May 6, 2025

(music) (5 hours) Placebo, Belief and Expectation | Let me bore your pain away #32 | Jason Newland | 5th May 2025

(music) (5 hours) Placebo, Belief and Expectation | Let me bore your pain away #32 | Jason Newland | 5th May 2025
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Hello, and welcome was a with we start finish making

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some strange noises. Welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's

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Jason Newland, and this is let me boil your pain away.

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Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Also,

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I only listen to this when you know the cause

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of chronic pain and you have permission from your doctor

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to listen to this. Otherwise, please gain permission from your

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doctor or your medical practitioner. This is not a replacement

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for therapy or any medical advice.

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This is just.

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Me chatting about the subject and hopefully, in the process

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helping to reduce the physical discomfort that you've been feeling.

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I'd like to say thank you to those of you

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that listen because these recordings have become I don't want

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to use the word popular because that's a bit overstated,

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but they've definitely become one of my more popular podcasts

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now and yeah, So I appreciate that because I've only

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really been doing regular, regular ones of these more recently,

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and I started doing them. When did I start doing them?

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I'm just going to go back have a quick look.

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The first one I did was eighteenth of August twenty

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twenty two, and then the tenth one I did was

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second of January twenty twenty five.

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So you see that was quite a big.

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I did five in twenty twenty two, and I think

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I did three in twoenty twenty four or three, you know. Anyway,

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so I'm now at number thirty two. Now this is

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the thirty second one, so I've done quite a few

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this year. I think he's making some weird noises. All right,

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I'm distracted, So before I go on, just let you

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know that my website has all my recordings which you

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can stream and download. There's also in the menu you've

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got podcast apps. You've got playlists and podcasts, so you

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can kind of go through lots of different things, thousands

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of recordings, and I've got a Facebook group called Jason

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Newland's Boring Group.

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I may shortly have.

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An Instagram group.

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And what else.

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Oh, I've got a YouTube channel at Jason Newland, which

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is basically every podcast I do goes onto the YouTube

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channel now, so it's another play another place you can

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listen I did. I've got rid of my SoundCloud accounts,

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which I didn't realize was going to have an effect

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on people. So I had a few people contact me.

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I've tried to get them back, but they're deleted now

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that they're gone, but you can listen to me on

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my website. You can listen on all of the major

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apps podcast apps, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, cast Box, all those

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and also on YouTube as well as directly on my website,

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and I post all the new recordings onto my Facebook group. Wow,

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that was a lot of it. So today I.

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Just had the urge. I don't really know what.

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I had the little urge to talk about placebo and belief,

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which may seem like a strange thing to talk about

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when it comes to chronic pain really, but.

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It's yeah, in.

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A sense of like if you give someone a placebo tablet,

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if I can say the word, then you know, is

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it going to have the placebo effect? Probably not, I'd

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say possibly, definitely not because it works because they don't

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they don't know it's a placebo. It's kind of yeah,

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it's logical, I suppose, really, And I thought i'd look

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into this, the placebo effect in chronic pain, just out

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of interest, really, because the placebo effect is something that

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has been and it's still used today in studies, scientific studies,

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medical studies, to find out the efficacy of maybe a

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new medication or a new treatment. And you know, they

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put people into groups give the correct medication too. They

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give medication to all three, but they don't tell the

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three groups who's in whach group. They'll all let the

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same condition. Let's say it's a new diabetic medication, or

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it's a new paying relief for someone with arthritis in

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their foot, for example.

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So you're three groups.

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One gets the new medication, one gets no medication, and

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one gets the glacibo medication. So you got three people.

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That's probably not a good example. I'm not sure if

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the one to get no medication, because that would be Blasibo.

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But so you've got ones that just have no medication

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and to see how the person feels after a week

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or two weeks however, because sometimes people with no medication

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can have effects that are positive as well. Or maybe

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I'll have a one group that has just has the

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old medication, but they won't tell the people what it is,

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so they'll get tablets. So if they listen, they've got

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two groups. I'm not explaining this very well, am I. Yeah,

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So you've got both two groups, both getting place, both

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getting tablets. I should have thought this through before I started.

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I thought about it in my head for about five minutes,

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and which shows you how much effort I go into.

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One group has the new medication, one group has the placebo.

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Now neither of them know which they're going to get,

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and then they judge about whether or not it works.

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And it's like this new.

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Drug that's supposed to be really useful, and they test it,

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and the placebo generally always get a high level as

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well high level of success. Now, I think if the

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people are told there's two groups, one of you is

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going to get the new medication, one of you group

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is going to get the placebo. I think if someone's

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told that there's a fifty percent chance that they're going

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to get a placebo, which would just be like a

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sugar pill, which has nothing. Mind you, a pill full

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of sugar would be quite nice unless you're diabetic. And

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I'm kind of on the cusp of diabetes at the moment,

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so I love sugar, but it doesn't love me that

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you see the size of my back anyway, So if

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you notice a fifty percent of the placebo, how's that

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going to affect the outcome?

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It's a weird one.

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But anyway, I kind of done a little bit of research,

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a little bit of had a little look, kind of

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a roots up exploration of how placebos can help to

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relieve chronic pain, and sort of looking into psychology, neurobiology

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and some clinical data. I'm just like looking looking through

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it and just.

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Seeing what comes up. Now.

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When I first started learning about hypnosis and learning about MLP,

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which is new a linguistic programming, placebo is mentioned a lot.

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The idea that actually.

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Telling someone that a sugar pill is just the pill

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that they get being given is a new wonder drug

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and if the person really believes it.

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Because it's about.

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Belief as well. So that's one kind of looking at

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placebo and belief. Because about belief, the placebos doesn't have

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the power. Placebo needs that energy of belief. And that's

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Finny in the background, chomping on a chewy, bony thing

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in case you're wondering what the noise is in the background.

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In a way, hypnosis is reliant upon I would say,

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I don't know. It's not reliant on belief, but there's

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the more belief you have. For example, if you listen

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to me regularly, maybe you've listened to me for years.

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Do another different recordings. Maybe you've been listening to these

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recordings for years, although there was quite a big gap

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between each recording, and you're a regular listener, or you

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become a regular listener, You're going to expect to feel

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more relaxed. You're going to expect me to come out

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with some weird things as well, which I'm going to do.

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I'm going to say some stuff that you won't normally

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hear in these kinds of recordings.

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But you're also.

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That expectation is mixed with belief because you believe what

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is expectation other than you believe something's going to happen.

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You believe that you're going to have you're going to

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feel a certain way. So to say you expect to

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feel relaxed, is you believe you're going to feel relaxed.

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You expect to.

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For the part of your body that was troubling you

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before to feel more comfortable. Is that you believe that

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you're going to feel more at ease and more peaceful

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and loose and calm in that part of your body.

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So that's kind.

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Of what expectation is, really, isn't it. It's just belief

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and so placebo and belief.

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As well.

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It's kind of the same word is seebow is expectation.

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It's expecting something to happen, something positive to happen, because

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you believe that it's going to happen. So you expect

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to feel relaxed in your body. You expect your mind

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to calm down and become slower, your thoughts slowing down

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and almost to the point where you realize they're not

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necessarily needed right now. As you focus on my voice.

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You expect that and you believe it's going to happen

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because it's happened before. Maybe you know it's like a

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I don't know what it's self fulfilling prophecy or something

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like that. I'm not sure if prophecies.

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The right word.

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That sounds way too spiritual, way to.

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Esoteric for me.

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So I think everyone knows what the word placebo means,

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but I'll mention it just in case I should see

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what the correct definition of is in the dictionary. So

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look a place A placebo effect is the portion of

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symptom change produced by the psychosocial context of treatment, expectations, conditioning,

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therapeutic ritual, rather than by any direct pharma pharmacological or

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physical action of the treatment itself. Wow, I said mouthful,

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wasn't it.

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So it's based and you think about it.

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Yeah, placebo has a lot to do with healing anyway.

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So if someone goes to have an operation hip replacement,

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for example, and they're expecting to feel relief when they

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wake up after the operation, they're expecting to feel grateful

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because they're no longer going to be having that discomfort

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that they used to have. They're expecting to.

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Be walking.

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They're going to imagine themselves walking freely again soon with

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a bit of rehabilitation, a little bit of rest, a

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little bit of exercise, physiotherapy, whatever. But their expectation is

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positive and a belief is there that it's just a

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very positive situation. And because it's such a I'm not

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going to say simple operation, it's just a very often

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done operation. Millions of them are done around the world

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every year. So it's one of those almost like just

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a stand it's almost.

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Like having your tonsils out.

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Now it's not, but you know what I mean, It's

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like the fear that would have been there fifty forty

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years ago doesn't need to be there anymore because it's

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you can literally knock on the doors in your street

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and probably find two or three people have had their

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hip replaced, hip replaced, hips replaced, if I can get

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the words out, I mean, you might only live in

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a small road, So maybe not in that road, but

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just on my little estate where I live, I've met

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three people that had their hips replaced. It's kind of

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more of a standard thing these days. So when you

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expect the recovery, when you expect to feel calm and

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to feel that relief, then your healing is going to improve.

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And that belief is technically a placebo effect because you've

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almost tort yourself into believing that during or before, during

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and after the operation you're going to be fine. And

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every stage, every step of that process leads you towards freedom,

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leads you towards where you want to be, where you're

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looking forward to being. So it's kind of powerful that

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I quite like that, you know the idea that we

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actually use that placebo effect on ourselves, and it's more

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powerful when we do it on ourselves. But it doesn't

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seem like a placebo effect.

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Because it's real.

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It's not a Litways sugar tablet. It's not a fake,

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fake medicine. No one's tricking you. No one's pulling the

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covers over your eyes that you know what I mean.

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No one's like manipulating you. You're and you're not manipulating yourself.

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You're not tricking yourself. You just believe, based on the

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evidence you have, everything's going to work out fine. And

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when you've got that belief and that expectation that when

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you wake up from the operation, you're going to actually

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feel relaxed and calm, and you'll almost feel that part

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of your body healing, like it's healing in front of you.

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You're observing it heal. So that feeling that maybe before

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you would perhaps have given it a name, you know,

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the thing would begin with P. Maybe you experienced that

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physical sensation in a different way, so it's now begins

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of h healing. I did notice years ago this is weird.

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I had a really dodgy back for my upper back,

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not my lower back. So I got our frights on

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my lower back, but my upper back was problematic, and I.

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Think there's a lot of to do is I don't

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get back. Then I wasn't getting out enough, and.

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I went to the doctors and they put me on these.

