:46.720
person's voice relaxed me. She just felt so peaceful, and

1545
02:05:46.760 --> 02:05:53.640
I'd look forward to listening to her in the morning

1546
02:05:54.079 --> 02:06:05.159
and in the evening. And I knew before even pressing

1547
02:06:05.279 --> 02:06:11.880
the play button that as soon as I've done that

1548
02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:16.239
pressed the play button. This is in the days of

1549
02:06:21.319 --> 02:06:30.479
CD players press the play button. In fact, it might

1550
02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:34.800
have even been a tap tape recorder. I'd lie down

1551
02:06:34.880 --> 02:06:47.479
on the bed and then even without necessarily listening to

1552
02:06:47.680 --> 02:07:00.800
her words because I had them memorized. Really, it was

1553
02:07:00.840 --> 02:07:11.479
as if my body knew exactly what to do, and

1554
02:07:11.640 --> 02:07:33.399
the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and I

1555
02:07:33.479 --> 02:07:47.439
remember my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I was

1556
02:07:47.600 --> 02:07:54.920
listening to this recording in the early days of learning hypnosis,

1557
02:07:57.439 --> 02:08:05.279
and long before I ever made any videos or audio

1558
02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:10.119
recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that till two

1559
02:08:10.119 --> 02:08:29.439
thousand and six, I knew, I knew how helpful I

1560
02:08:29.520 --> 02:08:39.840
found being able to just let go, to have that

1561
02:08:40.199 --> 02:08:52.800
trust in the person that I'm listening to, knowing that

1562
02:08:52.880 --> 02:09:00.560
it's going to be just as relaxing, if if not

1563
02:09:00.800 --> 02:09:10.119
more so. Each time you hear my voice, you may

1564
02:09:10.159 --> 02:09:21.720
feel the same. Some people have been listening to me

1565
02:09:21.960 --> 02:09:35.920
for over a decade, maybe not solidly, obviously not twenty

1566
02:09:35.920 --> 02:09:43.920
four hours a day, but maybe people come back. Some

1567
02:09:43.960 --> 02:09:59.079
people maybe listen every day. That's something that I do

1568
02:10:00.760 --> 02:10:15.239
which you may not realize by listening, is when I

1569
02:10:15.520 --> 02:10:31.680
record these recordings. Now, for example, I also am affected

1570
02:10:32.159 --> 02:10:45.000
by the words that I say. So if I set

1571
02:10:45.159 --> 02:10:55.640
you focus on your feet, notice your feet relaxing, I

1572
02:10:55.720 --> 02:11:04.199
would be focusing on my feet. I will be noticing

1573
02:11:07.159 --> 02:11:21.680
my feet relaxing. If I said, focus on your hands,

1574
02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:33.960
and maybe notice the difference between each hand. Perhaps notice

1575
02:11:34.079 --> 02:11:40.159
the air in the room, the temperature of the room.

1576
02:11:42.039 --> 02:11:52.439
On the backs of your hands. You may start to

1577
02:11:53.000 --> 02:12:01.079
notice what almost feels like a very light breeze, even

1578
02:12:01.119 --> 02:12:05.359
though there may not be any type of breeze at

1579
02:12:05.399 --> 02:12:18.399
all where you are right now. And as you become

1580
02:12:19.039 --> 02:12:33.399
aware of your hands, I'm also aware of how relaxed

1581
02:12:33.680 --> 02:12:57.479
my hands are feeling now, and when it comes to

1582
02:12:59.000 --> 02:13:05.039
potentially drifting off to sleep, which may be the reason

1583
02:13:05.359 --> 02:13:21.680
you're listening, I also feel drowsy when I make these recordings.

1584
02:13:26.319 --> 02:13:42.760
I also notice my mind drifting. In fact, at times

1585
02:13:44.800 --> 02:13:58.960
I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing, and then I

1586
02:13:59.079 --> 02:14:10.039
carry on tour talking and it's suddenly when I listen

1587
02:14:10.159 --> 02:14:19.600
back to do the editing, I hear snoring, and I think,

1588
02:14:20.039 --> 02:14:30.199
I don't remember snoring. I remember talking. This snoring was

1589
02:14:30.800 --> 02:14:37.119
a pick turned up. That's why I sound like when

1590
02:14:37.159 --> 02:14:56.079
I snore, I get really into the whole experience. I

1591
02:14:56.119 --> 02:15:05.560
don't know how you feel, how relaxed you feel in

1592
02:15:05.600 --> 02:15:31.239
your feet, how relaxed you feel in your hands. I

1593
02:15:31.319 --> 02:15:45.560
have noticed more and more that the more relaxed, deeper

1594
02:15:50.600 --> 02:16:00.920
level of comfort you feel, the easier you're pret even becomes.

1595
02:16:07.560 --> 02:16:24.159
It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation. So this allows

1596
02:16:24.199 --> 02:16:55.319
you debreathe easier without necessarily focusing on your breath, however,

1597
02:16:55.559 --> 02:17:23.639
being able to m notice the ease in which you

1598
02:17:23.879 --> 02:17:46.280
breathe so naturally, you breathe so very easily and smoothly.

1599
02:18:13.959 --> 02:18:31.639
Whenever I imagine my breathing improving, when I've got my

1600
02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:50.399
eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful field with

1601
02:18:50.760 --> 02:19:04.319
trees and flowers producing and all that life giving oxygen.

1602
02:19:24.399 --> 02:19:39.719
And it feels nice too, if nothing else, just taking

1603
02:19:40.000 --> 02:20:17.680
some time away from everything, m enjoying that feeling of peace,

1604
02:20:22.680 --> 02:21:06.280
serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip

1605
02:21:07.000 --> 02:21:56.760
by so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply, peaceful, completely unattached

1606
02:22:01.479 --> 02:22:58.920
to any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free, noticing

1607
02:22:59.319 --> 02:23:50.280
that your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing

1608
02:23:53.079 --> 02:24:20.000
really requires your attention. You can enjoy the physical sensations

1609
02:24:24.280 --> 02:24:30.440
of allowing the stress to drip out of your body,

1610
02:24:36.920 --> 02:25:00.600
Dripping out of every part of your body and being

1611
02:25:01.079 --> 02:25:39.760
released from your brain. Hune your mind slowly but surely.

1612
02:25:46.600 --> 02:26:24.000
The muscles in your legs relax res res so very deeply,

1613
02:26:33.799 --> 02:27:04.600
relax so deeply, and the fee things, the pleasant feelings

1614
02:27:04.719 --> 02:27:29.040
in your arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your

1615
02:27:29.079 --> 02:28:10.959
body further and deeper and deeper. Magicine, the feelings in

1616
02:28:11.040 --> 02:29:11.159
the back of your neck, the feelings in your wrists, muscles,

1617
02:29:13.200 --> 02:29:14.239
in the front of.

1618
02:29:14.159 --> 02:29:36.719
Your body, I will say, feeling.

1619
02:29:40.959 --> 02:30:16.760
Peaceful, deeping. There's a sense of peace spreads through your

1620
02:30:17.000 --> 02:30:17.799
very core.

1621
02:30:48.280 --> 02:31:09.000
Even when you focus on your mind, her mind becomes.

1622
02:31:16.440 --> 02:32:52.959
And slowerven deeper, relaxing, so very slow. Your stomach taste

1623
02:32:53.079 --> 02:33:40.000
felling your stomach, your back. Notice Notice how relaxed you

1624
02:33:40.399 --> 02:34:18.079
now feel in the hole of your back. You a

1625
02:34:18.360 --> 02:34:27.399
spy from your brain all the way down the middle

1626
02:34:27.479 --> 02:34:47.360
of your back, sending and receiving millions of messages every day.

1627
02:34:50.360 --> 02:36:11.479
Decomfort increasing deeply relaxed, ms, relegs, spreading those signals down

1628
02:36:11.600 --> 02:36:20.600
your spine or cord into air every part of your body,

1629
02:36:35.200 --> 02:37:23.479
your shins and your calf, muscles, your elbows, Feelings of

1630
02:37:23.719 --> 02:37:40.959
peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips of your toes,

1631
02:37:45.200 --> 02:37:56.639
to your eyes, your fingers, all the way to your

1632
02:37:56.760 --> 02:39:07.440
lower back. M letting go, reating God, base, drifting mind,

1633
02:39:10.959 --> 02:39:34.040
wonder in a way, happy to let go, Let go completely,

1634
02:39:36.479 --> 02:40:34.520
Let go, sir, tranquil your whole body, enjoying a sensor

1635
02:40:59.200 --> 02:43:02.520
letting go. He no space, enjoy space, this space of

1636
02:43:02.840 --> 02:43:31.920
peace and safety, so fairy.

1637
02:43:39.079 --> 02:44:13.680
Relaxed, must us.

1638
02:44:37.799 --> 02:45:33.600
The ladi letting go. Maybe we can just focus on

1639
02:45:33.719 --> 02:46:08.319
the different parts of your body, just to notice the

1640
02:46:08.600 --> 02:47:10.840
forehead and your eyes chun sa this noticing in the

1641
02:47:11.040 --> 02:48:30.440
sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom, dress day, dress day.

1642
02:48:42.799 --> 02:49:26.799
He's on energyh peace, to breeze, sch ease.

1643
02:49:26.799 --> 02:50:08.879
Yeah loose.

1644
02:50:30.159 --> 02:50:41.760
You may have or may not have noticed your mind

1645
02:50:42.479 --> 02:51:43.639
drifting peaceful, move in even more deeply in the direction

1646
02:51:43.840 --> 02:53:44.520
of total blissful pace for pace drest to to pace come,

1647
02:53:50.280 --> 02:55:05.079
so con let him go, peace with mind relay rexed,

1648
02:55:13.360 --> 02:55:42.600
so relaxed. A body feels almost.

1649
02:55:43.639 --> 02:56:06.760
Invisible, very relaxed, that peaceful.

1650
02:56:12.520 --> 02:56:21.120
So pace.

1651
02:56:44.200 --> 02:57:24.159
Like God. And you could start to notice that you

1652
02:57:25.639 --> 02:57:37.000
are feeling more relaxed, even though I've not purposely focused

1653
02:57:37.360 --> 02:57:45.600
your mind upon that sense of physical comfort that is

1654
02:57:45.719 --> 02:57:55.000
growing within you throughout your body, and your mind starts

1655
02:57:55.040 --> 02:58:04.680
to slow down. And that could be almost in recognition

1656
02:58:05.200 --> 02:58:19.079
of I guess my speech not being particularly fast and

1657
02:58:19.239 --> 02:58:32.360
things just generally feel calmer. Just by listening to my voice,

1658
02:58:33.159 --> 02:58:40.159
you give yourself an opportunity to take a break from

1659
02:58:40.200 --> 02:58:46.799
the day take a break from your life as it is,

1660
02:58:50.120 --> 02:58:57.760
and to give yourself a rest, giving yourself permission to

1661
02:58:57.879 --> 02:59:03.120
take some time off, and to allow your body to

1662
02:59:03.239 --> 02:59:13.000
relax and allow your mind to slow down, which in

1663
02:59:13.079 --> 02:59:20.920
turn releases the tension and it stresses that you had

1664
02:59:20.959 --> 02:59:30.719
in your body. It's almost as if the parts of

1665
02:59:30.760 --> 02:59:42.719
your body just open up, allowing the negativity out and

1666
02:59:42.840 --> 02:59:51.280
at the same time replacing that negativity with positive heathing energy,

1667
02:59:54.360 --> 02:59:58.959
which then fills your body up and your mind to

1668
03:00:00.600 --> 03:00:19.000
also starts to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence, an

1669
03:00:19.079 --> 03:00:36.200
almost uplifting feeling, positive healing, an energy that spreads through

1670
03:00:36.239 --> 03:00:46.959
your body like a wave of comfort. And all this

1671
03:00:47.239 --> 03:00:59.319
comes from just allowing yourself a few minutes, maybe half

1672
03:00:59.360 --> 03:01:03.319
an hour, however long you want it to be, to

1673
03:01:03.520 --> 03:01:17.360
just rest and allow your mind and your body to

1674
03:01:17.479 --> 03:01:34.120
almost reset itself to the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness,

1675
03:01:38.360 --> 03:01:47.760
which allows more room for feelings of pleasure and happiness

1676
03:01:51.719 --> 03:02:00.840
to move around your body and into your mind, almost

1677
03:02:01.360 --> 03:02:05.959
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

1678
03:02:10.239 --> 03:02:19.959
almost mirroring each other with that growing positivity and calmness,

1679
03:02:24.959 --> 03:02:32.479
and it feels nice, really does feel nice to know

1680
03:02:32.719 --> 03:02:41.600
that you are the one that has allowed yourself to

1681
03:02:41.840 --> 03:02:55.879
feel more comfort and to experience more of this deep

1682
03:02:56.280 --> 03:03:12.360
relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus on

1683
03:03:12.600 --> 03:03:18.360
each part of your body, you can notice that that

1684
03:03:18.639 --> 03:03:37.879
part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it. It

1685
03:03:35.520 --> 03:03:49.159
becomes even more calm and comfortable, just by focusing. And

1686
03:03:49.280 --> 03:03:55.200
as I move down your body, starting at your head,

1687
03:03:57.520 --> 03:04:02.760
the parts that you have already focused on or continue

1688
03:04:04.159 --> 03:04:11.280
to relax deeply, and those parts that have not yet

1689
03:04:11.479 --> 03:04:24.360
focused on or just automatically release any remain intention in

1690
03:04:24.479 --> 03:04:38.760
anticipation of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm

1691
03:04:38.760 --> 03:04:45.280
going to start by focusing on your forehead. Just being

1692
03:04:45.399 --> 03:04:54.799
aware the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds

1693
03:04:56.520 --> 03:05:01.959
like mister Herbert's opinion, can just allow you to feel

1694
03:05:02.040 --> 03:05:12.079
even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment. This

1695
03:05:12.159 --> 03:05:17.360
isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world.

1696
03:05:20.760 --> 03:05:26.799
I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature

1697
03:05:27.319 --> 03:05:37.840
sounds around. So as you focus on your forehead, just

1698
03:05:38.079 --> 03:05:48.920
notice how it becomes even more relaxed. Focus only on

1699
03:05:49.079 --> 03:05:58.680
my voice and that part of your body, Moving down

1700
03:05:58.920 --> 03:06:11.440
to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing how your

1701
03:06:11.479 --> 03:06:19.360
eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at the same time,

1702
03:06:22.680 --> 03:06:33.360
and all the muscles around your eyes relaxing completely. Moving

1703
03:06:33.440 --> 03:06:40.680
your focus down to your mouth, your lips, your tongue,

1704
03:06:41.840 --> 03:06:49.840
your teeth, your comes, the hole of your mouth relaxing,

1705
03:06:53.280 --> 03:07:03.559
calm and loose as you focus now on your jaw,

1706
03:07:06.959 --> 03:07:11.000
just the parts of your jaw near your mouth and

1707
03:07:11.159 --> 03:07:15.399
your chin, but all the way up the size of

1708
03:07:15.479 --> 03:07:22.200
your face to your ears, the hole of your jaw,

1709
03:07:24.799 --> 03:07:31.920
feeling more relaxed.

1710
03:07:35.159 --> 03:07:44.159
And calm.

1711
03:07:44.239 --> 03:07:53.399
Focusing on your neck, the front of your neck, and

1712
03:07:53.440 --> 03:08:06.479
your throat relaxing and loose and calm. The sides of

1713
03:08:06.559 --> 03:08:11.879
your neck, the right and left side of your neck

1714
03:08:14.760 --> 03:08:18.319
relax and place.

1715
03:08:22.000 --> 03:08:28.959
And calm.

1716
03:08:29.159 --> 03:08:36.000
And now the back of your neck, focusing on the

1717
03:08:36.040 --> 03:08:46.479
back of your neck, letting go of any tension that

1718
03:08:46.680 --> 03:08:55.600
may have been there before, and enjoying that sense of

1719
03:08:56.559 --> 03:09:07.280
increasing comfort and release. Then you can experience in the

1720
03:09:07.360 --> 03:09:19.600
back of your neck, moving down your back and moving

1721
03:09:19.840 --> 03:09:24.319
either side of your spine right from the top of.

1722
03:09:24.280 --> 03:09:25.159
Your back.

1723
03:09:26.760 --> 03:09:30.440
All the way down to the bottom of your back,

1724
03:09:36.399 --> 03:09:47.879
down to your lower back. As you move up and

1725
03:09:48.000 --> 03:09:57.040
down your spine, you can feel the muscles either side

1726
03:09:57.079 --> 03:10:11.840
of your spine relaxing even more. And as those muscles relax,

1727
03:10:13.959 --> 03:10:21.879
that sense of comfort starts to spread outwards from your

1728
03:10:21.959 --> 03:10:31.520
spine into both sides of your back, the top of

1729
03:10:31.559 --> 03:10:38.520
your back, the middle end your lower back. And as

1730
03:10:38.559 --> 03:10:46.079
you scan gently and slowly up and down your back,

1731
03:10:48.440 --> 03:10:52.799
there's the muscles in the top of your back relax

1732
03:10:53.319 --> 03:11:00.959
and become looser. The muscles in the middle of your

1733
03:11:01.000 --> 03:11:08.479
back also seem to just almost divide from each other,

1734
03:11:09.399 --> 03:11:25.680
separating and almost melting, and in your lower back there

1735
03:11:25.719 --> 03:11:38.440
seems to be an extra special feeling of comfort. The

1736
03:11:38.760 --> 03:11:45.079
spreads into your hips, sit down your lower back, into

1737
03:11:45.120 --> 03:11:56.440
your hips, into the area where your cosix are, and

1738
03:11:56.559 --> 03:12:06.040
into your buttocks. These muscles that spread bring your lower

1739
03:12:06.079 --> 03:12:21.280
back into your hip area, start to melt, start to reading,

1740
03:12:22.239 --> 03:12:33.200
let go, don't even know where about. To focus on

1741
03:12:33.239 --> 03:12:42.280
your shoulders. Your back and your spine will continue to

1742
03:12:42.520 --> 03:13:00.799
let go, continue to relax so calmly, and as you

1743
03:13:01.000 --> 03:13:09.239
focus on your shoulders, you may notice they're already feeling

1744
03:13:12.479 --> 03:13:41.760
really loose. They're already feeding calm and the feeling. Those

1745
03:13:41.879 --> 03:13:56.680
muscles then move from your neck into your shoulders feel

1746
03:13:57.159 --> 03:14:26.000
so soft and gentle, so smooth and calm, and the

1747
03:14:26.200 --> 03:14:39.719
feeling in your shoulders seems to spread deep into your shoulders,

1748
03:14:41.719 --> 03:14:51.000
a sense of relaxation, not just traveling deeply into your muscles,

1749
03:14:54.440 --> 03:15:07.360
but also relaxing the bone and moving all the way

1750
03:15:07.559 --> 03:15:16.319
to underneath your arms, relaxing a whole area between the

1751
03:15:16.440 --> 03:15:27.879
tops of your shoulders and underneath your arms healing.

1752
03:15:30.920 --> 03:15:31.680
You feel so.

1753
03:15:33.559 --> 03:15:47.639
Relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that deep

1754
03:15:48.440 --> 03:16:09.600
healing message into your arms. You may feel almost as

1755
03:16:09.639 --> 03:16:16.399
if your arms are not even that, because they so relaxed,

1756
03:16:19.559 --> 03:17:05.000
so deeply relaxed, so so calm.

1757
03:16:50.479 --> 03:16:50.559
So.

1758
03:17:05.040 --> 03:17:16.440
That feels spreading all the way down your arms, two elbows,

1759
03:17:19.959 --> 03:17:37.200
including your elbows circumfort spreads.

1760
03:17:40.520 --> 03:17:41.280
Your way.

1761
03:17:43.799 --> 03:18:02.680
Into wrists, your forearms, and your wrists so heavy. Yet

1762
03:18:03.200 --> 03:18:47.280
the same time, sunlight and gentle frey say, now on.

1763
03:18:49.879 --> 03:19:43.520
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands.

1764
03:19:43.520 --> 03:20:09.280
The sense of real pace just seems to feel so

1765
03:20:09.680 --> 03:21:23.239
familiar on your hands, relaxed deeply else your fingers things

1766
03:21:52.280 --> 03:22:26.760
you think it's SAPs maving your attention front your body

1767
03:22:39.840 --> 03:24:16.840
so comfortable, merry man, your focus till legs like muscles

1768
03:24:18.959 --> 03:25:14.239
in your fis knees, I relaxed, calf muscles just shades

1769
03:25:17.920 --> 03:27:39.040
a position and the fathing you faints, sir, peaceful circolm sad,

1770
03:27:39.239 --> 03:28:28.440
peaceful circomm sir, peaceful sycom so.

