May 7, 2025

(music) (5 hours) BODY SCAN | Let me bore your pain away #33 | Jason Newland | 7th May 2025

(music) (5 hours) BODY SCAN | Let me bore your pain away #33 | Jason Newland | 7th May 2025
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Hello, and or welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's

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Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close

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your eyes, and this is let me boil your pain away.

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So only listen to this recording when you know the

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cause of your chronic pain and you have permission to

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listen to it from your doctor or professional medical healthcare practitioner.

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This is not a replacement for medical medicine, medications and

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our replacement for medical advice. It's definitely not medical advice.

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All this is just me waffling on about subjects pertained

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to chronic pain. That's pretty much it. And if it's

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useful some people find it useful, then brilliant. It's really that.

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I mean, this is kind of an extension to my well,

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I would say probably a family member, a close family

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member to my let me Bore you to sleep podcast.

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It's the same kind of process. I've got Vinnie in

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the background chomping on a bony thing. Then maybe a

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background sounds. I mean, it probably will be because downstairs

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are still having their bathroom fitted. I've been doing it

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for about seventeen years now, and sometimes I exaggerate, but

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I never have done so far, never exaggerated. I never

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exaggerated about a thousand times a day. I was thinking,

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this is one of those recordings that the more you listen,

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the more benefit you get potentially, and it is what

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it says like just it can be used as a distraction.

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And I don't know why I'm explaining at the beginning

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of every recording what the recording is, because I don't

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do that with the let Me Buy You to Sleep recordings.

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But I guess even though this is the thirty third

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one that I've done, there's still a degree of newness

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involved in it, I think for me and potentially a

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there's going to be people that haven't listened to these

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recordings before. So it's kind of just hello, if you're new,

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just letting you know what it's about. I guess. So

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I've done thirty two in the past, this is the

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thirty third, and I kind of just choose a subject

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related to helping people with chronic pain and then I

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just chat about it. So today I'm going to be

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focusing on the body scan. What is a body scan,

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where did it originate from, different types of body scans,

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and how it can be used. I'll talk about my

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own experience doing body scans and how I found it useful.

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So it's one of those things you know, just gonna

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I'll go into it, maybe try and come from different angles.

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He's been very noisy back there, and it does happen sometimes,

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but hey, I'm gonna do he's a little sausage or

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it's said the word sausage. Shouldn't say the word sausage.

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He hasn't heard it yet, but yeah, he gets excited

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by that word a bit like me and chocolate. If

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I hear a word chocolate, whatever I'm doing distracted, like

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did someone say chocolate? So I think he likes the

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word chocolate as well. But he's not allowed to eat

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chocolate of course, being a doggie. And so I'm going

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to go through the body scan. Now this could be

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like a distraction. You might find that when you listen

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to my voice, your mind starts to slow down. You

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feel more relaxed within yourself. You know, your muscles relaxed,

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especially today because we're talking about body scan, which is

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a really good way to relax. So yes, that's what

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I shall still be doing today. So what is a

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body scan? I guess not everyone's going to know what

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it is. I. I did the body scan long before

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I learned what it was. I didn't know it was

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called a body scan, and I kind of I found

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out when I joined started going to a Buddhist center

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in two thousand. In November two thousand and two roughly,

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and I it was a Wednesday night. I was going

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through a lot of panic at the time. I was

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having anxiety attacks. I didn't really know what they were.

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I had been to the doctor and he told what

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they were, but I just didn't It was just beyond

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my comprehension what was going on. It just didn't It

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was weird, beyond weird. I just didn't know what to

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do with this new, you know, thing that's popped up.

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And I kind of thought to myself, maybe I need

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to learn to relax. I need to do something physical,

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something I'd need to proactive. It kind of sounds weird,

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isn't it, to relax proactively. It's almost like you'd think

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relaxation would be just really easy, which I find it

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to be now, perhaps back then not so much. So

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I went along to this group, this Buddhist center. There's

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a bunch of people in there, and I didn't feel

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all relaxed because I was around all these new people,

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very friendly, but still didn't know anyone. The meditation that

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we did was mindfulness, that was, it was mindfulness of brieving.

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And then they would do alternative week. Alternative week, so

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one and they yeah, one week it would be mindfulness

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of brieving. The following week it would be the Meta Bargener.

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So mindfulness of breathing is a meditation where you just

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focus on your breath. You just focus. Yeah, that's it, really,

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just focus on your breath. Don't try and control it,

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you just focus on it. I found that the easiest

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one to do. My throat's going weird to that I

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need some water, so I found Yeah, I did find

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the mindfulness of breathing the more simpler one. The Metabavner

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was again it was in stages, but it was focusing

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on sending out well wishes, sending out good feelings towards people.

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And I, yeah, I struggled with that one, I'll be honest.

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I did. Yeah, Yeah, I struggled with that one. Struggled

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with that one for years in fact. But the mindfulness

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of pri and was the easiest one. But before every meditation,

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the meditation teacher would do our body scan, which was

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almost my favorite part, so that it would just be starting.

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It'd be sitting there. Some people would be lying down

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if they've got physical stuff they can't if they can't sit,

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some people be on a cushion, people on chairs, and

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just how whatever is most comfortable, and I would, Yeah,

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the meditation teacher would focus on just basically starting to

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the top of the head and moving down to the feet,

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but not asking us to relax, not asking you to

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relax your forehead or your eyes, but just to focus

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on the different parts, notice how they feel, and accepting

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how the different parts of your body feel, which I

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guess may in some circumstances seem almost alien. And it

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did to me in some ways to accept something that

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you perhaps don't like. So for example, I'm just trying

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to think if I had like a knee when I

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was trying. When I first got there, I tried to

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meditate sitting on cushions, which was painful. Had I gave

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it up after about two years three years now I

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kind of just no, I'm sitting on a chair from

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now on. It was, Yeah, it was two thousand and

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five that I decided no more cushions. I just it

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got to the point where had about sixteen cushions all

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kind of balanced on top of each other to try

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and make it easier for me to feel comfortable when

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I was sitting. And one day I fell off, and yeah,

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made everyone laugh, and it wasn't good. Disturbed the meditation.

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Literally I was up nearly as high as a ceiling

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all these cushions. But I decide from then on to

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sit in the chair. Although I missed looking down at everyone.

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Literally I can meditate and look at everyone at the

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tops of their heads. It was weird, and so I

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used to get problems with my knees when I was

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trying to sit on the cushions, but it was only

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during the sitting sitting cross legged, not in a full

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lotus position, because I did not have I've never in

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my life had that flexibility, not even as a kid, well, okay,

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as a very young kid, because I used to be

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able to bite my own tone. Now, so I clearly

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did have flexibility. But as a it might be a

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hip thing. I don't know, but I don't I've never

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had the as like a teenager onwards, never had wonderful

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flexibility as far as being able to do it as

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splits or anything like that. Just haven't been able to

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do it. And I used to do karate and stuff

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and even like kicking head height I could do it,

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but it was Yeah, a lot of the other people

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could do splits, and they could pretty much, yeah, be

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a lot more flexible with their legs than I was.

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I just it's the way we're built, isn't that. It's

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just my body type. I'm all built for eating pies

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and watching television. Ah, that's stoke, but yeah, it's I'm not.

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It was a bit difficult, so my knees would hurt

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during the meditation, and it was quite difficult when we

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were doing. For me, I found it a bit difficult

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in a sense of an annoyance, the idea of going

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through my body and then focusing on my knees and

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being fine with how they were, just accepting and that's

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how they felt, and not trying to change how they felt.

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But something did happen, is which was it kind of

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surprised me that they would. The physical discomfort was in

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my knees would diminish, would reduce, sometimes quite dramatically, almost

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like it didn't matter anymore. You might hear some banging downstairs.

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But if I waited until there was no noise downstairs,

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then I would not well, I wouldn't be doing any recordings,

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to be fair, So that's not you know, it's not

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much use. I'd have to wait until five o'clock four

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or five before I could do recording. And you know,

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it's eleven o'clock in the morning. In the afternoon, it's

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eleven o'clock in the morning, and I want to do

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something useful. So here I am. If the noise is annoying,

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then just turn off. And there's other things. I've got

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so many recordings that don't have hammering. I don't know

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someone with a hammer downstairs banging, you know, So that

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isn't my normal background sound. Perhaps I should have on

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my website like non hammering sounds and help hammering sounds,

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so people that enjoyed the sound of building work going

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on in the background they can listen to those recordings. Maybe.

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But I was surprised is what surprised me about the

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body scan, which kind of became my firm favorite for me,

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and I would have been quite happy to have just

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done the body scan and nothing else because it helped me,

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first of all, get in touch with my body and

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to move away from my mind, but in touch with

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my body in a different way to how I'd been

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experiencing recently. At that time, because of the panic attacks,

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I was very very nervous and very concerned about any

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kinds of feelings I had in my body. I'd go

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into kind of panic mode. I mean, once my mobile

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phone went off, it was it was in my pocket.

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I was in my back pocket, I think because I

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was at work and it was on vibrate and it

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went off, so I felt this vibration and me bumm.

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I went into a full blown panic attack, like instantly,

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and then I realized it was my phone. I laughed, well,

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I kind of laughed. I'd wiped the tears away, and

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I found it funny. The panic attack ended as instantly

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as it started, which made ME realize that actually I

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was allowing external events to affect me even when I'd

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got it wrong. And also I was expecting. I was

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constantly at that time expecting to have these feelings to

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I was expecting a panic attack to start at any moment.

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At that time. I was, and I would probably say

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that's pretty much all I was thinking about mainly at

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the time for a good couple of years. So when

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on for a while, mainly two thousand and three that

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was the worst one, and then two thousand and four,

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and by the end of two thousand and four it

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I kind of got a group of it a bit more,

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but it took a while to get my head around

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how to deal with it and everything. But anyway, this

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isn't about chronic this isn't about panic attacks. But there's

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something to be said about expectation. I was expecting it,

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so I got it, and then it started. You know,

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something in my mind kind of thought, what if I

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expect something different? Then what if I expect to feel good?

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Why if I expect to feel relaxed? Because I was

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literally I was kind of you know those ships in

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the old days and they have someone in the what

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is it the peep hole, whatever, you they'd be right

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in the crow's nest. That's what it isn't it that

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there's someone in the crow's nest with binoculars or with

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a telescope looking around. That's almost like I had that constantly,

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someone looking part of my brain, looking for the next

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panicky moment. And you know, if you're looking out, if

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you if I suppose if a ship's already been attacked

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by another ship and managed to survive and got away,

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So the person in the crow's nest is going to

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be looking out for ships in a really serious way.

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So everything they see is a potential ship. So they

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might just see it might be a whale jumping out

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of the water, and then I think ship to ship.

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All AHOI I don't know what I'm turned into pirates now,

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so apparently they're pirates, but it's kind of it's that expectation,

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and I've known people, I'm sure you've probably known people

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as well, that tend to fear the worst they expect. Well,

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some people are proud of that, and I expect the worst.

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Therefore I'm never disappointed. You must have heard people say

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that in the past. I know I have, and it's

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I understand the concept, but it's very negative, and someone

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that expects the worst all the time are more likely

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going to get the worst. And even if they don't

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get the worst, they're possibly going to experience it as

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being the worst. If they're expecting disappointment and expecting negativity,

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that might be all they're going to see. You know,

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I saw this YouTube video it might have been a skit.

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It might be it might not be real or anything.

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But this this woman buys her daughter a car and

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it's like a BMW or something, and the daughter. It's

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in America, so her daughter is about seventeen, maybe sixteen,

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because you can drive quite early in America compared to

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where I live. And this the daughter is having to

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go at the mom. So the mom's got a birthday

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present for a daughter. Maybe I think it's like a

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seventeenth birthday and a daughter starts having to go. So

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it's the wrong color. It's the wrong color. Yeah, and

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oh yeah, because it was it was an electric car.

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She didn't want an electric car. It was one of

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the famous electric cars. I forget what they're called. Said,

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I don't want one of them. I want to BMW.

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That's it. I want to BMW. But this is better

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than a BMW. I want to BMW. This is more

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expensive than a BMW. I want a BMW. And it's

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the wrong color. And it looked quite real, to be fair,

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based on how the mother was responding, because it was yeah,

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I mean, it might say it might just been scripted

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kind of comedy video. I couldn't tell you but I've

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known people that have been like that, not on that extent.

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I've not then anyone, not known anyone to get angry

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because they've got a car that. I mean, I don't drive,

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but I would still be happier someone bought me a

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car just for the fact that. What an amazing gift

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and someone would go to that effort to do that,

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even if I couldn't drive, which I can't, but it's

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you know, it's like, what a mass How can you

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not have gratitude for that? Wow? I remember, yeah, years ago,

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I got some what was it? It was Iceland. So

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I used to go to Iceland a lot. This is

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the shop supermarket and I had a club card thing

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with them, and I was building up credit and whatever,

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and they sent me a voucher for twenty five pound,

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which is pretty good, going to be fair, that's a

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lot of money's worth of shopping to get a twenty

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five pound voucher back after I think like two or

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three years I think it took to get that, and

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I didn't have much money, and it was my friend's birthday,

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so what I thought, You know what, I've got nothing

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to give him. Really, I'll give him this twenty five

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pound voucher because then he can go and get some food.

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And like, back then, I'd say twenty five pound. It's

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not necessarily going to buy a whole week's worth of food,

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but it would have it would have been probably at

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least half the week's food, you know, it would have been.