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Super strong.

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Medication to help with it, sort of muscle relaxes, and

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because said it was muscular and made my brain go weird.

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To be honest with you, I'd stop taking them because

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it was weird that they didn't really agree with me,

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and I thought they were just painkillers, but they weren't.

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They were as well but muscle like, Nah, no thanks.

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So I got this.

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Strap strap on thing where I should rephrase that, shouldn't

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I It was like a brace back brace thing, that

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is that the right word, and my friend.

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Helped me put it on. It was basically not to

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stretch but.

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Straight, and I suppose it's just straight in my back

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because I was a bit of a sloucher, which is

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weird because I'm only three foot tall.

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I should be looking up at the sky a bit

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more often. Ah, look at them things?

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What was that?

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Clouds?

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And it was weird because I didn't like it, so

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I took it off. But I started doing exercise and

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after about two weeks of doing gener to exercises, gentle

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stretches and going for regular walks, I.

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Was in the field.

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And I was walking andre this is you know, quite

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a few years back, and I could feel my lower

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now I could feel my back, but I had a

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different feeling. It was almost like it was the same feeling,

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but it felt different, if that makes any sense. I

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wasn't seeing it, I wasn't experiencing it. I wasn't thinking

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about it in the same way.

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It was.

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I said this before, and I don't know why, but

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I sometimes feel that when the part of your body

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that maybe needs to be feeling more relief, more calmness, it's.

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My lower back.

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bit of loving kindness, you know, a bit of whatever

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this is, you know, a bit of.

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A bit of calm, a bit of.

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scratchy itchy, but just a little.

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Bit almost like.

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Parts of that part of my body, parts of it

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are kind of I don't know how to explain.

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Do you know that.

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That that Sherbert you can get and you put it

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in your mouth and it starts to sparkle. I don't know,

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it's got this really is love it and it's just

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like basically pops out of your mouth. It's like it's

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really nice. And I haven't had any for since two

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thousand and four, but which is weird that I remember

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that it was Christmas. I did a lot in two

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thousand and four, but it's a whole year, isn't it.

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And it felt a little bit like that, but like

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it was coming out of my back, like a gentle sparkling.

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Definitely a feeling, but not a feeling that felt the

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same as what it was before. So you a part

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of your body don't feel the same. It feels having

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that sparkly kind of sensation, which is strange, but it's

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at the same time.

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Unusual. Maybe not might not class it's.

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Pleasurable, but it's definitely a weird sensation. Yeah, so I

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get that sometimes, and I just I noticed that back

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then when my back kind of sorted itself out. That's

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another thing I found weird. While my upper back was

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being problematic, my lower back had no problems with it.

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It's almost like I could only focus on one part

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at the time. My body would only allow me to. Really,

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it's like it could only be grumpy at one part

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of my body at the same time, couldn't be grumpy

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at more than one part.

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It's weird.

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I suppose I really tried hard. I might have been

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able to, but let's it a little bit like pleasure,

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isn't it.

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It's some times focused.

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Or when you've been doing a lot of walking, you

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take your shoes off, what do you notice? First of all,

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you notice how how much relief your feet have. Or

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if you get in from a cold day, you walk

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in and you take your coat off, and you realize

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how loose you fit, your shoulders feel because they were

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kind of a little bit restricted before. You might notice

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how light your body feels not having a big coat on.

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And when you take your parachute pack off, you realize, oh,

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it's much easier to walk about that one back. Next

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time I go to the supermarket, I'll leave it at home.

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That's what little things to like you notice. And when

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you sit down after you know you've been busy, like

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oh it's nice, where you close your eyes and all

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you can hear is the vinny doing his utmost to

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be as noisy as possible in the background. So looking

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at placebo effect for the subject that we're focused on.

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So basically, and I'm sure I don't know a lot

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of people would know about neuroplasticity, which is well neural

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plasticity which something that neuroscientists have really kind of it's

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not like a recent discovery, but I've read a couple

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of books on it, and it's fascinating and a lot

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of the technology, or a lot of the knowledge rather

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has come from people that have had medical conditions that

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affected the brain, which has then affected parts of the body,

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like with restrictions and how that there was kind of

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for a while a fixed idea that well, first of all,

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the left side of the brain operates the right side

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of the body, the right side of the brain operates

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operates the left side of the body, and there's certain

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parts of the brain operates speech and all these different things,

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which is, you know, it's true, but when someone, let's say,

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has had a stroke, the I don't really like mentioning

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medical conditions when I do these. But they realized that

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the brain can start to rewire and change, so rewire

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itself so that the parts that wouldn't normally be used

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to operate the other side of the body start doing so.

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And hence I think the term plasticity neurals plastic plastics.

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I could say the first two times, the second and third,

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the first two times and the second and the third

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I think it might be time to go to bed.

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So the neural.

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Plasticity, it can affect, it can help you. It's basically,

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your brain changes, your brain can adapt. It's not set.

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These are the old things. Really needs to say, Oh

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you can't teach old dog new tricks and always set

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in his ways and their men and all that stuff. Well, actually,

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what we're really saying, I think all them years was

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your brain is set. That's it, and that's all you got.

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And I think it's quite exciting really, the idea that

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actually we're.

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Not just set.

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Our brains are not just set in stone and that's

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all we've got.

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You know.

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It's like a house is wired and that's it, or we've.

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Got one, or a computer.

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Imagine if we were still running our laptops or our

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computers off of Windows, the first Windows, which is probably

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what the nineties. In the nineties, we couldn't do any

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of the stuff we do now, or we still are

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the same. You know, this circuitry, everything changes and it's adapted.

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And I realized that's man made. But the brain adapts.

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And even now, you know, even neuroscientists and specialists they're

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still only I only got started on the brain really,

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they still know a million times more than I'll ever know.

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But in compared to what they will know in let's

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say twenty thirty, fifty years time, they've just started, it's phenomenal.

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I mean a fifty years time, the brain and computers

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and all that stuff, it will all be mixed together anyway,

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I mean, it's already neurolink and all stuff that's already

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been done. And it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing that someone

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who ten years ago, well you could say now, is

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maybe stuck in a wheelchair, quadrily quadriplegic, can't move, can't

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do anything, and with a small procedure, they can start

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to do things, start to use a computer just with

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their thoughts, and maybe even have one of those skeletal

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robotic skeletal frames. Yeah, so many things can be done.

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It's phenomenal. Stuff like that excites me. Don't understand it all,

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but it excites me.

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But then.

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A chocolate Easter excites me, So it doesn't take a

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lot to be fair.

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Somethings that I'm gonna look, And.

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There's quite a lot of information here about placebos. The

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main thing really is placebos have shown to be effective.

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There was a story years ago.

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I don't know.

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If it's true. In fact, I might just look this up.

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Stories of.

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So stories of when placebos were effective. It's very hard

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to type and talk at the same time, which is

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weird because that's what I used to do for a living.

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I wasn't just typing talking, but I was working in

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a call center typing the whole time and talking as like. Now, well,

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so I just for I suppose a question, is hypnosis placebo?

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Now you know this is not hypnosis session, This is

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not a therapy session. This is just me talking about

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placebos and belief in conjunction with chronic pain. That's what

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this is, in the hope that it.

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Might help to.

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Be useful, because I do say I mean, I didn't

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say this time, but quite often I will try and say,

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notice how the part of your body feels at the

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beginning of the recording, or before you start listening to

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the recording zero to ten, ten being zero being the

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lowest and ten the opposite, And then notice how you feel.

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At the end.

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You know what, we could introduce something else into the

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melting pot, that is placebo and belief, superstition. I mean, ultimately,

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isn't that what superstition is it's believing something doesn't have

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to make sense, and quite often with superstitions there is

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no sense to it.

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There is.

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Quite often no logic to it, but it's about how

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it feels for that person. I remember when I was

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in sales, there was this bloke and what was his name,

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Steve stephen Oka, excuse me, I'm boiling myself.

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He yes, no is Steve. Anyway, make a bit more nice, please, Benny.

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Whatever his name was. He had this thing where he

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would go up because there'd be a board and every

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time he gets sale, would go up and write down

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the number, you know, changing number from seven to or

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you know, whatever it is now. What he used to do,

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he'd wipe it out, putting the new number, wipe it out,

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putting the new number, wipe it out, and then putting

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the new number again.

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So'd wipe it out.

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He'd wipe out the new number twice, wipe out the

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old number once. Then he wipe out the new number twice,

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and then put it in lastly. And that was his superstition.

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He was.

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One of the best sellers. It was only car insurance,

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but he was still He literally put no effort in

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selling in the sense of it is natural, and he

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just did it. He was so good, so naturally good

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of what he did, and the sales manager decided, you know,

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in their little thing is they decided, you know, what

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you tell us when you've got to sell, and we'll

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put it on the board. And he stopped selling because

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he wasn't going up there and doing himself.

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It affected him.

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He wasn't getting the sales he would normally get. Now

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some would argue, well, it's that Maybe it's that walk,

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it's that like getting up and showing everyone that he's

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got another sale. Maybe it's just that break that process,

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that procedure, that ritual. Another thing people would do to

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wind him up is that actually rub out the number,

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so you have to keep getting up and putting the

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number and wipe it out for twice before putting it

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in again. And people just to wind him up, knowing

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that it was something that it was superstitious about, and

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they'd wipe it out just to wind him up, and

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it affected his performance. So I found that quite interesting.

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I personally have been this an old trick, but I'd

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never heard of it before. And when I.

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Was for.

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Seventeen sixteen, seventeen working in a chip shop. Yeah, I

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turned sixteen, So sixteen, went around my boss's new house

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and all the stuff around there. We were drinking. I

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got drunk, and then at the end of the evening

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everyone gathered around as he showed me that I'd been

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drinking non olco Poli blager the whole time, and everyone

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laughed at me. So again, that's a placebo, isn't it.

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It was a horrible experience, and you know, it wasn't

486
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:20.280
a nice nice thing to do to someone. But I

487
00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:30.280
genuinely felt drunk until I saw that it was not alcohol.

488
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:36.880
I wonder if they had given me alcohol all night

489
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:42.360
and just showed me that I wasn't drinking, just showed

490
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.880
me like, oh, you've been drinking non alcoholic. How would

491
00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:51.679
that have affected me? Because the alcohol is already in

492
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.480
my system.

493
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:55.159
I don't know.

494
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:02.440
That's just just chucking out any air. Really, So you've

495
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:11.320
got some things here. There's the actual So look, So

496
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:12.360
here's a study.

497
00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:13.679
It was done.