1771
03:28:30.399 --> 03:28:42.200
Peace for b sen.

1772
03:28:47.319 --> 03:28:49.040
Pieace fall.

1773
03:28:52.399 --> 03:29:05.840
Sycom that deep relaxation, Just.

1774
03:29:06.000 --> 03:29:39.440
Spread your chest storm, let you go everything. So I'm

1775
03:29:39.479 --> 03:29:50.799
gonna start counting down now from twenty down to one.

1776
03:29:51.600 --> 03:29:54.799
You can imagine in a way it's like just walking

1777
03:29:54.920 --> 03:30:00.760
down some steps in each step or twenty steps, and

1778
03:30:00.840 --> 03:30:11.319
each step represents a level of comfort. Each step represents

1779
03:30:13.840 --> 03:30:26.280
a deepening of that comfort, and the fervies you walk

1780
03:30:26.399 --> 03:30:32.159
down those steps, the deeper and more relaxed you feel.

1781
03:30:38.799 --> 03:32:26.120
So starting with number twenty twenty nineteenhhhhhhh eighteen music seven

1782
03:32:26.360 --> 03:46:33.319
jan sixteenhhhhhh three four fi two we nohhhh eight sid si.

1783
03:45:30.920 --> 03:47:00.840
Five four.

1784
03:47:12.159 --> 03:49:54.319
Us consist.

1785
03:51:18.399 --> 03:51:35.399
And now as you focus on your eyes, We're gonna

1786
03:51:35.440 --> 03:51:46.920
count down from ten down to one, focusing just on

1787
03:51:47.040 --> 03:51:58.040
your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your

1788
03:51:58.079 --> 03:52:13.600
eye walls themselves, a whole area that makes up your eye.

1789
03:52:18.040 --> 03:52:25.520
And as we count down from ten down to one,

1790
03:52:25.840 --> 03:52:38.840
whilst focusing on your eyes, you will become twice is

1791
03:52:38.959 --> 03:52:51.520
relaxed with each number counting down that you may find

1792
03:52:55.040 --> 03:53:00.440
the all you want to do is just three ft

1793
03:53:00.520 --> 03:53:09.959
off to sleep. And if that's what you want, then

1794
03:53:10.200 --> 03:53:23.520
just allow yourself to do that. Now, focusing on your eyes,

1795
03:53:25.600 --> 03:53:38.000
I'm going to begin counting down from ten down to one.

1796
03:53:35.600 --> 03:54:46.600
Right now, ten nine eight.

1797
03:55:39.600 --> 04:00:06.079
Seven four.

1798
03:59:22.520 --> 04:00:08.879
Hu three.

1799
04:02:42.440 --> 04:03:05.239
One. So count down from ten to one ten nine

1800
04:03:05.479 --> 04:03:19.959
eight seven six five four three.

1801
04:03:22.479 --> 04:03:31.399
Two one.

1802
04:03:32.639 --> 04:03:35.559
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1803
04:03:35.600 --> 04:03:39.559
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1804
04:03:39.840 --> 04:03:49.600
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1805
04:03:49.600 --> 04:03:53.479
little bit of pressure. They're like, you're counting down from

1806
04:03:53.479 --> 04:03:56.319
ten to one, would you expect me to do? Man,

1807
04:03:57.120 --> 04:04:00.840
expect me to stick go with floppy just because you're

1808
04:04:00.879 --> 04:04:10.280
counting down. I could try it again, but this time

1809
04:04:10.360 --> 04:04:16.760
I'll go git slower this time, as you focus on

1810
04:04:17.639 --> 04:04:21.959
the whole of your body before we focus on your legs.

1811
04:04:24.399 --> 04:04:33.559
Just notice how your body does start to feel more

1812
04:04:34.000 --> 04:04:53.000
relaxed with every number that I count down ten nine

1813
04:04:58.559 --> 04:06:27.920
at eight, seven six five four three one, And just

1814
04:06:28.120 --> 04:06:40.879
notice how you feel generally, how your body feels. It's

1815
04:06:40.920 --> 04:06:49.000
not necessarily even about counting down from ten to one.

1816
04:06:52.000 --> 04:07:05.399
It's that space that you have, that space between being

1817
04:07:08.959 --> 04:07:20.520
active physically or mentally to just sitting or lying down,

1818
04:07:21.239 --> 04:07:26.000
just being there, not doing anything, not saying anything, or

1819
04:07:26.879 --> 04:07:33.120
needing to think about anything. So it opens up a space,

1820
04:07:34.120 --> 04:07:43.239
you know, a bit of a space, a gap. And

1821
04:07:43.360 --> 04:07:47.920
the more I came down from ten to one, the

1822
04:07:48.000 --> 04:07:56.000
bigger that gap becomes. So there's that gap of calmness,

1823
04:07:57.399 --> 04:08:13.079
of comfort, relaxation. It's a nice feeling, and it moves

1824
04:08:14.639 --> 04:08:22.600
those stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally, moves them.

1825
04:08:24.200 --> 04:08:24.559
Away.

1826
04:08:31.319 --> 04:08:32.280
Allows you.

1827
04:08:35.000 --> 04:08:35.520
To just.

1828
04:08:38.520 --> 04:08:45.239
Slow down, someone to count again from ten down to one,

1829
04:08:45.680 --> 04:08:55.879
and notice that gap widening, the gap, And as it widens,

1830
04:08:55.959 --> 04:09:01.840
it's almost like the stress and attention and falls into

1831
04:09:01.959 --> 04:09:22.479
the gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now

1832
04:09:27.280 --> 04:11:28.760
ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three one. Now,

1833
04:11:28.959 --> 04:11:32.719
how did your body feel?

1834
04:11:34.959 --> 04:11:35.159
Now?

1835
04:11:47.840 --> 04:12:00.520
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer, the feeling

1836
04:12:02.840 --> 04:12:30.239
more relaxed as we now focus on your legs, just

1837
04:12:30.440 --> 04:12:51.799
your legs. We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs.

1838
04:13:06.600 --> 04:13:10.600
Of course, it's not the most exciting thing to be

1839
04:13:10.680 --> 04:13:17.920
doing because I'm sure like most of your body is

1840
04:13:18.040 --> 04:13:30.120
not a lot going on right now. Just focusing on

1841
04:13:30.280 --> 04:13:35.680
the whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs,

1842
04:13:36.479 --> 04:13:41.799
the sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs,

1843
04:13:43.319 --> 04:13:48.760
your outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically the whole

1844
04:13:48.840 --> 04:13:56.360
of your thigh that leads into your hip and it

1845
04:13:56.479 --> 04:14:07.159
goes down to your knee joints. Now, this is a

1846
04:14:07.280 --> 04:14:15.680
big area. It's a very heavy area. It's very strong,

1847
04:14:16.920 --> 04:14:21.879
probably the strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs.

1848
04:14:32.079 --> 04:14:39.799
But I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to

1849
04:14:40.040 --> 04:14:53.760
our thighs. Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs

1850
04:14:54.000 --> 04:15:13.760
are to our lives, how much they actually do for

1851
04:15:13.920 --> 04:15:27.639
us all through our lives. And it may seem to

1852
04:15:27.760 --> 04:15:28.840
sound really weird, but.

1853
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I think that all of our.

1854
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Body parts, especially our thighs, needs some TLC, a bit

1855
04:15:43.879 --> 04:16:00.680
of love shown, a bit of acknowledgement, thank you attitude

1856
04:16:03.639 --> 04:16:12.440
for what our thighs do for us. And I know

1857
04:16:12.600 --> 04:16:18.680
this may sound a bit strange. Maybe you think, why

1858
04:16:18.719 --> 04:16:21.879
am I Surely I should be out in the garden

1859
04:16:22.079 --> 04:16:30.319
hugging a tree or something. Well, it's hard to set

1860
04:16:30.319 --> 04:16:33.479
a microphone up on a tree. That's why I'm doing

1861
04:16:33.559 --> 04:16:36.200
this indoors. Otherwise I would be outside hugging a tree.

1862
04:16:37.600 --> 04:16:46.239
I can't see the television from the tree. If you

1863
04:16:46.360 --> 04:16:51.559
move down to your knees gain such an important part.

1864
04:16:55.879 --> 04:17:00.719
And I think we don't necessarily must be for myself.

1865
04:17:03.479 --> 04:17:08.559
I don't necessarily appreciate all that my needs do for

1866
04:17:08.680 --> 04:17:15.159
me until I have a problem with my knee. It's occasionally,

1867
04:17:15.239 --> 04:17:20.200
if I ever, maybe i'll bash it, or it's aching

1868
04:17:20.360 --> 04:17:26.760
for some reason. It's then that I realize how much

1869
04:17:26.879 --> 04:17:30.520
it does. You know, the benefit of being able to

1870
04:17:31.479 --> 04:17:40.680
use my legs without any kind of physical discomfort is

1871
04:17:41.520 --> 04:17:50.239
a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

1872
04:17:51.360 --> 04:17:58.360
You know that's comfort. But as you focus on your knees,

1873
04:18:00.520 --> 04:18:06.159
regardless of how your knees feel, you can have that

1874
04:18:06.440 --> 04:18:12.600
sense of gratitude and love to your knees for all

1875
04:18:12.719 --> 04:18:24.920
that they do for you. And you can still have

1876
04:18:25.079 --> 04:18:29.239
that attention on your thighs and maybe notice how your

1877
04:18:29.360 --> 04:18:41.239
thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that they are relaxing more

1878
04:18:43.000 --> 04:18:54.239
deeply as you focus now on the bottoms of your

1879
04:18:54.319 --> 04:18:58.959
legs and your shins and your calf muscles, the bones

1880
04:19:00.079 --> 04:19:06.840
between your knees and your feet, incorporating of course, your

1881
04:19:06.959 --> 04:19:18.920
ankles so important. You know, anyone that's had even like

1882
04:19:19.120 --> 04:19:25.959
the slightest sprain of an ankle knows how how much

1883
04:19:26.120 --> 04:19:35.959
we take our ankles for granted. And it's kind of

1884
04:19:36.079 --> 04:19:41.440
strange in a way when you think that. You know, logically,

1885
04:19:41.799 --> 04:19:44.840
our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of

1886
04:19:44.920 --> 04:19:49.600
our arms, which is okay, it doesn't I can't see

1887
04:19:49.600 --> 04:19:53.120
any problem with that because we're just picking stuff up.

1888
04:19:54.719 --> 04:20:00.920
Our ankles so much thinner than the rest of our legs,

1889
04:20:07.319 --> 04:20:11.760
and from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't

1890
04:20:11.799 --> 04:20:17.799
really make sense that all this weight would ultimately be

1891
04:20:18.920 --> 04:20:28.920
resting on your ankles then leading to your feet, that

1892
04:20:29.520 --> 04:20:38.479
thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

1893
04:20:40.639 --> 04:20:50.159
Supports us, supports our body for a lifetime, helps us

1894
04:20:50.879 --> 04:21:00.000
to balance, helps you to get around and be mobile.

1895
04:21:00.040 --> 04:21:13.639
While and there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I

1896
04:21:13.799 --> 04:21:17.799
was younger, I couldn't see the pointing calf muscles didn't

1897
04:21:17.799 --> 04:21:23.159
seem to do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes,

1898
04:21:23.920 --> 04:21:27.799
then my calf muscles get some work. But of course

1899
04:21:27.879 --> 04:21:32.000
that's not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever

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04:21:32.079 --> 04:21:44.000
we use our legs, and your shins there to protect

1901
04:21:45.959 --> 04:21:54.600
your lower legs, shaped in a way almost as a

1902
04:21:54.680 --> 04:22:06.959
protector for the bone, leading of course to your ankles

1903
04:22:10.360 --> 04:22:16.920
and your feet. But we're not going to focus on

1904
04:22:17.040 --> 04:22:19.120
your feet. We're just going to focus on the legs.

1905
04:22:21.079 --> 04:22:25.680
And I realize, and now that I've mentioned your feet,

1906
04:22:25.760 --> 04:22:30.399
you'll probably focus on them anyway, So maybe I should

1907
04:22:30.520 --> 04:22:36.479
focus on your feet a little bit. You can have

1908
04:22:36.639 --> 04:22:41.840
them in your awareness the same as you have your

1909
04:22:41.959 --> 04:22:46.200
thighs in your awareness. Even though we haven't been focusing

1910
04:22:46.920 --> 04:22:51.840
on your thighs a few minutes, let me focusing on

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04:22:52.000 --> 04:23:09.559
your ankles. There's still that sensation of comfort in your thighs.

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In this that movement.

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Of energy because the thighs hold lots of different sensations.

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04:23:26.600 --> 04:23:31.440
Of course, there's the muscles, the big straw muscles that

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04:23:31.600 --> 04:23:44.440
we have in our thighs, but the skin on the

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04:23:44.600 --> 04:23:50.040
outside of the thighs, as in the outside of all

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04:23:50.159 --> 04:23:58.959
of our body, can be very sensitive, sensitive to a touch,

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04:24:01.760 --> 04:24:15.079
sensitive to temperature, and inside your thighs the bones, there's

1919
04:24:16.120 --> 04:24:20.920
the muscle, there's the blood, vessels, the ar trees to

1920
04:24:21.120 --> 04:24:29.079
all this stuff that's inside your thighs, and I guess

1921
04:24:29.159 --> 04:24:32.479
sometimes it'd be nice if you could actually put your

1922
04:24:32.600 --> 04:24:39.879
fingers inside your thighs and a message, so you can

1923
04:24:39.959 --> 04:24:43.479
message on the outside, of course, but to be able

1924
04:24:43.520 --> 04:24:46.719
to get deep into the muscles and to be able

1925
04:24:46.760 --> 04:24:52.239
to just message inside your thighs, message in the bones

1926
04:24:53.200 --> 04:25:01.440
of your leg massage in all the fain. Just gently

1927
04:25:04.200 --> 04:25:13.799
healing your thighs and you can move down message and

1928
04:25:13.920 --> 04:25:19.479
inside your knees. Just message in those bones, but with

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04:25:19.840 --> 04:25:27.040
healing fingertips, spreading that healing energy deep into the choice

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04:25:28.399 --> 04:25:37.680
of your knees. Of course, there's the back or your

1931
04:25:37.760 --> 04:25:44.079
knee and the inside crease where your knee is. It's

1932
04:25:44.079 --> 04:25:49.719
a very sensitive area. It feels very nice when you

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04:25:49.959 --> 04:25:54.639
stroke it. That might be because it's an area that's

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04:25:54.719 --> 04:25:59.920
not really touched very often. It's almost like a hidden

1935
04:26:00.079 --> 04:26:08.600
apart that crease in your legs. It's almost like a

1936
04:26:08.719 --> 04:26:13.959
part that has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different.

1937
04:26:21.799 --> 04:26:31.719
Of course, it's protected by your legs. So you can

1938
04:26:31.799 --> 04:26:37.120
imagine putting your fingers into that crease in your legs.

1939
04:26:42.920 --> 04:26:46.559
Fold in between your legs. You can just message with

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04:26:46.639 --> 04:26:53.760
your fingertips. Imagine your fingertips going inside, massage in the

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04:26:54.440 --> 04:27:03.719
muscle or tissue you can cause, field the bones of

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04:27:03.840 --> 04:27:15.719
your knees, healing through your fingertips, and then as you

1943
04:27:15.840 --> 04:27:21.600
go down to your calf muscles, and that's the part

1944
04:27:21.639 --> 04:27:25.719
I'd like to be able to really put my fingertips

1945
04:27:25.879 --> 04:27:35.319
deep inside my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue

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04:27:35.440 --> 04:27:46.600
of that muscle, healing every part. And then doing the

1947
04:27:46.760 --> 04:27:54.879
same for my shins, massage in and gently stroking the bones,

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04:27:56.639 --> 04:28:03.120
generally stroking them healing way, because they deserve to be

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04:28:03.319 --> 04:28:10.520
treated as the precious bones that they are. Because our

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04:28:10.639 --> 04:28:14.159
legs are so precious as in all the other parts

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04:28:14.280 --> 04:28:21.920
of our body, the more precious at any jure on

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04:28:22.040 --> 04:28:38.360
the planet. When you start to think about your legs

1953
04:28:38.520 --> 04:28:49.600
in this way, it can change your perspective. It might

1954
04:28:49.799 --> 04:28:56.399
sound a bit a bit silly to start with the

1955
04:28:56.600 --> 04:29:04.719
idea of having love for your legs, showing appreciation for

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04:29:04.840 --> 04:29:10.879
your thighs, wanting to be able to put your hands

1957
04:29:11.879 --> 04:29:18.719
in your thighs the massage the muscles and the bones,

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04:29:20.559 --> 04:29:26.319
and to get your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension,

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04:29:29.200 --> 04:29:37.799
just to show how much you care about your legs,

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04:29:38.719 --> 04:29:42.440
how much you care for what your legs do for

1961
04:29:42.600 --> 04:29:56.200
you regularly, your knees, your calves, your ankles, the strength

1962
04:29:56.360 --> 04:30:04.399
of your ankles, considering how thin they are compared to

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the rest of your legs, especially your thighs. Yeah, they're

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04:30:11.360 --> 04:30:23.639
so strong, so flexible, absolutely amazing things. Your ankles are

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04:30:27.479 --> 04:30:32.559
truly a gift because of what they do for you,

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supporting all that weight, regardless of how what weight you are,

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04:30:46.200 --> 04:30:50.680
even if you only eat ate stone, there's still a

1968
04:30:50.799 --> 04:30:57.360
lot of weight for these little ankles. How am a

1969
04:30:57.479 --> 04:31:05.680
lot heavier than eight stone double down, Yet my ankles

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04:31:07.440 --> 04:31:15.079
support my body all the time, or they do give

1971
04:31:15.159 --> 04:31:19.719
off a sigh of relief when I sit down. That's

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04:31:20.920 --> 04:31:30.760
my whole legs though my feet feels my toes clap

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04:31:32.200 --> 04:32:00.440
so happy. Your legs really are amazing, m And I

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04:32:00.600 --> 04:32:04.479
know that talking about talking about your legs is probably

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04:32:07.000 --> 04:32:11.680
possibly among the most most boring things I've ever heard

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04:32:11.760 --> 04:32:20.120
anyone say. Possibly, but boring or not, everything I said

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04:32:20.280 --> 04:32:36.920
is true. Your legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not

1978
04:32:37.319 --> 04:32:55.760
just respect, They deserve to relax deeply. They deserve to

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04:32:55.920 --> 04:33:01.159
take some time out of the day to just let

1980
04:33:01.360 --> 04:33:37.279
go completely. Your legs really can relax and because the

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04:33:37.439 --> 04:33:41.880
legs are so such a most, you know, very important

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04:33:42.599 --> 04:33:47.119
part of your body. When you relax your legs, the

1983
04:33:47.240 --> 04:33:58.439
rest of your body also naturally follows in that journey

1984
04:33:58.560 --> 04:34:10.279
of comfort. I can feel it in my hips. My

1985
04:34:10.479 --> 04:34:17.799
hips feel really loose, and also my lower back as well.

1986
04:34:19.840 --> 04:34:25.560
My lower back really feels it feels stretched, even though

1987
04:34:25.599 --> 04:34:29.240
I'm just sitting in a chair and there's no stretching

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04:34:31.959 --> 04:34:35.119
as far as I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost

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04:34:35.159 --> 04:34:38.959
as if the muscles are just relaxed so much that

1990
04:34:39.080 --> 04:34:46.119
there is a natural stretch as the tension has reduced

1991
04:34:47.560 --> 04:35:06.159
a lot. And I'm now going to count down from

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04:35:06.799 --> 04:35:15.880
ten down to one, and you can continue to fill

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04:35:17.639 --> 04:35:46.720
wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.

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Three two.

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One relax. So I'm just going to count down from

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04:36:16.799 --> 04:36:21.279
five down to one. And as I countdown, if you

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04:36:21.439 --> 04:36:28.279
just focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down,

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04:36:29.360 --> 04:36:38.479
and notice how you feel in this moment as you

1999
04:36:38.639 --> 04:36:46.159
hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting

2000
04:36:46.240 --> 04:36:56.400
down represent you feeling calmer, not just in your body,

2001
04:36:56.560 --> 04:37:04.919
but also relaxing your mind. Just notice how you feel.