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It's twenty five pizzas the worst case scenario, because I

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used to do pizzas for a pound back then. So

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this is probably about six seven years ago. And so

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my friend, okay, happy birthday. There you go. He had

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someone else in the room with him, and I'm literally

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just I think I might have gone to the toilet,

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and I come out and I hear the other person

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saying to my friend, how much money if you can

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get from it for it? For that voucher. So they

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were looking. I don't know my friend. I think if

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I hadn't been there, my friend might have gone for

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it as well. I don't know. I said no, but

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they basically just wanted to sell the voucher so they

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can get some cash. So they probably sold a voucher

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for like ten grid I think, or fifteen quid or whatever.

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You know. It's like.

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I just I found it unbelievable even now to I'm

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still talking about it. I think gratitude. I don't know anyway, expectation.

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It's easy to be disappointed if we expect to be disappointed,

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you know, if with that attitude, with the sound of

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banging downstairs, I love the sound of building work. I

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don't know about you. I do find a little bit distracting,

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to be honest with you. Vinny got given a bone

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yesterday who was a lamb bone from a neighbor, and

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he's had an upset stomach since eating it. I had

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taken him out to the garden three times. It's honestly,

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it's tummy and he won't eat. He won't eat any food.

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All he wants is the bone back. And I took

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the bone away from him. It had food on it,

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had to, you know, so he ate that. But he's

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really upset, honey, And now he's just rested. So hopefully

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later on I put some food out for him. But

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he's not eating it, not touching it. So I'm hoping

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he'll get this. He's telling me, you'll get back to normal.

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And I know that's not relative to what we're talking about.

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But what I did find though, this is this is

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a bit strange. And this is I think it was

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two thousand and four. I was meditating on my own

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upstairs because I worked in the shop downstairs. That's when

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I had the vibrating bum experience. And it was a

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gift shop. So I was upstairs in a Buddhist center

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in the I was in the shrine room, just meditating.

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So this would be kind of about this time of

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the year two thousand and four, twenty one years ago.

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Wow.

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And so I had this pain in my knee, just

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like normal doing the body scan. It wasn't bugging me

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as much. I kind of got used to it because

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I knew that as soon as I stood up, shook

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me legs off, shook me legs off, but you know,

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like just let me legs kind of stretch out a

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little bit. I didn't ask for help with that, but

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but I got some weird looks, I imagine. But then

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my knees would be fine after that, just you know,

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took a couple of minutes to just get back to normal.

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On this occasion, my knee, for some reason, it fascinated me.

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And it was only one knee. It was only my

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right knee that was really problematic. The left knee was

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just not really bothering me. So I'm doing the body

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scan as I always did. Sometimes I just do the

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body scan. I wouldn't do anything else. Sometimes I just

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do the mindfulness of brieving meditation and nothing else. But

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i'd always do a body scan first. So I'm doing

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the body scan and I'm focusing. I get down to

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my knee. So I'm focusing on my knee and I

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start to get curious and as a focus it's I

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kind of it's like I'm visualizing the knee because I

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see my knee enough times over the years. I've had

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to wash it a few times, you know, so I

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know what my knees look like. So I received a

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focus focused on getting distracted by this sound. I focused

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on my knee, and.

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What I was noticing is that it wasn't quite as.

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Solid like this physical sensation and this displeasure, this unpleasant

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feeling whatever you want to call it. I'm trying to,

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you know, avoid using a P, A I N word.

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And I noticed that it wasn't like what is it?

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It's a feeling. So we have feelings of physical feelings,

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we have emotions, but there was emotion connected to that feeling,

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because if there wasn't, it wouldn't bother me. Like logically,

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if there was no emotions connected to that physical feeling

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in my knee, I wouldn't even be focused on it.

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It would not affect me one little bit without the emotions.

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The physical side is just it's just physical, isn't It's

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just a feeling, just a sensation, physical sensation that can

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be interpreted in different ways. When look at a baby

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or a little toddler falls over, looks at the parent

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or the adult that they're with to find out whether

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to cry or laugh, it's that simple. It's the same

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physical sensation that they've got and they're quite able to

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feel it, but they don't know what emotion to attach

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to it yet. As an adult we've learned you know

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kind of which things to attach, which emotions to. But

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then I suppose we can relearn and change those connections

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side and maybe you know, maybe maybe turn back the

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time to getting in touch with that toddler's brain in

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that moment and thinking is I mean you can look

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down at that part of your body, or you can

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you can look at it as a toddler would look

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at it. Is it is it dangerous or not? Is

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it's a danger signal or not a danger signal, or

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is it just a feeling? And if you know the

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cause of it, and you know that it's not dangerous

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and you're fine, and you know to look after yourself,

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and you don't need that, you don't need that physical sensation.

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Like a toddlers told that when the parents smiles or laughs,

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that todder laughs and smiles and runs and maybe carries

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on plane and they might have a big old scuffer

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on the the blood skirting out. I'm talking, Wow, that's

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not funny. But I'm just saying, the kid doesn't care.

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All the kids, all the little toddler wants to know

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is are they okay? But they don't know if they're okay.

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They have to kind of get it from the adult

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or maybe their older sibling or a teacher, whoever.

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You know.

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Great, and now plane this time of year, we have

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these aerodynamic heads that like to I've had this ten years.

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They like to fly up high and then just drop

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down like that. And for some reason, I always have

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to fly just above this building. Okay, it might not

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be just above this building, but it's this my little

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airspace and I don't necessarily own it, but I like

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to think that I've invested some time into the airspace,

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this little bit of just you know, just this little

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bit of air. Perhaps I don't way have to fly

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in it. This is turned into a moaning session. So

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I realized, as I was focusing on the knee, what

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is this. I'd also been reading a book John Cabots

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in which is what was it called? I used to

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call it non non catastrophizing, something like that, And so

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he was in my into mindfulness meditation, So I was

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into like, I got very interested in chronic pain from

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a long time ago, from the early that I'd say

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about nineteen ninety nine. But I've never really had anything

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to do with myself. I got my me arthritis in

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my lower back, and I got a shoulder injury. That

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it was a shoulder injury. Now it's it was a

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problem for many yeah, for blimeing well over ten years.

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But it's not really much of a problem anymore, which

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is good. But the the thing that I noticed when

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I was focusing on my knee when I was meditating

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was it wasn't static. It wasn't really It's like, what

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was it?

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Is?

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It real. If it's real, why can't I hold it

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in my hand? Why can't I just pick it up?

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If it actually exists? I mean, I know my knee

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exists because I can pick it up. I can't. I mean, technically,

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I just can't just pick it up. You know, hasn't

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got a handle on it. But I can put my

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hand on it, I can feel it. I can get

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that physical sensation and I kind of put pressure, and

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I'm doing it now actually, And for anyone looking through

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the window, it look like I'm just fondling my knee

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whilst talking into a microphone. But then, to be fair,

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they can't really be thinking that I'm a pervert because

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they're the one looking through the window with the binocular.

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Isn't they sitting in a tree? So yeah, they had

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the weird ones.

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But I noticed that not all of it was uncomfortable.

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Not all of it was.

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Unpleasant. There was different sensations. The more I focused on

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the knee, I realized that parts of me felt fine.

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It's like part of your body feels fine. Maybe part

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of your body feels really really pleasant right now, you know,

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listening to my voice, my boring, squeaky voice, maybe it

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sets off a sense of calmness, comfort, especially if you

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listen to me regularly. Something happened. I don't quite know

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what it is, my superpower of being just tediously boring

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with all my pointless stories. Maybe I don't know. And

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it seems to have the effect of slowing down the mind,

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the thoughts, relaxing your body, and because there's a place

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I think in your mind and I can kind of

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get in touch with it if I close my eyes

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and I look up a little bit with my eyes closed,

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and there's a certain feeling that it's very kind of serene.

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It's almost like a maybe like a cloud of safety,

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or like a bubble or a room or a cave

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something where everything is left behind. You can just step

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00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:03.199
in to this or step onto that cloud, and even

474
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:07.639
the man with a hammer downstairs doesn't affect it. Things

475
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:11.360
that maybe bothered you before don't seem to matter anymore

476
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:18.840
when you're in that state of comfort and calmness, looseness.

477
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:23.880
So I noticed that I kind of got into that

478
00:40:23.960 --> 00:40:30.679
zone a bit, and I started focusing on my knee,

479
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:36.400
and I noticed I've also noticed that Vinnie's staring at me,

480
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.079
literally staring at me. He's looking at my knee. It's weird.

481
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:47.480
He's trying to catch a fly. A fly has been

482
00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:52.039
tormented him for the last two days. I don't know

483
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:53.960
if it's the same one, because I've got the window open,

484
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.599
so another one might come in to join it, perhaps

485
00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:03.559
having a party. And I started focusing on my knee,

486
00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:09.480
focusing on different areas, realizing that it wasn't money, it

487
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:15.760
was part of money, and even then it was different

488
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:23.679
parts felt differently, had different physical sensations. So what I

489
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:29.239
did is I tried. I decided to focus on the

490
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:38.960
strongest feeling, which was unpleasant, the most unpleasant feeling I

491
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:42.840
could focus on, and focusing on that, just that part

492
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.280
just I kind of had this question in my mind,

493
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:57.199
where is it? Where is it? The whole idea of

494
00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:01.280
like can I hold it in my hand or no? Well,

495
00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:06.519
where is it? Then? Known as we all do that

496
00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.880
all physical sensations are created by our brains, so we

497
00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:17.760
know that, so technically it's not coming from the knee,

498
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:23.480
it's coming from the brain, so the brain. At the time,

499
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:27.679
I didn't realize that the brain was inter interpreting that

500
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:33.480
feeling like as a kind of a danger signal, so

501
00:42:33.559 --> 00:42:37.880
therefore needed to have that physical sensation as a warning

502
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:48.320
to me, but in reality, I was just meditating thing.

503
00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:52.559
He's now farted. Now I'm not surprised because he's had

504
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:56.159
a bad stomach, but that is that is something else.

505
00:42:57.639 --> 00:43:05.679
Either he's farted or someone's spraying the fields, spraying the

506
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:13.960
crops in the local fields, because that is four. But

507
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:17.159
it seems calm, so it's good. I just wanted to

508
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:22.559
be better, feel feel a bit better inside. He seems

509
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:26.519
very relaxed now, which is nice. It will be concerned

510
00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:30.880
because he's sitting on my foot. I'm focusing on this

511
00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:36.840
part of my knee, thinking okay, so I know that

512
00:43:38.320 --> 00:43:45.199
there's no reason to have that. I know that you

513
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.039
know there's no there's no warning, there's no real reason,

514
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:57.719
there's no benefit to it logically, so I'm focusing on it.

515
00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.159
I'm thinking, okay, where is it?

516
00:43:59.199 --> 00:43:59.360
Then?

517
00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:03.599
And I was repeating that to myself, where is it?

518
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:12.280
Where is this feeling? Where is it? And something strange happened.

519
00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:17.039
It started to move. It started almost like it was

520
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:21.280
trying to hide from me, which was weird. So I

521
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:27.239
focus even more and it was moving again, still within

522
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:32.280
my knee, but kind of moving around. So I followed it,

523
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:36.920
and I kept following it, and every time I followed it,

524
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.599
it's almost like it was taking me somewhere, and I

525
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:45.199
was following it, going deeper and deeper, and I came

526
00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:53.840
to this point where it wasn't there, and my knee

527
00:44:53.880 --> 00:45:00.679
felt fine. There was no just a normal feeling in

528
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:05.840
money just felt absolutely fine, as it normally would do.

529
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:13.840
And I could not figure that out. It seemed so unusual.

530
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:23.159
Why where's it gone? I knew I didn't need it.

531
00:45:23.239 --> 00:45:30.519
You know you don't need it, But where's it gone?

532
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:34.519
Because as we know, it's obvious, isn't it if you

533
00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:41.199
know the cause and you realize that's not necessary anymore.

534
00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:50.599
I suppose it changes the way that you perceive those

535
00:45:50.679 --> 00:46:01.360
physical sensations and that expectancy. I do find it interesting, though,

536
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:08.079
the whole idea of actually we expect what's come before.

537
00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:14.119
So it's kind of strange. I could not find that

538
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:25.159
physical feeling that I was looking for, and I thought,

539
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:32.599
for a second, I've discovered. I've discovered something magical, and

540
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:34.679
I had a name. I was going to call it

541
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:42.199
fine focus therapy. And by focusing on something really magnifying

542
00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:52.639
the notice, you know, the magnifying the magnification. Okay, in

543
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:55.920
the same way is you know, if you was to

544
00:46:56.559 --> 00:47:02.320
look at anything, if you magnify enough, you realize there's

545
00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:07.960
nothing is solid. It's that the things that we think

546
00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:11.039
are solid and we touched like this desk, it's solid.

547
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.440
But if you magnify enough, you realize that it's not.

548
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.679
It's made of molecules and there's gaps between the molecules.

549
00:47:21.320 --> 00:47:24.760
Doesn't mean they can put my finger for it. But

550
00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:34.519
ultimately it isn't what we think it is, and that

551
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:42.480
physical sensation isn't what I thought it was. And once

552
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:49.159
I've realized that, it changed something in your brain where

553
00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:59.920
you start to realize that actually, instead of expecting that

554
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:07.800
old feeling when I meditate, maybe I'll have this new feeling.

555
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:15.239
And it was kind of like a ah, that's interesting.