498
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:20.480
It's a Houston, Texas, USA VA Medical Center nineteen ninety

499
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:27.280
five to two thousand. Orthopedic author, orthopedic orthopedic surgeon J.

500
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:34.079
Bruce Moseley recruited one hundred and eighty military veterans with

501
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:41.199
grinding the osteo arthritis. It's weird, isn't it? Just Just

502
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:45.000
the description lets you know exactly what it is in

503
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:50.840
your operating room. A third received the usual arthroscopic de bribement,

504
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:57.119
which I'm pretty sure is filing it filing it down.

505
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:04.000
Another third gotten en scopic leverage, got no idea what is,

506
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:08.000
and the final group had nothing more than three skin

507
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:14.719
insurtions while the team pretended to operate, moving instruments, splashing

508
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:23.079
the sayline and even talking through a fake procedure. So

509
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:28.760
so I said sixty, So sixty people had nothing done

510
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:34.199
other than a couple of insurtions under local anesthetic and

511
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:46.519
no treatment whatsoever. Wow. Two years later, the sham surgery

512
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.239
group could walk and climb stairs every bit as well

513
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:57.039
as those who'd had the real operations. Pain scores overlapped completely,

514
00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:05.239
and one participant later told reporters he'd run out of

515
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.320
excuses not to mow the lawn. The trial re shaped

516
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:14.360
orthopedic guidelines around the world. So there's some things that

517
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:18.599
perhaps they wouldn't be allowed to do anymore. But isn't

518
00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:19.239
it interesting?

519
00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:20.239
Don't you think that.

520
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:30.360
Believing that you can feel relaxed and believe in that

521
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:38.480
you can recover fully and believing that you can have relief,

522
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:50.400
maybe believe that you deserve relief, expect relief. So this

523
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:57.320
is a study in Lisbon, Portugal, twenty sixteen. Right, just

524
00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:03.039
let you that that last one controlled This was in

525
00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:10.440
the National Library of Medicine, and so yeah, wow, okay,

526
00:44:11.119 --> 00:44:13.079
citation Mosey, JB.

527
00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:16.679
O'Malley, K. Peterson, mink.

528
00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:26.320
Brodie, Kai, Kendall, Hollingsworth, ash Ray So controlled trial of

529
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:35.920
oustroscopic surgery for ostroforus osteo arthritis of the knee. That's

530
00:44:36.039 --> 00:44:41.239
just I just absolutely it boggles my boggles my novel

531
00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:47.079
that does. So this one is Lisbon, Portugal, twenty sixteen.

532
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:59.480
Capsules literally labeled place that's funny, literally labeled placebo, eased

533
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:05.599
stub and a low back pain. So ninety seven adults

534
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.840
whose backs are dated for an average of fourteen years

535
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.599
were split into two groups. Both kept their user treatment,

536
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:18.320
but one group also took two white pills twice a

537
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:23.280
day from a bottle that read open label placebo in

538
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.519
bold letters. It's hard to read that out about laughing

539
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:37.519
to be fair and not everybody's going to know what

540
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.079
the word placebo means. But possibly I'm just chucking it

541
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:47.159
out there. I remember, I imagine most people do.

542
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:48.159
But then.

543
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:53.000
If it was in Portugal, was it written in English

544
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.119
or was it written in Portuguese or in Spanish? So

545
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.679
you know, that's just a few questions come up in

546
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:08.159
my head. Anyway, after just three weeks, usual and worst

547
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.239
pain were down about thirty percent. A change is large

548
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:18.039
enough for conditions to call it much improved. I'd say

549
00:46:18.079 --> 00:46:20.199
down thirty percent is much improved.

550
00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:20.239
Wouldn't you.

551
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:29.840
Minimum pain felt sixteen percent while actually rose while in

552
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:37.519
the control minimum pain fell sixteen percent, but in the

553
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:45.320
other group it actually rose twenty five percent. So the

554
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:51.039
people that didn't take the placebo pills didn't. And then

555
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:55.360
there's that one that's that's the thing. Do you imagine

556
00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:57.639
if you're in two groups, Well, you run in one group,

557
00:46:57.639 --> 00:46:58.480
but there's another group.

558
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:00.239
You both.

559
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:04.000
That both groups got the same conditions. So let's say,

560
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.360
through my example, everyone in my group's got a lower

561
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:11.559
lower back aft writers like me, and all the other

562
00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:12.639
group have got it as well.

563
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:14.760
Same thing, same situation.

564
00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:22.679
We're all doing our exercises, we're all doing what we

565
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.840
need to do, and you know, to try and help it.

566
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.440
But I'm in a group and the other group are

567
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:35.800
taking these pills. I'm not allowed to take these pills,

568
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.239
and maybe I feel put out, like that's not fair.

569
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:48.599
We're going to trial study. They're the ones with the pills,

570
00:47:55.719 --> 00:48:00.719
maybe not knowing that their placebo thinking. So in a sense,

571
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:05.880
the placebo effect is working opposite. It's a negative placebo

572
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:10.599
effect on the other people watching them thinking you've got

573
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:18.719
the good pills and it's helping you, which has the

574
00:48:18.800 --> 00:48:21.599
opposite effect by making them feel worse.

575
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:28.159
Maybe just chucking that out, So no.

576
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:34.320
Deception, just a clear explanation that placebos activate mind body

577
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.639
self healing, and.

578
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:41.199
I mean they do.

579
00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:46.320
But generally, I mean placebos do activate mind body self healing,

580
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:50.079
and they do help to relieve chronic pain and to

581
00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:55.599
help someone feel more relaxed. I mean usually if the

582
00:48:55.639 --> 00:48:59.199
person don't know it's a placebo, the fact that they

583
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:07.960
know it's a plicit that is a bit, I don't know,

584
00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:14.920
very fascinating. So but then you think about it sometimes

585
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:30.079
by taking action, whether it's listening to a recording, listening

586
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:31.119
to some weirdo.

587
00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:33.679
Like me rabiting on about all kinds of.

588
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:45.239
Weird things, taking action, doing something different, thinking differently, wrapping

589
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:52.159
your mind around the idea that actually things can change,

590
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.599
and things will change, and things have changed in the past,

591
00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:59.679
they will change in the future, and this is just

592
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:03.639
an or one of those things that will change.

593
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:06.199
And when you decided.

594
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:11.920
That those things are going to change, and you start

595
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:17.199
making those decisions to do different things, such as listening

596
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:23.320
to this, you've kind of opened up that I suppose

597
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:29.039
you could call it. You've got in touch with that

598
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:35.599
neuroplasticity in your brain to affect your nervous system in

599
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:41.599
a positive way to make changes. You're kind of opening

600
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:47.360
yourself up to the idea that actually you're not stuck,

601
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.039
you're not set in any one particular way of thinking

602
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:55.119
about things. That there's millions of different ways to think

603
00:50:55.159 --> 00:51:02.519
about something and it can affect you in a real

604
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:08.840
positive way when you start to realize that actually you're

605
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.280
not limited in a way that you maybe thought you were.

606
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:18.599
You've got more flexibility, more options. I want to say

607
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:25.880
more options. I'm talking like infinite, infinite options. Because you

608
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.719
choose what you do next every second of every day.

609
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.280
You choose what you do next. You don't have to

610
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.119
do anything you don't have to say anything. Of course,

611
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:39.960
we have to briethe. There's things that we have to do.

612
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:42.239
But I'm talking about things that you do consciously.

613
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:43.440
You choose.

614
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:47.039
You know.

615
00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:48.760
Some people say, oh yah, yeah you have to go

616
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:50.639
to work, Yeah you do.

617
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.119
If you want to pay the rent and buy the

618
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.760
food and all the stuff, you don't.

619
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:56.440
Have to you choose to.

620
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:02.719
It takes that mentality out of it, that feeling sorry

621
00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:06.400
for ourselves. When you realize and when I realized that,

622
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:13.039
actually it is a choice. No one's making you listen

623
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:16.159
to this, and I keep this is my choice not

624
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:17.920
to get rid of that metal thing sticking out of

625
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:20.239
my desk, and I keep banging it when everyone's on

626
00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:24.760
a recording. I choose to both moan about it and

627
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:26.599
to do nothing about it. At the same time.

628
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:28.119
It's choice.

629
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:32.480
I could just remove it, or I could just not

630
00:52:32.599 --> 00:52:36.960
mention it. But for some reason, I don't do either

631
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:44.880
of those things. All look at this a single sayline

632
00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:53.199
and if it's saline or saaline jab squirted into the

633
00:52:53.239 --> 00:52:59.079
back of it. Yeah, so put into the back a

634
00:52:59.199 --> 00:53:11.000
single selling jab. Okay, researchers, I'm just.

635
00:53:11.000 --> 00:53:11.440
For reading us.

636
00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:14.800
Researchers gave one hundred and one chronic back pain patients

637
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:20.679
a brief mind body explanation and then an open label

638
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:30.360
subcutaneous injection of sterile saline. Pain intensity dropped for four weeks,

639
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:36.480
with secondary gains in mood and sleep. Brain scans revealed

640
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:42.960
stronger connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and brain stem

641
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:50.440
pain control nuclear or nuclei, so the very circuitry mapped

642
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:57.280
in classic deceptive placebo studies, suggesting that the brain doesn't

643
00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:02.360
care whether the treatment is real, only whether the meaning

644
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:12.199
feels real. I can't repeat that the brain doesn't care

645
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.679
whether the treatment is real, only whether the meaning feels real.

646
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:27.519
And follow up reports showed durable function durable functional improvements

647
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:36.599
at twelve months. See The only reason why placebo wasn't

648
00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:41.800
continued like put into mainstream medicine as farther. No, maybe

649
00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:46.320
it has been that we don't know about is because

650
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:56.440
of the ethics. I suppose the ethics of it. The

651
00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:59.039
idea idea of lying to people.

652
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.519
But I don't know.

653
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:08.079
Is another one. More than one thousand people with chronic

654
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:16.119
lower back pain were randomized to a traditional acupuncture b

655
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:25.320
fake acupuncture, where needles were inserted shallowly at non meridian

656
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:33.119
points or c standard medical care i e. Physiotherapy, pain, meds,

657
00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:34.760
exercise advice.

658
00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:46.400
Okay, so blind me.