2002
04:37:05.799 --> 04:37:11.720
There's nothing to do. There's nothing to say, there's nothing

2003
04:37:11.840 --> 04:37:54.880
to think about, starting with number five four three two one.

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04:38:04.360 --> 04:38:16.159
And as you notice the gradual letting go of the

2005
04:38:16.360 --> 04:38:23.959
tension in your body, you may also begin to notice

2006
04:38:24.080 --> 04:38:31.319
and be aware of how your mind is starting to

2007
04:38:32.639 --> 04:38:39.240
slow down. This is just a natural thing that happens.

2008
04:38:41.840 --> 04:38:47.040
It's not really a special procedure. It's just natural because

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04:38:47.119 --> 04:38:53.040
as your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax,

2010
04:38:54.639 --> 04:38:58.279
and the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.

2011
04:38:58.400 --> 04:39:08.919
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that

2012
04:39:10.200 --> 04:39:18.040
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even

2013
04:39:18.080 --> 04:39:25.040
if there's background sounds either your side online is still

2014
04:39:25.560 --> 04:39:30.799
going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't got

2015
04:39:30.880 --> 04:39:36.040
the television on, there's no music in the background, unless

2016
04:39:36.040 --> 04:39:43.479
you're listening to the recording with music. Of course, you're

2017
04:39:43.639 --> 04:39:45.759
very likely not going to be sitting in a room

2018
04:39:45.840 --> 04:39:50.360
with other people. Of course you might be, but generally

2019
04:39:50.560 --> 04:39:53.680
it's more ideal if you can do this on your own,

2020
04:39:55.400 --> 04:40:05.479
so no distractions, and when you stop thinking about stuff,

2021
04:40:12.040 --> 04:40:22.319
relaxation automatically rises. The sense of comfort starts to grow,

2022
04:40:26.840 --> 04:40:33.520
and without trying to build it up into something fantastical

2023
04:40:33.919 --> 04:40:45.680
or something magical. This is just a natural process, something

2024
04:40:45.799 --> 04:40:55.959
that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know,

2025
04:40:56.119 --> 04:41:02.959
the sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put

2026
04:41:03.159 --> 04:41:07.000
no effort into it. It's not something that you can

2027
04:41:07.119 --> 04:41:18.720
really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part of

2028
04:41:19.159 --> 04:41:29.360
the process of this recording and others is simply two

2029
04:41:30.959 --> 04:41:41.319
allow you to take advantage of this space this time,

2030
04:41:44.360 --> 04:41:55.919
to let go, to just be here, to be in

2031
04:41:56.159 --> 04:42:11.599
tune with how you feel, yet with the intention of

2032
04:42:11.880 --> 04:42:23.000
wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,

2033
04:42:24.159 --> 04:42:29.840
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself.

2034
04:42:31.119 --> 04:42:31.880
In this moment.

2035
04:42:38.880 --> 04:42:48.240
As we know, relaxing is the majority of the process

2036
04:42:48.360 --> 04:42:53.520
of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep part is the

2037
04:42:53.680 --> 04:43:01.479
tiny bit at the end. The deeper relaxed you become,

2038
04:43:05.439 --> 04:43:23.080
the easier you find yourself drifting. But you can also

2039
04:43:23.240 --> 04:43:33.319
if you choose, stay focused on my voice and really

2040
04:43:33.840 --> 04:44:03.520
enjoy the process gradually relaxing each muscle in your body

2041
04:44:08.560 --> 04:44:37.720
effortlessly and just observing the sensation of letting go completely.

2042
04:44:43.759 --> 04:44:47.799
This time, I'm going to count from six down to one,

2043
04:44:52.599 --> 04:45:01.799
and you can notice your mind calming down more with

2044
04:45:02.240 --> 04:45:15.840
each number that you hear me say naturally, feeling calm

2045
04:45:16.360 --> 04:45:22.759
and slower and peaceful.

2046
04:45:28.080 --> 04:46:47.919
Sex fivehhhhhhhhh, four, three.

2047
04:47:25.560 --> 04:47:25.959
Two.

2048
04:47:54.279 --> 04:48:25.279
Four, being aware of how your mind to slowed, rite down,

2049
04:48:28.520 --> 04:48:51.439
sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you focus on your

2050
04:48:51.599 --> 04:49:02.159
mind and may notice that there was some thoughts still there,

2051
04:49:04.759 --> 04:49:14.319
maybe some stubborn thoughts that for some reason perhaps need

2052
04:49:14.400 --> 04:49:15.000
your attention.

2053
04:49:21.880 --> 04:49:23.319
That's what you can do is.

2054
04:49:28.840 --> 04:49:41.319
Send love to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts with love

2055
04:49:43.040 --> 04:49:47.279
like attle petals from a flower. Just sprinkle it over them,

2056
04:49:48.720 --> 04:49:55.880
petals feel good love towards those thoughts, to let those

2057
04:49:56.119 --> 04:50:02.240
thoughts know that you're not a ending in them, You

2058
04:50:02.479 --> 04:50:09.959
just need them. You require them to just calm down,

2059
04:50:12.240 --> 04:50:16.680
slow down, quiet down.

2060
04:50:20.360 --> 04:50:20.759
For now.

2061
04:50:28.680 --> 04:50:33.680
So as you focus on those remaining thoughts as we

2062
04:50:33.840 --> 04:50:39.080
count down this time from seven down to one, with

2063
04:50:39.240 --> 04:50:53.119
each number, just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness,

2064
04:50:54.720 --> 04:51:06.560
gratitude over those thoughts, which will allow them to just

2065
04:51:08.000 --> 04:51:23.040
melt away and relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts

2066
04:51:23.159 --> 04:52:31.759
will become more and more relaxed, starting with number seven, six, five, four,

2067
04:52:57.720 --> 04:54:19.040
three four, And as you now notice how relaxed your

2068
04:54:19.240 --> 04:54:38.959
feeling in your body. We're going to focus on your hands,

2069
04:54:44.840 --> 04:54:51.119
because the more relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed

2070
04:54:51.319 --> 04:55:12.319
your body and mind are. There's you focus on your

2071
04:55:12.520 --> 04:55:22.720
hands and your fingers. There's nothing needed to be done.

2072
04:55:23.720 --> 04:55:28.959
There's no clutching the fists or dancing the fingers or

2073
04:55:28.959 --> 04:55:43.360
anything like that. It's just noticing and focusing on your hands,

2074
04:55:50.400 --> 04:56:12.639
noticing how they feel, because the more relaxed your hands feel,

2075
04:56:16.159 --> 04:56:25.319
the calmer your mind feels, and the more comforts you

2076
04:56:25.560 --> 04:56:29.400
feel throughout your body.

2077
04:56:35.360 --> 04:56:38.439
You may.

2078
04:56:40.759 --> 04:57:23.560
Have already noticed you mind is starting to drift. Huis

2079
04:57:23.680 --> 04:57:38.959
him just on your hands and fingers, allowing them cheat

2080
04:57:41.159 --> 04:57:52.520
experience a real deepening of that relaxation in your hands

2081
04:57:52.639 --> 04:58:19.159
and fingers, more more relaxed. With each number from eight

2082
04:58:21.639 --> 04:58:33.759
down to one, you can almost feel the healing and

2083
04:58:34.040 --> 04:58:46.200
relaxing energy spreading into your hands and fingers, becoming.

2084
04:58:50.560 --> 04:58:51.639
And more.

2085
04:58:53.599 --> 04:59:11.680
Relaxing. With each number going down eight down to one,

2086
04:59:16.000 --> 05:02:07.080
drifting drifting again starting with number eight, seven, four, three,

2087
05:03:26.880 --> 05:03:36.200
just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing to do,

2088
05:03:37.840 --> 05:03:52.080
nothing to say, and everything just feels calmer. This is

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your natural state of being. This is how you just

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normally film. When you take away all of that other

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stuff that we add, you know, I think like stress

2092
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and where we're in and over thinking anxiety, tension, just

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generally thinking about stuff. We take that away, which is

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what we do.

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What we do now.

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You're left with a real sense of peacefulness which comes

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to your very great place, because ultimately it's just a feeling,

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a feeling and comfort. It's almost as if you've got

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inside yourself and you've found a special place where everything

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05:05:28.799 --> 05:05:37.040
is beautiful, a place where you can film relaxed and

2101
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joy natural sense and comfort, a place where you could

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be here where you can accept yourself and who you are,

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the place where you're not trying to please anybody else,

2104
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in a place where you can actually not just love yourself,

2105
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but in some ways more importantly, you can like yourself

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appreciate who you are. That sense of gratitude, it's in

2107
05:06:42.919 --> 05:06:53.840
the air way around you. That's also a place where

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you can actually feel that healing energy soaking into your body.

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Healing energy soaking into your body. That healing energy spreads

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through your veins, traveling to each every single part of

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your body, and you start to realize that actually that

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healing energy. It's not just entered into your brain, it's

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become part of your brain and the spinal fluid who

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is now mixed with healing energy, not just allowing you

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to feel so much more relaxed and healthy in this moment,

2116
05:08:30.080 --> 05:08:39.520
but also you start to realize that actually, what's happening

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now without healing relaxing energy spreading through your body is

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actually changing your life. It's actually change in the way

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you're going to feel not just now, but tomorrow and

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the next day. As your health improves, not just your

2121
05:09:16.880 --> 05:09:24.639
physical health, but your mental health. Things that used to

2122
05:09:24.799 --> 05:09:30.919
bother you in the past, for some reason, no longer

2123
05:09:32.240 --> 05:09:39.759
have the effect that they used to because something's changed

2124
05:09:41.360 --> 05:09:52.400
deep within you. Maybe things that used to cause you

2125
05:09:52.680 --> 05:10:05.040
to feel anger no longer have that power to control

2126
05:10:05.159 --> 05:10:10.119
you the way they seem to be able to before.

2127
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As you realize that you're the one who decides what

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05:10:24.959 --> 05:10:36.639
affects you, you're the one who decides to feel relaxed

2129
05:10:37.520 --> 05:10:50.279
and calm when you choose to enjoy noticing these natural

2130
05:10:51.360 --> 05:11:04.680
developments of healing continuing to grow and improve your life

2131
05:11:06.080 --> 05:11:17.880
day by day, including of course, your ability to relax

2132
05:11:18.560 --> 05:11:33.439
so much easier and sleeping. It's the most natural thing

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05:11:34.400 --> 05:11:44.360
in the world to you, because falling asleep is something

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05:11:44.520 --> 05:11:55.360
that you've done so many times in your life, and

2135
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you know that you were born, as we all were,

2136
05:12:00.200 --> 05:12:11.479
with the ability to fall asleep naturally. We're born with

2137
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that ability to just drift off into a deep, healing sleep.

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Even when we're kids, sometimes will fall asleep and we

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05:12:35.319 --> 05:12:39.880
don't even want to try to think of stay awake.

2140
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Maybe it's a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas

2141
05:12:44.919 --> 05:12:48.680
or holiday or something we look forward to. We don't

2142
05:12:48.720 --> 05:12:53.360
want to go to sleep. But the more we want

2143
05:12:53.400 --> 05:12:58.560
to stay awake, the more we just start to drift.

2144
05:13:02.720 --> 05:13:07.240
And the more you fights drifting, we try to stop

2145
05:13:07.319 --> 05:13:14.200
yourself and drifting asleep, the deeper and stronger that drifting becomes.

2146
05:13:21.119 --> 05:13:26.439
Because we're born not just with the need to relax

2147
05:13:26.599 --> 05:13:34.959
deeply and to naturally fall asleep, but it's our birthright,

2148
05:13:38.360 --> 05:13:48.720
it's part of our DNA, and sometimes as we get

2149
05:13:48.799 --> 05:13:59.520
older in life, perhaps at times we have forgotten the

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05:13:59.720 --> 05:14:10.080
real relaxing completely. It's not only a wonderfully pleasant experience,

2151
05:14:15.840 --> 05:14:32.360
it's also really easy. It's very very easy.

2152
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To let go.

2153
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Because that's all it is, is just deciding to let go.

2154
05:14:50.720 --> 05:14:56.720
And when you press the play button on my recordings,

2155
05:14:58.560 --> 05:15:09.840
you have given from my voice to election. When you

2156
05:15:09.959 --> 05:15:15.360
press that play button, you've given me permission for my

2157
05:15:15.680 --> 05:15:30.439
words to effect. You're in a positive, only a positive way,

2158
05:15:34.360 --> 05:15:57.919
opening up your mind to useful and healing suggestions that

2159
05:15:58.080 --> 05:16:09.279
can have such an amazing effect on how you feel

2160
05:16:10.040 --> 05:16:24.159
right now, as well as those changes that continue long

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05:16:24.599 --> 05:16:34.840
after the recording ends, those changes within you that continue

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05:16:35.119 --> 05:16:48.360
to flourish and grow, transforming your life in a positive,

2163
05:16:50.159 --> 05:16:59.759
beautiful way, allowing you to move forward in your life

2164
05:17:01.279 --> 05:17:16.040
in the direction that you choose for yourself. And this feeling,

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05:17:18.799 --> 05:17:26.919
this feeling that you can experience a safety, comfort, calmness.

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This feels so nice. It's such a healthy place to be,

2167
05:17:56.560 --> 05:18:10.319
and that positivity prow within you. Eat and every day

2168
05:18:13.400 --> 05:18:23.159
moving forward, you're going to find that you're more relaxed

2169
05:18:25.560 --> 05:18:37.880
physically and in your mind is more relaxed. And it's

2170
05:18:37.959 --> 05:18:43.479
not that you're thinking slower. It's just that your mind

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05:18:43.599 --> 05:18:55.439
will be less clogged up with unnecessary negativity because from

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05:18:55.560 --> 05:19:05.840
now on, your mind rejects negative. From now on, you're

2173
05:19:05.919 --> 05:19:16.720
going to start noticing when negativity arises and you can

2174
05:19:16.919 --> 05:19:30.840
just say stop, stop, and then negativity will turn around

2175
05:19:31.439 --> 05:19:50.840
and leave you alone. Stop and the negativity would disappear.

2176
05:19:58.959 --> 05:20:04.680
And that you notice is that you feel way more

2177
05:20:04.799 --> 05:20:21.119
relaxed than you probably expected. You can now congratulate yourself

2178
05:20:21.880 --> 05:20:27.119
because you are the person that has done this. You

2179
05:20:28.599 --> 05:20:33.279
are the one that has opened your mind up to

2180
05:20:33.439 --> 05:20:41.439
the simple facts that you can feel more relaxed in

2181
05:20:41.560 --> 05:20:51.520
your body and in your mind. You've opened your mind

2182
05:20:51.720 --> 05:20:59.560
up to the birthright of being able to just fall

2183
05:20:59.599 --> 05:21:14.200
asleep easily when you choose. And that's a nice feeling.

2184
05:21:15.799 --> 05:21:24.080
Don't you think it feels nice? Doesn't it? To feel

2185
05:21:25.560 --> 05:21:30.959
calm full, that healing energy is spreading through your body

2186
05:21:32.119 --> 05:21:43.880
in your mind, to spend time in a special place

2187
05:21:44.279 --> 05:22:01.119
where negativity can no longer enter. Negativity is banned, it's barred.

2188
05:22:02.560 --> 05:22:08.759
It's not a loud entry. Doesn't it doesn't. This doesn't

2189
05:22:08.959 --> 05:22:16.959
deserve to be here, doesn't belong here. Negativity has no

2190
05:22:17.279 --> 05:22:32.400
place in your life, which makes room for more comfort,

2191
05:22:34.360 --> 05:23:02.479
more healing, more relaxation, more peace. Mm hmm. It feels nice,

2192
05:23:02.599 --> 05:23:02.959
doesn't it.

2193
05:23:04.799 --> 05:23:08.959
Just let go.

2194
05:23:10.919 --> 05:23:30.799
With everything. I'm gonna count down now from twenty down

2195
05:23:30.880 --> 05:23:40.240
to one. You can continue to relax if you use,

2196
05:23:40.759 --> 05:23:54.240
you can drift to sleep with every number you hear

2197
05:23:54.400 --> 05:24:05.959
me say you can feel twice is relaxed, or if

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05:24:06.000 --> 05:25:24.759
you choose, you can fill twice sleeping now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,

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two eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six five. This is

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05:27:11.919 --> 05:27:25.479
your time to just take a break, your time to relax,

2201
05:27:29.639 --> 05:27:42.000
to allow your mind to slow down, to give yourself

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05:27:42.159 --> 05:28:00.159
permission to take a break from everything, and you or

2203
05:28:00.240 --> 05:28:04.119
the only person that can make that decision.

2204
05:28:06.959 --> 05:28:07.680
You're the only.

2205
05:28:07.599 --> 05:28:23.919
Person that can actually tell your mind just relax, to

2206
05:28:24.240 --> 05:28:40.680
just take some time off so that you can focus

2207
05:28:40.799 --> 05:28:48.240
on your body, getting in touch with how you feel physically,

2208
05:28:57.119 --> 05:29:03.520
and in the process of this body scan where you

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05:29:04.319 --> 05:29:14.759
focus on different parts of your body, those parts that

2210
05:29:14.919 --> 05:29:23.159
you focus on and observe. Even though you're not purposely

2211
05:29:24.400 --> 05:29:32.360
requesting for those parts of your body to relax, it's

2212
05:29:32.520 --> 05:29:38.759
kind of expected. You expect when you listen to my

2213
05:29:38.959 --> 05:29:51.840
voice to feel more relaxed naturally, because when you're listening

2214
05:29:51.959 --> 05:30:06.680
to me, your attention is focused on my words, and

2215
05:30:06.799 --> 05:30:18.159
does my words guide you to focus on those parts

2216
05:30:18.319 --> 05:30:36.599
of your body. Your focus increases, which actually calms your mind.

2217
05:30:44.520 --> 05:31:03.720
And when your mind calms down, your body relaxes, and

2218
05:31:03.880 --> 05:31:26.560
when your body calms down, your mind relaxes. And even

2219
05:31:26.720 --> 05:31:33.759
though we've not really started to focus on your body,

2220
05:31:36.759 --> 05:31:47.799
you can already feel that healing energy spreading through your body,

2221
05:31:52.720 --> 05:32:07.000
pushing out stress and tension, healing all the parts of

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05:32:07.119 --> 05:32:11.279
your body, including your skin.

2223
05:32:12.080 --> 05:32:19.000
Your bones, your blood, all of your walkings inside your body,

2224
05:32:20.400 --> 05:32:27.159
all of the muscles, all of the fat, all of everything,

2225
05:32:29.000 --> 05:32:30.959
every hair on your body.

2226
05:32:32.880 --> 05:32:44.200
Is filled with that healing energy. And when your brain

2227
05:32:48.840 --> 05:33:15.639
fills with that healing energy, the feeling of comfort relaxation increases, deeply,

2228
05:33:16.240 --> 05:33:33.319
increases in a way that your mind starts to feel

2229
05:33:36.599 --> 05:33:49.560
perhaps bit drowsing because it's not needed, and it may

2230
05:33:50.000 --> 05:34:08.759
start to drift if that's what's needed. So if you're

2231
05:34:08.880 --> 05:34:14.560
listening to this and what you need is deep relaxation,

2232
05:34:15.360 --> 05:34:16.200
that's what you get.

2233
05:34:18.400 --> 05:34:23.119
If what you need is to fall asleep.

2234
05:34:24.479 --> 05:34:33.400
Naturally and easily, that your mind drifts, that's also But

2235
05:34:33.520 --> 05:34:46.479
what happened because by pressing that play button on the

2236
05:34:46.599 --> 05:34:54.080
podcast and listening to me give permission your body and

2237
05:34:54.240 --> 05:35:06.240
your mind. In fact, you give the command to your

2238
05:35:06.319 --> 05:35:17.639
body and your mind to relax deeply and to drift

2239
05:35:17.759 --> 05:35:23.040
off to sleep, if that's what you want.

2240
05:35:26.240 --> 05:35:26.799
Or need.

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05:35:34.240 --> 05:35:40.000
Them. As I focus on the different parts of your body,

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05:35:44.959 --> 05:35:53.799
you may start to just drift. And then you come

2243
05:35:53.880 --> 05:35:57.400
back again and do you hear me talk again? And

2244
05:35:58.279 --> 05:36:01.520
I'm focusing on it from parts of your body.

2245
05:36:07.279 --> 05:36:07.880
You may.

2246
05:36:09.840 --> 05:36:18.759
Find yourself drifting, be able to realize you're drifting. Until

2247
05:36:18.799 --> 05:36:25.319
you stop drifting, you're a laugh again to my voice.