556
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:22.519
And then I fell off my cushions because I were

557
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:27.079
like sixteen high, and that's when I hurt. That's when

558
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:35.199
I hurt my shoulder. Oh no, that's not true. I

559
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.840
hurt my shoulder on his shelf. I literally stood up

560
00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:45.280
and banged it on a shelf. It was ridiculous. That

561
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:57.039
was weird, but hey, it was something I was Oh,

562
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:03.480
it's load. Get tired, tired, tired. It's nearly twelve o'clock,

563
00:49:03.559 --> 00:49:08.920
so I'm ding my mid morning nap, I think, especially

564
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:11.480
as he's had me up half the night in and

565
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:18.559
out of the garden. He's very good. He's such a

566
00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:23.280
good boy though, really, see it waits. He's so patient,

567
00:49:23.880 --> 00:49:25.800
and you know, I wouldn't even care if he had

568
00:49:25.800 --> 00:49:29.400
an accident indoors. It's not his fault, but he won't.

569
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:33.199
He holds it in. He holds it in. He just

570
00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:41.000
won't do that. And he's just yeah, it's so good. Really.

571
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:43.920
I mean, he had a couple of accidents when I

572
00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.719
first got him, because he got so excited that he

573
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:50.599
kind of weed a little bit. And then another time

574
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.519
he did. I didn't know why he was waiting by

575
00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:56.440
it by the door, because he was doing that as

576
00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:58.920
soon as he moved in, moved, you know, because he

577
00:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.840
was waiting through his previous owner to come and get him.

578
00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:04.159
I guess, so he's waiting by the door, but I

579
00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:06.599
didn't realize he was waiting because he needed the toilet.

580
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:11.159
But once I realized that, you know, it's kind of

581
00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:22.800
about getting in sync. I suppose a little bit. Oh,

582
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:26.119
I do need to I need to have a little

583
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:30.519
lie down. So I've not really gone into like the

584
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:34.559
body scan, but I have in a sense of the

585
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:44.440
body scan led me to discover a way to focus.

586
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:48.639
It's like a different kind of focus. It's like focusing,

587
00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:58.280
but not not focusing necessarily with your thoughts, more focusing

588
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:02.800
just on how you feel. So it's kind of almost

589
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:05.679
that you take. You're moving away from how from your brain,

590
00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:13.119
from your mind to your body, and by accepting how

591
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:22.719
your body feels, all the different parts, something seems to change.

592
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:29.840
Our body scans brilliant for well, in my opinion, not

593
00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:33.559
just my opinion, but brilliant for calm in the mind,

594
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:41.840
for destressing the body and the mind, for relaxing, for

595
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:48.199
helping with you know, things like anxiety, tension, stress, and

596
00:51:48.239 --> 00:51:55.119
also mindfulness is used to help people with chronic pain

597
00:51:55.159 --> 00:52:00.960
as well. So I went I went to this thing.

598
00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:04.400
I think it was two thousand and might have been

599
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.800
two thousand and six, maybe two thousand and five, but

600
00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:10.199
I think it was two thousand and six. I went

601
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:19.519
to a It was a Buddhist meditation thing. So let

602
00:52:19.559 --> 00:52:26.159
me ever look mindfulness Buddhist. I'm trying to see what

603
00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:29.280
it's called. Because I went to it. It's a training

604
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:46.679
course Buddhist chronic pain pain meditation of course. Ah god,

605
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:54.119
what was it called? Oh? I found it being a

606
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:58.000
Buddhist approach to pain wildmind. So let's ever look because

607
00:52:58.039 --> 00:53:00.760
this is a lady that I studied with or trained with.

608
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:19.199
And wait, I can't find where E is. I'm just

609
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:24.000
trying to find right. This was first published in two

610
00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:33.159
thousand So video Mala video Maala So she founded co

611
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:40.519
director of Breath Works, offering mindfulness based strategies for living well.

612
00:53:41.639 --> 00:53:59.119
And also she did the Yeah, it was a chronic pain.

613
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:01.880
There was a name for it. I can't remember what

614
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:06.280
her name was now for the course, but I did it.

615
00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:09.119
So I did that two thousand and five, two thousand

616
00:54:09.159 --> 00:54:13.280
and six, and it was very very much based on

617
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:18.280
the body scan, very much based on mindfulness and meditation,

618
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:24.880
but not trying to control the mind, not trying to

619
00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:29.119
control the physical sensations, not trying to control the body,

620
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:38.119
but acceptance, you know, being with how you feel and

621
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:46.199
realizing that you've got the it's not it's a feeling

622
00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:55.039
and when you actually focus on how you feel as

623
00:54:55.039 --> 00:55:00.840
a whole, like all of your body, they're focusing on

624
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:05.039
just one part of your body, which because if you

625
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:08.280
give ninety percent or eighty percent or even sixty percent

626
00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:12.280
of your attention to a part of your body to

627
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:18.079
physical discomfort or mental discomfort, you're going to feel crappy.

628
00:55:18.679 --> 00:55:22.960
You know. It's just this, that's just natural. But you

629
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.239
can't focus on you can't focus seventy percent on one

630
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:30.239
part of your body and also focus on the rest

631
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:35.000
of your body. It's just you know, once you start

632
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.320
focusing on all of your body and maybe moving that

633
00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:44.239
focus around as in with a body scan, moving from

634
00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:49.119
your your eyes down to maybe your jaw and your teeth,

635
00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:55.920
your mouth, your tongue, your throat, maybe your ears, the

636
00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:59.920
back of your neck, and it's moving down your body,

637
00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.400
you know, maybe the top of your back, in the

638
00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:09.960
middle of your back, your lower back, your chest, your stomach,

639
00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:20.840
your shoulders, forearms, elbows, you know, your wrists, your hands,

640
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:29.880
your fingers, your hips. You're green. You're green, I'd say green.

641
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:33.400
You're groin, That's what I was trying to say. You're

642
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:40.159
green groin your buttocks, you know, and they just all

643
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:45.599
the way down to your feet and your toes. So yeah,

644
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:57.280
I was I found it fascinating because at the time

645
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:05.599
then flies. Not on my foot. Really, he's getting excited

646
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:16.199
about that fly. I I did have problems with my

647
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:24.039
shoulder when I went there, but that was yeah. I mean,

648
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:30.159
the shoulders should have healed at that point and calcium

649
00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:33.639
or ever had been I don't know. Basically the bones

650
00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:45.079
were rubbing on each other or something. And what I

651
00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:49.159
was gonna say, there's people slamming their doors. It's a

652
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.840
lot of noise out here today. What I'm interested is

653
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.760
with's my phone gone? I had a phone when I came.

654
00:57:58.000 --> 00:58:04.800
It's disappeared, so it's amazing. I found it really good.

655
00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:10.559
The body scan is I started doing it in my

656
00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:13.039
own time at home because you know, once a week

657
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:17.880
wasn't enough. I started doing it because I found it

658
00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:23.840
calmed your mind, calms your mind, and that's what I

659
00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:29.440
did it. That's what I needed at the time. But

660
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:33.440
then when you calm your mind, you also calm your body.

661
00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:37.559
You relax your mind, you relax your body. You relax

662
00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:41.400
your body, your relax your mind. And that's something I

663
00:58:41.440 --> 00:58:45.199
discovered quite early on when I was doing free pain

664
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:51.639
relief with people in two thousand and six. Sometimes it

665
00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:58.159
was just relaxing them and it half to the physical discomfort,

666
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:05.599
if not more, just by simply talking them through a

667
00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:13.400
body scan and relaxation without any kind of hypnotic stuff,

668
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:27.039
no suggestions, just simply relaxing cut that physical discomfort by

669
00:59:27.079 --> 00:59:34.960
at least fifty percent, and they were always surprised, and

670
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.280
there was quite often now the whole there was an

671
00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:39.679
old thing that people used to do, and I couldn't

672
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:43.440
believe it is afterwards they try and get it back.

673
00:59:44.880 --> 00:59:50.480
They'd be like, where's it gone? Why is it not

674
00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:52.880
feeling the way it did? And they'd be like trying

675
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:55.840
physically to get a feeling back that was there before

676
00:59:55.880 --> 00:59:59.440
that they didn't want. They'd literally come to me to

677
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:05.320
help reduced that unpleasant feeling. And after listening to me,

678
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.880
there was like trying to like, oh, they be moving

679
01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:12.119
their their limb or moving their neck or whatever to

680
01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.920
try and get the feeling back, Like why are you

681
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:21.960
doing that? But I guess you know when it comes

682
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:28.320
to when it comes you know, we are in the

683
01:00:28.320 --> 01:00:35.280
Western world kind of raised to be reliant, I guess

684
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.519
on medication as I am, like we all are to

685
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:47.199
a degree, and I think when it comes to these

686
01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:56.000
kinds of things, it's often the last, the last thing

687
01:00:56.760 --> 01:01:04.599
that people do. It's the final thing, you know, whether

688
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:09.960
it's hypnosis, whether it's some kind of talking thingy boring

689
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:13.360
thing that I'm doing. This is generally not the first

690
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.679
thing that people do to help to try and help

691
01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:22.840
themselves with that physical issue that was an issue before.

692
01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:31.039
Yeah, it's weird, but I'm the same I've had. I

693
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:34.880
remember years ago, I had someone say to me, I

694
01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:40.719
should try this, And as soon as they started talking, they.

695
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:43.159
Like, yeah, you should try this. It's really good.

696
01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:47.960
Worked for me if some kind of alternative therapy or

697
01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:51.639
something like that or some herbal thing, and I was.

698
01:01:51.599 --> 01:01:53.880
Saying, yeah, should try it's really good. It really helped me.

699
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:58.239
I swear, as soon as they said the words you

700
01:01:58.280 --> 01:02:01.920
should try this, my brain switched off. I stopped listening

701
01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:05.960
to them. It's almost like I was I might work

702
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:07.679
might as well. I just put my hands over my

703
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:11.000
ears and go la la la la la la la

704
01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:15.599
la la Na na na na na because I wasn't listening.

705
01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:19.360
It's the same kind of mode that I go into

706
01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.760
when I ask someone for directions. You know, if I'm

707
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:25.159
in the middle of nowhere, i'd sort of if there's

708
01:02:25.159 --> 01:02:28.519
a car park, someone in there high sorry to disturb yours.

709
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:32.880
You can tell me where the crown and whatever, you know,

710
01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:37.880
wherever I'm looking for pub or you know, going back,

711
01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:41.199
even like thirty years, like, I'll be like, can you

712
01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:43.599
tell me where this place is, whether the local bus

713
01:02:43.760 --> 01:02:47.480
station is or the train station, and then tell me.

714
01:02:48.320 --> 01:02:50.159
And as soon as I said, well, if you go

715
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:55.440
and a point, and I would literally internally be going

716
01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:59.280
blah blah lah nah nah la la la la nah

717
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:04.599
nah nah, I just wouldn't listen. But I needed that

718
01:03:04.760 --> 01:03:11.800
information and it was useful. It's useful information that can

719
01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:20.719
have a well in the moment, it's important. But I no, no, no, no,

720
01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:23.400
la no. I didn't even know I was doing it.

721
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:25.000
I don't know why I was doing it. I didn't

722
01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:28.199
know why I was doing it. And I'd walk away

723
01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:32.320
like I think they sometimes they call up and say, no,

724
01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:35.000
that way, you go in the wrong way. I said, sorry,

725
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.119
I get my luck when you point left, I just

726
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:42.199
tend to go right. And he said, I wasn't pointing left.

727
01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.159
I was pointing the head. It's not left or right,

728
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:47.800
it's straight ahead. I said, you know what I mean.

729
01:03:48.920 --> 01:03:54.679
No I don't, so, yeah, it's it's not always easy

730
01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:59.079
to reach people, as I'm not always being easy to reach.

731
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:05.480
But sometimes we've something like this a recording where you've

732
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:13.079
just got some strange English weird man just babbling on.

733
01:04:16.360 --> 01:04:20.159
Sometimes it can actually have an effect and you won't

734
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:26.119
know why. You won't really may not care why, and

735
01:04:26.280 --> 01:04:28.800
you might have been going lah lah nah nah as

736
01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:36.119
soon as I started talking. But then you may notice

737
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:40.559
an hour at the end of the recording, do you

738
01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:47.199
feel differently? Something's changed? And a lot of people will

739
01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:52.039
probably think, like, don't understand what's changed? What what's happened?

740
01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:55.519
Why do I feel different? It won't give me any credit,

741
01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:57.639
even though the fact that I'm you've been listening to

742
01:04:57.719 --> 01:05:03.000
me for an hour. My NN did that seriously, my

743
01:05:03.119 --> 01:05:07.320
own n, the most important person in my life. She

744
01:05:07.559 --> 01:05:11.920
had ostroporosis, so I went and did this. I talked

745
01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:14.559
to her for about an hour to help her to

746
01:05:15.519 --> 01:05:19.360
to relieve that physical discomfort, and it was if she

747
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:21.760
had a really quite bad. She was elderly, so my

748
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:27.800
bone's basically crumbling. So at the end of it, she

749
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:30.800
was like, oh, that feels nice. I can lift my arm.

750
01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:35.679
She can never lift her arm bove her head normally,

751
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:38.840
but she's like, I can lift my arm. That's weird, oh,

752
01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:43.280
and she said. And then first of all, she tries

753
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:45.800
to get it back, of course, like you know, like

754
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:47.559
she was trying to get the feeling back. What are

755
01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:47.920
you doing?