659
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:49.119
So that's that's quite a few people, isn't it. So

660
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:53.639
one three groups, one with traditional acupuncture, one with fake acupuncture,

661
00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:58.559
and one would just standard medical care. After six months,

662
00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:04.599
about fifty percent are both acupuncture groups reported meaningful relief

663
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:10.360
versus twenty five percent of those getting conventional care. So

664
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:16.360
the press, they would do. The press spun the finding

665
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:23.480
it as even sham acupuncture works, but investigators highlighted a

666
00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:30.039
deeper lesson. A tactile, time intensive ritual delivered with confidence

667
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:39.360
can beat many drugs. I've had acupuncture a few times

668
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:40.800
over the years.

669
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:43.000
I'll tell you what was weird? Did you know?

670
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:46.400
I don't know if it's still the same, but I

671
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.960
wasn't allowed to give blood because I'd had acupuncture in

672
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.320
the last two years.

673
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:56.960
This is a while back. That's weird.

674
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:03.800
I think if you had a tattoo or acupuncture, you

675
00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:11.320
can't can't get blood. And I really was in to

676
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:13.360
be fair, I wanted to see what the biscuits were like.

677
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:26.079
I've heard good things, but never mind, so ritual I

678
00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:29.719
do wonder to be honest with you when because when

679
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:33.159
I had I had a shoulder injury two thousand and

680
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:39.360
five and I ended up with two steroid injections. I

681
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:44.119
do wonder what would have happened if they gave you

682
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:49.199
the first steroid injection which did the job, and they

683
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.760
told me you can have one, this will last you

684
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:55.639
for six months. You can have one every six months

685
00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:01.039
and eventually it will heal anyway, it'll just you know,

686
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:04.480
it'll begin to feel better, but you know, it'll just

687
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:09.599
do the job. And after the first one, the second one,

688
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:10.880
they gave me one which was just.

689
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:14.000
Placebo.

690
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:16.880
We don't know, it was like saline or whatever it was.

691
00:58:17.000 --> 00:58:25.440
Did they squirt in? How would that have affected? How

692
00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:31.079
would that have What would that have done? Because I

693
00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:35.360
genuinely when I went and had the second one, I

694
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:41.000
was genuinely expecting it to work because the first one

695
00:58:41.039 --> 00:58:45.960
I couldn't believe how well it worked. You know, I

696
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:49.639
went from being like a quite a higher level of

697
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:51.360
what's it two.

698
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:54.440
Practically nothing.

699
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:08.639
And I thought, Wow. I just remember thinking to myself, Wow,

700
00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:16.800
one of those wow moments. I do find it interesting

701
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:22.840
that there's there's something about that, you know, I talk

702
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:26.800
about the acupuncture something about bit of care, a bit

703
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:31.960
of kindness, a bit of attention. So with the you know,

704
00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:35.760
putting the needles on, and with acupuncture, there's also like

705
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:41.360
maybe the talking and maybe some soft music. The relaxation

706
00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:47.039
and the gentleness considering its needles is still quite a

707
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:55.079
gentle thing, and and it is I guess, quite ritualistic,

708
00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.599
especially if you have it done more than once, because

709
00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:02.760
it will be like you're going through the same process again,

710
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:09.320
even if the needles may be put in different parts.

711
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:15.280
And I always found it weird when I had Remember

712
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:23.679
I went to this a trainee acupuncturist, and I'm not

713
01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:27.639
saying he did it for like half price or twenty

714
01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:30.480
quid or something, and he was a friend of mine,

715
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.760
so I was just like, okay, cool, I didn't have

716
01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:37.320
much money. He was training, and I remember I'm walking

717
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:42.000
I see him, I said goodbye and walking down the

718
01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:42.400
street and.

719
01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:43.199
I hear him yelling.

720
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:46.599
I'm thinking, oh no, it's realized the money I gave

721
01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:51.159
him was a fake twenty. And he comes running up

722
01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:54.119
to me and I said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He said,

723
01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:56.880
what do you mean You're sorry? So I was sorry

724
01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:59.760
about the fake twenty. He said fake twenty. I said

725
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:01.000
that way you call him, isn't it.

726
01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:01.519
He said no.

727
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:04.480
I said, oh, forget about that. Then I said, well,

728
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:06.679
what is it? He said, you gave me a fake twenty.

729
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:12.880
I said, no, it's joking, he said. I said, why

730
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.519
are you calling me? He said, oh, I forgot to

731
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:18.119
take a needle out. He's still one in your head.

732
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:24.599
So I said, all right, just take it out now

733
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.559
if you want. He said no, can we go back inside?

734
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:27.880
I said why?

735
01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:32.840
He said, there's too many got too many people around watching.

736
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:35.239
He said no, there's too many needles stuck in your head.

737
01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:40.559
There's about twenty left. I just forgot about them. How

738
01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:43.599
can you forget about needles being stuck in someone's head?

739
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:48.840
And that's the truth.

740
01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:52.679
Sto Well, it's a semi true story. But he did

741
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:54.840
did leave some needles in my head.

742
01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:02.840
I'm not sure if you got them back. I did.

743
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:05.519
Oh one thing I did when I was working while

744
01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:11.800
volunteering in a drug rehab center, doing relaxation sessions with groups,

745
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:14.679
and there was.

746
01:02:14.679 --> 01:02:18.920
A lady there that worked there, and she did ear.

747
01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:26.360
Acupuncture, and she used to put these things on the

748
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:30.519
people's ears, and she did it on me once and

749
01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:34.119
it was so weird. It felt strange, like on the

750
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:40.559
ear lobes and just looking around. Everyone was like sitting

751
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:44.039
around there at ten fold things on her ears and

752
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:50.119
I was there just talking and relaxing people like in

753
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:52.519
a group setting. So maybe there's like twelve of us,

754
01:02:54.599 --> 01:02:57.239
and she was going around readjusting their ear lobes.

755
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:03.639
It was just, yeah, so real.

756
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:16.000
Which one of those do you find most fascinating out

757
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:28.880
of the studies? The fake operations? I find, you know,

758
01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:34.239
that's just that's just crazy. It seems the more you do,

759
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:44.320
the more you build it up, it's I don't know,

760
01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:47.079
it's like I don't want to say the word con

761
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.599
con job or like a big it's the long game,

762
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:57.440
you know, the bigger the magic trick is, and the

763
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.159
longer it takes, and the more you put in to

764
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:03.000
it and the more distractions.

765
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:05.039
There are, the bigger it gets.

766
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.760
And I went and saw Darren Brown in about two

767
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:12.599
thousand and five to probably two thousand and seven in

768
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:18.000
the theater, and he started his show before we even

769
01:04:18.039 --> 01:04:24.880
got into the theater. He had things posted and he

770
01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:29.880
was watching people walking into the foyer. He had sort

771
01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:36.000
of subliminal stuff in the foyer. He was basically messing

772
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:38.760
with people with what he even got to their seats,

773
01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:44.400
and he showed it at the end what he had done.

774
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:46.760
And I know for a fact he wasn't showing everything.

775
01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:50.360
You know, even the way he showed it how it's done,

776
01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:57.880
probably wasn't how it was done. I still find it

777
01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:07.599
the weird is so I think the injections of there

778
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:08.800
are sailing.

779
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:13.360
Again. That's another thing is like wow.

780
01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:23.840
To be able to believe, to really believe that something

781
01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:30.079
is going to be useful for you, it can be

782
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:40.000
useful for you. I mean, I think that's one of

783
01:05:40.039 --> 01:05:48.960
the things with the I think with medical practitioners today,

784
01:05:49.360 --> 01:05:52.159
they kind of have to be more honest than they

785
01:05:52.320 --> 01:05:52.760
used to be.

786
01:05:53.239 --> 01:05:54.719
I don't mean in.

787
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:58.480
A way like they were deceptive, but there's ways of

788
01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:04.039
being deceptive which is useful to the patient, which will

789
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:10.360
set the patient up for to have that belief and

790
01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:14.119
expectation that things are going to be really good and

791
01:06:14.960 --> 01:06:16.599
you know, that kind of side of things.

792
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:19.760
But it seems I.

793
01:06:19.719 --> 01:06:23.159
Don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that there

794
01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:25.840
seems more of a practice of going through every single

795
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:33.239
situation that could happen, and when someone's in a hospital

796
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:36.400
bed or sitting the other side of a doctor's desk.

797
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:44.480
That person is very susceptible, you know. It is in

798
01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:47.519
a sense a little bit like they say, a deer

799
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:53.320
in the headlights. It's especially in a serious sort of scenario.

800
01:06:54.280 --> 01:07:02.280
It's it's whatever the doctor says next is so so

801
01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:08.039
important and so powerful. In the same way as if

802
01:07:08.039 --> 01:07:11.920
someone as about to have an operation, what the doctor

803
01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:14.079
says to them or what the surgeon says to them

804
01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:19.960
before they get taken into the theater, it can have

805
01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:25.400
such a positive effect or opposite, depends on how they're

806
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:36.559
being talked to, what's been said to them. And then

807
01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:39.320
you know, with beliefs, what do we say to ourselves?

808
01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:48.280
What's self limiting? Things do you say to yourself? I

809
01:07:48.320 --> 01:07:51.599
mean that get in the way of you feeling more

810
01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:59.280
comfort or relaxed, because when you're listening to me babbling on,

811
01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:06.400
you're not thinking in your mind with that same self

812
01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:16.840
limiting self talk, because it's not that my voice has

813
01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:19.760
taken over and everything, but it's probably what you're more

814
01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:24.199
focusing on should drifting, And when you drift, you're going

815
01:08:24.239 --> 01:08:31.399
to be absorbing any positive suggestions or ideas rather than suggestions.

816
01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:34.920
So I'm not giving any suggestions, I'm just talking, but

817
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:39.359
any ideas that you wrap your mind around that can

818
01:08:39.399 --> 01:09:02.399
be useful for you, and you really can notice, you

819
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:14.680
can notice how you feel different, because belief is not

820
01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:24.960
mere wish for thinking. It's actually a signal that recruits

821
01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:31.880
the parts of your body, your prefrontal, limbic whatever, and

822
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:40.880
mobilizes parts of your brain and your you know, all

823
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:44.720
that stuff that experts know about and rewrites the brain's

824
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:51.720
predictions about pain. Because if you hold the knowledge that

825
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.960
actually what you think affects your brain affects your mind,

826
01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:57.880
and that affects your body.

827
01:09:58.439 --> 01:09:59.399
And when you remember that.

828
01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:05.119
You're brain doesn't care if it's real or not. I

829
01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:11.920
found that very powerful that sentence. Your brain doesn't care,

830
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:26.600
it doesn't care. And there's something about that that sticks

831
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:36.439
in my head is it's not bothered. Because Lacebo research

832
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:39.439
doesn't say that pains all in the mind. It shows

833
01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:46.800
that the mind is part of the body's pain control circuitry.