2248
05:36:26.799 --> 05:36:32.639
Focusing on a different part of your body starts to

2249
05:36:32.840 --> 05:36:42.799
relax in a diva because I'm drifting. It's basically here

2250
05:36:43.119 --> 05:36:55.000
already in the sleep zone. And the more you drift,

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05:36:55.720 --> 05:37:05.720
the longer you drift, the longer you drift. Eventually that

2252
05:37:05.959 --> 05:37:16.119
drifting continues into sleep, and that's the last you remember

2253
05:37:18.200 --> 05:37:26.360
until you wake up in your own time. When you

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05:37:26.720 --> 05:37:35.159
experience the right amount of sleep. Fear because when you

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05:37:35.400 --> 05:37:44.520
do and if you do fall asleep, it's extremely pleasant,

2256
05:37:47.240 --> 05:38:08.599
so relaxing, so deep he sleep, I feel so nice

2257
05:38:10.759 --> 05:38:19.680
to relax scenes in your own body and mind as

2258
05:38:19.799 --> 05:38:25.360
you as you feel that heating image is spreading through it,

2259
05:38:27.599 --> 05:38:50.639
relaxing is so deeply, relaxes so deeply to start to

2260
05:38:50.919 --> 05:39:03.119
focus on your eyes moving down.

2261
05:39:05.919 --> 05:39:16.479
To Joe down till think you.

2262
05:39:24.000 --> 05:40:37.119
Shoulders. Oh, thinkus, you're chest stummous, spine, your hips, your legs,

2263
05:40:45.520 --> 05:41:27.119
faint out, spies, spreading grimeside your body, feeling you up.

2264
05:41:29.959 --> 05:41:43.479
Now let's focus again on parts of your body, focusing

2265
05:41:43.639 --> 05:41:54.639
this time on your forehead. Now on your mouth, your lips,

2266
05:41:56.639 --> 05:42:15.759
your tongue, hmm, a whole of your mouth. Focusing on

2267
05:42:15.919 --> 05:42:26.159
your fingers. Maybe you could move your fingers a little bit,

2268
05:42:26.159 --> 05:42:37.720
as you can focus on each one individually, both hands,

2269
05:42:41.880 --> 05:42:44.479
and even though it should focus on both of your

2270
05:42:44.560 --> 05:42:50.360
hands now they almost seemed to just melt into one.

2271
05:42:55.639 --> 05:42:59.560
Where there is your right hand, start left hand, and

2272
05:43:03.200 --> 05:43:14.759
a mast as if just mixed together. Now focusing on

2273
05:43:14.840 --> 05:43:42.799
your knees, just noticing how your knees help. Now focusing

2274
05:43:43.360 --> 05:43:55.720
on your elbows. You focusing on both your elbows, just

2275
05:43:55.959 --> 05:44:31.080
observing the feeling. A few moments to say, I'm sorry

2276
05:44:45.360 --> 05:45:43.520
energy ac oopsie echous. It's a good of sensation of acous,

2277
05:46:43.400 --> 05:47:11.240
not to says faint be with hew your toes feel

2278
05:47:14.479 --> 05:48:02.599
right now, ninety cents how you're in soil, body feels

2279
05:48:12.240 --> 05:48:57.880
noticing your mind feels now letting go, lett him go,

2280
05:49:05.959 --> 05:49:47.599
Let's go everything, letting go, letting go. Let's go off everything.

2281
05:49:54.880 --> 05:49:55.799
Everything.

2282
05:50:02.080 --> 05:50:05.759
I'm going to start now, and I'd like you just,

2283
05:50:05.959 --> 05:50:11.560
first of all, just to see yourself lying down on

2284
05:50:11.720 --> 05:50:17.840
that message table, lying on your front. Your head is supported,

2285
05:50:18.240 --> 05:50:27.000
your arms are supported, and you feel comfortable and breathing

2286
05:50:27.200 --> 05:50:36.599
is really easy, and you feel you feel confident in

2287
05:50:36.720 --> 05:50:38.919
how you look as well. So there's none of that

2288
05:50:39.080 --> 05:50:45.840
issue of body problems or shyness, because I'm a professional

2289
05:50:47.040 --> 05:50:53.400
and this is a therapy session, so none of that

2290
05:50:53.560 --> 05:51:03.400
stuff matters on whatsoever. This is about you. This is

2291
05:51:03.439 --> 05:51:11.720
about how you feel and how you can enjoy that

2292
05:51:11.959 --> 05:51:17.880
sense of comfort and relaxation that comes from letting go

2293
05:51:18.360 --> 05:51:23.680
and allowing my hands and my fingers to relax you

2294
05:51:26.560 --> 05:51:35.279
by messaging your body. So I want to start off

2295
05:51:35.479 --> 05:51:40.400
just by placing my hands on the back of your head,

2296
05:51:41.799 --> 05:51:47.360
just gently, just you can feel my hands feel like

2297
05:51:47.520 --> 05:51:54.400
really on you. So you can maybe feel the warmth

2298
05:51:54.520 --> 05:52:00.240
of my hands on the back of your head. My

2299
05:52:00.360 --> 05:52:03.680
hands to the side of your head, not pressing, but

2300
05:52:03.919 --> 05:52:10.560
just holding that very gently, maybe over your ears, and

2301
05:52:10.680 --> 05:52:14.279
a little bit on your face, so you can feel

2302
05:52:15.200 --> 05:52:30.159
my hands so you can become accustomed to them. And

2303
05:52:30.319 --> 05:52:32.560
now put my hands on the back of your head.

2304
05:52:32.560 --> 05:52:40.040
Again and gently let them slide down onto the back

2305
05:52:40.080 --> 05:52:57.560
of your neck. You can feel my hands gently stroking

2306
05:52:57.680 --> 05:53:04.159
the back of your neck to start with, just so

2307
05:53:04.279 --> 05:53:08.680
you can get used to the feeling of my hands

2308
05:53:08.720 --> 05:53:16.759
on your skin, get accustomed to realize that you're safe

2309
05:53:17.799 --> 05:53:26.599
and it's all good, it's all fine, and I'm want

2310
05:53:26.639 --> 05:53:30.759
to start gently messaging the muscles in the back of

2311
05:53:30.840 --> 05:53:46.680
your neck with both hands. And this is a very

2312
05:53:46.840 --> 05:53:54.919
trusting situation really, because our necks is so fragile and

2313
05:53:55.040 --> 05:53:59.119
to have someone have their hands around your neck in

2314
05:53:59.279 --> 05:54:04.560
that way can sometimes be problematic for people, which is

2315
05:54:04.599 --> 05:54:09.000
why messages are quite good, because it allows you to

2316
05:54:09.119 --> 05:54:23.439
relax and to get in touch with trust, to feel

2317
05:54:23.520 --> 05:54:36.240
peaceful and calm. There's a massage the sides of your neck,

2318
05:54:37.000 --> 05:54:45.799
gently moving from the bottom of your neck. It would

2319
05:54:45.840 --> 05:54:48.360
be sort of near where your shoulders start, I guess,

2320
05:54:49.240 --> 05:54:55.680
all the way up to your jaw, your ears, kind

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05:54:55.720 --> 05:55:01.479
of area the side of your neck. Of course, it's

2322
05:55:01.479 --> 05:55:16.880
a lot longer than the front of your neck. The

2323
05:55:17.080 --> 05:55:24.479
message in the back of your neck, especially that area

2324
05:55:24.680 --> 05:55:33.560
where perhaps we hold tension, and there's that area's message.

2325
05:55:33.959 --> 05:55:38.000
You can actually feel a sense of release in the

2326
05:55:38.080 --> 05:55:45.959
back of your neck and maybe you can breathe it

2327
05:55:46.080 --> 05:55:52.040
out as well. Notice how it feels, Notice how you feel.

2328
05:56:01.880 --> 05:56:05.520
They're moving down to that area between your neck and

2329
05:56:05.599 --> 05:56:15.720
your shoulders, that muscle area, starting to message that area

2330
05:56:15.840 --> 05:56:20.119
on both sides. I mean, this would be the area

2331
05:56:20.279 --> 05:56:22.799
that a lot of people would message if they were

2332
05:56:22.880 --> 05:56:27.799
going to give you like a shoulder message. Even that's

2333
05:56:28.200 --> 05:56:31.599
not technically the shoulders, but it's all the muscles that

2334
05:56:31.799 --> 05:56:37.959
lead to the shoulders from the neck and a game

2335
05:56:38.119 --> 05:56:45.119
that can hold tension and stress, and when massaged sometimes

2336
05:56:45.200 --> 05:56:52.200
a nice deep message is useful. And you decide how

2337
05:56:52.400 --> 05:57:10.360
deep that message is, and just allow my knuckles just

2338
05:57:10.479 --> 05:57:14.599
to dig in to get to those muscles and to

2339
05:57:14.840 --> 05:57:24.680
really relaxed and all the time and being fair yet

2340
05:57:25.119 --> 05:57:44.439
gentle with you and just stroking down the area to

2341
05:57:44.599 --> 05:57:50.520
your actual shoulders, moving to the muscles of your shoulders,

2342
05:57:56.520 --> 05:58:01.319
and maybe initially just pulling up the shoulders a little

2343
05:58:01.360 --> 05:58:04.799
bit off the table just to give you a little

2344
05:58:04.840 --> 05:58:15.240
bit of a stretch, but very gently, and you've got

2345
05:58:15.279 --> 05:58:18.919
the muscles at the front of your shoulders, the sides

2346
05:58:19.119 --> 05:58:29.680
of the back. Again, this is a part that can

2347
05:58:29.840 --> 05:58:35.040
really take quite a bit of pressure, quite a bit

2348
05:58:35.080 --> 05:58:45.319
of needing. If if you wish to really release the

2349
05:58:45.479 --> 05:58:53.799
tension to really get into those muscles, and you can

2350
05:58:53.880 --> 05:58:58.080
let your fingers in there. They can feel really nice.

2351
05:59:00.119 --> 05:59:07.599
Sometimes it's just being stroked gently or being messaged quite strongly,

2352
05:59:11.400 --> 05:59:21.319
can all be beneficial to the reoranversation with the muscles

2353
05:59:21.360 --> 05:59:34.279
in your shoulders. Now, as you move down your arms,

2354
05:59:40.880 --> 05:59:44.400
were doing one arm at a time, Starting with your

2355
05:59:44.520 --> 05:59:54.759
right arm, what I'll do is I just lift your

2356
05:59:54.919 --> 05:59:57.720
arm up, just hold it to the side of you.

2357
06:00:00.919 --> 06:00:07.279
The words still be attached, They're not just message the

2358
06:00:07.439 --> 06:00:21.200
tops of your arms all the way down to your forearms,

2359
06:00:23.959 --> 06:00:47.840
into your wrists, gently messaging that part, the softer part,

2360
06:00:47.959 --> 06:00:54.400
which is the under part of the arm, which leads

2361
06:00:54.560 --> 06:00:59.400
to the crease in your robo the inside. It's much

2362
06:00:59.799 --> 06:01:16.840
more sensitive skin. Sometimes just having that stroked I feel

2363
06:01:16.959 --> 06:01:33.639
really nice, pleasurable and relaxing. Now moving down to your

2364
06:01:33.759 --> 06:01:46.560
right hand, just holding your hand in both of my hands,

2365
06:01:52.439 --> 06:01:58.959
just pressing gently on the back of your hand, stretching

2366
06:01:59.119 --> 06:02:10.200
your fingers ever slightly at the same time pressing down

2367
06:02:10.279 --> 06:02:23.880
and messaging each finger, and then starting to massage.

2368
06:02:23.400 --> 06:02:25.200
The palms of the hand.

2369
06:02:31.919 --> 06:02:43.319
Just turning the hand stretching it gently and actually having

2370
06:02:43.400 --> 06:02:50.560
your hand held can really be an emotional experience sometimes

2371
06:02:51.599 --> 06:02:56.400
even if it is a stranger, someone you don't know

2372
06:02:56.680 --> 06:03:02.000
very well, like a massage person or a therapist. Maybe

2373
06:03:04.040 --> 06:03:17.639
because it's intimate, you can feel nice, you can feel safe.

2374
06:03:25.439 --> 06:03:28.400
And as I put that right arm back down where

2375
06:03:28.400 --> 06:03:36.639
it was, to do the same with your left arm,

2376
06:03:39.959 --> 06:03:49.799
exactly the same. Massagy and the muscles in your arm

2377
06:03:50.319 --> 06:03:58.319
all the way down to your wrist, stroking the inside

2378
06:03:58.479 --> 06:04:07.919
of your arm, just being gentle or as firm as

2379
06:04:08.040 --> 06:04:28.080
you require, and then messaging your left hand, stretching the

2380
06:04:28.279 --> 06:04:49.680
fingers gently, massaging the palm of your left hand. You

2381
06:04:49.919 --> 06:05:18.159
feel so so relaxing, so comforting, and I just rest

2382
06:05:18.319 --> 06:05:30.759
your left arm back down. Start to massage your back,

2383
06:05:32.479 --> 06:05:40.479
the biggest part of your body, starting at the top,

2384
06:05:43.720 --> 06:05:47.680
starting again where you would have been the area at

2385
06:05:47.720 --> 06:05:54.159
the top in between your shoulders, near your neck. Going

2386
06:05:54.279 --> 06:05:58.959
back and massage in the area again, but this time

2387
06:05:59.319 --> 06:06:12.360
moving outwards, making it downward. Stroke to the middle of

2388
06:06:12.439 --> 06:06:20.479
your back, working from the outside inwards. It's a massage

2389
06:06:20.599 --> 06:06:27.880
in that your back, but the outside of your back,

2390
06:06:32.040 --> 06:06:45.599
the parts where your arms would maybe rest against almost

2391
06:06:47.799 --> 06:07:00.279
the path that connects your front to your back. Just

2392
06:07:00.520 --> 06:07:08.959
messaging down firmly but gently, as firm as you want,

2393
06:07:12.439 --> 06:07:16.799
moving down, and then moving across a little bit, moving

2394
06:07:16.880 --> 06:07:22.919
all the way down again, being very gentle yet firm

2395
06:07:23.119 --> 06:07:34.759
as you choose. Eventually we get to the spine. We

2396
06:07:34.880 --> 06:07:38.919
can message the muscles and either side of your spine

2397
06:07:39.840 --> 06:07:42.799
from the top of your neck all the way down

2398
06:07:45.639 --> 06:07:54.560
to your lower back. We can do that a few times.

2399
06:07:57.639 --> 06:08:05.000
Sometimes people juice the knuckle or the you know, two

2400
06:08:05.159 --> 06:08:10.959
fingers and just go either side of the spine almost

2401
06:08:11.439 --> 06:08:14.439
just push down, go all the way down to the

2402
06:08:14.479 --> 06:08:23.119
bottom of the spine, each time releasing tension and opening

2403
06:08:23.240 --> 06:08:32.240
up the body, stretching your body so that you feel

2404
06:08:33.000 --> 06:08:50.479
more relaxed but at the same time rejuvenated. And now

2405
06:08:50.520 --> 06:08:54.360
I'm going to move to one side, to your right side,

2406
06:08:59.240 --> 06:09:03.759
and from the bottom some of your ribs to your pelvis,

2407
06:09:04.840 --> 06:09:11.040
I'm going to message that area of your back. I'll

2408
06:09:11.159 --> 06:09:14.200
stretch over the other side and i will pull the

2409
06:09:14.319 --> 06:09:21.119
muscles gently and massage and push from one end that

2410
06:09:21.360 --> 06:09:25.599
side or the way to my side to the middle

2411
06:09:25.680 --> 06:09:31.439
of fact to where your spine is, massaging that side

2412
06:09:31.479 --> 06:09:35.840
of your spine. The opposite side to where I'm standing.

2413
06:09:38.240 --> 06:09:44.240
It's almost like kneading bread. There's that big area which

2414
06:09:44.319 --> 06:09:56.080
is firm yet lots there to massage. Potentially one of

2415
06:09:56.159 --> 06:10:02.759
the most important places to actually have a message because

2416
06:10:02.840 --> 06:10:08.680
you really feel it. You really feel the release and

2417
06:10:08.840 --> 06:10:17.000
the pleasure of having your lower back massaged. It releases

2418
06:10:17.360 --> 06:10:25.639
so much from your body that's not useful, starting a

2419
06:10:25.840 --> 06:10:31.919
healing process which will continue long after this recording is over.

2420
06:10:41.240 --> 06:10:44.080
The message in this part of your body not only

2421
06:10:44.240 --> 06:10:49.000
feels really good for you, it's actually fun to do

2422
06:10:50.439 --> 06:10:56.119
because it is, as I said, like kneading bread. It's

2423
06:10:56.159 --> 06:11:00.080
a part that you can really get hold of and

2424
06:11:00.240 --> 06:11:13.840
really message deeply. If that's your choice. They're not going

2425
06:11:13.919 --> 06:11:15.880
to move over to the other side of your body

2426
06:11:16.400 --> 06:11:25.119
and do the same with the opposite part of your

2427
06:11:25.200 --> 06:11:32.240
lawer back. Kneeding and messaging from your side all the

2428
06:11:32.319 --> 06:11:39.439
way to the middle of your back where your spine

2429
06:11:39.599 --> 06:11:53.319
is pressing and kneading firm and gentle at the same time.

2430
06:11:55.319 --> 06:12:07.799
It feels so releasing. This mixture of pleasure, comfort, release, calmness,

2431
06:12:08.159 --> 06:12:19.799
relaxation or mixed together. Plus there's that feeling from your

2432
06:12:19.880 --> 06:12:25.040
stomach as it's being stretched. Even though you're in your

2433
06:12:25.119 --> 06:12:29.400
stomach now you can feel it being stretched because that

2434
06:12:29.560 --> 06:12:40.959
whole area is connected to your stomach. Now we're going

2435
06:12:41.040 --> 06:12:45.919
to move or move further up to your top of

2436
06:12:46.040 --> 06:12:52.279
your body, and we did the same this time, starting

2437
06:12:53.639 --> 06:13:00.439
with your upper back. Put my hands forward over massive

2438
06:13:00.560 --> 06:13:07.560
massage in that area up to your spine, from the

2439
06:13:07.720 --> 06:13:11.880
side of your body up to your spine. So some

2440
06:13:12.040 --> 06:13:19.200
of that message area, that muscle tissue, whatever fatty tissue

2441
06:13:19.240 --> 06:13:24.840
even will be possibly from your chest because it's all connected.

2442
06:13:24.959 --> 06:13:31.400
The chest and the back connect together. I'm going to

2443
06:13:31.439 --> 06:13:36.400
be massaging and just pulling some of that skin from

2444
06:13:36.479 --> 06:13:45.919
your side up and massaging that area of your upper

2445
06:13:46.000 --> 06:13:54.319
back all the way to your spine. And then I'll

2446
06:13:54.360 --> 06:13:57.279
move down a bit and I'll continue with the middle

2447
06:13:57.319 --> 06:14:04.439
of your back doing exactly the same thing this gentle

2448
06:14:04.799 --> 06:14:18.159
as deep as you choose. Now move or the other

2449
06:14:18.279 --> 06:14:23.119
side again and do the exact same thing with the

2450
06:14:23.240 --> 06:14:32.599
top of your back on the other side, from pretty

2451
06:14:32.680 --> 06:14:46.159
much underneath your arm area really to your spine, and

2452
06:14:46.279 --> 06:14:53.000
then continue in that all the way down including your

2453
06:14:53.080 --> 06:15:10.360
lower your middle of your back. I'm gonna go to

2454
06:15:10.520 --> 06:15:17.159
your thighs, the backs of your thighs and the sides

2455
06:15:17.240 --> 06:15:28.240
of your thighs, starting with your right leg, massaging the

2456
06:15:28.400 --> 06:15:37.400
back and the sides of your thighs gently and firmly.

2457
06:15:39.520 --> 06:15:42.959
There's a lot of muscles there. It's an area that

2458
06:15:43.080 --> 06:15:47.240
can be very tense at times and maybe needs a

2459
06:15:47.319 --> 06:15:49.759
little bit more pressure than the rest of the body

2460
06:15:50.840 --> 06:15:58.520
that's up to you. You can gently stroke the back

2461
06:16:01.360 --> 06:16:05.680
of your legs where you know, opposite your knee joint

2462
06:16:07.000 --> 06:16:19.919
or underneath your knee joint, very sensitive, gentle area. And

2463
06:16:19.959 --> 06:16:27.279
then working down to your calf muscles. Massage in your

2464
06:16:27.360 --> 06:16:36.720
calf muscles thoroughly and deeply, if you choose, using both

2465
06:16:36.880 --> 06:16:55.840
hands fingers, digging deep to your ankles and the back

2466
06:16:55.959 --> 06:17:02.560
of your back of your ankles, just gently massage in

2467
06:17:02.680 --> 06:17:14.880
that area, maybe lifting the leg and stretching a little bit.