756
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:48.159
Then?

757
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:51.199
I don't know it just I don't understand why where's

758
01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:54.440
it gone? I'm going to look for it now, like no,

759
01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:57.840
don't look for it. And you know what she said,

760
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.280
to be in the sun. The sun must have been

761
01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:05.280
shining on my shoulders has warmed it up. That's why

762
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:09.519
it feels better. I said, Okay, then not the last

763
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:12.360
hour that I've spent sitting here in the kitchen with

764
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:18.039
you talking to you with the specific aim of relieving

765
01:06:18.239 --> 01:06:22.199
that physical sensation in your shoulder and in you in

766
01:06:22.280 --> 01:06:26.039
a kind of back area, but mainly in the shoulder.

767
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:31.239
So that had nothing to do with it. So this

768
01:06:31.400 --> 01:06:35.480
is even my nan, who probably cared more for me

769
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:39.719
than anyone ever has possibly, So even you know, I

770
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:43.000
know how it works. It's it's natural to kind of

771
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:47.119
look for it, like where is it and then to

772
01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:50.719
not kind of know why why is it gone? Where's

773
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:52.679
it gone? Why is it gone? Why is it changed?

774
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.519
But it's changed because you've decided to allow it to

775
01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:06.400
it's changed because use just by spending time listening to me.

776
01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:10.599
Even if you are internally going la la la la

777
01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:16.400
la la, Nah, you're still hearing what I'm saying. You're

778
01:07:16.440 --> 01:07:21.239
still hearing the words, and you're hearing the meaning behind

779
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:32.400
all the words, even though there's banging again downstairs. So

780
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:36.639
this wasn't necessarily a great description of the body scan.

781
01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:40.960
Thinking about it, I think I talked about myself a

782
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:45.960
bit too much, maybe, but it's okay, trust me, it's okay.

783
01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:49.800
So I'm going to go. Thank you for listening. Let

784
01:07:49.880 --> 01:07:53.199
me know how you get on. This might seem a

785
01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:57.440
bit chaotic, a bit weird, a bit strange. How do

786
01:07:57.480 --> 01:08:02.159
you feel? That is the tester. Do you feel more relaxed?

787
01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:06.559
Do you feel more comfortable than you did before? That's

788
01:08:06.599 --> 01:08:11.599
the only thing that matters, let me know, So thank

789
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:15.559
you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because

790
01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:19.800
you do deserve to be happy, and be gentle with

791
01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:29.439
yourself because you deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye.

792
01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:53.119
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in

793
01:08:53.239 --> 01:08:58.720
a way that can not just allow you to feel

794
01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:09.239
calmer now and throughout the time we spend together here,

795
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:17.079
not just relaxed at the end of the recording when

796
01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:23.760
it's finished, and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

797
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:38.840
and peace. But also I think it would be nice

798
01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:58.720
to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after

799
01:09:58.880 --> 01:10:09.439
the recording is did, so that you can still benefit

800
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:19.560
from listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,

801
01:10:21.520 --> 01:10:34.960
perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you

802
01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:39.359
find like some people do and myself as well. I

803
01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:46.680
sometimes I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,

804
01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:53.439
and I just listened to it over and over again

805
01:10:55.720 --> 01:11:08.720
every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're

806
01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:14.479
going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It wasn't hypnosis,

807
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:18.760
but it was a guided visualizations. It kind of was

808
01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:26.920
hypnosis really, and I managed to find it again and

809
01:11:27.039 --> 01:11:32.800
it still has the same effect on me. And part

810
01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:46.039
of it was the person's voice relaxed me. She just

811
01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:53.199
felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to listening to

812
01:11:53.399 --> 01:12:05.640
her in the morning and in the evening. And I

813
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:14.520
knew before even pressing the play button that as soon

814
01:12:14.560 --> 01:12:18.720
as I've done that pressed the play button. This was

815
01:12:19.119 --> 01:12:30.079
in the days of CD players press the play button.

816
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:36.279
In fact, it might have even been a tape recorder.

817
01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:45.960
I'd lie down on the bed and then even without

818
01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:59.479
necessarily listening to her words because I had them memorized. Really,

819
01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:10.000
it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,

820
01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:36.640
and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and

821
01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:41.920
I remember my mind would slow down.

822
01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:47.760
Now.

823
01:13:49.960 --> 01:13:56.600
Now, I was listening to this recording in the early

824
01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:04.520
days of learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made

825
01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:12.399
any videos or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start

826
01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:26.239
doing that till two thousand and six, I knew, I

827
01:14:26.359 --> 01:14:39.800
knew how helpful I found being able to just let go,

828
01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:48.239
to have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,

829
01:14:55.960 --> 01:15:02.720
knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if

830
01:15:04.119 --> 01:15:13.479
not more so. Each time you hear my voice, you

831
01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:14.439
may feel the same.

832
01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:21.960
Some people.

833
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:36.520
Have been listening to me for over a decade. Maybe

834
01:15:36.680 --> 01:15:42.079
not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day, but

835
01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:49.039
maybe people come back. Some people may be listen every day.

836
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:06.199
That's something that I do which you may not realize

837
01:16:08.680 --> 01:16:27.199
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,

838
01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:39.520
I also am affected by the words that I say.

839
01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:54.119
So if I set you focus on your feet. Notice

840
01:16:54.279 --> 01:17:01.439
your feet relaxing, I would before focusing on my feet,

841
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:23.760
I will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said,

842
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:31.560
focus on your hands, and maybe notice the difference between

843
01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:42.479
each hand. Perhaps notice the air in the room, the

844
01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:47.199
temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands.

845
01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:58.880
You may start to notice what almost feels like a

846
01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:06.960
very light breeze, even though there may not be any

847
01:18:07.560 --> 01:18:12.279
type of breeze at all where you are right now.

848
01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:31.199
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also

849
01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:59.720
aware of how relaxed my hands are feeling now. And

850
01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:06.840
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which

851
01:19:06.960 --> 01:19:20.079
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy

852
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:36.800
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting.

853
01:19:44.720 --> 01:19:57.279
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,

854
01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:11.279
and then I carry on talking. And it's only when

855
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:20.680
I listen back to do the editing I hear snoring

856
01:20:22.600 --> 01:20:29.880
and I think, I don't remember snoring. I remember talking.

857
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:39.920
It's snoring. Was a pig turned up. That's why I

858
01:20:40.039 --> 01:20:48.279
sound like when I snore, I get really into the

859
01:20:50.159 --> 01:21:08.359
whole experience. I don't know how you feel. How relaxed

860
01:21:08.439 --> 01:21:18.479
do you feel? In your feet, how relaxed you feel

861
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:45.359
in your hands. I have noticed more and more that

862
01:21:45.560 --> 01:22:01.720
the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the

863
01:22:01.960 --> 01:22:22.479
easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation.

864
01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:47.840
So this allows you to breathe easier without necessarily focusing

865
01:22:50.079 --> 01:23:15.640
on your breath, however, being able to notice the ease

866
01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:45.640
in which you breathe so naturally. You breathe so very

867
01:23:45.960 --> 01:24:34.640
easily and smoothly. Whenever I imagine my breathing improving, when

868
01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:49.960
I've got my eyes closed, I tend to visualize a

869
01:24:50.119 --> 01:25:04.239
beautiful field with trees and flowers mhm, producing all that

870
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:39.079
life giving oxygen. And it feels nice too, if nothing else,

871
01:25:42.359 --> 01:25:43.760
just taking.

872
01:25:43.640 --> 01:25:44.920
Some time.

873
01:25:50.560 --> 01:26:38.640
Away from everything, enjoying that feeling of peace, serenity with

874
01:26:38.920 --> 01:27:15.399
a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip by, so

875
01:27:16.640 --> 01:28:05.159
very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattacked, matched to

876
01:28:06.079 --> 01:29:03.000
any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free, noticing that

877
01:29:10.560 --> 01:29:57.039
your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really

878
01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:27.920
requires your attention, you can enjoy the physical sensations of

879
01:30:28.079 --> 01:30:41.079
allowing the stress to drip out of your body. Dripping

880
01:30:41.399 --> 01:31:05.319
out of every part of your body and being released

881
01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:50.239
from your brain. Un your mind slowly but surely. The

882
01:31:50.520 --> 01:32:27.560
muscles in your legs relax res relax so very deeply,

883
01:32:37.439 --> 01:33:08.399
relax so deeply. And the feelings, the pleasant feelings in

884
01:33:08.520 --> 01:33:33.039
your arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your body

885
01:33:36.359 --> 01:34:14.680
further and deeper and deeper. Noticin the feelings in the

886
01:34:14.840 --> 01:35:14.760
back of your neck, the feelings in your wrists, muscles,

887
01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:45.239
in the front of your body. I also feeling peaceful,

888
01:35:53.600 --> 01:36:20.800
deep there's a sense of peace spreads through your very

889
01:36:21.079 --> 01:37:10.680
cool even when you focus on your mind. Her mind

890
01:37:11.119 --> 01:38:41.119
becomes be and slowerven deeper, relaxing, so very slower. His

891
01:38:41.479 --> 01:39:38.119
stomach taste fuelling your stomach, your back. Notice, Notice how

892
01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:56.319
relaxed you now feel in the hole of your back.

893
01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:22.680
In a spy.

894
01:40:26.439 --> 01:40:31.119
From your brain all the way down the middle of

895
01:40:31.239 --> 01:40:55.399
your back, sending and receiving millions of messages every day, deepcomfort,

896
01:40:58.439 --> 01:42:15.319
increasing deeply relaxed. Him legs, spreading those signals down your

897
01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:24.159
spine or cord into air, every part of your body,

898
01:42:38.800 --> 01:43:27.119
your shins and your calf muscles, your elbows, feelings of

899
01:43:27.319 --> 01:43:44.399
peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips of your toes,

900
01:43:48.800 --> 01:44:00.479
to your eyes, your fingers, all the way you'll know

901
01:44:00.640 --> 01:45:01.720
about I'm letting go read letting God place to drifting

902
01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:37.640
mind is wandering away, happy to let go, let go completely,

903
01:45:40.079 --> 01:47:03.239
let go, Sir tranquil o Boddy, enjoy a sense listening,

904
01:47:03.439 --> 01:49:06.800
go hey, nore space joy, space, this space of peace

905
01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:35.600
and safety, s firy.

906
01:49:42.680 --> 01:51:13.880
Relaxed, muss us letting go.

907
01:51:31.960 --> 01:51:39.560
Maybe we can just focus on the different parts of

908
01:51:39.720 --> 01:52:14.079
your body, just to notice your forehead and your eyes

909
01:52:47.399 --> 01:53:33.840
Chun said, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom,

910
01:54:19.920 --> 01:56:12.479
dress dress, day, he's fall energy, paste to breeze, such ease, yeah, loose.

911
01:56:33.800 --> 01:56:45.319
You may have or may not have noticed your mind

912
01:56:46.079 --> 01:57:46.439
drifted m peaceful move ay even more deeply in the

913
01:57:46.600 --> 01:59:22.199
direction of total blissful peace, bless for peace, arrest goe

914
01:59:22.319 --> 02:01:18.399
to pace, s let him go, peace of mind forty relaxed, relaxed.

915
02:01:42.960 --> 02:02:09.760
A body feels almost invisible, so the very relaxed paceful

916
02:02:16.119 --> 02:03:25.439
so pace relax like God, and you could start to

917
02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:35.239
notice that you are feeling more relaxed, even though I've

918
02:03:35.600 --> 02:03:47.279
not purposely focused your mind upon that sense of physical

919
02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:55.399
comfort that is growing within you throughout your body and

920
02:03:55.520 --> 02:04:05.119
your mind starts to slow down, and that could be

921
02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:13.800
almost in recognition of I guess my speech not being

922
02:04:14.039 --> 02:04:31.159
particularly fast and things just generally feel calmer. Just by

923
02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:41.319
listening to my voice, you give yourself an opportunity to

924
02:04:41.479 --> 02:04:47.359
take a break from the day, take a break from

925
02:04:48.119 --> 02:04:55.359
your life as it is, and to give yourself a rest,

926
02:04:58.000 --> 02:05:05.279
giving yourself permission to take some time off and to

927
02:05:05.399 --> 02:05:11.319
allow your body to relax and allow your mind to

928
02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:22.840
slow down, which in turn releases the tension and it

929
02:05:23.039 --> 02:05:31.920
stresses that you had in your body. It's almost as

930
02:05:31.960 --> 02:05:37.800
if the parts of your body just open up, allowing

931
02:05:37.920 --> 02:05:49.800
the negativity out and at the same time replacing that

932
02:05:50.039 --> 02:05:59.640
negativity with positive heathing energy, which then fills your body

933
02:05:59.760 --> 02:06:12.319
up and your mind to also starts to appreciate those

934
02:06:12.800 --> 02:06:30.439
feelings of increasing confidence and an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing,

935
02:06:33.640 --> 02:06:42.159
an energy that spreads through your body like a wave

936
02:06:44.520 --> 02:06:56.640
of comfort. And all this comes from just allowing yourself

937
02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:04.520
a few and it's maybe half an hour, however long

938
02:07:04.640 --> 02:07:14.600
you want it to be, to just rest and allow

939
02:07:17.159 --> 02:07:27.159
your mind and your body to almost reset itself to

940
02:07:27.319 --> 02:07:43.479
the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more

941
02:07:43.600 --> 02:07:57.000
room for feelings of pleasure and happiness to move around

942
02:07:57.319 --> 02:08:05.520
your body and to your mind most as if your

943
02:08:05.680 --> 02:08:16.680
mind and your body are sinking together, almost mirroring each other,

944
02:08:17.720 --> 02:08:29.760
with that growing positivity and calmness. And it feels nice,

945
02:08:32.399 --> 02:08:38.279
really does feel nice to know that you are the

946
02:08:38.399 --> 02:08:51.800
one that has allowed yourself to feel more comfort than

947
02:08:51.920 --> 02:08:54.479
to experience.