834
01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:53.319
So by consciously shaping expectations and ritual or our beliefs

835
01:10:55.880 --> 01:11:00.199
instead of just leaving up to chance, by consciously folkscus

836
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:06.560
on it, we invite the brain's own pharmacy to join

837
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:15.479
the team has no side effects, no withdrawal, just that

838
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:20.439
can be like a quiet ally a friend working in

839
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:26.560
the background doing what it needs to do. I mean

840
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:28.479
in a way, we've got that anyway, in our brain,

841
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:33.279
all the things that are automatic, let me think about it,

842
01:11:34.319 --> 01:11:38.079
most of our body pretty much everything is automatic.

843
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:44.640
Within the body.

844
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:48.800
You can sit there or lie down and everything works

845
01:11:51.359 --> 01:12:18.039
on its own. So you see, I think it's interesting expectancy.

846
01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:22.960
And there's a few things you can do. You can

847
01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:27.840
do things like ritualized self care, so that's a regular,

848
01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:37.319
meaningful actions created and to basically make you feel better,

849
01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:43.880
so that it's no different in some ways to you know,

850
01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:46.039
if you clean, you brush your teeth, if you do

851
01:12:46.199 --> 01:12:51.000
certain things in a certain order, and it feels nice

852
01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:54.000
to do it like that, and you get used to

853
01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:57.640
doing like that, and you expect your mouth to feel

854
01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:03.800
clean and fresh. Once you brush your teeth, you expect it.

855
01:13:07.880 --> 01:13:08.560
And there's been.

856
01:13:08.439 --> 01:13:12.199
Times when I've been distracted and I've gone to the door,

857
01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:14.079
you know, someone's knocked on the doors. I've just gone

858
01:13:14.119 --> 01:13:21.800
in the bathroom and I go to bed and I'm thinking, oh,

859
01:13:22.199 --> 01:13:24.520
I thought i'd clean my teeth because my teeth it

860
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:28.960
maybe I've just got just amazingly fresh breath, but oka,

861
01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:34.600
but it was just maybe it saw the mints that

862
01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:41.359
I eat when I'm in sleep. But sometimes expecting. There's

863
01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:44.359
been times when I've It's not very often if you

864
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.159
look at my belly, but it's times when I've forgotten

865
01:13:46.199 --> 01:13:49.600
to eat, Like I've just been so busy doing something

866
01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:52.319
and I thought I'd had my meal and I hadn't,

867
01:13:53.920 --> 01:13:57.680
but I didn't miss it because I kind of just

868
01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:05.880
expected to have had it, and because it's almost ritualistic,

869
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:09.359
because there's the same kind of thing that I would

870
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:14.279
do every day back then that not a lot of

871
01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:21.800
thought goes into it, but you expect, I mean a

872
01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:25.199
bit like in sales as well. Those people that expect

873
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:34.880
to do well do well. You know those people in sports,

874
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:43.399
they might have a special coin or a special ritual

875
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:47.319
they do before they get into the ring or before

876
01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:52.119
they go on to the football pitch, something that means

877
01:14:52.159 --> 01:14:55.520
something to them, has nothing.

878
01:14:55.199 --> 01:15:00.439
To do with what they're doing, not really m hm.

879
01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:09.159
But has a huge effect on their brain believes that

880
01:15:09.279 --> 01:15:13.359
it's helping. Then he's then he's trying to catch a fly.

881
01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:23.520
But your brain believes that those rituals are helping. You know,

882
01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:26.159
it doesn't matter if it is or not, because your

883
01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:34.439
brain believes it. So therefore it is. If you believe

884
01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:48.000
that rubbing rubbing your knees has an effect on your confidence,

885
01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:55.439
then it will. Rubbing your knees will have an effect

886
01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:56.279
on your confidence.

887
01:15:59.600 --> 01:15:59.920
M Hm.

888
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:04.840
It's a weird one, isn't it.

889
01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:15.439
Really, You've got the therapeutic thing as well. So empathy

890
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:20.800
releases endogenous opioids and oxytocin according to this.

891
01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:21.960
So.

892
01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:30.680
Really choose clinicians who take time and validate your experience.

893
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:39.560
So when you're seen a physician or therapy person, find

894
01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:41.760
someone that's going to take their time. It's going to

895
01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:46.239
be gentle because that can really have an effect, a

896
01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:52.399
positive effect. And it's a practical way of kind of

897
01:16:52.439 --> 01:17:00.359
tapping into the placebo science because ultimately you could you

898
01:17:00.479 --> 01:17:02.840
having someone It may if someone's going to give you

899
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:06.000
an injection into your back, and so let's say someone

900
01:17:06.279 --> 01:17:08.439
had a doctor you can to inject me in my

901
01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:13.880
back with something that's going to help with the arthriters.

902
01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:22.000
It shouldn't really make any difference if it's someone that's

903
01:17:22.000 --> 01:17:25.000
completely cold to me, just you bend over like no,

904
01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.960
send me back okay and just like just do the back,

905
01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:32.960
or someone that's being gentle and kind and takes a

906
01:17:33.000 --> 01:17:40.039
little bit of time asks me how I am. Make

907
01:17:40.119 --> 01:17:43.039
sure that I'm okay with the procedure, and I understand

908
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:52.079
that I'm going to feel better afterwards, and as opposed

909
01:17:52.159 --> 01:17:58.439
to someone just saying come on, pretty shirt up and

910
01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:03.640
just sticking thing in and that's it done, goodbye.

911
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:04.640
Next.

912
01:18:08.760 --> 01:18:12.039
I had a doctor once and I joined the surgery

913
01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:14.960
and I've just moved to a different town. It's two

914
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:22.479
thousand and ten, No, two thousand and seven, and it's

915
01:18:22.600 --> 01:18:25.800
really a bit aggressive. Not like it wasn't punching me

916
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:29.079
or anything, but it's like it's like calling me out.

917
01:18:29.039 --> 01:18:31.079
Come on, let's say a fight. This fight.

918
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:35.159
No, it wasn't like that. But he said, what medication

919
01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:38.800
you want to? Said, I don't know, you have to

920
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:43.039
and he kept going into this big, big lecture about

921
01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:45.880
he all of his patients have to know exactly what

922
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:53.000
medication AM on and like, you know what, you know,

923
01:18:53.319 --> 01:19:00.640
it's fairly new medication. And I didn't know what it's called.

924
01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:02.560
I didn't know what the I knew it was for.

925
01:19:03.079 --> 01:19:05.439
I didn't know what the because some of the names

926
01:19:05.439 --> 01:19:09.800
and medications long in it like is it based on Latin?

927
01:19:09.880 --> 01:19:14.680
I think it's like ridiculous. Some of the names Petrocholean,

928
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:15.920
shalumbly moment.

929
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:21.079
Like no, you must know what like not.

930
01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:26.439
I didn't like him after that. I'm sure he was

931
01:19:26.439 --> 01:19:28.800
a really good doctor, but it was just a little bit.

932
01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:33.159
And then I saw another doctor when he wasn't there.

933
01:19:33.319 --> 01:19:36.840
I was stuck with him, but I didn't have to

934
01:19:36.840 --> 01:19:41.159
see him, luckily. But then I see another doctor who

935
01:19:41.279 --> 01:19:44.880
was there who he wasn't there that day, so I

936
01:19:44.920 --> 01:19:49.479
was lucky. I saw a different doctor and she was lovely,

937
01:19:53.960 --> 01:20:00.159
and she looked at my phone and said oh, and

938
01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:02.880
she looked and took a bit of time, so well,

939
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:05.680
I think we need to refer you. And this is

940
01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:10.239
for a different thing to my back. And she really

941
01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:12.680
sort of set the ball rolling for getting me some

942
01:20:12.800 --> 01:20:15.279
help and to be taken.

943
01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:22.079
I don't know that seriously. We've just been taken.

944
01:20:23.239 --> 01:20:35.760
Carefully, to be treated gently with respect. And I suppose

945
01:20:35.800 --> 01:20:43.000
in a way it's useful if we can aim to

946
01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:59.680
do that ourselves, treating ourselves with respect. I also says

947
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:07.319
on here, Yeah, listening to audio content can also in

948
01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:15.560
itself function as a therapeutic ritual, the primes listeners, expectancy

949
01:21:16.159 --> 01:21:35.319
of relief. There's a lot of words there. I still

950
01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:43.640
find that interesting, just the old idea of the brain.

951
01:21:47.560 --> 01:21:55.039
The brain doesn't care if you tell. If you tell

952
01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:59.359
the brain, if you tell yourself you're going to feel relaxed,

953
01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:05.920
you're gonna feel calm, then I guess that's what's going

954
01:22:05.960 --> 01:22:17.920
to happen. You tell yourself that you're not going to

955
01:22:18.039 --> 01:22:20.960
notice Finny jumping up and down trying to catch that fly.

956
01:22:22.880 --> 01:22:23.760
He loves the fly.

957
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:28.960
That's his favorite thing. He loves to fly more than

958
01:22:29.039 --> 01:22:33.960
any toy. And he can't catch it. He's never pretty well.

959
01:22:34.000 --> 01:22:37.000
He might do one day, but you know, the fly

960
01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:38.600
can but I can fly.

961
01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:39.039
Caren't it?

962
01:22:41.920 --> 01:22:44.680
And he can't quite reach. He's only tiny.

963
01:22:46.000 --> 01:22:49.039
An, You're tiny, little sausage.

964
01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:51.840
You. Oh, I said the word sausage.

965
01:22:52.279 --> 01:22:54.439
You're tiny, little doggie.

966
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:56.000
You're tiny, little doggie.

967
01:22:57.960 --> 01:22:59.520
If I say it.

968
01:22:59.520 --> 01:23:02.680
Stops if I say that word s.

969
01:23:04.840 --> 01:23:11.399
You know, and with udge speaking fifth sauce.

970
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:15.119
Oh no, he's staring at I haven't got any to

971
01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:15.640
give him.

972
01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:18.399
Don't stare at me like that.

973
01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:21.119
I don't have any.

974
01:23:21.239 --> 01:23:22.479
There's favorite things.

975
01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:26.399
My neighbor opposite, he gets some started packet from the

976
01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:27.239
petrol station.

977
01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:32.199
No, only like a pound. He loves them. They're like

978
01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:33.279
those really.

979
01:23:36.199 --> 01:23:38.479
Dead I don't know what they are and more like rubbery.