2468
06:17:25.000 --> 06:17:40.159
Moving to the right foot, massage in the bottom of

2469
06:17:40.240 --> 06:17:54.639
your feet and the size of your fate gently but

2470
06:17:55.639 --> 06:18:06.479
firm enough so they don't tickle, and just allow the

2471
06:18:06.639 --> 06:18:12.520
pleasure that you get from heaving your feet message to

2472
06:18:12.680 --> 06:18:19.279
just overtake you. As I continue to message your feet,

2473
06:18:21.759 --> 06:18:29.720
the bottoms of your feet, the sides your arches, your heel.

2474
06:18:32.159 --> 06:18:34.360
You can put a lot of pressure into your heel

2475
06:18:35.159 --> 06:18:40.159
and it feels amazing, Yet the arches need to be

2476
06:18:40.279 --> 06:18:51.959
a bit more gentle. Stretching your toes gently, the message

2477
06:18:52.080 --> 06:18:58.080
in the bottoms of your toes with my fingers, each

2478
06:18:58.200 --> 06:19:11.840
one literally moving over to the left leg to do

2479
06:19:12.040 --> 06:19:20.759
exactly the same thing. Starting at the top of the thighs,

2480
06:19:23.000 --> 06:19:25.520
work in the back of the thighs and the sides,

2481
06:19:27.159 --> 06:19:37.560
massaging deeply and gently, a whole area, working all the

2482
06:19:37.599 --> 06:19:50.439
way down. And this is an area that maybe you

2483
06:19:50.520 --> 06:19:58.880
could like to spend more time relaxing and messaging. Perhaps

2484
06:20:00.080 --> 06:20:04.880
you wanted I could big a future recording where spend

2485
06:20:04.919 --> 06:20:13.880
more time on one particular area. As you moved down

2486
06:20:16.759 --> 06:20:28.279
to your calf muscles, Massage in your calf muscles firmly

2487
06:20:30.279 --> 06:20:44.240
and gently, moving down your ankle into your feet, Massage

2488
06:20:44.360 --> 06:20:49.880
in the backs of your feet, the bottoms of your feet,

2489
06:20:55.040 --> 06:21:02.040
stretching your toes and massage in each toe individually. And

2490
06:21:02.200 --> 06:21:08.080
that feeling of pleasure and release. The experience when you're

2491
06:21:08.159 --> 06:21:29.880
having your feet and massaged feels really good. Now she

2492
06:21:30.080 --> 06:21:41.439
turn over in your mind. Laying on your back, I'm

2493
06:21:41.520 --> 06:21:54.959
just going to start again your nick area in your shoulders,

2494
06:21:58.959 --> 06:22:09.360
just to get back in touch with that area and

2495
06:22:09.520 --> 06:22:21.200
lets you move up. I can clean my hands, make

2496
06:22:21.240 --> 06:22:27.040
them more fresh, because now I'm gonna message your face gently.

2497
06:22:31.439 --> 06:22:42.680
Starting off with your forehead. Your eyes are closed, I

2498
06:22:42.759 --> 06:22:48.680
can just stretch your eyes a little bit, pushing up

2499
06:22:48.799 --> 06:23:05.959
on your eyebrows, just massaging around, just scalp, massaging down

2500
06:23:06.919 --> 06:23:20.919
your cheeks, around your ears, into your jaw, shiply the

2501
06:23:21.119 --> 06:23:39.319
side of your neck, your chin. They're just moving down

2502
06:23:43.479 --> 06:23:50.959
from your neck down to your chest, starting by massage

2503
06:23:51.040 --> 06:23:58.400
in the very top of your chest where the collar bonies,

2504
06:24:00.680 --> 06:24:12.439
give a side of the collarbone, and then just message

2505
06:24:12.599 --> 06:24:24.840
in the hole of the chest, moving the chest around.

2506
06:24:33.599 --> 06:24:38.400
Because it's quite a large area. You can move from

2507
06:24:38.479 --> 06:24:49.560
one side to the next, moving my hands underneath pretty

2508
06:24:49.639 --> 06:24:59.240
much where your arms are, stretching up, stretching some of

2509
06:24:59.279 --> 06:25:07.279
the muscles of you're back in the process, moving up

2510
06:25:08.479 --> 06:25:28.680
over your chest and then moving down again, then laying

2511
06:25:28.759 --> 06:25:35.799
my hands. Theyre just massage gently and slide down towards

2512
06:25:35.880 --> 06:25:43.880
your stomach, starting in the middle of your chest, and

2513
06:25:44.000 --> 06:25:50.680
then gradually my hands moving apart and message in and

2514
06:25:50.919 --> 06:26:00.400
sliding at the same time, moving down to just below

2515
06:26:00.479 --> 06:26:18.759
your ridcage, moving down, then messaging up again, giving you

2516
06:26:18.799 --> 06:26:22.200
a chest all the attention.

2517
06:26:23.560 --> 06:26:24.520
That it needs.

2518
06:26:26.240 --> 06:26:38.599
To feel completely relaxed. Remembering that I'm also going to

2519
06:26:38.680 --> 06:26:44.240
be focusing on your sides as well, an area that

2520
06:26:44.560 --> 06:26:51.720
really doesn't get much attention but feels really good when

2521
06:26:51.759 --> 06:27:00.919
it's massaged. Just stroking my hands down on the sides

2522
06:27:01.000 --> 06:27:07.759
of your body, just below your arms, all the way

2523
06:27:07.840 --> 06:27:20.959
down to your hips. Now move into your stomach area.

2524
06:27:23.000 --> 06:27:26.200
We're going to stand on one side of you like

2525
06:27:26.319 --> 06:27:30.799
I did when I did your lower back. I'm going

2526
06:27:30.840 --> 06:27:36.200
to do a similar process of just stretching the muscles

2527
06:27:36.240 --> 06:27:49.919
from your side, gently massaging from one side to the next,

2528
06:27:52.200 --> 06:27:59.119
moving the whole area from below your ribs all the

2529
06:27:59.200 --> 06:28:09.919
way down to blow your belly button. I'm then move

2530
06:28:10.040 --> 06:28:13.040
around to the other side of you and repeat that

2531
06:28:19.680 --> 06:28:33.720
process of relaxing, deeply, calmly. You feel loose, you feel free.

2532
06:28:36.119 --> 06:28:40.799
And there's something about having your stomach message that's different

2533
06:28:40.880 --> 06:28:47.680
from any other part because we do have a tendency

2534
06:28:48.319 --> 06:28:52.240
of holding a different kind of stress in our stomachs

2535
06:28:53.599 --> 06:29:01.439
that we may not be aware of. As I now

2536
06:29:01.639 --> 06:29:08.919
message your stomach in front of your stomach, they can

2537
06:29:09.200 --> 06:29:19.840
circles around your belly button and then going the other

2538
06:29:19.919 --> 06:29:32.159
way around. The gentleness and a freedom that comes from

2539
06:29:32.400 --> 06:29:43.279
feeling how you're feeling. As I now move down the

2540
06:29:43.439 --> 06:29:50.599
tops of your thighs, muscles, messaging them, and I can

2541
06:29:50.720 --> 06:29:56.639
do this two legs at the same time, pressing down

2542
06:29:59.479 --> 06:30:05.560
message gin deeply those muscles in your thighs, the front

2543
06:30:05.639 --> 06:30:15.360
of your thighs, and moving down to your knees, gently

2544
06:30:16.080 --> 06:30:27.680
massaging your knees, Sliding down your shins, putting pressure on

2545
06:30:27.880 --> 06:30:39.919
either side of your shin gently softly but firmly, moving

2546
06:30:40.119 --> 06:30:49.279
down to your ankles, stroking the tops of your feet,

2547
06:30:55.439 --> 06:31:00.840
and then with each foot in each hand, just gently

2548
06:31:01.080 --> 06:31:09.400
messaging the whole of the foot, the top of the bottom,

2549
06:31:10.159 --> 06:31:18.439
your heel, your ankle, your toes, messaging every part of

2550
06:31:18.560 --> 06:31:28.279
your feet. Feels so good, Just to let go and

2551
06:31:28.599 --> 06:31:53.520
enjoy the process. Enjoy feeling so deeply relaxed, so much comfort,

2552
06:31:54.639 --> 06:32:00.599
so many feelings be come just from touching your skin.

2553
06:32:11.360 --> 06:32:17.319
And you can just lie there for as long as

2554
06:32:17.360 --> 06:32:31.439
you choose, enjoying the feeling of deep comfort from being massaged.

2555
06:32:33.439 --> 06:32:33.759
By me.

2556
06:32:40.959 --> 06:33:02.200
Enjoy feeling deep rass And all we're going to do

2557
06:33:02.880 --> 06:33:22.880
is blow out some candles in your mind. There are

2558
06:33:22.919 --> 06:33:33.159
going to be a hundred candles, and you're going to

2559
06:33:33.200 --> 06:33:43.439
blow each one out individually, one by one, starting at

2560
06:33:43.479 --> 06:33:52.040
one hundred. As I count down all the way down

2561
06:33:52.119 --> 06:34:04.959
to one, and each time I say the number, you

2562
06:34:05.080 --> 06:34:12.040
can imagine that candle in front of you, and I'd

2563
06:34:12.200 --> 06:34:21.599
like you to actually eat physically, generally blow that candle out,

2564
06:34:27.919 --> 06:34:35.599
just so it's not big blow, its just a gentle,

2565
06:34:40.040 --> 06:34:49.520
and that candle will extinguish. And then I'll say the

2566
06:34:49.639 --> 06:35:00.799
next number to move down, and you can just blow

2567
06:35:00.880 --> 06:35:10.200
that one out as well. And as we move down

2568
06:35:10.360 --> 06:35:20.959
the numbers, you'll find yourself feeling more and more relaxed.

2569
06:35:24.000 --> 06:35:30.000
If you need to sleep, you'll also find yourself becoming

2570
06:35:31.720 --> 06:35:45.439
incredibly tired and sleepy. In fact, you may struggle to

2571
06:35:45.560 --> 06:35:58.479
blow out all one hundred of these candles as you

2572
06:35:59.599 --> 06:36:26.560
feel more and more deeply relaxed, more and more deeply tired,

2573
06:36:30.880 --> 06:36:38.720
and the further you go down, the more your mind

2574
06:36:40.479 --> 06:36:52.799
starts to drift. You may find that you stop listening

2575
06:36:53.040 --> 06:37:05.799
to me after a while. And even though there maybe

2576
06:37:06.720 --> 06:37:14.720
background sounds where you are, you'll be aware of those

2577
06:37:14.880 --> 06:37:19.799
sounds at the moment.

2578
06:37:24.759 --> 06:37:25.479
He may.

2579
06:37:28.720 --> 06:37:44.799
Start just not even notice them at all because they're unimportant.

2580
06:37:52.840 --> 06:37:58.040
Where I am. I've got the sounds of the birds

2581
06:38:00.240 --> 06:38:05.560
or horrors, the pigeon who likes to say hello sometimes,

2582
06:38:08.400 --> 06:38:16.840
and there's the old plane that goes by, maybe traffic

2583
06:38:17.159 --> 06:38:27.840
and trains in the distance. But none of that scene

2584
06:38:28.040 --> 06:38:42.400
is important whatsoever. Or candles you blow out less important

2585
06:38:43.919 --> 06:38:59.200
anything is. Or candles you blow out, the further you

2586
06:38:59.439 --> 06:39:19.479
scene to move away from sounds, from general date days,

2587
06:39:19.919 --> 06:39:34.959
stuff seems to just move away on its own. You

2588
06:39:35.720 --> 06:40:01.759
feel more calmer with every candy blowout, guiding the next number,

2589
06:40:04.560 --> 06:40:14.119
did you hear me say? And then you blow that

2590
06:40:14.479 --> 06:40:41.880
candle out to so easy, so simple. I'm gonna start

2591
06:40:42.439 --> 06:41:00.560
by introducing the first candle, which is a hundred. The

2592
06:41:00.799 --> 06:41:14.599
candle is one hundred. When you blow that candle out,

2593
06:41:21.439 --> 06:41:34.119
you'll find immediately a light change in how you feel,

2594
06:41:39.319 --> 06:41:47.560
as well as a real sense of positivity growing within you,

2595
06:41:53.599 --> 06:42:23.639
relaxation and sleepiness expanding. Starting where one hundred flowing out

2596
06:42:23.720 --> 06:43:34.240
by candle now nineteen nine ninety eight can do ninety seven,

2597
06:44:06.799 --> 06:45:38.040
ninety six, candle ninety five, har ninety four, candle ninety three,

2598
06:46:09.560 --> 06:47:32.000
I like you too, You one candle ninety eight two nine.

2599
06:47:49.080 --> 06:48:00.360
And eighteen A eight.

2600
06:48:42.000 --> 06:51:15.560
Eight shnd eighty eighty five, E.

2601
06:51:40.959 --> 06:51:41.479
Eight IT.

2602
06:52:49.360 --> 06:52:50.159
Seven two.

2603
06:52:58.479 --> 06:54:54.799
Two s st can't.

2604
06:55:00.000 --> 06:55:52.959
Eighty eight, Candle seventy seven, Candle seventy six, Candle seventy five,

2605
06:56:11.880 --> 06:57:06.319
Candle seventy four, Candle seventy three, Candle seventy two, Candle

2606
06:57:11.279 --> 06:58:18.159
seventy one, candle seventy one, Candle seventy and sixty nine,

2607
06:58:28.000 --> 06:59:15.880
Candle sixty eight, candle sixty seven, candle sixty five, candle

2608
06:59:21.479 --> 07:00:21.759
sixty four, candle sixty four, candle sixty three, Candle sixty

2609
07:00:36.880 --> 07:02:14.159
and sixty one, Candle sixty and fifty nine, candle fifty eight,

2610
07:02:25.000 --> 07:03:50.560
candle fifty seven, candle fifty six, candle fifty five, candle

2611
07:03:54.560 --> 07:05:49.319
fifty four, Hando fifty three, Cando fifty fifty, cantu fifty two,

2612
07:06:20.360 --> 07:08:40.360
candle fifty one, candle fifty, candle forty nine, candle forty eight, whotis,

2613
07:09:10.200 --> 07:11:02.479
candle forty six, candle forty five, fourty two, candle.

2614
07:11:06.439 --> 07:11:07.439
What do you want?

2615
07:11:40.360 --> 07:13:46.439
Candle forty thirty nine and thirty eight, Candle thirty seven,

2616
07:14:25.520 --> 07:16:36.479
candle thirty five, thirty four, Canto thirty three, handle thirty one.

2617
07:17:24.200 --> 07:18:40.799
Five and.

2618
07:18:44.479 --> 07:21:02.880
Two one ten nine, twenty eight and joty seven candle

2619
07:21:07.080 --> 07:24:03.000
twenty six candle twenty five four twenty and wing tip

2620
07:24:03.560 --> 07:26:00.880
to go twenty to wait yees.

2621
07:26:25.639 --> 07:26:26.360
And two.

2622
07:26:29.240 --> 07:33:29.119
Nine ten seventy six day fourt twoh ssh s y nine.

2623
07:34:26.840 --> 07:34:32.919
Eight eight.

2624
07:35:05.959 --> 07:36:51.599
Zo can do, can do.

2625
07:37:34.560 --> 07:39:58.599
Two chandal war Lego. Of all of those thoughts, worries,

2626
07:39:58.919 --> 07:40:05.040
concerns about the past, thoughts about the future, and even

2627
07:40:06.520 --> 07:40:10.840
things you've been thinking about today, just let it all

2628
07:40:10.919 --> 07:40:17.159
go because none of it is useful in this moment.

2629
07:40:22.080 --> 07:40:37.439
This is your opportunity to just focus on feeling relaxed,

2630
07:40:41.759 --> 07:40:48.159
allowing yourself to get in touch with that natural sense

2631
07:40:50.279 --> 07:40:58.360
of peace that we all have within us. It's available

2632
07:40:58.479 --> 07:41:03.279
for everyone. It just sometimes takes a little bit of

2633
07:41:03.439 --> 07:41:10.840
effort to set up the right time and place in

2634
07:41:11.080 --> 07:41:17.319
order for you to just let go. Because when you

2635
07:41:17.560 --> 07:41:25.319
do decide to let go and relax, that's what your

2636
07:41:25.360 --> 07:41:34.080
body starts to do because you've chosen, You've chosen to

2637
07:41:34.520 --> 07:41:41.599
just allow your body to unwind and your mind starts

2638
07:41:41.720 --> 07:41:49.159
to slow down. And it's a nice feeling. It's a

2639
07:41:49.279 --> 07:41:53.520
nice feeling at the beginning, just to know that you

2640
07:41:54.000 --> 07:42:04.279
have chosen to decide to relax deeply, and because you've

2641
07:42:04.400 --> 07:42:12.880
made that decision, your body will just follow suit. Because

2642
07:42:12.919 --> 07:42:17.599
sometimes all the muscles in your body need is just

2643
07:42:17.919 --> 07:42:27.159
permission from you to relax, because so often we're busy,

2644
07:42:27.439 --> 07:42:31.599
we're going from here to there, we're walking around, and

2645
07:42:31.720 --> 07:42:39.040
we're doing stuff, and the body doesn't have any time

2646
07:42:39.319 --> 07:42:47.680
or space to really relax deeply. So it kind of

2647
07:42:47.799 --> 07:42:53.360
waits for you to lead the way, waits for your permission.

2648
07:42:57.720 --> 07:43:04.200
And when you do give your permission, when you get

2649
07:43:04.279 --> 07:43:10.560
to say so, when you say okay, it's time for

2650
07:43:10.680 --> 07:43:20.319
your body to let go completely and relax totally, your

2651
07:43:20.360 --> 07:43:26.840
body just follows. So like a breath of relief.

2652
07:43:28.080 --> 07:43:30.959
Ah good, I can now relax.

2653
07:43:34.560 --> 07:43:38.479
Have feeling at the end of a day of very

2654
07:43:38.639 --> 07:43:43.000
physical day that you may experience in the past, where

2655
07:43:43.040 --> 07:43:45.959
you get home and you just sit down on a chair,

2656
07:43:47.040 --> 07:43:51.919
maybe you kick your shoes off, and ah, feels so nice.

2657
07:43:53.759 --> 07:43:56.439
I know that you don't have to get up again

2658
07:43:57.919 --> 07:44:01.200
for a little while at least if you choose, you

2659
07:44:01.319 --> 07:44:05.959
can just sit there for maybe an hour to kind

2660
07:44:05.959 --> 07:44:16.959
of feels bliss. And just by sitting down like that,

2661
07:44:18.479 --> 07:44:23.479
your body knows that it's time to relax. Your body

2662
07:44:24.159 --> 07:44:29.720
has been given permission from you because it's a mindset.

2663
07:44:31.240 --> 07:44:39.959
In your mind, you're prepared to let go of everything

2664
07:44:42.400 --> 07:44:50.040
and just completely allow all the stress of your body

2665
07:44:50.880 --> 07:45:08.560
to evaporate. Any tensions can just gradually vanish. It's almost

2666
07:45:08.799 --> 07:45:20.599
like magic, really, because that sense of relaxation in your body,

2667
07:45:22.240 --> 07:45:28.360
it's a very natural state. It's not something unusual. It

2668
07:45:28.479 --> 07:45:31.880
may feel unusual when you first start to relax. You

2669
07:45:32.680 --> 07:45:37.000
if you haven't really spent a lot of time focusing

2670
07:45:37.159 --> 07:45:42.439
and giving yourself this space to let go completely relax,

2671
07:45:43.400 --> 07:45:50.080
they seem al most alien, but it isn't. It's actually

2672
07:45:51.400 --> 07:45:56.560
the most natural thing in the world to let go completely,

2673
07:45:58.319 --> 07:46:06.080
to relax totally, the most natural thing in the world

2674
07:46:08.759 --> 07:46:18.799
to allow yourself to feel really calm in your mind.

2675
07:46:21.400 --> 07:46:21.880
And it is.