948
02:08:56.279 --> 02:08:56.520
More.

949
02:08:57.319 --> 02:09:13.319
This deep relaxation spreading throughout your body, and as I

950
02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:21.439
focus on each part of your body, you can notice

951
02:09:21.640 --> 02:09:36.079
that that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing

952
02:09:36.199 --> 02:09:47.199
on it. It becomes even more calm and comfortable just

953
02:09:47.600 --> 02:09:57.039
by focusing. And as I move down your body, starting

954
02:09:57.680 --> 02:10:03.760
at your head, the parts that you have already focused

955
02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:13.319
on will continue to relax deeply, and those parts that

956
02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:25.119
have not yet focused on or just automatically release any

957
02:10:25.560 --> 02:10:39.800
remain intention in anticipation of even more comfort about to come. Now,

958
02:10:42.199 --> 02:10:48.359
I'm going to start by focusing on your forehead, just

959
02:10:48.560 --> 02:10:57.000
being aware of the feelings of your forehead and any

960
02:10:57.119 --> 02:11:04.600
background sounds. But mister Herbert, the pigeon can just allow

961
02:11:04.720 --> 02:11:11.840
you to feel even more relaxed. Just means you in

962
02:11:11.960 --> 02:11:20.000
the moment, this isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This

963
02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:28.039
is the world. I live in the countryside, so there's

964
02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:38.399
lots of nature sounds around. So as you focus on

965
02:11:38.520 --> 02:11:46.119
your forehead, just notice how it becomes even more relaxed.

966
02:11:49.000 --> 02:11:56.239
Focus only on my voice and that part of your body.

967
02:12:01.439 --> 02:12:09.720
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing

968
02:12:12.199 --> 02:12:21.920
how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at

969
02:12:21.960 --> 02:12:28.399
the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes

970
02:12:28.680 --> 02:12:43.079
relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,

971
02:12:43.560 --> 02:12:50.199
your tongue, your teeth, and your gums, the hole of

972
02:12:50.359 --> 02:13:05.119
your mouth relaxing, calm and loose. If you focus now

973
02:13:05.960 --> 02:13:12.800
on your jaw, not just the parts of your jaw

974
02:13:12.920 --> 02:13:17.359
near your mouth and your chin, but all the way

975
02:13:17.479 --> 02:13:23.800
up the size of your face to your ears, the

976
02:13:24.079 --> 02:13:48.560
hole of your jaw, feeling more relaxed and calm. Focusing

977
02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:57.199
on your neck, the front of your neck and your

978
02:13:57.359 --> 02:14:10.640
throat lax in, loose and calm. The sides of your neck,

979
02:14:12.760 --> 02:14:19.680
the right and left side of your neck relax and

980
02:14:21.199 --> 02:14:34.840
lace and calm. And now the back of your neck.

981
02:14:38.159 --> 02:14:48.119
Focusing on the back of your neck, letting go of

982
02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:55.239
any tension that may have been there before, and enjoying

983
02:14:55.600 --> 02:15:09.479
that sense increasing comfort and release. Then you can experience

984
02:15:10.640 --> 02:15:20.159
in the back of your neck, moving down your back

985
02:15:22.640 --> 02:15:27.319
and moving either side of your spine right from the

986
02:15:27.479 --> 02:15:32.800
top of your back all the way down to the

987
02:15:32.880 --> 02:15:50.399
bottom of your back down it's your lower back. As

988
02:15:50.439 --> 02:15:57.880
you move up and down your spine, you can feel

989
02:15:58.000 --> 02:16:05.720
the muscles either side of your spine relaxing even more.

990
02:16:13.239 --> 02:16:20.000
And as those muscles relax, that sense of comfort starts

991
02:16:20.119 --> 02:16:30.199
to spread outwards from your spine into both sides of

992
02:16:30.319 --> 02:16:37.319
your back, the top of your back, the middle en

993
02:16:37.479 --> 02:16:46.920
your lower back. And as you scan gently and slowly

994
02:16:48.159 --> 02:16:53.399
up and down your back, there's the muscles in the

995
02:16:53.559 --> 02:17:03.399
top of your back relax and become looser. The muscles

996
02:17:03.559 --> 02:17:09.159
in the middle of your back also seem to just

997
02:17:09.600 --> 02:17:24.120
almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting, And

998
02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:30.360
in your lower back there seems to be an extra

999
02:17:30.600 --> 02:17:46.719
special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips sit

1000
02:17:46.879 --> 02:17:54.959
down your lower back, into your hips, into the area

1001
02:17:55.040 --> 02:18:03.799
where your cosix are, and into your buttocks, and a wise,

1002
02:18:03.959 --> 02:18:13.600
muscles that spread bring your lower back into your hip area,

1003
02:18:16.719 --> 02:18:33.360
start to melt, start to ready let go and even

1004
02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:40.159
know where about to focus on your shoulders, your back,

1005
02:18:40.479 --> 02:18:51.399
and your spine will continue to let go, continue to

1006
02:18:51.680 --> 02:19:06.239
relax so calmly, and as you focus on your shoulders,

1007
02:19:08.000 --> 02:19:24.120
you may notice they're already feeding, really loose, They're already

1008
02:19:27.159 --> 02:19:50.719
feeding came fearing those muscles. The move from your neck

1009
02:19:52.120 --> 02:20:10.879
into your shoulders feels so soft and gentle, so smooth

1010
02:20:17.120 --> 02:20:39.600
and calm, and the feeling in your shoulders seems to

1011
02:20:40.079 --> 02:20:48.520
spread deep into your shoulders, that sense of relaxation not

1012
02:20:49.040 --> 02:21:00.079
just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing and

1013
02:21:02.840 --> 02:21:12.680
the bones, and moving all the way to underneath your arms,

1014
02:21:15.520 --> 02:21:21.479
relaxing a whole area between the tops of your shoulders

1015
02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:40.559
and underneath your arms healing. You feel so relaxed and

1016
02:21:40.840 --> 02:21:56.399
comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that deep healing message

1017
02:22:01.760 --> 02:22:13.639
into your arms. You may feel almost as if your

1018
02:22:14.000 --> 02:22:20.680
arms are not even there, because they're so relaxed.

1019
02:22:23.200 --> 02:22:23.280
So.

1020
02:22:24.840 --> 02:23:10.319
Deeply relaxed, so so calm, so loose. A feelings spreading

1021
02:23:13.120 --> 02:23:27.479
all way down your arms, two elbows, including your elbows

1022
02:23:37.639 --> 02:23:54.040
comforts spreads your way into wrists, your forearms, and your

1023
02:23:54.159 --> 02:24:20.559
wrists say so heavy. Yet the same time, sunlight and

1024
02:24:21.319 --> 02:25:23.479
gentle freak sent now on your hands, my hands, so

1025
02:25:24.840 --> 02:25:53.040
peaceful in your hands with a sense of real pace.

1026
02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:21.200
Just seems to feel so familiar. On your hands, relax deeply,

1027
02:26:30.719 --> 02:28:26.639
else your fingers things you think it taps maving your

1028
02:28:26.719 --> 02:28:56.600
attention to front. Your body so comfortable, my man, you

1029
02:28:56.959 --> 02:31:15.319
focus like muscles in your fids names relax, calf muscles,

1030
02:31:16.959 --> 02:33:42.559
just shades, compass, the feathing you faints, sir, peaceful, circom Sir,

1031
02:33:42.840 --> 02:34:28.440
peaceful circom s peaceful, sycom.

1032
02:34:31.959 --> 02:34:46.200
So peace for b sener.

1033
02:34:50.920 --> 02:34:52.719
Peace fall.

1034
02:34:56.040 --> 02:35:08.760
Cycom that deep relaxation.

1035
02:35:09.360 --> 02:35:42.840
The spread your chest storm, let you go everything. So

1036
02:35:42.920 --> 02:35:49.239
I'm gonna start counting down now from twenty down to one.

1037
02:35:55.200 --> 02:35:58.399
You can imagine in a way it's like just walking

1038
02:35:58.520 --> 02:36:04.360
down some steps in each step or twenty steps, and

1039
02:36:04.479 --> 02:36:14.840
each step represents a level of comfort. Each step represents

1040
02:36:17.440 --> 02:36:29.920
a deepening of that comfort, and the fervies you walk

1041
02:36:30.000 --> 02:36:35.719
down those steps, the deeper and more relaxed you feel.

1042
02:36:42.440 --> 02:38:30.200
So starting with number twenty, twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seven, ten,

1043
02:39:16.559 --> 02:50:19.680
sixteenhhh three fourhhhhhhh four too wellhhhh nohhhhhhh eight, sis us six.

1044
02:51:34.520 --> 02:53:05.000
Five four.

1045
02:53:01.760 --> 02:55:48.200
Sis us.

1046
02:56:32.200 --> 02:57:38.639
One, And now as you focus on your eyes, You're

1047
02:57:38.680 --> 02:57:50.479
gonna count down from ten outs one, focusing just on

1048
02:57:50.680 --> 02:58:01.600
your eyes your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your

1049
02:58:01.680 --> 02:58:10.680
eye walls themselves, a whole area that makes up your eye.

1050
02:58:21.639 --> 02:58:26.879
And as we count down from ten down to one,

1051
02:58:29.440 --> 02:58:43.360
whilst focusing on your eyes, you become twice is relaxed

1052
02:58:45.639 --> 02:58:54.760
with each number counting down that you may find.

1053
02:58:58.639 --> 02:59:01.239
The way want two is just.

1054
02:59:03.200 --> 02:59:10.360
Drift off to sleep. And if that's what you want,

1055
02:59:13.440 --> 02:59:26.399
then just allow yourself to do that. Now, focusing on

1056
02:59:26.559 --> 02:59:33.879
your eyes, I'm going to begin counting down from ten

1057
02:59:34.239 --> 03:00:50.040
down to one right now, ten nine eight.

1058
03:01:35.319 --> 03:03:47.319
Seven I.

1059
03:04:58.239 --> 03:10:32.440
Four us three swo.

1060
03:09:01.200 --> 03:09:12.479
Counting down from ten to one. Ten nine eight seven

1061
03:09:14.600 --> 03:09:23.440
six five four three.

1062
03:09:26.079 --> 03:09:29.239
Two one.

1063
03:09:36.239 --> 03:09:39.120
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1064
03:09:39.239 --> 03:09:43.120
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1065
03:09:43.440 --> 03:09:53.159
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1066
03:09:53.239 --> 03:09:57.040
little bit of pressure there, Like you're counted down from

1067
03:09:57.120 --> 03:09:59.760
ten to one. Would you expect me to do? Man,

1068
03:10:00.719 --> 03:10:04.399
expert me to STI go with floppy just because you're

1069
03:10:04.520 --> 03:10:13.879
counting down. You can try it again, but this time

1070
03:10:13.959 --> 03:10:17.799
I'll go a bit slower. This time.

1071
03:10:19.040 --> 03:10:24.000
As you focus on the whole of your body before

1072
03:10:24.079 --> 03:10:29.120
we focus on your legs, just notice.

1073
03:10:30.319 --> 03:10:43.079
How your body does start to feel more relaxed. With

1074
03:10:44.399 --> 03:11:26.840
every number that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five.

1075
03:11:37.000 --> 03:11:45.280
Four three.

1076
03:12:19.639 --> 03:12:36.920
One, and just notice how you feel, generally, how your

1077
03:12:36.959 --> 03:12:51.799
body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting down from

1078
03:12:51.920 --> 03:12:59.559
ten to one. It's that space that you have, that

1079
03:13:02.159 --> 03:13:23.079
space between being active physically or mentally to just sitting

1080
03:13:23.319 --> 03:13:28.120
or lying down, just being there, not doing anything, not

1081
03:13:28.440 --> 03:13:35.440
saying anything, or needing to think about anything. So it

1082
03:13:35.559 --> 03:13:39.120
opens up a space, you know, a bit of a space,

1083
03:13:40.079 --> 03:13:49.920
a gap. And the more I came down from ten

1084
03:13:50.000 --> 03:13:57.360
to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So there's that

1085
03:13:57.600 --> 03:14:10.200
gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a nice feeling,

1086
03:14:15.760 --> 03:14:24.479
and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally,

1087
03:14:25.200 --> 03:14:35.920
moves them away, allows you.

1088
03:14:38.639 --> 03:14:39.159
To just.

1089
03:14:42.120 --> 03:14:48.200
Slow down. So ione to count the game from ten

1090
03:14:48.280 --> 03:14:56.639
down to one, and notice that gap widening the gap.

1091
03:14:58.440 --> 03:15:02.840
And as it widens, it's all my slide. The stress

1092
03:15:03.000 --> 03:15:20.760
and attention falls into the gap. It gives you that distance,

1093
03:15:22.760 --> 03:16:26.840
that space. Now ten nine eight, seven, six, five four

1094
03:16:45.200 --> 03:17:20.719
three two one.