980
01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:45.279
Yeah I don't. I wouldn't eat it myself, but he

981
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:53.279
loves them. Right, He's distracted by the fly again, So

982
01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:55.800
I'm going to go. So I hope this has been

983
01:23:57.079 --> 01:24:09.640
mildly mildly something. I don't know what it's something, So

984
01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:16.319
I'm going to go. I'm not sure how focused this

985
01:24:16.359 --> 01:24:17.039
has been.

986
01:24:19.840 --> 01:24:22.640
To be honest with you, I don't know.

987
01:24:25.199 --> 01:24:32.880
But you know it's just me talking. So thank you

988
01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:36.319
for listening. Let me know how you get on, and

989
01:24:36.439 --> 01:24:39.479
remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve

990
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:46.199
to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve

991
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:48.319
to feel safe.

992
01:24:49.039 --> 01:24:54.359
Lots of love. Bye.

993
01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:15.000
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in

994
01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:20.600
a way that can not just allow you to feel

995
01:25:21.960 --> 01:25:31.199
calmer now and throughout the time we spend together here,

996
01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:38.920
not just relaxed at the end of the recording when

997
01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:45.600
it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

998
01:25:45.760 --> 01:26:00.680
and peace, but also I think it would be nice

999
01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:20.600
to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after

1000
01:26:20.680 --> 01:26:31.239
the recording has ended, so that you can still benefit

1001
01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:41.399
from listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,

1002
01:26:43.319 --> 01:26:56.800
perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you

1003
01:26:56.960 --> 01:27:02.199
find like some people do and myself as well. Sometimes

1004
01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:08.520
I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,

1005
01:27:12.880 --> 01:27:15.359
and I just listen to it over and over again

1006
01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:30.560
every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're

1007
01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:35.239
going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It was it

1008
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:40.319
wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations. It kind

1009
01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:47.439
of was hypnosis, really, and I managed to find it

1010
01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:51.399
again and it still has the same effect on me,

1011
01:27:54.039 --> 01:28:03.760
And part of it was the persons for this relaxed me.

1012
01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:13.800
She just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to

1013
01:28:13.960 --> 01:28:20.399
listening to her in the morning and in the evening.

1014
01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:35.800
And I knew before even pressing the play button that

1015
01:28:35.880 --> 01:28:39.359
as soon as I've done that pressed the play button.

1016
01:28:40.159 --> 01:28:51.119
This is in the days of CD players pressed the

1017
01:28:51.199 --> 01:28:56.560
play button. In fact, it might have even been a

1018
01:28:56.600 --> 01:29:00.880
tape tape recorder. I'd lie to down on the bed

1019
01:29:01.039 --> 01:29:11.640
and then even without necessarily listening.

1020
01:29:12.840 --> 01:29:14.479
To her words.

1021
01:29:17.279 --> 01:29:26.600
Because I had them memorized. Really, it was as if

1022
01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:37.880
my body knew exactly what to do, and the muscles

1023
01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:59.520
just almost went into automatic relaxation, and I remember my

1024
01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:13.479
mind and would slow down. Now Now, I was listening

1025
01:30:13.520 --> 01:30:20.319
to this recording in the early days of learning hypnosis,

1026
01:30:22.840 --> 01:30:30.720
and long before I ever made any videos or audio

1027
01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:35.520
recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that till two

1028
01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:54.880
thousand and six, I knew, I knew how helpful I

1029
01:30:54.960 --> 01:31:05.239
found being able to just let go, to have that

1030
01:31:05.600 --> 01:31:18.199
trust in the person that I'm listening to, knowing that

1031
01:31:18.319 --> 01:31:26.640
it's going to be just as relaxing, if not more so.

1032
01:31:29.279 --> 01:31:35.319
Each time you hear my voice, you.

1033
01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:36.239
May feel the same.

1034
01:31:42.600 --> 01:31:57.199
Some people have been listening to me for over a decade,

1035
01:31:58.039 --> 01:32:02.079
maybe not solidly, obviously not twenty four hours a day,

1036
01:32:03.840 --> 01:32:20.039
but maybe people come back. Some people maybe listen every day.

1037
01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:30.119
That's something that I do which you may not realize

1038
01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:49.039
by listening, is when I record these recordings. Now, for example,

1039
01:32:53.600 --> 01:33:05.760
I also am affected by the words that I say.

1040
01:33:06.640 --> 01:33:15.960
So if I set you focus on your feet, notice

1041
01:33:16.079 --> 01:33:23.279
your feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet.

1042
01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:45.600
I will be noticing my feet relaxing. If I said

1043
01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:53.399
focus on your hands, and maybe notice the difference between

1044
01:33:53.439 --> 01:34:03.680
each hand. Perhaps notice that the air in the room,

1045
01:34:04.239 --> 01:34:09.039
the temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands,

1046
01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:20.760
you may start to notice what almost feels like a

1047
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:28.920
very light breeze, even though there may not be any

1048
01:34:29.319 --> 01:34:39.680
type of breeze at all where you are right now.

1049
01:34:42.439 --> 01:34:53.039
And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also

1050
01:34:53.399 --> 01:35:21.560
aware of how relaxed my hand our feeling now and

1051
01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:28.680
when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which

1052
01:35:28.760 --> 01:35:42.880
may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy

1053
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:57.119
when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind.

1054
01:35:58.079 --> 01:35:58.600
Drifting.

1055
01:36:06.479 --> 01:36:19.119
In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,

1056
01:36:23.960 --> 01:36:25.720
and then I carry on talking.

1057
01:36:31.760 --> 01:36:32.960
And it's only.

1058
01:36:32.800 --> 01:36:42.520
When I listen back to do the editing I hear snoring,

1059
01:36:44.399 --> 01:36:51.720
and I think I don't remember snoring. I remember talking.

1060
01:36:54.800 --> 01:37:02.199
Snoring was a pick turned up. That's why I sounds

1061
01:37:02.239 --> 01:37:10.079
like when I snore. How I get ready into the

1062
01:37:11.960 --> 01:37:30.159
whole experience, I don't know how you feel. How relaxed

1063
01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:36.520
do you feel in your feet, How relaxed.

1064
01:37:39.640 --> 01:38:01.479
You feel in your hands. I have noticed more and more.

1065
01:38:07.119 --> 01:38:19.840
That the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel,

1066
01:38:23.439 --> 01:38:26.920
the easier your breathing becomes.

1067
01:38:32.880 --> 01:38:34.479
It's al most like.

1068
01:38:37.199 --> 01:38:55.439
That additional muscle relaxation. So this allows you to breathe

1069
01:38:55.640 --> 01:39:21.560
easier without necessarily focusing on your breath, however, being able

1070
01:39:21.600 --> 01:39:37.920
to notice the ease.

1071
01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:41.760
In which.

1072
01:39:49.000 --> 01:40:11.680
You breathe so naturally you breathe so very easily and smoothly.

1073
01:40:39.359 --> 01:40:58.239
Whenever I imagine my breathing improving when I've got my eyes closed,

1074
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:17.119
I tend to visualize a beautiful field with trees and

1075
01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:50.760
flowers producing all that life giving oxygen. And it feels

1076
01:41:51.039 --> 01:42:06.439
nice too, if nothing thing else, just taking some time

1077
01:42:12.359 --> 01:43:00.680
away from everything, enjoying that feeling of peace, serenity with

1078
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:37.239
a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip by so

1079
01:43:38.439 --> 01:44:26.960
very slowly, relaxed, so deep play peaceful, completely unattached to

1080
01:44:27.880 --> 01:45:24.880
any thoughts whatsoever in this moment, completely free noticing that.

1081
01:45:32.399 --> 01:45:33.600
Your mind.

1082
01:45:40.840 --> 01:46:20.800
Has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really requires your attention.

1083
01:46:37.279 --> 01:46:51.600
You can enjoy the physical sensations of allowing the stress

1084
01:46:51.920 --> 01:47:03.239
to rip out of your body, to appay.

1085
01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:04.880
Outs of every.

1086
01:47:07.800 --> 01:47:33.279
Part of your body, and being released from your brain

1087
01:47:38.720 --> 01:48:13.760
n your mind slowly but surely, the muscles in your

1088
01:48:13.920 --> 01:49:06.199
legs relax res res so very deeply. Right, Yes, so deeply,

1089
01:49:23.960 --> 01:49:34.119
and the feelings, the pleasant feelings in your arms and shoulders,

1090
01:49:52.039 --> 01:50:15.640
deepening each part of your body further and deeper and

1091
01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:37.520
deeper medicine, the feelings in the back of your neck,

1092
01:51:00.680 --> 01:51:41.119
the feelings in your wrists, muscles, in front of your body,

1093
01:51:50.479 --> 01:51:51.600
I will say.

1094
01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:02.079
Feeling.

1095
01:52:06.359 --> 01:52:42.159
Peaceful, deeping. There's a sense of pace spreads through your

1096
01:52:42.399 --> 01:53:34.359
very colven. When you focus on your mind, your mind becomes.

1097
01:53:40.920 --> 01:54:16.079
Be and slowerven.

1098
01:54:01.640 --> 01:55:18.960
Deep, relaxed, a fairy slower, your stomach PA's fall in

1099
01:55:19.079 --> 01:56:01.720
your stomach, held back. Notice, Notice how relaxed.

1100
01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:43.319
You now feel in the hole of your back. In

1101
01:56:43.439 --> 01:56:44.560
a spy.

1102
01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:53.000
From your brain all the way down the middle of

1103
01:56:53.039 --> 01:57:04.720
your back, sending and receiving millions of messages every day,

1104
01:57:15.760 --> 01:58:36.319
decomfort increasing deeply relaxed, your knees, relax spreading those signals

1105
01:58:36.600 --> 01:58:45.279
down your spine or cord into air, every part of

1106
01:58:45.399 --> 01:59:31.760
your body, your shins and your calf, muscles, your outbows.

1107
01:59:47.920 --> 02:00:05.399
Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body, tips

1108
02:00:05.399 --> 02:00:21.399
of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all the

1109
02:00:21.399 --> 02:01:22.840
way till you'll lower back, letting go, readiating pace to

1110
02:01:22.920 --> 02:01:48.560
drift in mind, just wander in a way happy to

1111
02:01:48.800 --> 02:02:53.439
let go, let go completely, let her so tranquil, whole

1112
02:02:53.680 --> 02:05:14.720
body enjoying a sense of listening he no ey, enjoying

1113
02:05:20.359 --> 02:05:56.960
the space, this space of peace and safety, sur ferry

1114
02:07:35.159 --> 02:07:59.800
letting go. Maybe we can just focus on the different

1115
02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:58.960
but your body, just to notice.