2676
07:46:22.080 --> 07:46:29.799
Almost like a literal unwinding. It's like you press a

2677
07:46:29.919 --> 07:46:38.639
button and all the tension just releases, and it's like

2678
07:46:38.759 --> 07:46:42.720
a wheel, like a cog, like the inside of a clock,

2679
07:46:42.919 --> 07:46:47.680
just unwinding. And he's almost like you could see the

2680
07:46:47.759 --> 07:46:52.439
little wind up, not that it's used, just going the

2681
07:46:52.599 --> 07:46:59.000
opposite way that you choose to wind it up, and

2682
07:46:59.119 --> 07:47:08.240
the energy that fremetic stress for energy gradually minding down,

2683
07:47:09.520 --> 07:47:16.880
losing its power, losing its strength as a sense of

2684
07:47:17.040 --> 07:47:28.799
relaxation becomes stronger and deeper, and you may find a

2685
07:47:28.880 --> 07:47:36.240
little more relaxed. You feel your mind starts to wonder,

2686
07:47:39.360 --> 07:47:45.240
maybe you seem to stop listening to me for a while,

2687
07:47:46.880 --> 07:47:52.200
your mind goes somewhere else, and then you realize you're

2688
07:47:52.240 --> 07:47:58.360
listening to me again, and that's just your mind drifting

2689
07:47:58.759 --> 07:48:08.639
to sleep, which is quite natural, because sometimes when we're

2690
07:48:11.200 --> 07:48:16.599
stressed and tense, we're not may not actually be aware

2691
07:48:16.919 --> 07:48:23.200
of what we need or we physically your emotionally need

2692
07:48:23.720 --> 07:48:31.479
in this moment. But when you allow your body and

2693
07:48:31.720 --> 07:48:42.799
mind to relax completely and you let go of all thoughts, concerns, worries, ideas,

2694
07:48:44.319 --> 07:48:48.840
all them go and allow them to drop onto the floor.

2695
07:48:54.159 --> 07:48:59.840
When you start to get in touch with the feeling

2696
07:49:00.319 --> 07:49:12.599
of such relaxation, feels so nice. To be in touch

2697
07:49:13.080 --> 07:49:19.279
with the calmness of the different body parts as they

2698
07:49:22.080 --> 07:49:34.799
become looser and looser. Even you breathe in seems easier

2699
07:49:35.479 --> 07:49:44.639
and more natural, effortless, as that cool out is through

2700
07:49:44.680 --> 07:49:54.040
your mouth or notice into your lungs. Breathing in coomforts

2701
07:49:54.200 --> 07:50:02.520
and relaxation, and then just breathing out any excess remain

2702
07:50:02.799 --> 07:50:11.000
intentional stress for every part of your body and mind

2703
07:50:14.680 --> 07:50:19.720
as you start to focus on your mind, maybe you

2704
07:50:20.000 --> 07:50:28.119
notice that things have come to a standstill, maybe just

2705
07:50:28.799 --> 07:50:36.840
much much lower than before, because your mind is not

2706
07:50:37.240 --> 07:50:47.880
really needed when listening to my voice, which allows your

2707
07:50:48.000 --> 07:50:56.439
mind to relax just as deep as your body. And

2708
07:50:56.599 --> 07:51:09.439
that synchronicity between the relaxation of your body relaxation of

2709
07:51:09.639 --> 07:51:21.240
your mind let you know that feeling completely calm, loose,

2710
07:51:21.560 --> 07:51:33.439
and relaxed really is a great healing experience fear.

2711
07:51:35.720 --> 07:51:36.439
And has.

2712
07:51:40.759 --> 07:51:49.200
So many positive benefits for your body, mind, and your life.

2713
07:51:51.880 --> 07:51:57.599
To be able to let go over everything and to

2714
07:51:57.840 --> 07:52:10.639
relax leepally, you know, all parts everybody in mind, even

2715
07:52:10.759 --> 07:52:27.119
your bonins relaxed, your muscles are rised, even the skin

2716
07:52:27.919 --> 07:52:33.560
that covers your body is relaxed.

2717
07:52:38.720 --> 07:52:40.119
Every hair.

2718
07:52:43.000 --> 07:52:43.560
That you have.

2719
07:52:45.360 --> 07:53:02.919
Is also deeply relaxed. And your brain really starts to

2720
07:53:03.159 --> 07:53:05.200
feel the benefits.

2721
07:53:06.520 --> 07:53:06.840
Of this.

2722
07:53:08.439 --> 07:53:20.840
Heating relaxation. And as you focus on the inside of

2723
07:53:20.959 --> 07:53:26.639
your scalp where your brain is, you can start to

2724
07:53:26.919 --> 07:53:36.479
realize and notice the benefits of your brain relaxing demail

2725
07:53:40.919 --> 07:53:50.840
and as your brain continues to act, sends those messages

2726
07:53:52.520 --> 07:53:58.319
to the rest of your body and to your mind

2727
07:54:00.279 --> 07:54:23.360
to re relax more deep, relaxy, more completely letting go

2728
07:54:24.200 --> 07:54:35.919
any remaining thoughts or concens allow them just to drop

2729
07:54:36.200 --> 07:54:43.119
onto the floor because they are long been necessary in

2730
07:54:43.840 --> 07:54:57.639
this moment, this moment of deep relaxation and calmness, filling

2731
07:55:00.279 --> 07:55:24.880
your brain with deep, concentrated healing, calming, relaxing every part

2732
07:55:25.279 --> 07:55:43.759
of your brain, feeling so loose and comfortable, so relaxed

2733
07:55:45.639 --> 07:55:58.360
and be peaceful. Your brain feels so light, that's so healthy,

2734
07:56:01.560 --> 07:56:11.759
that sense of deep deep comfort really does allow you

2735
07:56:15.479 --> 07:56:26.959
to enjoy those ever increase in sensations of comfort that

2736
07:56:27.119 --> 07:56:40.479
are spreading throughout your body, relaxing each and every muscle

2737
07:56:40.840 --> 07:56:59.840
your body deeper and deeper, much more deeper than before,

2738
07:57:03.599 --> 07:57:19.159
much more comfort spreading through your body, your mind, be

2739
07:57:20.959 --> 07:57:28.200
so peaceful and calm, so.

2740
07:57:30.560 --> 07:57:32.360
Very very.

2741
07:57:33.880 --> 07:57:48.720
Peaceful in avery part your body, letting go the a

2742
07:57:49.319 --> 07:58:15.119
everything averything, so peaceful, so relax very second the posses

2743
07:58:18.080 --> 07:58:42.680
you feel dper DPA relaxed dper end dper relax car

2744
07:58:45.680 --> 07:58:46.520
so cal.

2745
07:58:50.599 --> 07:58:52.279
Bce for.

2746
07:58:55.080 --> 07:59:07.840
So very peace from your head down your tails, such

2747
07:59:08.880 --> 07:59:19.919
peace and comfort through in all all the time, Such

2748
07:59:20.639 --> 07:59:35.599
peace and comfort spreading through your body and mind deep deeper,

2749
07:59:38.520 --> 07:59:51.799
such comfort spreading and sinking deeper into a muscle of

2750
07:59:51.959 --> 08:00:09.799
your body, sullenly feel amazing, so relaxed, so peace, so

2751
08:00:09.840 --> 08:00:34.959
so relax and peace, letting go everything. I'm going to

2752
08:00:35.040 --> 08:00:41.799
do a body scan, focusing on firstly how you feel

2753
08:00:42.759 --> 08:00:47.080
in your body, Not trying to change how you feel,

2754
08:00:48.240 --> 08:00:53.240
not trying to relax, not trying to move away from

2755
08:00:53.319 --> 08:01:01.840
any discomfort or stress or tension. Just accepting, observing and

2756
08:01:02.040 --> 08:01:06.680
accepting how you feel in the different parts of your body,

2757
08:01:08.639 --> 08:01:17.720
just allowing yourself to be exactly as you are, to notice,

2758
08:01:18.479 --> 08:01:26.599
to get in touch with how you actually feel in

2759
08:01:26.759 --> 08:01:36.720
this moment. I'm going to start off by focusing on

2760
08:01:36.840 --> 08:01:49.360
your hands. Just be aware of your hands. I'd like

2761
08:01:49.479 --> 08:01:53.919
you to move your hands around, just maybe move your

2762
08:01:54.159 --> 08:02:01.360
fingers a little bit. I've been enclosing your hands very gently,

2763
08:02:03.040 --> 08:02:08.680
just so that you can get in touch with how

2764
08:02:08.799 --> 08:02:23.000
your hands and your fingers fell, very very slow movements.

2765
08:02:31.400 --> 08:02:39.159
Focusing now on your feet, and if you can just

2766
08:02:39.319 --> 08:02:44.439
do kind of an equivalent with your feet is you've

2767
08:02:44.639 --> 08:02:50.840
just done with your hands, maybe turn in your angles,

2768
08:02:52.840 --> 08:03:02.560
moving your feet around, moving your toes gently, only very

2769
08:03:04.599 --> 08:03:14.560
gently and very slowly, noticing how your feet feel.

2770
08:03:16.279 --> 08:03:17.279
In this moment.

2771
08:03:24.200 --> 08:03:30.319
Focusing now and your eyes I'd like you to just

2772
08:03:32.000 --> 08:03:37.759
focus on your eyelids. Maybe you can open and close

2773
08:03:37.880 --> 08:03:42.040
your eyes a couple of times to really get in

2774
08:03:42.279 --> 08:03:46.360
touch with how you feel when you do close your eyes.

2775
08:03:48.520 --> 08:03:54.919
The muscle changes in your eyes when you do close them,

2776
08:03:57.759 --> 08:04:04.119
maybe raising your eyebrows. It stretches the tops of your eyes,

2777
08:04:07.360 --> 08:04:15.799
perhaps squinting your eyes, scrunching up your eyes, just so

2778
08:04:15.959 --> 08:04:24.360
you can really get in touch with all aspects of

2779
08:04:25.560 --> 08:04:44.560
how your eyes feel right now. Now focusing on your thighs,

2780
08:04:46.919 --> 08:04:50.279
and you know it just starts you to gently tense

2781
08:04:50.520 --> 08:05:00.439
your thighs, just very very gently, just enough so you

2782
08:05:00.560 --> 08:05:14.240
can become more attuned to the physical sensation of your

2783
08:05:14.360 --> 08:05:19.720
upper legs, the front of your thighs, and the backs

2784
08:05:19.799 --> 08:05:34.159
of your thigh noticing and observing how your thighs feel

2785
08:05:35.439 --> 08:05:48.400
right now, moving your focus to the back of your neck,

2786
08:05:52.080 --> 08:05:58.720
just noticing the back of your neck the muscles, and

2787
08:05:58.840 --> 08:06:01.840
of course they leave to the side of your neck,

2788
08:06:03.279 --> 08:06:08.400
they also lead to the top of your back, which

2789
08:06:08.599 --> 08:06:13.959
leads to your shoulders. So as you focus on the

2790
08:06:14.119 --> 08:06:19.720
back of your neck, maybe you can move your head

2791
08:06:20.639 --> 08:06:28.400
gently upwards as if you're looking up. Maybe moving your

2792
08:06:28.479 --> 08:06:36.279
head down as if you're looking down, perhaps moving your

2793
08:06:36.360 --> 08:06:46.319
head side to side, right to left bony very slowly,

2794
08:06:48.759 --> 08:06:57.040
very gently. You're not trying to force anything. It has

2795
08:06:57.200 --> 08:07:04.439
to be very very gentle, just.

2796
08:07:05.040 --> 08:07:09.479
So you can be more.

2797
08:07:11.119 --> 08:07:19.720
In touch with the feelings, with the sensations of the

2798
08:07:20.000 --> 08:07:28.840
physical sensations of how the back of your neck feels.

2799
08:07:30.639 --> 08:07:46.040
Right now, as we now focus on the tops of

2800
08:07:46.159 --> 08:07:52.400
your arms, the parts where your biceps and your triceps

2801
08:07:52.479 --> 08:08:00.520
are between your elbow and your shoulders. Your focus on

2802
08:08:00.799 --> 08:08:07.959
those parts, the tops of your arms, you may like

2803
08:08:08.080 --> 08:08:17.599
to just tense them, but very very gently and slowly,

2804
08:08:20.159 --> 08:08:29.119
so you're not straining or putting any pressure whatsoever on

2805
08:08:29.319 --> 08:08:39.159
your arms. It's just so you can gain more of

2806
08:08:39.279 --> 08:08:49.560
a sense of how your upper arms are feeling in

2807
08:08:49.799 --> 08:09:03.400
this moment. Just noticing as you gently, very gently and

2808
08:09:03.959 --> 08:09:17.240
slowly tighten the muscles and then lecko, notice how the

2809
08:09:17.439 --> 08:09:19.639
tops of your arms feel.

2810
08:09:22.200 --> 08:09:31.400
Right now, as.

2811
08:09:32.080 --> 08:09:42.759
Now focus on your stomach, the area the lower abdomen

2812
08:09:42.840 --> 08:09:48.759
area below your belly button, moving all the way down

2813
08:09:52.159 --> 08:10:02.720
to your hips, just above your grind. Maybe you're able

2814
08:10:02.880 --> 08:10:13.200
to tense these muscles in the area very very gently.

2815
08:10:16.200 --> 08:10:17.319
And slowly.

2816
08:10:22.959 --> 08:10:27.360
If that's a difficult thing to do. Maybe you can

2817
08:10:27.599 --> 08:10:38.240
just move your body, pushing your stomach up, maybe moving

2818
08:10:38.279 --> 08:10:44.159
a little bit to a side using your hips, just so.

2819
08:10:45.880 --> 08:10:49.639
Get more in tune.

2820
08:10:51.080 --> 08:10:55.360
With how you're lower up to an area.

2821
08:10:58.799 --> 08:11:12.520
This hear it in this moment, just noticing.

2822
08:11:13.360 --> 08:11:33.959
The physical sensations or your lower abdomen as to move

2823
08:11:35.919 --> 08:11:39.959
your attention to your mouth.

2824
08:11:45.279 --> 08:11:46.439
Notice in your.

2825
08:11:46.520 --> 08:11:57.439
Lips and inside your mouth, your teeth, your guns, your tongue.

2826
08:12:07.040 --> 08:12:15.680
Just noticing how your tongue and your mouth feels. It

2827
08:12:15.840 --> 08:12:24.840
may help by moving your tongue around your mouth, moving

2828
08:12:24.919 --> 08:12:32.319
it to your left, maybe pressing it gently against the

2829
08:12:32.560 --> 08:12:38.759
side of your mouth, and then to the right, gently

2830
08:12:39.279 --> 08:12:45.959
to the side of your mouth, perhaps pressing up against

2831
08:12:46.080 --> 08:12:54.080
the top of your mouth, and then down gently against

2832
08:12:54.159 --> 08:13:05.479
the bottom of your mouth, always very slowly and very

2833
08:13:08.119 --> 08:13:25.080
very gentle, so that you can be aware of how

2834
08:13:25.360 --> 08:13:47.959
you feel in your mouth area. No, got to focus

2835
08:13:50.240 --> 08:14:04.080
on your wrists. I don't. I ask you to maybe

2836
08:14:04.959 --> 08:14:13.840
just rotate your wrists by moving your hands in a

2837
08:14:14.080 --> 08:14:27.720
circular motion very gently and slowly, just soly you can

2838
08:14:33.599 --> 08:14:52.599
feel the sensations that you are currently experiencing in your wrists.

2839
08:14:56.680 --> 08:15:05.240
Perhaps move in your hands up and down the game

2840
08:15:06.520 --> 08:15:26.880
very very chimly and slowly, very chemed soul.

2841
08:15:30.799 --> 08:15:32.119
And slow.

2842
08:15:45.560 --> 08:16:02.560
As we now start to observe lower back. The bad

2843
08:16:02.959 --> 08:16:12.240
part is just the bum of your hips, where your

2844
08:16:12.400 --> 08:16:25.400
coxis are the whole area which also really does include

2845
08:16:26.159 --> 08:16:32.400
the sides of your body, because those muscles are very

2846
08:16:32.520 --> 08:16:43.799
much connected. As those muscles also move into your hip

2847
08:16:43.880 --> 08:16:52.000
area connecting to your buttocks the sides of your hips,

2848
08:17:00.520 --> 08:17:08.840
and if you're physically able to do so, maybe you

2849
08:17:09.040 --> 08:17:22.799
can very gently just move your body eviss slightly, very slowly,

2850
08:17:25.880 --> 08:17:43.880
some side to side, just enough to engage how you

2851
08:17:44.200 --> 08:18:02.200
feel in your lower back. Perhaps secretly move your hips

2852
08:18:02.599 --> 08:18:16.319
gently up and down, gently and slowly in order to.

2853
08:18:20.919 --> 08:18:22.439
Be in touch.

2854
08:18:24.799 --> 08:18:48.560
With the physical sensations of your lower back. As we know.

2855
08:18:49.000 --> 08:19:04.520
Move your attention to your jowl an area for your

2856
08:19:04.799 --> 08:19:10.400
chin all the way up so near where your ears are,

2857
08:19:13.680 --> 08:19:29.319
all of your jaw even just if it's okay to

2858
08:19:29.520 --> 08:19:40.159
do so. Gently open your mouth, no wide noe stretching,

2859
08:19:41.439 --> 08:19:54.880
just very gently and slowly opening your mouth an enclose

2860
08:19:55.000 --> 08:20:16.959
in your mouth very gently. It's slightly sort pain touch

2861
08:20:23.720 --> 08:20:57.599
with how you jow feels. Now like to sit down

2862
08:21:00.479 --> 08:21:15.319
the chest area. You don't need to do anything to

2863
08:21:15.560 --> 08:21:22.119
move your chest because it moves every time you breathe.

2864
08:21:27.439 --> 08:21:41.319
It moves very gently and slowly automatically with each breath

2865
08:21:41.720 --> 08:22:07.200
you take. As you focus on your chest helse when

2866
08:22:07.360 --> 08:22:44.360
you breathe, move in your focus to your forms with

2867
08:22:44.520 --> 08:23:00.720
your elbows. Maybe you're able to very gently and slowly

2868
08:23:03.119 --> 08:23:11.680
dense the muscles in your forearms, and when you do that,

2869
08:23:12.159 --> 08:23:45.360
you can feel your elwords as well, very gently and slowly, gently.

2870
08:23:48.119 --> 08:23:50.159
And softly.

2871
08:23:53.680 --> 08:24:24.119
Observing your fool arms and tell pass Noah. Make a

2872
08:24:24.439 --> 08:24:43.080
focus the rest of your back, your upper back in

2873
08:24:43.439 --> 08:25:01.400
the middle, the middle of your back. Again, this part

2874
08:25:01.599 --> 08:25:16.240
of your body moves also every time you breed. You

2875
08:25:16.520 --> 08:25:30.279
may not notice that usually makes you observe your upper

2876
08:25:30.479 --> 08:25:37.799
back in the middle of your back. You can really

2877
08:25:38.400 --> 08:26:38.240
feel that gentle and moving your focus into your hip area.

2878
08:26:41.799 --> 08:26:53.360
Buttecks Bray, there's a muscle as at those boners in

2879
08:26:53.479 --> 08:27:34.080
your midsection. Just noticing how your hips feel. Right now,

2880
08:27:41.560 --> 08:27:57.360
you can very very gently lose your hips, maybe side

2881
08:27:57.560 --> 08:28:53.400
to side gently and yeah, very gently softly. Everything starts

2882
08:28:53.720 --> 08:29:09.119
to slow down, including the thoughts in your mind and

2883
08:29:09.279 --> 08:29:19.319
your mind itself just starts to gradually. It doesn't have

2884
08:29:19.439 --> 08:29:27.200
to be instant, but just gradually starting to It's almost

2885
08:29:27.319 --> 08:29:38.479
like time is strength chin It's a slower pace to

2886
08:29:38.680 --> 08:29:44.360
maybe what you're used to in your day to day life.