1095
03:17:32.239 --> 03:17:33.360
Now, how does your.

1096
03:17:35.399 --> 03:17:55.120
Body feel now? Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer?

1097
03:18:03.200 --> 03:18:31.520
Are you feeling more relaxed? As we now focus on

1098
03:18:31.600 --> 03:18:52.280
your legs, just your legs. We're just gonna start with

1099
03:18:52.680 --> 03:19:11.639
focusing on your thighs. Of course, it's not the most

1100
03:19:12.959 --> 03:19:20.280
exciting thing to be doing, because I'm sure, like most

1101
03:19:20.319 --> 03:19:23.159
of your body is not a lot going on right now.

1102
03:19:32.239 --> 03:19:38.520
Just focusing on the whole of your thighs, the tops

1103
03:19:38.559 --> 03:19:44.680
of your thighs, the sides of your thighs, the bottoms

1104
03:19:44.719 --> 03:19:49.200
of your thighs. You're outer thighs and you're inner thighs.

1105
03:19:51.440 --> 03:19:55.639
Basically the whole of your thigh that leads into your hip,

1106
03:20:00.120 --> 03:20:10.799
goes down to your knee joints. Now, this is a

1107
03:20:10.879 --> 03:20:17.440
big area. It's a very heavy area.

1108
03:20:17.959 --> 03:20:23.920
It's very strong, probably the strongest muscles in your body

1109
03:20:24.639 --> 03:20:25.520
or in your thighs.

1110
03:20:35.719 --> 03:20:43.399
But I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to

1111
03:20:43.639 --> 03:20:56.760
our thighs. Perhaps we don't and acknowledge how important our

1112
03:20:56.959 --> 03:21:17.120
thighs are to our lives, how much they actually do

1113
03:21:17.360 --> 03:21:31.159
for us all through our lives. And it may seem

1114
03:21:31.239 --> 03:21:36.319
to sound really weird, but I think that all of

1115
03:21:36.440 --> 03:21:47.239
our body parts, especially our thighs, need some TLC, a

1116
03:21:47.319 --> 03:21:57.280
bit of love shown, a bit of acknowledgement.

1117
03:21:59.719 --> 03:22:00.440
I thank you.

1118
03:22:03.559 --> 03:22:08.239
Gratitude for our thighs.

1119
03:22:08.479 --> 03:22:09.079
Do for us.

1120
03:22:15.639 --> 03:22:21.280
And I know this may sound a bit strange. Maybe

1121
03:22:21.319 --> 03:22:24.319
you think, why am I surely how should be out

1122
03:22:24.840 --> 03:22:33.280
in the garden hugging a tree or something. Wow, it's

1123
03:22:33.360 --> 03:22:36.600
hard to set a microphone up on a tree. That's

1124
03:22:36.600 --> 03:22:39.079
why I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise I wouldn't be outside

1125
03:22:39.159 --> 03:22:42.959
hugging a tree. I can't see the television for the tree.

1126
03:22:49.680 --> 03:22:53.920
If you move down to your knees gain such an

1127
03:22:54.000 --> 03:23:03.719
important part. And I think we don't necessarily I'll speak

1128
03:23:03.799 --> 03:23:11.600
for myself. I don't necessarily appreciate all that my needs

1129
03:23:11.879 --> 03:23:17.000
do for me until I have a problem with my knee.

1130
03:23:18.000 --> 03:23:22.079
It's occasionally, if I ever maybe i'll bash it or

1131
03:23:23.079 --> 03:23:28.600
it's aching for some reason. It's then that I realize

1132
03:23:29.760 --> 03:23:33.760
how much it does. You know, the benefit of being

1133
03:23:33.799 --> 03:23:41.719
able to use my legs without any kind of physical

1134
03:23:41.879 --> 03:23:50.040
discomfort is a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until

1135
03:23:51.079 --> 03:24:00.799
it's temporarily removed. You know that's comfort. But as you

1136
03:24:00.920 --> 03:24:06.120
focus on your knees, regardless of how your knees feel,

1137
03:24:09.239 --> 03:24:14.959
you can have that sense of gratitude and love to

1138
03:24:15.079 --> 03:24:27.680
your knees for all that they do for you, and

1139
03:24:27.879 --> 03:24:31.840
you can still have that attention on your thighs. Maybe

1140
03:24:32.040 --> 03:24:38.319
notice how your thighs feel, Maybe you notice that they

1141
03:24:39.200 --> 03:24:57.000
are relaxing more deeply as you focus now on the

1142
03:24:57.079 --> 03:25:02.000
bottoms of your legs, your shins, your calf muscles, the

1143
03:25:02.159 --> 03:25:10.200
bones between your knees and your feet, incorporating of course,

1144
03:25:10.319 --> 03:25:22.079
your ankles so important. You know, anyone that's had even

1145
03:25:22.520 --> 03:25:29.120
like the slightest sprain of an ankle knows how how

1146
03:25:29.399 --> 03:25:39.520
much we take our ankles for granted. And it's kind

1147
03:25:39.559 --> 03:25:45.040
of strange in a way when you think that. You know, logically,

1148
03:25:45.399 --> 03:25:48.479
our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of

1149
03:25:48.559 --> 03:25:53.239
our arms, which is okay, it doesn't I can't see

1150
03:25:53.239 --> 03:25:56.719
any problem with that because we're just picking stuff up.

1151
03:25:58.360 --> 03:26:04.520
Our ankles so much thinner than the rest of our legs,

1152
03:26:10.959 --> 03:26:15.360
and from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't

1153
03:26:15.440 --> 03:26:21.440
really make sense that all this weight would ultimately be

1154
03:26:22.520 --> 03:26:32.559
resting on your ankles then leading to your feet, that

1155
03:26:33.120 --> 03:26:42.120
thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

1156
03:26:44.280 --> 03:26:53.799
Supports us, supports our body for a lifetime, helps us

1157
03:26:54.479 --> 03:27:03.840
to balance, helps you to get around and be mobile.

1158
03:27:10.200 --> 03:27:17.959
And there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger,

1159
03:27:18.319 --> 03:27:21.639
I couldn't see the point in calf muscles didn't seem

1160
03:27:21.680 --> 03:27:26.760
to do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes,

1161
03:27:27.559 --> 03:27:31.399
then my calf muscles get some work. But of course

1162
03:27:31.479 --> 03:27:35.600
that's not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever

1163
03:27:35.680 --> 03:27:47.600
we use our legs and your shins there to protect

1164
03:27:49.600 --> 03:27:58.239
your lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a

1165
03:27:58.319 --> 03:28:10.600
protector for the bone, leading of course to your ankles

1166
03:28:13.959 --> 03:28:20.559
and your feet. But we're not going to focus on

1167
03:28:20.680 --> 03:28:22.760
your feet. We're just going to focus on the legs.

1168
03:28:24.840 --> 03:28:29.559
I realize, and now that I've mentioned your feet, you'll

1169
03:28:29.600 --> 03:28:31.680
probably focus.

1170
03:28:31.440 --> 03:28:34.840
On them anyway, So maybe I should focus on your

1171
03:28:34.879 --> 03:28:35.680
feet a little bit.

1172
03:28:39.719 --> 03:28:44.120
You can have them in your awareness the same as

1173
03:28:44.200 --> 03:28:48.559
you have your thighs in your awareness. Even though we

1174
03:28:48.680 --> 03:28:54.639
haven't been focusing on your thighs a few minutes, I've

1175
03:28:54.639 --> 03:29:05.559
been focusing on your ankles. There's still that sensation of

1176
03:29:08.760 --> 03:29:21.559
comfort in your thighs, and there's that movement of energy

1177
03:29:23.600 --> 03:29:30.639
because the thighs hold lots of different sensations. Of course,

1178
03:29:30.719 --> 03:29:35.479
there's the muscles, the big straw muscles that we have

1179
03:29:35.680 --> 03:29:49.000
in our thighs, but the skin on the outside of

1180
03:29:49.079 --> 03:29:54.000
the thighs, as in the outside of all of our

1181
03:29:54.079 --> 03:30:05.920
body can be very sensitive, sensitive to the touch, sensitive

1182
03:30:06.040 --> 03:30:20.360
to temperature, and inside your thighs the bones, there's the muscle,

1183
03:30:20.639 --> 03:30:25.079
there's the blood, vessels, the ar trees, to all this

1184
03:30:25.319 --> 03:30:34.920
stuff inside your thighs. I guess sometimes it'd be nice

1185
03:30:34.920 --> 03:30:39.239
if you could actually put your fingers inside your thighs

1186
03:30:39.879 --> 03:30:45.079
and a message, so you can message on the outside,

1187
03:30:45.239 --> 03:30:48.200
of course, but to be able to get deep into

1188
03:30:48.319 --> 03:30:53.120
the muscles, and to be able to just message inside

1189
03:30:53.200 --> 03:31:03.079
your thighs, message in the bones of your leg or

1190
03:31:03.159 --> 03:31:14.319
the veins. Just gently healing thighs and you can move

1191
03:31:14.520 --> 03:31:21.879
down message and inside your knees, just message in those bones,

1192
03:31:22.879 --> 03:31:30.239
but with healing fingertips, spreading that healing energy deep into.

1193
03:31:30.000 --> 03:31:32.760
The choice of your knees.

1194
03:31:38.200 --> 03:31:41.879
Of course, there's the back of your your need and

1195
03:31:42.000 --> 03:31:48.000
the inside crease where your need is. It's a really

1196
03:31:48.239 --> 03:31:54.120
sensitive area. It feels very nice when you stroke it.

1197
03:31:55.520 --> 03:31:58.879
That might be because it's an area that's not really

1198
03:31:59.040 --> 03:32:05.520
touched very often. It's almost like a hidden part that

1199
03:32:05.879 --> 03:32:12.760
crease in your legs. It's almost like a part that

1200
03:32:14.600 --> 03:32:25.840
has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different. Of course,

1201
03:32:25.879 --> 03:32:36.360
it's protected by your legs. So you can imagine putting

1202
03:32:37.280 --> 03:32:47.120
your fingers into that crease in your legs forward in

1203
03:32:47.239 --> 03:32:51.159
between your legs. You can just message with your fingertips.

1204
03:32:52.399 --> 03:32:58.559
Imagine your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle or

1205
03:32:58.680 --> 03:33:08.000
tissue you can cause, field the bones of your knees,

1206
03:33:09.559 --> 03:33:19.959
heading through your fingertips, and then as you go down

1207
03:33:22.840 --> 03:33:25.639
to your calf muscles, and that's the part I'd like

1208
03:33:25.719 --> 03:33:30.440
to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside

1209
03:33:31.200 --> 03:33:40.120
my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle,

1210
03:33:41.719 --> 03:33:51.639
healing every part, and then doing the same for my shins.

1211
03:33:54.840 --> 03:34:03.000
Massage in gently stroking the bones, generally stroking them, healing

1212
03:34:03.239 --> 03:34:07.360
in a loving way because they deserve to be treated.

1213
03:34:10.399 --> 03:34:14.559
There's the precious bones that they are, because our legs

1214
03:34:14.559 --> 03:34:17.920
are so precious as in all the other parts of

1215
03:34:18.000 --> 03:34:26.200
our body, the more precious of any chure on the planet.

1216
03:34:34.760 --> 03:34:42.719
When you start to think about your legs in this way,

1217
03:34:47.319 --> 03:34:50.159
it can change your perspective.

1218
03:34:52.879 --> 03:34:54.079
It might sound a bit.

1219
03:34:57.040 --> 03:35:01.319
A bit silly to start with the idea of having

1220
03:35:01.440 --> 03:35:09.120
the love for your legs, showing appreciation for your thighs,

1221
03:35:11.920 --> 03:35:16.280
wanting to be able to put your hands in your thighs,

1222
03:35:18.200 --> 03:35:24.719
the massage the muscles and the bones, and to get

1223
03:35:24.760 --> 03:35:29.920
your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension.

1224
03:35:32.799 --> 03:35:33.760
Just to show.

1225
03:35:35.399 --> 03:35:42.719
How much you care about your legs, how much you

1226
03:35:42.879 --> 03:35:51.440
care for what your legs do for you regularly, your knees,

1227
03:35:51.680 --> 03:36:04.520
your calves, your ankles, the strength of your ankles, considering

1228
03:36:04.760 --> 03:36:09.239
how thin they are compared to the rest of your legs,

1229
03:36:09.399 --> 03:36:23.040
especially your thighs. Yeah, they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely

1230
03:36:23.319 --> 03:36:35.120
amazing things. Your ankles are truly a gift because of

1231
03:36:35.200 --> 03:36:46.399
what they do for you, supporting all that weight. Regardless

1232
03:36:46.559 --> 03:36:50.559
of how what weight you are, even if you only

1233
03:36:50.600 --> 03:36:55.360
eat ate stone, there's still a lot of weight for

1234
03:36:55.520 --> 03:37:02.239
these little ankles. Now, I'm a lot heavier than eight

1235
03:37:02.319 --> 03:37:12.959
stre double down, yet my ankles support my body all

1236
03:37:13.000 --> 03:37:19.440
the time. What they do give off a sigh of

1237
03:37:19.559 --> 03:37:24.799
relief when I sit down. That's you've had my whole

1238
03:37:24.879 --> 03:37:34.000
legs thick my feet feet or sir, go my toes

1239
03:37:34.079 --> 03:38:04.079
clap so happy. Your legs really are amazing. And I

1240
03:38:04.200 --> 03:38:08.120
know there talking about talking about your legs is probably

1241
03:38:10.639 --> 03:38:15.319
possibly among the most most boring things you've ever heard

1242
03:38:15.360 --> 03:38:23.760
anyone say. Possibly you're boring or not. Everything I said

1243
03:38:23.879 --> 03:38:40.520
is true. Your legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not

1244
03:38:40.959 --> 03:38:59.360
just respect, they deserve to relax deeply. They deserve to

1245
03:38:59.520 --> 03:39:04.799
take some time out of the day to just let

1246
03:39:04.959 --> 03:39:41.399
go completely. Your legs really can relax because the legs

1247
03:39:41.719 --> 03:39:46.520
are so such a most, you know, very important part

1248
03:39:47.280 --> 03:39:51.120
of your body. When you relax your legs, the rest

1249
03:39:51.200 --> 03:40:02.040
of your body also naturally follows in that m journey

1250
03:40:02.200 --> 03:40:13.920
of comfort. I can feel it in my hips. My

1251
03:40:14.120 --> 03:40:21.440
hips feel really loose, and also my lower back as well.