1116
02:08:33.640 --> 02:08:36.279
You forehead and your eyes.

1117
02:09:08.840 --> 02:09:55.560
Mutual, so loose, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute.

1118
02:09:55.079 --> 02:10:43.039
Freedom, day.

1119
02:10:55.600 --> 02:12:34.279
Day, pace fall, energy, paste, to breeze, so much easy. Yes,

1120
02:12:55.600 --> 02:13:45.680
you may may not have noticed your mind drifting peaceful

1121
02:14:00.479 --> 02:14:21.000
any even more deeply in the direction of dital blissful pace,

1122
02:14:25.199 --> 02:15:45.279
blissful pace directedhhhhhhhhh to pace.

1123
02:16:09.600 --> 02:16:35.479
Com sir Colm.

1124
02:16:28.399 --> 02:16:56.319
Let him go, peace of mind.

1125
02:17:05.799 --> 02:18:25.280
Right footy crax ciray. A body feels almost invisible, so

1126
02:18:25.920 --> 02:18:31.559
very relaxed and paceful.

1127
02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:46.200
So pay so.

1128
02:19:00.040 --> 02:19:34.719
M right like so ver.

1129
02:19:45.600 --> 02:19:51.879
And you could start to notice that you are feeling

1130
02:19:52.239 --> 02:20:03.000
more relaxed, even though I've not purpose le focused your

1131
02:20:03.159 --> 02:20:11.559
mind upon that sense of physical comfort that is growing

1132
02:20:11.680 --> 02:20:18.200
within you throughout your body, and your mind.

1133
02:20:19.959 --> 02:20:21.280
Starts to slow down.

1134
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:33.479
And that could be almost in recognition of I guess

1135
02:20:33.799 --> 02:20:46.319
my speech not being particularly fast, and things just generally

1136
02:20:47.959 --> 02:20:59.000
feel calmer. Just by listening to my voice, you give

1137
02:20:59.040 --> 02:21:05.959
yourself a an opportunity to take a break from the day,

1138
02:21:08.120 --> 02:21:15.600
take a break from your life as it is, and

1139
02:21:15.719 --> 02:21:23.520
to give yourself a rest, giving yourself permission to take

1140
02:21:23.600 --> 02:21:29.159
some time off, and to allow your body to relax

1141
02:21:30.840 --> 02:21:39.040
and allow your mind to slow down, which in turn

1142
02:21:41.399 --> 02:21:50.920
releases the tension any stresses that you had in your body.

1143
02:21:52.959 --> 02:21:56.879
It's almost as if the parts of your body just

1144
02:21:57.120 --> 02:22:08.520
open up, allowing the next activity out and at the

1145
02:22:08.600 --> 02:22:20.040
same time replacing that negativity with positive healing energy, which

1146
02:22:20.079 --> 02:22:26.440
then fills your body up and your mind to also

1147
02:22:29.079 --> 02:22:44.879
starts to appreciate those feelings of increasing confidence and almost

1148
02:22:45.520 --> 02:23:01.799
uplifting feeling, positive healing, an energy that spreads through your

1149
02:23:01.840 --> 02:23:04.360
body like a wave.

1150
02:23:06.319 --> 02:23:07.120
Of comfort.

1151
02:23:11.920 --> 02:23:22.200
And all this comes from just allowing yourself a few minutes,

1152
02:23:24.040 --> 02:23:26.879
maybe half an hour, however long you want.

1153
02:23:26.760 --> 02:23:32.239
It to be, to just rest.

1154
02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:36.840
And allow.

1155
02:23:38.959 --> 02:23:48.959
Your mind and your body to almost reset itself to

1156
02:23:49.639 --> 02:24:05.319
the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more

1157
02:24:05.440 --> 02:24:10.120
room for feelings of pleasure.

1158
02:24:12.360 --> 02:24:13.760
And happiness.

1159
02:24:17.159 --> 02:24:26.239
To move around your body and into your mind, almost

1160
02:24:26.799 --> 02:24:31.399
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

1161
02:24:35.639 --> 02:24:45.399
almost mirroring each other. With that growing positivity and calmness,

1162
02:24:50.399 --> 02:24:57.879
and it feels nice. Really does feel nice to know

1163
02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:07.680
that you are one that has allowed yourself to feel

1164
02:25:08.120 --> 02:25:16.440
more comfort and to experience.

1165
02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:19.440
More of this.

1166
02:25:20.959 --> 02:25:36.639
Deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus

1167
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:43.680
on each part of your body, you can notice that

1168
02:25:43.680 --> 02:26:00.879
that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.

1169
02:26:00.719 --> 02:26:07.159
It becomes even more calm and comfortable.

1170
02:26:08.920 --> 02:26:16.559
Just by focusing. And as I move down.

1171
02:26:16.399 --> 02:26:23.920
Your body, starting at your head, the parts that you

1172
02:26:23.920 --> 02:26:33.920
have already focused on will continue to relax deeply and

1173
02:26:34.040 --> 02:26:40.159
those parts that have not yet focused on or just

1174
02:26:40.280 --> 02:26:52.639
automatically release any remain intention in anticipation of even more

1175
02:26:53.239 --> 02:27:05.079
comfort about to come. Now, I'm going to start by

1176
02:27:05.159 --> 02:27:12.840
focusing on your forehead. Just being aware of the feelings

1177
02:27:12.840 --> 02:27:23.159
of your forehead and any background sounds like mister Herbert

1178
02:27:23.239 --> 02:27:28.760
the pigeon can just allow you to feel even more relaxed.

1179
02:27:32.639 --> 02:27:38.760
Just means you're in the moment. This isn't this isn't

1180
02:27:38.799 --> 02:27:46.799
a sterile environment. This is the world. I live in

1181
02:27:46.879 --> 02:27:59.200
the countryside, so there's lots of nature sounds around. So

1182
02:27:59.239 --> 02:28:04.520
as your focus on your forehead, just notice how it

1183
02:28:04.680 --> 02:28:14.600
becomes even more relaxed. As you focus only on my

1184
02:28:14.840 --> 02:28:24.360
voice and that part of your body. Moving down to

1185
02:28:24.520 --> 02:28:37.639
your eyes. Focusing on your eyes, noticing how your eyelids

1186
02:28:37.680 --> 02:28:44.840
feel so heavy yet so light at the same time,

1187
02:28:48.120 --> 02:28:51.879
and all the muscles around your eyes relaxing.

1188
02:28:53.040 --> 02:28:53.719
Completely.

1189
02:28:58.399 --> 02:29:06.079
Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips, your tongue,

1190
02:29:07.280 --> 02:29:07.879
your teeth.

1191
02:29:08.079 --> 02:29:09.159
You comes.

1192
02:29:11.159 --> 02:29:25.879
The whole of your mouth, relaxing, calm and lease as

1193
02:29:25.879 --> 02:29:33.879
you focus now on your jaw, not just a part

1194
02:29:33.959 --> 02:29:38.920
of your journey, your mouth, your chin, but all the

1195
02:29:38.959 --> 02:29:43.440
way up the size of your face to your ears,

1196
02:29:45.559 --> 02:29:52.920
the hole of your jaw feeding.

1197
02:29:54.799 --> 02:29:57.319
More relaxed.

1198
02:30:00.719 --> 02:30:09.239
And calm.

1199
02:30:09.680 --> 02:30:18.799
Focusing on your neck, the front of your neck and

1200
02:30:18.840 --> 02:30:31.879
your throat relaxing and loose and calm. The sides of

1201
02:30:31.959 --> 02:30:36.840
your neck, right and left side.

1202
02:30:36.639 --> 02:30:37.520
Of your neck.

1203
02:30:40.200 --> 02:30:43.639
Relaxtant, place.

1204
02:30:47.399 --> 02:30:54.319
And calm.

1205
02:30:54.559 --> 02:31:01.040
And now the back of your neck. Focus in on

1206
02:31:01.159 --> 02:31:11.079
the back of your neck, letting go of any tension

1207
02:31:11.840 --> 02:31:20.639
that may have been there before, and enjoying that sense

1208
02:31:20.920 --> 02:31:23.680
of increasing.

1209
02:31:24.440 --> 02:31:26.959
Comfort and release.

1210
02:31:29.680 --> 02:31:33.680
Then you can experience in the back of your neck,

1211
02:31:39.959 --> 02:31:46.559
moving down your back and moving either side of your

1212
02:31:46.639 --> 02:31:52.879
spine right from the top of your back all the

1213
02:31:52.959 --> 02:32:05.879
way down to the bottom of your back, down to

1214
02:32:05.959 --> 02:32:13.719
your lower back, and as you move up and down

1215
02:32:16.000 --> 02:32:22.559
your spine, you can feel the muscles either side of

1216
02:32:22.639 --> 02:32:37.239
your spine relaxing even more. And as those muscles relax,

1217
02:32:39.360 --> 02:32:47.319
that sense of comfort starts to spread outwards from your

1218
02:32:47.360 --> 02:32:56.959
spine into both sides of your back, the top of

1219
02:32:56.959 --> 02:33:03.920
your back, the middle end your lower back. And as

1220
02:33:03.959 --> 02:33:11.479
you scan gently and slowly up and down your back,

1221
02:33:13.840 --> 02:33:18.200
there's the muscles in the top of your back relax

1222
02:33:18.760 --> 02:33:26.360
and become looser. The muscles in the middle of your

1223
02:33:26.440 --> 02:33:33.879
back also seem to just almost divide from each other,

1224
02:33:34.799 --> 02:33:41.479
separating and.

1225
02:33:38.760 --> 02:33:47.440
Almost melting, and in your lower back.

1226
02:33:50.959 --> 02:33:51.719
There seems to.

1227
02:33:51.600 --> 02:34:05.319
Be an extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into

1228
02:34:05.360 --> 02:34:15.840
your hips. Sit down your lower back, into your hips,

1229
02:34:15.879 --> 02:34:23.120
into the area where your cosix are, and into your buttocks,

1230
02:34:25.120 --> 02:34:29.680
and all those muscles that spread.

1231
02:34:30.680 --> 02:34:32.000
Bring your lower back.

1232
02:34:34.239 --> 02:34:46.680
Into your hip area, start to melt, start to reading,

1233
02:34:47.680 --> 02:34:58.600
let go, and you know where about to focus on

1234
02:34:58.639 --> 02:35:07.719
your shoulders. Your back and your spine will continue to

1235
02:35:07.959 --> 02:35:14.799
let go, continue to relax.