2887
08:29:47.520 --> 08:30:14.439
It's a slower movement of energy, very small movements which

2888
08:30:14.560 --> 08:30:22.680
make up the larger movements, which is always the case. Now,

2889
08:30:22.759 --> 08:30:27.319
when you move your hand, it might seem like it's

2890
08:30:27.439 --> 08:30:33.159
one movement, but it's lots of minute different muscles moving

2891
08:30:35.319 --> 08:30:44.319
in accordance with each other. And what happens in this

2892
08:30:46.200 --> 08:31:00.840
space that we're sharing is we move from that big

2893
08:31:05.439 --> 08:31:22.520
movement into those smaller movements. Starting to focus on how

2894
08:31:22.639 --> 08:31:29.919
your body feels, not just as a whole, not just oh,

2895
08:31:29.959 --> 08:31:34.520
I'm feeling this way. I'm feeling stressed or tense, or

2896
08:31:34.959 --> 08:31:40.200
I'm feeling relaxed and calm. I'm feeling this way, I'm

2897
08:31:40.240 --> 08:31:51.680
feeling that way. Starting to notice that your body begins

2898
08:31:51.759 --> 08:32:07.799
to present to you small feelings around your body, small

2899
08:32:08.319 --> 08:32:25.240
physical sensations in your legs, whether pleasurable or not. Maybe

2900
08:32:27.599 --> 08:32:34.200
resisting the temptation to label them or to judge them

2901
08:32:35.680 --> 08:32:41.720
those feelings, just thinking them, thinking about them is just

2902
08:32:41.959 --> 08:32:59.840
being neutral, just feelings, not being particularly concerned, just noticing

2903
08:33:01.200 --> 08:33:14.720
what your body is telling you the feelings in your arms,

2904
08:33:17.759 --> 08:33:22.720
instead of feeling the hole of the arm, Maybe notice

2905
08:33:22.959 --> 08:33:35.799
those individual feelings, all those different muscles and the skin,

2906
08:33:39.040 --> 08:33:44.840
the hairs of your arms, all the internal parts of

2907
08:33:44.959 --> 08:34:01.240
your arms, the veins, the bones, just being aware of

2908
08:34:04.360 --> 08:34:10.759
maybe your elbow on your right arm has a certain feeling.

2909
08:34:12.880 --> 08:34:26.560
Maybe your left wrist also has its own individual physical sensation.

2910
08:34:39.040 --> 08:34:45.720
What about your forearm on your right arm, your right forearm,

2911
08:34:53.080 --> 08:34:59.159
there may not be any particular feeling that he could

2912
08:34:59.240 --> 08:35:07.080
even give a name to, may not feel like anything

2913
08:35:08.119 --> 08:35:18.319
other than just a feeling. You know, it's there. The

2914
08:35:18.439 --> 08:35:24.279
feelings in your shoulders. Perhaps your shoulders when you think

2915
08:35:24.360 --> 08:35:29.159
about them, kind of almost like they're the same, you know,

2916
08:35:30.400 --> 08:35:35.360
the same feeling, almost like you both of your shoulders

2917
08:35:35.400 --> 08:35:48.319
are just one thing. Of course they're not. And when

2918
08:35:48.360 --> 08:35:53.680
you focus on your left shoulder and then on your

2919
08:35:53.840 --> 08:36:00.680
right shoulder, maybe find that you move the muscles a

2920
08:36:00.720 --> 08:36:12.880
little bit, maybe tense the muscles gently, noticing the difference

2921
08:36:16.080 --> 08:36:43.840
in each shoulder. Your lower back, the left side of

2922
08:36:43.919 --> 08:36:47.959
your lower back and the right side of your lower back,

2923
08:36:55.880 --> 08:36:59.959
of course that connection to your buttocks and to your

2924
08:37:00.080 --> 08:37:11.759
your hips, and also moving up into the middle of

2925
08:37:11.840 --> 08:37:25.720
your back, and sometimes like right now, actually when I

2926
08:37:25.840 --> 08:37:29.919
focus on their part. When I focused on my buttocks

2927
08:37:31.840 --> 08:37:35.560
and then I focused on the middle of my back,

2928
08:37:35.919 --> 08:37:38.680
I almost felt like the muscles in my muller back

2929
08:37:38.759 --> 08:37:48.599
were being stretched very gently, just stretched a little bit.

2930
08:37:50.560 --> 08:37:57.319
Even though I wasn't doing anything to try to stretch

2931
08:37:59.319 --> 08:38:03.639
your lower back, it just seemed to happen. The feeling

2932
08:38:04.319 --> 08:38:24.279
of very gently stretching your lower back comes along. I

2933
08:38:24.400 --> 08:38:49.240
have feeling in your chest, just noticing what sensations you

2934
08:38:49.959 --> 08:39:06.959
are experiencing in your chest right now. And there's so

2935
08:39:07.200 --> 08:39:11.080
much of the chest of obviously there's the collar bone

2936
08:39:11.240 --> 08:39:18.040
leading to the chest. You've got the chest bone, You've

2937
08:39:18.040 --> 08:39:26.360
got the muscles in your chest. Of course, if you're female,

2938
08:39:27.080 --> 08:39:34.240
there's possibly the breasts. If you're male, you've got the

2939
08:39:37.080 --> 08:39:42.639
different well why not that different these days, But there

2940
08:39:42.720 --> 08:39:47.880
may be more muscles at the top of the chest,

2941
08:39:51.279 --> 08:39:55.560
but at the side underneath it's pretty much the same.

2942
08:39:56.319 --> 08:39:59.400
Whether you're a man or a woman. There's muscles there,

2943
08:40:00.759 --> 08:40:05.880
muscles that stretch out to your back as well as

2944
08:40:05.959 --> 08:40:14.319
breast tissue. It stretches and moves into your back. To

2945
08:40:14.520 --> 08:40:33.919
just being aware of your chest being with whatever feeling

2946
08:40:34.080 --> 08:40:53.119
there is in your chest. And when I noticed that,

2947
08:40:53.840 --> 08:41:00.799
I focused on my chest. I feel it in my

2948
08:41:01.759 --> 08:41:05.479
back and my upper back. I mean, I guess the

2949
08:41:05.599 --> 08:41:13.720
obvious reason would be because you know, I'll breathe in in,

2950
08:41:16.439 --> 08:41:19.599
and it stretches my chest and my back at the

2951
08:41:19.680 --> 08:41:40.400
same time. It feels it feels okay, it doesn't feel

2952
08:41:43.080 --> 08:41:47.319
I got a little bit of pain in my right chest,

2953
08:41:49.599 --> 08:41:52.880
a little bit, not pain, but a little discomfort, maybe

2954
08:41:54.639 --> 08:42:02.759
stiffness possibly, I don't know the latest. My shoulders are

2955
08:42:02.799 --> 08:42:11.759
also wanting to flex for some reason. I think that's

2956
08:42:11.799 --> 08:42:20.119
probably part of my upper back, that connection between my

2957
08:42:20.279 --> 08:42:24.959
shoulders my upper back, because I can move my shoulders

2958
08:42:25.080 --> 08:42:32.240
and stretch the muscles in my back, moving the shoulders

2959
08:42:32.319 --> 08:42:40.119
backwards or up, which then moves I think it's the scapulous.

2960
08:42:42.040 --> 08:42:42.639
In your back.

2961
08:42:52.680 --> 08:43:00.680
It feels quite nice. Actually good think about this is

2962
08:43:00.840 --> 08:43:09.479
you can, if you want to, you can just flex

2963
08:43:10.159 --> 08:43:22.159
or stimulate the various muscles in your body gently in

2964
08:43:22.360 --> 08:43:26.200
order to get more of a sense of how they feel.

2965
08:43:33.520 --> 08:43:41.279
And when you're relaxing, when you do tense and muscle

2966
08:43:42.799 --> 08:43:45.319
and you let it go and you let it relax,

2967
08:43:46.560 --> 08:43:59.040
it relaxes way more than it would normally, you have

2968
08:43:59.279 --> 08:44:05.840
to feel that you're able to do that. There's no

2969
08:44:05.959 --> 08:44:11.439
point in doing it if there's an issue with the

2970
08:44:11.520 --> 08:44:17.840
per part of your body. You need to be gentle

2971
08:44:18.000 --> 08:44:31.080
with yourself at all times when relaxing deeply. It's important

2972
08:44:34.799 --> 08:44:46.200
to be kind to yourself. As you notice your mind.

2973
08:44:50.520 --> 08:44:57.520
How much has your mind slowed down since we started

2974
08:44:58.959 --> 08:45:24.439
this recording? How came and peaceful is your mind right now?

2975
08:45:31.360 --> 08:45:36.680
We have nothing to think about and just my voice

2976
08:45:36.959 --> 08:45:47.840
to listen to. Because you know the intention behind this recording,

2977
08:45:49.319 --> 08:45:56.880
this relaxation, at the very least, for you to feel

2978
08:45:57.159 --> 08:46:02.000
more relaxed at the end the recording than you did

2979
08:46:02.240 --> 08:46:14.159
at the beginning, at the very least, fe your mind

2980
08:46:15.000 --> 08:46:30.959
to slow down as your body continues to relax, because

2981
08:46:31.279 --> 08:46:42.880
that's what you want to happen. That's what you expect

2982
08:46:47.240 --> 08:47:11.520
to happen, for relaxation, to fill your body, maybe calm

2983
08:47:11.639 --> 08:47:19.479
in your mind to the point of boredom when you

2984
08:47:19.880 --> 08:48:03.639
start maybe to drift away. Drifting it's almost as if

2985
08:48:03.799 --> 08:48:13.080
you are moving further away from your body in your mind,

2986
08:48:15.479 --> 08:48:27.360
just leaving that there. Kind of liking it an escape

2987
08:48:27.439 --> 08:48:32.639
pod and a spaceship, a movie, a space movie. You know,

2988
08:48:32.799 --> 08:48:36.639
when they get into a little pod in it. Since

2989
08:48:36.759 --> 08:48:52.880
the month far away from the spaceship, safe to dream,

2990
08:49:01.439 --> 08:50:56.680
I continue drifting slow and peace and peace and focusing

2991
08:50:57.119 --> 08:51:11.000
on that fee of those individual parts of your body

2992
08:51:11.959 --> 08:51:18.759
that or relaxing one by one.

2993
08:51:26.439 --> 08:51:26.959
You may.

2994
08:51:28.680 --> 08:51:42.360
Find that every now and then you realize that you

2995
08:51:42.520 --> 08:51:51.159
weren't listening to my voice because your mind started to

2996
08:51:51.400 --> 08:52:06.599
imagine something different, maybe started to almost move into some

2997
08:52:06.919 --> 08:52:15.360
kind of a dreamy state. And then you become aware

2998
08:52:15.560 --> 08:52:24.799
of my voice again. And even though you may want

2999
08:52:25.000 --> 08:52:29.919
to focus on my voice, you may also wish to

3000
08:52:32.439 --> 08:52:44.040
allow your mind to just drift naturally into that space

3001
08:52:44.319 --> 08:53:08.319
of comfort and safety. As you feel more comfort spreading

3002
08:53:08.680 --> 08:53:21.439
through your body like a warm blanket covering you gently,

3003
08:53:25.479 --> 08:53:43.560
keeping your body it just the perfect temperature, and even

3004
08:53:43.720 --> 08:53:55.720
if you can hear background sounds, they just don't seem

3005
08:53:55.880 --> 08:54:12.639
to matter anymore. There's that sense of peace spreads through

3006
08:54:12.720 --> 08:54:26.360
your mind like a gentle breeze, yet strong enough to

3007
08:54:26.560 --> 08:54:43.279
blow away all negativity, strong enoughter remove from your mind

3008
08:54:46.560 --> 08:55:01.319
any anxiety or stress that was there before, and blow

3009
08:55:01.400 --> 08:55:12.319
away any other thoughts or feelings then just don't fit

3010
08:55:16.439 --> 08:55:41.520
with the sense relaxation that is feeling your body, end

3011
08:55:41.639 --> 08:56:02.080
your mind. Unless you focus on your mind. Count down

3012
08:56:02.279 --> 08:56:08.959
from ten down to one, and with each number you hear,

3013
08:56:12.119 --> 08:56:16.799
your mind will become.

3014
08:56:22.479 --> 08:56:29.200
Slightly more.

3015
08:56:31.959 --> 08:56:38.000
Relaxed, just just slightly.

3016
08:56:40.560 --> 08:56:40.599
So.

3017
08:56:40.759 --> 08:56:47.799
From ten down to nine, just a slight movement. From

3018
08:56:48.000 --> 08:57:00.279
nine down to eight, just another small change in how

3019
08:57:00.439 --> 08:57:13.439
you feel. Eight down to seven, that feeling is a gap,

3020
08:57:14.319 --> 08:57:19.880
almost like a gap that starts to get wider, the

3021
08:57:20.040 --> 08:57:28.279
gap between those feelings that you used to have in

3022
08:57:28.439 --> 08:57:37.360
your mind compared to the feelings you have there growing now,

3023
08:57:39.080 --> 08:57:48.880
feelings of comfort and security and confidence, and that gap

3024
08:57:49.319 --> 08:57:55.439
becomes wider. Eight down to seven, seven down to six.

3025
08:57:59.200 --> 08:58:05.639
When you get to your mind will start to have

3026
08:58:05.840 --> 08:58:19.360
a certain physical sensation, almost like there's a magnet outside

3027
08:58:19.439 --> 08:58:25.479
of your head sucking the tension and the stress and

3028
08:58:25.599 --> 08:58:32.759
any remaining feelings that you don't want, sucking them out

3029
08:58:33.279 --> 08:58:43.599
through your skull. And in down to four you could

3030
08:58:43.759 --> 08:58:52.040
start to really experience that sense of not just emptiness,

3031
08:58:52.319 --> 08:59:06.240
but space, a place full of share, place where you

3032
08:59:06.400 --> 08:59:13.040
can stretch. It's almost as if as you go down

3033
08:59:13.159 --> 08:59:20.680
to four and three, your mind is expanding, with this sense.

3034
08:59:23.279 --> 08:59:24.639
Of peace.

3035
08:59:26.000 --> 08:59:36.319
And tranquility growing as it moves down to When you

3036
08:59:36.400 --> 08:59:45.840
get to one, your mind just feels exactly how you

3037
08:59:46.159 --> 09:00:05.720
want to feel. It's almost perfect feeling, maybe a sensation

3038
09:00:06.200 --> 09:00:15.319
that you'd like to keep a place that's safe, where

3039
09:00:16.880 --> 09:00:35.880
nothing can affect you at all, and you can stay

3040
09:00:35.959 --> 09:00:44.720
in that that space of comfort and confidence, confident in

3041
09:00:44.840 --> 09:00:52.959
your own ability to create this space and this feeling

3042
09:00:53.279 --> 09:01:00.159
of comfort within your own mind just by counting and

3043
09:01:02.000 --> 09:01:09.119
down to one. And this is something that you can

3044
09:01:09.240 --> 09:01:18.319
do yourself when you're on your own a time when

3045
09:01:18.400 --> 09:01:22.400
you can maybe sit down, maybe just for a few minutes,

3046
09:01:27.000 --> 09:01:38.200
close your eyes, just count slowly from ten down to

3047
09:01:38.360 --> 09:01:55.680
one and re experience these feelings in your mind. And

3048
09:01:55.759 --> 09:02:03.799
when you feel that way in your mind, body copies

3049
09:02:05.639 --> 09:02:16.400
your mind, and that feeling it's spread through your spine

3050
09:02:17.639 --> 09:02:22.560
and your nervous system into every part of your body,

3051
09:02:24.639 --> 09:02:39.000
travels through your bloodstream, heathing and relaxing every particle of

3052
09:02:39.159 --> 09:02:56.000
your existence. And we can we can practice this a

3053
09:02:56.119 --> 09:03:04.200
few times before the end of the recording, and then

3054
09:03:04.279 --> 09:03:11.279
you can practice on your own and each time you

3055
09:03:11.520 --> 09:03:23.200
count from ten about one, the feelings of comfort, calmness,

3056
09:03:24.479 --> 09:03:43.520
deep deep relaxation become stronger and deeper feeling your mind

3057
09:03:43.880 --> 09:03:53.119
and your brain with these positive chemicals that spread throughout

3058
09:03:53.200 --> 09:04:03.040
your body, relaxing you so quickly, relaxing your whole body

3059
09:04:03.240 --> 09:04:04.360
and mind.

3060
09:04:06.959 --> 09:04:07.840
So very.

3061
09:04:09.319 --> 09:04:20.599
Very easily, just by counting from ten down to one.

3062
09:04:25.599 --> 09:04:26.439
That's what we're going to do.

3063
09:04:26.799 --> 09:04:27.000
Now.

3064
09:04:27.840 --> 09:04:31.799
I'm going to count from ten down to one. I'd

3065
09:04:32.000 --> 09:04:36.279
like you to repeat the number after me. So when

3066
09:04:36.319 --> 09:04:44.919
I say ten, you can just repeat to yourself ten.

3067
09:04:50.520 --> 09:05:00.319
Just notice, be aware of how you feel you're mind,

3068
09:05:00.720 --> 09:05:09.799
in your body, and when I say nine, you can

3069
09:05:09.880 --> 09:05:26.400
repeat to yourself nine again, noticing the increase in comfort

3070
09:05:26.759 --> 09:05:39.680
and calmness in your mind and in your body. The

3071
09:05:39.840 --> 09:05:49.080
same when I say eight, when I say seven, six,

3072
09:05:51.639 --> 09:06:10.959
when I say five, four, when I say three, two, lastly,

3073
09:06:11.120 --> 09:06:24.120
when I say one, you can repeat that number. Now.

3074
09:06:24.239 --> 09:06:29.800
Of course, when you do this on your own without

3075
09:06:29.919 --> 09:06:34.919
listening to me, you can say the numbers or whatever

3076
09:06:36.519 --> 09:06:45.000
speed that you feel is necessary for you, so you

3077
09:06:45.120 --> 09:06:51.080
can adapt. So you feel you want to say the

3078
09:06:51.279 --> 09:06:58.800
numbers ten down to one faster than I do, then

3079
09:06:58.839 --> 09:07:01.720
you go ahead and do that. Or if you feel

3080
09:07:02.559 --> 09:07:05.680
when you do it yourself that you'd like to have

3081
09:07:06.239 --> 09:07:14.919
more space between the numbers, maybe take a lot longer

3082
09:07:16.199 --> 09:07:22.040
to get from ten all the way down to one.

3083
09:07:26.279 --> 09:07:38.800
That's your choice also to do. So I'm going to

3084
09:07:38.959 --> 09:07:47.319
count from ten down to one, and when I get

3085
09:07:47.360 --> 09:07:51.760
to one, that will be the end of this recording.

3086
09:07:54.239 --> 09:07:57.839
The less, of course, you're listening to music, then the

3087
09:07:58.000 --> 09:12:49.720
music will continue two nine eight s us twenty ninety eighteen,

3088
09:12:54.080 --> 09:13:54.639
seventeen sixteen fifteen, fourteen, thirty twelve eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five,

3089
09:13:59.599 --> 09:14:09.919
four three two.

3090
09:14:16.160 --> 09:14:16.400
One.

3091
09:14:24.800 --> 09:14:35.160
Now open your eyes, noticing how you physically feel having

3092
09:14:35.279 --> 09:14:42.879
counted down from twenty to one, allowing stress and tension

3093
09:14:43.360 --> 09:14:48.000
to leave through your fingertips and your tastes. And as

3094
09:14:48.040 --> 09:14:52.760
you focus on your fingertips, maybe they feel a little

3095
09:14:52.800 --> 09:14:59.839
bit tingling, which is I suppose quite an understanding considering

3096
09:14:59.839 --> 09:15:04.440
the tension has been exiting your body through your fingertips.

3097
09:15:10.919 --> 09:15:12.879
So now I'm going to count from twenty down to

3098
09:15:13.000 --> 09:15:13.559
one again.

3099
09:15:14.040 --> 09:15:14.720
This time.

3100
09:15:18.879 --> 09:15:24.680
You're going to feel relief of tension and stress, any

3101
09:15:24.760 --> 09:15:36.879
anxiety that you may have leaving through your stomach, just

3102
09:15:37.440 --> 09:15:42.120
leaving through your stomach, almost as if it's just releasing

3103
09:15:43.760 --> 09:15:49.160
the whole of your stomach. You'll navel to just above

3104
09:15:49.239 --> 09:15:53.199
your chest or below your chest, rather so surrounding your

3105
09:15:53.279 --> 09:15:58.519
belly button. Area, the whole area. You can feel the

3106
09:15:58.720 --> 09:16:05.199
tension of your body where there's left, just releasing from

3107
09:16:05.279 --> 09:16:08.559
that area, and you may notice that your stomach will

3108
09:16:08.599 --> 09:16:15.760
become very relaxed. As my countdown from twenty down to

3109
09:16:15.879 --> 09:17:38.120
one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,

3110
09:17:42.279 --> 09:17:59.199
three two what. You can open your eyes again if

3111
09:17:59.199 --> 09:18:02.800
you choose, but you can just keep them closed because

3112
09:18:02.839 --> 09:18:09.680
it feels relaxing. Just notice how your stomach feels. I

3113
09:18:09.800 --> 09:18:13.559
notice as your focus, just do a little scan of

3114
09:18:13.680 --> 09:18:30.000
your body. Just notice how your body feels focusing upper body, back, chests, stomach, lacks, arms, hands, feet,

3115
09:18:33.000 --> 09:18:40.000
Just noticing, and you know, you may start to film

3116
09:18:42.440 --> 09:18:46.639
more a sense of tiredness, which may be the reason

3117
09:18:47.360 --> 09:18:51.000
listening to this recording, because.