1252
03:40:23.479 --> 03:40:29.200
My lower back really feels it feels stretched, even though

1253
03:40:29.239 --> 03:40:32.840
I'm just sitting in a chair and there's no stretching

1254
03:40:35.559 --> 03:40:38.760
as far as I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost

1255
03:40:38.760 --> 03:40:42.559
as if the muscles are just relaxed so much that

1256
03:40:42.680 --> 03:40:49.760
there is a natural stretch as the tension has reduced

1257
03:40:51.159 --> 03:41:09.760
a lot. And I'm now going to count down from

1258
03:41:10.399 --> 03:41:17.760
ten downs one. You can continue.

1259
03:41:18.959 --> 03:41:19.760
To fill.

1260
03:41:21.280 --> 03:41:58.000
Wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three two.

1261
03:42:02.440 --> 03:42:20.239
Why relax? So I'm just going to count down from

1262
03:42:20.399 --> 03:42:24.879
five down to one. And as a countdown, if you

1263
03:42:25.040 --> 03:42:31.920
just focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down,

1264
03:42:33.000 --> 03:42:42.120
and notice how you feel in this moment, as you

1265
03:42:42.280 --> 03:42:49.799
hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting

1266
03:42:49.879 --> 03:42:59.920
down represent you feeling calmer, not just in your body,

1267
03:43:00.200 --> 03:43:08.520
but also relaxing your mind. Just notice how you feel.

1268
03:43:09.440 --> 03:43:15.319
There's nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing

1269
03:43:15.479 --> 03:43:41.719
to think about, starting with number five, four, three.

1270
03:43:52.079 --> 03:43:58.520
Two one.

1271
03:44:07.959 --> 03:44:20.399
How as you notice the gradual letting go the tension

1272
03:44:20.639 --> 03:44:27.760
in your body, you may also begin to notice and

1273
03:44:27.920 --> 03:44:36.920
be aware of how your mind is starting to slow down.

1274
03:44:39.399 --> 03:44:45.760
This is just a natural thing that happens. It's not

1275
03:44:45.959 --> 03:44:51.159
really a special procedure. It's just natural because as your

1276
03:44:52.479 --> 03:44:58.440
body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax, and a

1277
03:44:58.559 --> 03:45:01.879
more your mind relax is the more your body relaxes.

1278
03:45:02.040 --> 03:45:12.520
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that

1279
03:45:13.799 --> 03:45:21.680
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even

1280
03:45:21.719 --> 03:45:28.680
if there's background sounds either your side online is still

1281
03:45:29.159 --> 03:45:34.440
going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't got

1282
03:45:34.479 --> 03:45:39.639
the television on, there's no music in the background, unless

1283
03:45:39.680 --> 03:45:47.120
you're listening to the recorded with music. Of course, you're

1284
03:45:47.280 --> 03:45:49.399
very likely not going to be sitting in a room

1285
03:45:49.440 --> 03:45:54.000
with other people. Of course you might be, but generally,

1286
03:45:54.159 --> 03:45:57.319
it's more ideal if you can do this on your own,

1287
03:45:59.040 --> 03:46:09.079
so no distractions, and when you stop thinking about stuff,

1288
03:46:15.680 --> 03:46:23.840
relaxation automatically rises, a sense of comfort.

1289
03:46:25.159 --> 03:46:30.520
Starts to grow, and.

1290
03:46:32.319 --> 03:46:37.559
Without trying to build it up into something fantastical or

1291
03:46:40.959 --> 03:46:49.639
something magical, this is just a natural process, something that's

1292
03:46:50.840 --> 03:46:59.879
easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know, there's

1293
03:47:00.120 --> 03:47:06.799
sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put no

1294
03:47:07.000 --> 03:47:11.559
effort into it. It's not something that you can really force.

1295
03:47:14.159 --> 03:47:23.559
It's something that happens naturally. And part of the process

1296
03:47:23.959 --> 03:47:35.159
of this recording and others is simply two allow you

1297
03:47:37.559 --> 03:47:52.840
to take advantage of this space this time, just let go,

1298
03:47:56.040 --> 03:48:04.239
to just be here, to be in cheer with how

1299
03:48:04.319 --> 03:48:17.719
you feel, yet with the intention of wanting to relax

1300
03:48:17.840 --> 03:48:29.200
deeply that maybe even to fall asleep, depending on what

1301
03:48:29.360 --> 03:48:35.520
it is that you wish for yourself in this moment.

1302
03:48:42.520 --> 03:48:51.840
As we know, relaxing is the majority of the process

1303
03:48:52.000 --> 03:48:57.159
of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep part is the

1304
03:48:57.319 --> 03:49:05.079
tiny bit at the end. The deeper relaxed you become,

1305
03:49:09.040 --> 03:49:26.719
the easier you find yourself drifting. But you can also

1306
03:49:26.879 --> 03:49:36.920
if you choose stay focused on my voice and really

1307
03:49:37.399 --> 03:50:02.159
enjoy the process, gradually relaxing each muscle.

1308
03:50:06.360 --> 03:50:07.440
In your body.

1309
03:50:12.200 --> 03:50:41.319
Effortlessly and just observing the sensation of letting go completely.

1310
03:50:47.360 --> 03:50:51.399
This time, I'm going to count from six down to one.

1311
03:50:56.559 --> 03:51:07.399
You can notice your mind calming down more with each number.

1312
03:51:08.760 --> 03:51:09.959
That you hear me.

1313
03:51:10.200 --> 03:51:58.879
Say, naturally, feeling calm and slower, peaceful, six, five.

1314
03:52:18.600 --> 03:54:20.879
Four, three, four, being aware of.

1315
03:54:23.760 --> 03:54:38.799
How your mind to slowed, rite down, sinking deeply into

1316
03:54:38.959 --> 03:54:55.559
relaxation as you focus on your mind.

1317
03:54:59.399 --> 03:54:59.760
May not.

1318
03:55:02.559 --> 03:55:10.319
There are some thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts

1319
03:55:10.520 --> 03:55:18.600
that for some reason perhaps need your attention.

1320
03:55:25.479 --> 03:55:27.040
That's what you can do is.

1321
03:55:32.440 --> 03:55:40.200
Send love to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts.

1322
03:55:44.399 --> 03:55:45.120
With love.

1323
03:55:47.000 --> 03:55:52.840
Or petals from a flower. Just sprinkle over them petals

1324
03:55:52.920 --> 03:55:59.959
feel good love towards those thoughts. To let those storks

1325
03:56:00.159 --> 03:56:04.520
slow that you're not abandon the number.

1326
03:56:05.799 --> 03:56:09.520
You just need them. You require them.

1327
03:56:12.239 --> 03:56:24.399
To just calm down, slow down, quiet down for now.

1328
03:56:32.280 --> 03:56:37.280
So as you focus on those remaining thoughts as a

1329
03:56:37.479 --> 03:56:43.520
countdown this time from seven down to one. With each number,

1330
03:56:46.559 --> 03:56:59.079
just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness, gratitude

1331
03:57:02.280 --> 03:57:11.680
over those thoughts, which will allow them to just not

1332
03:57:11.920 --> 03:57:27.399
away relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts will become

1333
03:57:27.639 --> 03:58:22.200
more and more relaxed. Starting with number seven, six, five.

1334
03:58:35.120 --> 04:00:10.680
Four, And as you.

1335
04:00:10.879 --> 04:00:36.239
Now notice how relaxed your feeling in your body, we

1336
04:00:36.399 --> 04:00:38.079
got to focus.

1337
04:00:41.559 --> 04:00:42.959
On your hands.

1338
04:00:48.440 --> 04:00:54.760
Because the more relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed

1339
04:00:54.959 --> 04:01:16.559
your body and mind. Can you focus on your hands

1340
04:01:17.479 --> 04:01:27.520
and your fingers, There's nothing needed to be done. There's

1341
04:01:27.639 --> 04:01:32.559
no clenching of fists or dance in the fingers or

1342
04:01:32.600 --> 04:01:47.000
anything like that. It's just noticing and focusing on your hands,

1343
04:01:54.040 --> 04:02:16.239
noticing thearly film because the war relaks your hands, feel

1344
04:02:19.760 --> 04:02:29.479
the calm, why your mind feels a comforts you feel

1345
04:02:31.559 --> 04:02:33.040
throughout your body.

1346
04:02:38.959 --> 04:02:42.120
Jee may.

1347
04:02:44.399 --> 04:03:13.079
Have already noticed you a wind is starting to drest.

1348
04:03:26.879 --> 04:03:41.120
Like said, just on your hands and fingers, allowing them

1349
04:03:42.319 --> 04:03:55.600
cheap experience a real deepening of that relaxation in your

1350
04:03:55.760 --> 04:03:57.639
hands and fingers.

1351
04:04:03.159 --> 04:04:26.120
More relaxed. With each number from eight down to one,

1352
04:04:31.159 --> 04:04:31.520
we can.

1353
04:04:31.479 --> 04:04:43.360
Almost feel that healing, relaxing energy spreading into your hands

1354
04:04:44.440 --> 04:05:10.799
and fingers becoming relaxing with each number going down.

1355
04:05:12.680 --> 04:05:20.520
Eight down to one to drift down.

1356
04:05:23.799 --> 04:08:10.760
To drifting again. Started with number eight seven four three

1357
04:09:30.520 --> 04:09:39.799
just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing to do,

1358
04:09:41.440 --> 04:09:55.719
nothing to say, and everything just feels calm. This is

1359
04:09:56.840 --> 04:09:58.600
your natural state of being.

1360
04:10:02.280 --> 04:10:07.639
This is how you just normally feel when you take

1361
04:10:07.719 --> 04:10:11.639
away all that other stuff.

1362
04:10:13.639 --> 04:10:14.520
That we add.

1363
04:10:16.040 --> 04:10:18.479
And thinks like stress and way.

1364
04:10:21.680 --> 04:10:22.680
Over think.

1365
04:10:25.280 --> 04:10:34.120
Some anxiety, tension, generally thinking about stuff.

1366
04:10:36.319 --> 04:10:39.479
You take that away, which is what we do.

1367
04:10:40.440 --> 04:10:40.680
We do.

1368
04:10:40.959 --> 04:10:58.280
Now you left with a real sense of disens which

1369
04:10:58.479 --> 04:11:08.319
comes to your good because ansomably, it is just a feeling,

1370
04:11:12.680 --> 04:11:21.040
a feeling of comfort, most as if you've got inside

1371
04:11:21.120 --> 04:11:33.319
yourself and you've found a special place where everything is peaceful,

1372
04:11:36.440 --> 04:11:44.079
place week in the film, relaxed and your natural sense

1373
04:11:44.159 --> 04:11:55.440
of comfort, a place we can be. Here, we can

1374
04:11:56.200 --> 04:12:02.920
accept yourself who you are, the place where you're not

1375
04:12:03.159 --> 04:12:16.079
trying to release anybody else, place where you can actually

1376
04:12:19.440 --> 04:12:24.360
not just love yourself, but in some ways more importantly,

1377
04:12:25.000 --> 04:12:41.399
you can like yourself, appreciate who do you want, a

1378
04:12:41.719 --> 04:12:56.280
sense of gratitude, see the air around you. That's also

1379
04:12:56.440 --> 04:13:05.200
a place where you can actually feel the healing energy

1380
04:13:06.280 --> 04:13:19.760
soaking into your body. Healing energy soaking into your body,

1381
04:13:24.879 --> 04:13:34.280
A healing energy spreads through your veins, traveling into each

1382
04:13:35.719 --> 04:13:46.559
every single part of your body, and you start to

1383
04:13:46.719 --> 04:13:50.680
realize that actually, a healing energy.

1384
04:13:52.799 --> 04:13:59.200
It's not just entered into your brain, it's become part

1385
04:13:59.719 --> 04:14:00.840
of your brain.

1386
04:14:05.959 --> 04:14:07.920
The spinal fluid.

1387
04:14:10.200 --> 04:14:17.760
Is now mixed with healing energy, not.

1388
04:14:18.120 --> 04:14:26.079
Just allowing you to feel so much more relaxed and

1389
04:14:26.360 --> 04:14:38.840
healthy in this moment, but also you start to realize

1390
04:14:39.079 --> 04:14:49.000
that actually, what's happening now without a healing, relaxing energy

1391
04:14:49.959 --> 04:15:01.920
spreading through your body, it's actually changing your life. It's

1392
04:15:01.959 --> 04:15:07.520
actually changing the way you're going to feel, not just now,

1393
04:15:09.319 --> 04:15:16.120
but tomorrow and the next day. As your health improves,

1394
04:15:19.760 --> 04:15:27.079
not just your physical health, but your mental health. Things

1395
04:15:27.479 --> 04:15:32.719
that used to bother you in the past, for some reason,

1396
04:15:33.920 --> 04:15:41.479
no longer have the effect that they used to because

1397
04:15:41.600 --> 04:15:43.840
something has changed.

1398
04:15:44.959 --> 04:15:46.239
Deep within you.

1399
04:15:51.319 --> 04:15:57.719
Maybe things that used to cause you to feel anger

1400
04:16:01.559 --> 04:16:11.639
no longer have that power to control you the way

1401
04:16:11.719 --> 04:16:19.719
they seem to be able to before. As you realize

1402
04:16:20.760 --> 04:16:33.159
that you're the one who decides what affects you, you're

1403
04:16:33.719 --> 04:16:42.040
the one who decides to feel relaxed and can't.

1404
04:16:43.360 --> 04:16:45.559
When you choose.

1405
04:16:48.760 --> 04:16:56.639
To enjoy noticing these natural developments.

1406
04:16:58.639 --> 04:16:59.760
A healing.

1407
04:17:01.959 --> 04:17:04.000
Continue to grow.

1408
04:17:06.520 --> 04:17:17.840
And improve your life day by day, including of course,

1409
04:17:17.959 --> 04:17:19.200
your ability.

1410
04:17:20.799 --> 04:17:25.280
To relax so much easier.

1411
04:17:29.680 --> 04:17:30.719
Then sleep in.

1412
04:17:35.280 --> 04:17:40.959
It's the most natural thing in the world to you

1413
04:17:45.479 --> 04:17:48.479
because for in, the sleep is something.

1414
04:17:48.159 --> 04:17:59.000
That you've done so many times in your life, and

1415
04:17:59.159 --> 04:18:03.879
you know that you were born, as we all were, with.

1416
04:18:04.479 --> 04:18:15.079
The ability to fall asleep naturally. We were born with

1417
04:18:15.639 --> 04:18:17.680
that ability.

1418
04:18:20.079 --> 04:18:34.319
To just drift off into a deep, healing sleep. Even

1419
04:18:34.399 --> 04:18:39.159
when we're kids, sometimes will fall asleep and we don't

1420
04:18:39.159 --> 04:18:43.520
even want to try to take the stay awake.

1421
04:18:44.879 --> 04:18:48.319
Maybe it's a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas

1422
04:18:48.559 --> 04:18:52.360
or holiday or something we look forward to. I don't

1423
04:18:52.360 --> 04:18:57.000
want to go to sleep. But the more we want

1424
04:18:57.040 --> 04:18:58.040
to stay awake.

1425
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Or we just start to drift, and the more you

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04:19:07.920 --> 04:19:14.680
fights drifting, which might stop yourself and drifting asleep, the

1427
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deepot is strongerout drifting becomes.

1428
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Because we're born not just with the need to relax

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deeply and to actually fall asleep, but it's out birthright.

1430
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It's part of our.

1431
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DNA, and sometimes as we get older in life, perhaps

1432
04:19:55.399 --> 04:20:06.319
at times we have forgotten relaxing completely.

1433
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It's not only a.

1434
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Wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also really easy.

1435
04:20:32.799 --> 04:20:40.280
It's very very easy to let go because that's all

1436
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it is.

1437
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It's just deciding to let go. And when you press

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the play button, might we call things You have given

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permission for my voice to relation.

1440
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When you pressed that play button, you have given me

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permission for my words.

1442
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To effect you in a positive, only a positive way,

1443
04:21:37.959 --> 04:21:56.959
opening up your mind to useful and healing suggestions.

1444
04:22:01.520 --> 04:22:02.200
They can have.

1445
04:22:06.719 --> 04:22:14.120
Such an amazing effect on how you feel right now,

1446
04:22:18.920 --> 04:22:28.760
as well as those changes that continue long after the

1447
04:22:28.879 --> 04:22:39.520
recording ends. Those changes within you the continue to flourish

1448
04:22:40.399 --> 04:22:54.959
and grow, transforming your life in a positive, beautiful way,

1449
04:22:58.040 --> 04:23:05.079
allowing you to move forward in your life in the

1450
04:23:05.239 --> 04:23:23.200
direction that you choose for yourself. This feeling is feeling

1451
04:23:23.520 --> 04:23:39.000
that you can experience a safety comfort. Halmness just feels

1452
04:23:39.120 --> 04:24:00.200
so nice. It's such a healthy place to be, and

1453
04:24:00.399 --> 04:24:18.200
that positivity grows within you each and every day. Moving forward,

1454
04:24:22.000 --> 04:24:32.959
you're going to find that you're more relaxed physically and

1455
04:24:33.159 --> 04:24:41.840
in your mind it's more relaxed. And it's not that

1456
04:24:41.959 --> 04:24:47.520
you're thinking slower. It's just that your mind will be

1457
04:24:47.760 --> 04:24:59.520
less locked up with unnecessary negativity because from now on,

1458
04:25:00.239 --> 04:25:10.319
your mind rejects negativity. From now you're going to start

1459
04:25:10.559 --> 04:25:26.879
noticing when negativity arises. You can just say stop, stop,

1460
04:25:29.760 --> 04:25:31.719
and that negativity.

1461
04:25:33.440 --> 04:25:36.479
Will turn around and leave your alone.

1462
04:25:44.520 --> 04:25:51.239
Stop and then negativity.

1463
04:25:53.559 --> 04:25:54.440
Would disappear.

1464
04:26:02.600 --> 04:26:09.079
And as you notice that you feel way more relaxed

1465
04:26:10.520 --> 04:26:25.879
than you've probably expected, you can now congratulate yourself because

1466
04:26:26.040 --> 04:26:32.840
you're the person that has done this. You're the one

1467
04:26:33.440 --> 04:26:38.280
that has opened your mind up to the simple facts,

1468
04:26:41.559 --> 04:26:46.040
and you can feel more relaxed in your body.

1469
04:26:46.440 --> 04:26:47.399
And in your mind.

1470
04:26:53.600 --> 04:26:55.760
You've opened your mind up to.

1471
04:26:58.079 --> 04:27:05.959
The birthright, have been out. Just fall asleep easily when

1472
04:27:06.559 --> 04:27:20.239
you choose. And that's a nice feeling, don't you think.

1473
04:27:22.799 --> 04:27:23.479
Feels nice?

1474
04:27:23.639 --> 04:27:24.040
Doesn't it.

1475
04:27:27.120 --> 04:27:29.479
To feel calm?

1476
04:27:31.159 --> 04:27:34.600
Who may hear the energy is splitting through your body

1477
04:27:35.719 --> 04:27:48.159
in your mind to spend time a special place where

1478
04:27:51.120 --> 04:27:53.840
negativity can no.

1479
04:27:54.040 --> 04:27:55.000
Longer be enter.

1480
04:28:01.440 --> 04:28:03.000
Negativity is bad.

1481
04:28:04.040 --> 04:28:04.760
It's bad.

1482
04:28:06.159 --> 04:28:12.920
It's not allowed entry. It doesn't doesn't this doesn't deserve

1483
04:28:13.040 --> 04:28:20.600
to be here, doesn't be long here. Negativity has no

1484
04:28:20.920 --> 04:28:36.520
place in your life, which makes room for more comfort.

1485
04:28:38.200 --> 04:28:43.360
Or heath, or relaxation.

1486
04:28:47.600 --> 04:28:48.159
Or peace.

1487
04:29:05.280 --> 04:29:06.559
Feels nice as that.

1488
04:29:08.440 --> 04:29:12.600
Just they go.

1489
04:29:14.520 --> 04:29:16.920
With everything.

1490
04:29:30.600 --> 04:29:34.920
I'm gonna count down now from twenty down to one.

1491
04:29:38.360 --> 04:29:55.360
He can continue to relax, cheesh career to sleep every number.

1492
04:29:57.719 --> 04:30:09.639
He me say Phil twice is relaxed, or if you

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choose PHILM twice sleeping.

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Now twenty ninety eighteen seventeen six stay fifty day.

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Four s.

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Nine eight.

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04:32:16.079 --> 04:33:19.639
Seven six five, this is your time to just take

1498
04:33:19.639 --> 04:33:34.959
a break, your time relax, to allow your mind to

1499
04:33:35.119 --> 04:33:46.919
slow down, to give yourself permission.

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04:33:51.119 --> 04:33:52.919
To take a break.

1501
04:33:57.520 --> 04:33:58.520
From everything.

1502
04:34:03.240 --> 04:34:04.959
And Julie, only.

1503
04:34:04.720 --> 04:34:07.680
Person that can make that decision.

1504
04:34:10.599 --> 04:34:11.240
You're the only.

1505
04:34:11.200 --> 04:34:27.919
Person who can actually tell you why just relax, to just.

1506
04:34:31.599 --> 04:34:42.799
Take some time off so that you.

1507
04:34:42.919 --> 04:34:46.880
Can focus on your body, getting in.

1508
04:34:47.040 --> 04:34:50.040
Touch with how you feel.

1509
04:34:51.360 --> 04:34:51.880
Physically.

1510
04:35:00.759 --> 04:35:01.200
And in the.

1511
04:35:01.319 --> 04:35:09.400
Process of this body scared way, you focus on different

1512
04:35:09.479 --> 04:35:20.840
parts of your body, those parts you focus on and observed,

1513
04:35:23.720 --> 04:35:32.080
even though you're not purpose be requesting those parts of

1514
04:35:32.159 --> 04:35:39.680
your body to relax. It's kind of expected. You expect

1515
04:35:41.040 --> 04:35:43.880
when you listen to my voice to.

1516
04:35:44.119 --> 04:35:47.119
Feel the worst.

1517
04:35:48.279 --> 04:36:01.959
Naturally, because when you're listening to me, your attention it's

1518
04:36:02.119 --> 04:36:13.080
focused on my words. And as my words got you

1519
04:36:15.560 --> 04:36:28.119
to focus on those parts of your body, the focus increases.

1520
04:36:35.279 --> 04:36:36.479
It's actually.

1521
04:36:38.959 --> 04:36:51.520
Calms your mind. Why comes now?

1522
04:36:56.680 --> 04:37:36.639
Body axis ums down, relaxes good, started to focus on

1523
04:37:36.880 --> 04:37:56.759
your body, feel the energy spreading through your body, pushing

1524
04:37:57.000 --> 04:38:21.400
out stress, attention, its buddy skin, the boys, blood, your moments,

1525
04:38:21.799 --> 04:38:25.639
such a body, of the muscles.

1526
04:38:26.720 --> 04:38:27.560
Of the fact.

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04:38:30.200 --> 04:39:03.319
Everything every body's few your brain field energy feed and

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04:39:03.680 --> 04:39:27.799
comfort relaxation, ucleases increases, no way.

1529
04:39:31.360 --> 04:39:32.279
Your mind.

1530
04:39:35.520 --> 04:39:48.400
Starts to feel perhaps speak to rousing because he spoke,

1531
04:39:53.000 --> 04:40:12.400
they starts drun if that's what's needed. So if you're

1532
04:40:12.479 --> 04:40:18.200
listening to this, you need distinct vexation.

1533
04:40:19.000 --> 04:40:26.279
That's what you get. You need this to sleep.

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Actually tease me to wind rids, that's awesome wherever excuse

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why listen play bottom podcast listening.

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To me.

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As your body, your mind in fact.

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04:41:07.080 --> 04:41:24.799
Give you want to rise to spain if that's what

1539
04:41:25.200 --> 04:41:39.720
he wants. That's why facts.

1540
04:41:43.000 --> 04:42:04.520
You stop talk like you said, a different part of

1541
04:42:04.639 --> 04:42:22.240
your body. I'm just so drink people real eyes to

1542
04:42:22.439 --> 04:42:33.599
your sto voice. I said, what a different part of

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04:42:33.680 --> 04:42:50.319
your body spars sas it's basically moldy in the sleep.

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04:42:50.520 --> 04:43:19.759
So when you drink may dry continuous speak. That's the posture.

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04:43:21.919 --> 04:43:22.319
To my.

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Time. You experienced the amount of sleep to have sless

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04:43:50.880 --> 04:44:31.799
some accidents sides to xs what you find just speaks

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04:44:32.200 --> 04:46:06.840
you sex starts two eyes, the shop shops chess English

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04:46:06.919 --> 04:47:41.200
sis experies. You mind. Now let's fight this again. As

1550
04:47:41.319 --> 04:48:00.759
people said this time before it now hips you talk

1551
04:48:04.840 --> 04:48:32.040
now it would be said fakers feels kids, I need some,

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04:48:32.360 --> 04:48:48.520
each one into my hands. She focus on quite hands

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04:48:49.479 --> 04:49:02.400
now seems just not. It's one I had stopped and

1554
04:49:02.639 --> 04:49:50.880
I haste just mixed. Now for your speass cops, good

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04:49:51.040 --> 04:50:32.000
using justice. See you you did you see if you

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04:50:32.240 --> 04:52:31.919
scolds speaking the Shi schools station schooling, I.

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I I.

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Pass us chest.

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Let's think

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Not to discussing is dest