3118
09:18:50.800 --> 09:18:52.720
You like to.

3119
09:18:54.360 --> 09:19:06.239
Let go completely of everything and drift off into a nice, natural, calm,

3120
09:19:06.639 --> 09:19:21.839
relaxing sleep. So now we've a focus on your forehead,

3121
09:19:25.720 --> 09:19:28.480
and if you choose, you can incorporate your eyes in

3122
09:19:28.639 --> 09:19:35.519
this focus as well. Your forehead and your eyes. It's

3123
09:19:35.599 --> 09:19:40.120
that whole area basically almost as if you were wearing

3124
09:19:40.160 --> 09:19:43.879
a mask, you know, like a I don't know, a

3125
09:19:44.080 --> 09:19:51.040
Batman mask or something, or I'm trying to sorrow or something.

3126
09:19:51.080 --> 09:19:53.160
You know, the kind of mask that covers your eyes

3127
09:19:53.680 --> 09:19:59.959
but also covers quite a lot of the forehead focus.

3128
09:20:00.000 --> 09:20:02.720
It's not that area, because that's the area that we're

3129
09:20:02.760 --> 09:20:09.160
now going to release tension, stress from your mind, from

3130
09:20:09.199 --> 09:20:13.040
your brain, from your mind, and any tension that you

3131
09:20:13.199 --> 09:20:17.360
may have remaining in your face, in your neck and

3132
09:20:17.440 --> 09:20:23.160
your jaw, in your eyes, your forehead, or your scalp.

3133
09:20:24.760 --> 09:20:30.080
So basically, any tension within your head area, including your

3134
09:20:30.239 --> 09:20:38.959
mind and your brain, that's going to be released through

3135
09:20:39.000 --> 09:20:45.800
your forehead and your eyes. As I comed down again

3136
09:20:45.959 --> 09:21:51.519
from twenty down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine,

3137
09:21:56.440 --> 09:22:07.199
eight seven six.

3138
09:22:11.040 --> 09:22:31.599
Five war three one.

3139
09:22:39.680 --> 09:22:47.720
Nice as you scan your face with jaw, your eyes,

3140
09:22:49.080 --> 09:22:59.760
your cheap bads, your ears, your forehead, your scalp, your neck, back,

3141
09:22:59.839 --> 09:23:04.239
your neck, front of your neck, the side of your neck,

3142
09:23:04.400 --> 09:23:18.239
and your throat. Noticing being aware of the comfort increased

3143
09:23:18.760 --> 09:23:28.160
being relaxation, not just in your head and neck and mind,

3144
09:23:29.199 --> 09:23:37.919
also the rest of your body. Just notice how loose

3145
09:23:39.480 --> 09:23:45.919
and calm you film and how easily it is to

3146
09:23:46.160 --> 09:23:46.760
just let go.

3147
09:23:49.599 --> 09:24:05.360
Completely, let go completely, how easily.

3148
09:24:13.160 --> 09:24:16.239
So what I'm gonna do about is I want to

3149
09:24:16.400 --> 09:24:24.080
focus on the top of your head, that we're going

3150
09:24:24.120 --> 09:24:32.959
to allow every last piece of tension or stress, the

3151
09:24:33.120 --> 09:24:39.480
wine be lingering or hiding in your body or mind.

3152
09:24:39.919 --> 09:24:40.599
My head.

3153
09:24:41.959 --> 09:24:50.959
To just be sucked out on the top of your head, released.

3154
09:24:54.400 --> 09:24:54.879
To the air.

3155
09:24:56.120 --> 09:25:01.720
Want sucked down into the clouds. I imagine a big

3156
09:25:01.919 --> 09:25:07.680
cloud to put your head. It's like a whirlpool. This

3157
09:25:07.879 --> 09:25:12.400
is can suck that tension out of the top of

3158
09:25:12.519 --> 09:25:24.120
your head, just take it away. Good to focus. Imagine

3159
09:25:24.160 --> 09:25:27.800
an opening at the top of your head with that

3160
09:25:28.239 --> 09:25:33.800
tension and stress and any remaining issues maybe worries or

3161
09:25:33.919 --> 09:25:38.319
concerns that are no use to you now you can

3162
09:25:38.519 --> 09:25:41.000
all be sucked down at the top of your head

3163
09:25:42.720 --> 09:25:48.680
and taken away. As I count down again, I'm twenty

3164
09:25:49.080 --> 09:26:29.400
down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen seventy, sixteen fifty

3165
09:26:34.800 --> 09:27:42.639
Fourteeneen twelve eleven nine eight seven, six, five four three.

3166
09:27:52.199 --> 09:28:03.120
One bre.

3167
09:28:08.160 --> 09:28:21.639
Noticing how you feel, how relaxed and calm you physically

3168
09:28:22.680 --> 09:28:36.519
and mentally feel right now, how peaceful your mind feels

3169
09:28:39.120 --> 09:28:44.319
it feels so nice to just let go, to give

3170
09:28:44.360 --> 09:28:58.440
yourself some space to breathe easily, to think calmly, just

3171
09:28:58.559 --> 09:29:03.800
to take a break from all that pointless worry and

3172
09:29:05.040 --> 09:29:09.360
concerns about things that you don't need to think about

3173
09:29:12.559 --> 09:29:19.919
right now, because this is your time to let go.

3174
09:29:21.279 --> 09:29:31.040
This is your space to enjoy feeling deeply relaxed, peaceful

3175
09:29:31.160 --> 09:29:38.440
in your mind, relaxed in your body. They can feel

3176
09:29:39.000 --> 09:29:48.800
so good, so nice to just not have to do anything,

3177
09:29:51.120 --> 09:29:59.839
to be able to really enjoy that serenity that come

3178
09:30:01.839 --> 09:30:15.360
letting go completely, that peacefulness that comes with being in

3179
09:30:15.720 --> 09:30:26.839
this peaceful space. And you can keep this sense of

3180
09:30:27.080 --> 09:30:39.279
calmness for as long as you choose. If you choose

3181
09:30:39.599 --> 09:30:47.000
to drift off into a deep, healing, natural sleep, then

3182
09:30:47.080 --> 09:30:58.400
you can do that. It's completely up to you, and

3183
09:30:58.680 --> 09:31:03.199
you can keep this feeling of calmness physically and in

3184
09:31:03.319 --> 09:31:09.120
your mind for as long as you choose to feel

3185
09:31:09.400 --> 09:31:24.879
completely relaxed, completely relaxed. And I'd like you to make

3186
09:31:25.040 --> 09:31:38.599
up your mind that you're going to relax, and I

3187
09:31:38.720 --> 09:31:41.959
want to explore that with you. What it feels like

3188
09:31:42.199 --> 09:31:50.480
when you actually decide that you're going to relax, not

3189
09:31:50.760 --> 09:31:57.040
forcing yourself, but giving yourself that I guess it is

3190
09:31:57.120 --> 09:32:02.080
a command, really, isn't it When you're telling yourself relax

3191
09:32:04.279 --> 09:32:09.519
in a gentle but firm way, that only you can

3192
09:32:09.639 --> 09:32:14.559
really tell yourself in that way. You can't really have

3193
09:32:14.680 --> 09:32:19.319
someone else saying to you, now it relax, relax, you know,

3194
09:32:20.319 --> 09:32:23.559
and it needs to be gentle, But you can't someone

3195
09:32:23.599 --> 09:32:30.599
else can't really have the same the same kind of

3196
09:32:31.239 --> 09:32:40.199
influence or power that you have over your own physicality,

3197
09:32:41.000 --> 09:32:50.680
over how you feel, because when you say it to yourself,

3198
09:32:51.959 --> 09:32:58.919
it means more. It's personal, and your brain and your

3199
09:32:59.360 --> 09:33:06.400
unconscious mind and your body listens to what you say. So,

3200
09:33:06.720 --> 09:33:10.480
for example, we'll test it out and do a little test,

3201
09:33:10.639 --> 09:33:14.239
a few little tests along the way, and you can

3202
09:33:14.360 --> 09:33:20.639
get more of an idea of the force, a positive

3203
09:33:20.839 --> 09:33:27.239
force that you can have in creating a sense of

3204
09:33:27.559 --> 09:33:32.559
comfort and relaxation in your body and your mind quite

3205
09:33:32.639 --> 09:33:45.400
quickly just by you telling yourself to relax. So I'm

3206
09:33:45.400 --> 09:33:52.559
going to start by's focus on your hands. So focus

3207
09:33:52.639 --> 09:33:55.279
on your hands and just tell your hands to relax.

3208
09:33:56.319 --> 09:34:01.199
As you say relax. As you focus on your hands,

3209
09:34:03.440 --> 09:34:08.000
you could say, my hands are relaxed, or I want

3210
09:34:08.040 --> 09:34:12.360
my hands to relax. I think if you actually do

3211
09:34:12.480 --> 09:34:20.480
it directly by focusing and imagining that your hands can

3212
09:34:20.760 --> 09:34:23.360
hear what you're saying. You know, they've got little ears,

3213
09:34:24.120 --> 09:34:29.279
which is a little weird. So talking to your hands

3214
09:34:30.040 --> 09:34:58.879
and just say relax, noticing how your hands start to relax. Now,

3215
09:34:59.000 --> 09:35:02.239
focus on your eye and tell your eyes to relax.

3216
09:35:03.400 --> 09:35:08.080
You just say in the same word relax, and find

3217
09:35:08.120 --> 09:35:15.760
the right tone for you. You know, I might say relax,

3218
09:35:16.480 --> 09:35:24.559
but you you might say relax or relax. You know,

3219
09:35:24.879 --> 09:35:30.559
you might say it differently to yourself, and that's important

3220
09:35:31.440 --> 09:35:35.599
for you to gauge what feels the right for you.

3221
09:35:37.480 --> 09:35:42.360
So just tell your eyes to relax, whilst focusing on

3222
09:35:42.440 --> 09:35:47.559
your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eyebrows,

3223
09:35:48.080 --> 09:36:23.599
and just tell your eyes directly relax. Now. Now, I

3224
09:36:23.800 --> 09:36:34.120
just did that myself, and sometimes you may feel that

3225
09:36:34.239 --> 09:36:39.199
you need a bit more time for the different parts

3226
09:36:39.279 --> 09:36:43.199
to relax, you know, because I start talking again and

3227
09:36:43.319 --> 09:36:48.120
maybe that part hasn't relaxed fully. But what will happen

3228
09:36:48.279 --> 09:36:51.080
is it will just continue to relax even though I'm talking.

3229
09:36:52.720 --> 09:36:58.480
And that's happened with my eyes. Something else I noticed

3230
09:36:58.599 --> 09:37:03.239
is when I started focusing on my eyes that actually

3231
09:37:04.000 --> 09:37:06.839
almost became they got worse before they got better in

3232
09:37:06.959 --> 09:37:10.760
a way. So I felt a degree of tension growing

3233
09:37:10.839 --> 09:37:16.519
in my eyes and then disappearing. So I think what

3234
09:37:16.720 --> 09:37:21.279
that was really was just me becoming more aware of

3235
09:37:21.599 --> 09:37:26.839
the tension that was already there that I was. I

3236
09:37:27.000 --> 09:37:32.199
wasn't focused on it before, so I wasn't really acknowledging

3237
09:37:32.279 --> 09:37:49.279
it or really conscious to those feelings. Yeah, my eyes

3238
09:37:49.639 --> 09:37:53.160
still continuing to relax, as well as my hands. Actually,

3239
09:37:56.639 --> 09:38:02.040
my hands have got a certain kind of energy, like

3240
09:38:02.279 --> 09:38:07.400
not buzzing, but I can kind of feel a degree

3241
09:38:07.480 --> 09:38:13.400
of energy in my hands. Maybe that's where the tension

3242
09:38:13.519 --> 09:38:24.879
is being released. Maybe that's the cause in that the

3243
09:38:24.959 --> 09:38:27.239
next part, I think we should focus on the back

3244
09:38:27.319 --> 09:38:32.040
of the neck. That's the part which quite often well

3245
09:38:32.160 --> 09:38:34.959
for me, holds tension. I don't know about it for yourself,

3246
09:38:35.879 --> 09:38:40.120
but I think it's quite a standard place where tension

3247
09:38:40.279 --> 09:38:46.959
is sometimes held. So, and I'm doing exactly what you're

3248
09:38:47.040 --> 09:38:49.639
doing as you do it as well, so I'm telling

3249
09:38:49.760 --> 09:38:53.919
my body parts to relax as well. So if you

3250
09:38:54.040 --> 09:38:57.040
tell your neck the back of your neck, focus on

3251
09:38:57.120 --> 09:39:03.680
the back of your neck and just say relax in

3252
09:39:03.760 --> 09:39:06.919
your own words. In your own tone, in your own voice.

3253
09:39:07.559 --> 09:39:09.599
You can say out loud, or you can just say

3254
09:39:09.639 --> 09:39:15.120
it to yourself internally. But you're focusing and you're saying

3255
09:39:15.199 --> 09:39:19.440
it literally to the back of your neck, as if

3256
09:39:19.480 --> 09:39:23.160
the back of your neck can actually hear what you're saying.

3257
09:39:26.519 --> 09:39:30.120
So do that now, Just say relax to the back

3258
09:39:30.160 --> 09:40:11.720
of your neck, and I'll do the same. Now, what

3259
09:40:12.040 --> 09:40:16.680
I noticed, and you may have had similar thing is,

3260
09:40:17.480 --> 09:40:20.080
even though I was focusing on the back of my neck,

3261
09:40:25.120 --> 09:40:31.919
other parts started to I don't know, showed themselves to me,

3262
09:40:32.239 --> 09:40:35.239
or maybe because they want to be relaxed as well.

3263
09:40:35.319 --> 09:40:39.720
But I started noticing the feelings in my shoulders, a

3264
09:40:39.839 --> 09:40:45.599
tension in my shoulders and in my upper back. Whether

3265
09:40:45.720 --> 09:40:51.360
that was because my back of my neck was saying, well,

3266
09:40:51.400 --> 09:40:56.360
I'm pretty much okay. It's the other parts to need attention,

3267
09:41:02.760 --> 09:41:04.879
But my low of my back of my neck is

3268
09:41:04.959 --> 09:41:09.120
still relaxing. But I just became more aware of other

3269
09:41:09.239 --> 09:41:16.959
parts that needed attention. Now, this might happen, and it's not.

3270
09:41:18.559 --> 09:41:21.120
It doesn't mean that it's going wrong. It just means

3271
09:41:21.959 --> 09:41:28.000
you're being notified with more places that also want to

3272
09:41:28.040 --> 09:41:35.120
feel relaxed. So I'm going to focus on my upper back.

3273
09:41:36.440 --> 09:41:40.160
So you can do the same even if you don't

3274
09:41:40.279 --> 09:41:45.239
have any feelings of tension that are obvious in your

3275
09:41:45.319 --> 09:41:51.919
upper back. You just focus on your back and the

3276
09:41:51.959 --> 09:41:54.959
whole area from the shoulder blades down.

3277
09:41:56.519 --> 09:41:57.440
To the middle of your.

3278
09:41:57.400 --> 09:42:01.599
Back and your spine. And with me, it's more the

3279
09:42:01.720 --> 09:42:09.720
shoulder platesd more. Yeah, that's the parts that are really

3280
09:42:11.839 --> 09:42:13.519
sort of given me.

3281
09:42:15.239 --> 09:42:15.559
That not.

3282
09:42:17.480 --> 09:42:19.919
That it needs relax in the sounds, Gonna ask that

3283
09:42:20.080 --> 09:42:23.400
pard to relax, and you can do the same. Now,

3284
09:42:34.599 --> 09:42:35.919
relax up the back.

3285
09:42:48.080 --> 09:42:50.000
There's something strange happened there.

3286
09:42:50.519 --> 09:42:50.800
And this.

3287
09:42:52.279 --> 09:42:57.919
Often happens. I've been doing this for ver sixteen years

3288
09:42:58.040 --> 09:43:05.319
or something, and often no one'm surprised but amazed really

3289
09:43:05.440 --> 09:43:11.160
that there can be a feeling. So when I was

3290
09:43:11.720 --> 09:43:14.879
focusing on the back of my neck, my upper back

3291
09:43:15.160 --> 09:43:20.319
was starting to feel quite stressed and in need of attention.

3292
09:43:22.760 --> 09:43:25.800
As soon as I started talking to you about my

3293
09:43:26.000 --> 09:43:30.879
upper back and talking about, you know, getting ready to

3294
09:43:31.199 --> 09:43:35.519
ask the upper back to relax, my O, the back

3295
09:43:35.599 --> 09:43:41.440
already started to relax. It's almost as if it doesn't

3296
09:43:41.599 --> 09:43:51.839
need to hear the words, just needs intention, just needs

3297
09:43:51.919 --> 09:44:04.519
to be noticed. That is something that often happens in

3298
09:44:05.400 --> 09:44:12.279
This type of situation is when you start to relax

3299
09:44:13.839 --> 09:44:17.120
a couple of parts of your body, as we've done

3300
09:44:17.239 --> 09:44:25.000
with our hands, our eyes and eyelids, and now back

3301
09:44:25.040 --> 09:44:33.839
of the neck, top of the back, upper back. The

3302
09:44:33.919 --> 09:44:40.559
rest of the body seems to just take notice and

3303
09:44:40.800 --> 09:44:49.239
decide in its own way to start relaxing. Other parts

3304
09:44:49.319 --> 09:44:59.360
of your body start to just become looser. I suppose

3305
09:44:59.480 --> 09:45:01.919
it's kind like a bit of an avalanche, you know,

3306
09:45:03.559 --> 09:45:07.000
the little ball starts rolling before you know it. The

3307
09:45:07.080 --> 09:45:19.319
whole of your body is completely relaxed and can't And

3308
09:45:19.480 --> 09:45:27.519
if you focus on your face, you focus on your eyes,

3309
09:45:29.919 --> 09:45:36.239
your eyelids, your eyebrows, and the muscles around your eyes.

3310
09:45:41.199 --> 09:45:45.919
Maybe you start to notice that your forehead is more

3311
09:45:46.000 --> 09:45:51.080
relaxed than it was. Maybe your face is more relaxed.

3312
09:45:53.760 --> 09:45:57.519
I would say, my entire face is a lot more

3313
09:45:57.599 --> 09:46:11.279
relaxed than it was. So you're going to focus now

3314
09:46:11.480 --> 09:46:18.720
on your shoulders again, just like before. Just tell your

3315
09:46:18.800 --> 09:46:22.360
shoulders and you can do them in the digity. You

3316
09:46:22.400 --> 09:46:26.239
can do the right shoulder and left shoulder. I just

3317
09:46:26.400 --> 09:46:30.599
didn't do both at the same time. And just tell

3318
09:46:30.959 --> 09:46:33.959
your shoulders as you focus on them in your mind,

3319
09:46:35.319 --> 09:46:40.239
focus on them and they feel maybe you can see

3320
09:46:40.319 --> 09:46:50.519
them in your mind's eye. Just tell your shoulders to

3321
09:46:50.639 --> 09:47:41.919
relax as nice as they relax. But I didn't notice,

3322
09:47:44.599 --> 09:47:51.040
especially with my back, is the connection between the different

3323
09:47:51.160 --> 09:48:02.239
parts the back, the shoulders, the neck being all connected

3324
09:48:02.720 --> 09:48:09.120
and being such a large part of your body, it's

3325
09:48:09.160 --> 09:48:17.519
almost hard to separate them from each other. And my

3326
09:48:17.680 --> 09:48:26.519
lower back is starting to relax on its own. Maybe

3327
09:48:26.599 --> 09:48:31.360
I'm going too slow and that could be an issue

3328
09:48:32.239 --> 09:48:39.040
because we all go at different speeds. And the idea

3329
09:48:39.120 --> 09:48:41.760
of the beginning of this recording was for you to

3330
09:48:41.839 --> 09:48:57.360
be able to just say to yourself, relax without focusing

3331
09:48:57.519 --> 09:49:03.120
on any particular part of your body. Because when you

3332
09:49:03.319 --> 09:49:14.120
know that telling your hands to relax and your hands relax,

3333
09:49:16.720 --> 09:49:23.400
you tell your eyelids and your eyes and muscles around

3334
09:49:23.519 --> 09:49:27.599
your eyes and your eyebrows to