1236
02:35:17.600 --> 02:35:21.200
So calmly.

1237
02:35:25.920 --> 02:35:35.399
As you focus on your shoulders, you may notice they're already.

1238
02:35:34.159 --> 02:35:46.600
Feeling really loose. They're already.

1239
02:35:48.959 --> 02:36:05.239
Feeding calm.

1240
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:02.799
And fear.

1241
02:36:06.879 --> 02:36:08.559
Those muscles.

1242
02:36:10.680 --> 02:36:23.040
Then move from your neck into your shoulders. Feel so

1243
02:36:23.040 --> 02:36:52.079
soft and gentle, so smooth and calm, and the feeling

1244
02:36:52.200 --> 02:37:05.360
in your shoulders seems to spread deep into your shoulders,

1245
02:37:07.120 --> 02:37:16.399
a sense of relaxation, not just traveling deeply into your muscles,

1246
02:37:19.840 --> 02:37:22.600
but also relaxing.

1247
02:37:24.600 --> 02:37:26.079
The bones.

1248
02:37:31.399 --> 02:37:38.840
And moving all the way to underneath your arms, relaxing.

1249
02:37:39.920 --> 02:37:41.360
The whole area.

1250
02:37:41.159 --> 02:37:46.000
Between the tops of your shoulders and underneath.

1251
02:37:45.479 --> 02:37:50.520
Your arms.

1252
02:37:50.399 --> 02:37:53.799
Healing.

1253
02:37:56.360 --> 02:37:57.079
You feel so.

1254
02:37:58.959 --> 02:38:11.000
Relax and comfortable in your shoulders, which sense that's.

1255
02:38:12.680 --> 02:38:14.799
Deep healing.

1256
02:38:17.680 --> 02:38:35.239
Message into your arms. You may feel almost as if

1257
02:38:35.280 --> 02:38:41.799
your arms are not even there because they're so relaxed,

1258
02:38:45.000 --> 02:38:55.399
so deeply relaxed, so.

1259
02:39:00.440 --> 02:39:16.000
Calm, So.

1260
02:39:22.799 --> 02:39:37.959
This the feelings spreading all the way down your arms

1261
02:39:40.479 --> 02:40:06.520
to elbows, including your elbows succump spreads all the way

1262
02:40:09.200 --> 02:40:17.600
into rests, your forearms, nderists.

1263
02:40:23.360 --> 02:40:31.319
So heavy, yet at the same time.

1264
02:40:38.520 --> 02:40:43.680
Silight and gentle.

1265
02:41:08.360 --> 02:41:12.680
Fred Sam, Now on.

1266
02:41:15.319 --> 02:42:10.479
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands, the sensor.

1267
02:42:13.399 --> 02:42:28.000
Real pace just seems to.

1268
02:42:32.040 --> 02:43:11.440
Feel so familiar when your hands relax deeply. Else Things,

1269
02:44:17.520 --> 02:44:51.159
when you think it taps may your attention to affront

1270
02:44:51.280 --> 02:46:41.559
to your body sharp cuts man focus to legs, my

1271
02:46:41.840 --> 02:46:45.879
souls and your thoughts.

1272
02:47:02.239 --> 02:47:02.600
And ma.

1273
02:47:06.920 --> 02:47:41.000
Sax car muscles.

1274
02:47:38.760 --> 02:49:55.639
Just shaves o clusi I fee then you faint, sir pays.

1275
02:49:57.639 --> 02:49:58.879
C can't.

1276
02:50:04.200 --> 02:50:45.639
Serit peaceful, sircom serve peaceful.

1277
02:50:48.559 --> 02:50:53.799
Sycom so.

1278
02:50:55.799 --> 02:51:07.680
Peace for RelA same.

1279
02:51:12.719 --> 02:51:14.479
Peace fall.

1280
02:51:18.440 --> 02:51:39.920
Go love that deep relaxation, to spread your chest, your story, relax,

1281
02:51:47.559 --> 02:51:49.040
let's me go.

1282
02:51:52.680 --> 02:51:55.760
Everything.

1283
02:52:04.639 --> 02:52:10.639
So I'm gonna start counting down now from twenty down

1284
02:52:10.680 --> 02:52:18.840
to one. You can imagine in a way it's like

1285
02:52:19.600 --> 02:52:26.079
just walking down some steps and each step or twenty steps,

1286
02:52:26.120 --> 02:52:35.520
and each step represents a level of comfort. Each step

1287
02:52:35.799 --> 02:52:51.360
represents a deepening of that comfort, and the furvies you

1288
02:52:51.479 --> 02:52:57.600
walk down those steps, the deeper and more relaxed you feel.

1289
02:53:04.200 --> 02:55:50.520
So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteenhhhhhhhh

1290
02:56:54.159 --> 02:57:38.159
fiftree four.

1291
02:58:37.840 --> 02:59:45.520
Four see too well.

1292
03:02:06.239 --> 03:04:50.920
Usus ninehhhhhh.

1293
03:04:03.479 --> 03:06:49.639
Eight shhhhhhhhhhh.

1294
03:06:41.000 --> 03:07:56.879
Six five.

1295
03:09:15.639 --> 03:12:23.360
Four, then.

1296
03:12:54.000 --> 03:12:54.200
One.

1297
03:13:48.879 --> 03:14:01.559
As you focus on your lines, we're gonna count down

1298
03:14:01.920 --> 03:14:13.120
from ten down to one. Focus in just on your eyes,

1299
03:14:16.840 --> 03:14:25.399
your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eye waves themselves,

1300
03:14:26.840 --> 03:14:43.920
our whole area that makes up your eye. And as

1301
03:14:43.959 --> 03:14:52.399
we count down from ten down to one, whilst focus

1302
03:14:52.479 --> 03:14:53.920
in on your eyes.

1303
03:15:00.239 --> 03:15:01.600
Or become.

1304
03:15:03.159 --> 03:15:15.280
Twice is relaxed with each number counting down that you

1305
03:15:15.440 --> 03:15:23.040
may find the all you want to do is just

1306
03:15:25.000 --> 03:15:32.200
drift off to sleep. And if that's what you want,

1307
03:15:35.200 --> 03:15:48.280
then just allow yourself to do that. Now, focusing on

1308
03:15:48.360 --> 03:15:55.680
your eyes, I'm going to begin counting down from ten

1309
03:15:56.040 --> 03:15:57.079
down to one.

1310
03:16:01.040 --> 03:17:37.399
Right now, nine.

1311
03:17:11.280 --> 03:22:34.319
Eighth zern four three.

1312
03:24:19.719 --> 03:25:08.079
Us one.

1313
03:25:14.479 --> 03:25:31.360
So counted down from ten to one ten nine, eight.

1314
03:25:33.959 --> 03:25:48.280
Seven six five four three two.

1315
03:25:50.799 --> 03:25:51.040
One.

1316
03:25:58.040 --> 03:26:00.920
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1317
03:26:01.000 --> 03:26:04.920
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1318
03:26:05.239 --> 03:26:14.959
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1319
03:26:15.000 --> 03:26:15.559
little bit of.

1320
03:26:15.639 --> 03:26:19.559
Pressure there, Like you're counting down from ten to one.

1321
03:26:19.680 --> 03:26:23.079
Would you expect me to do? Man, expect me to

1322
03:26:23.120 --> 03:26:27.079
stick go with floppy just because you're counting down.

1323
03:26:32.680 --> 03:26:35.959
You can try it again, but this time I'll go

1324
03:26:36.040 --> 03:26:37.120
a bit slower.

1325
03:26:39.000 --> 03:26:43.840
This time, as you focus on the whole of your

1326
03:26:43.920 --> 03:26:47.360
body before we focus on your legs.

1327
03:26:49.799 --> 03:26:50.959
Just notice.

1328
03:26:52.120 --> 03:27:04.879
How your body does start to feel more relaxed with

1329
03:27:06.159 --> 03:27:09.040
every number that I count down.

1330
03:27:12.280 --> 03:27:18.719
Ten nine.

1331
03:27:23.959 --> 03:27:48.639
At eight, seven, six, five.

1332
03:27:58.799 --> 03:28:07.000
Four three.

1333
03:28:41.440 --> 03:28:41.680
One.

1334
03:28:53.000 --> 03:28:58.719
I just notice how how you feel, generally, how your

1335
03:28:58.760 --> 03:29:13.600
body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting down from

1336
03:29:13.680 --> 03:29:21.360
ten to one. It's that space that you have, that

1337
03:29:23.959 --> 03:29:45.159
space between being active physically or mentally, just sitting or

1338
03:29:45.319 --> 03:29:51.120
lying down, just being there, not doing anything, not saying anything,

1339
03:29:51.399 --> 03:29:53.319
or needing.

1340
03:29:53.079 --> 03:29:54.600
To think about anything.

1341
03:29:56.440 --> 03:30:00.200
So it opens up a space, you know, bit of

1342
03:30:00.280 --> 03:30:11.239
a space, a gap. And the more I came down

1343
03:30:11.319 --> 03:30:18.680
from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So

1344
03:30:18.799 --> 03:30:25.040
there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation.

1345
03:30:30.959 --> 03:30:38.840
It's a nice feeling, and it moves.

1346
03:30:40.040 --> 03:30:47.680
Those stresses or discomforts physically or emotionally, moves.

1347
03:30:49.600 --> 03:30:49.959
Away.

1348
03:30:56.760 --> 03:30:57.680
Allows you.

1349
03:31:00.440 --> 03:31:00.920
To just.

1350
03:31:03.920 --> 03:31:10.239
Slow down. Someone to count the game from ten down

1351
03:31:10.280 --> 03:31:12.159
to one, and notice.

1352
03:31:12.600 --> 03:31:21.520
That gap widening, the gap, And as it widens, it's

1353
03:31:21.520 --> 03:31:27.719
almost like the stress and attention falls into the gap

1354
03:31:41.159 --> 03:31:45.360
and gives you that distance, that space.

1355
03:31:47.760 --> 03:31:53.200
Now ten.

1356
03:31:57.559 --> 03:32:48.920
Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.

1357
03:33:06.959 --> 03:33:55.159
Three two one. How did your.

1358
03:33:57.200 --> 03:33:58.440
Body feel.

1359
03:34:00.399 --> 03:34:00.559
Now?

1360
03:34:13.280 --> 03:34:17.440
Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer.

1361
03:34:25.040 --> 03:34:25.120
There?

1362
03:34:25.200 --> 03:34:29.559
You're feeling more relaxed.

1363
03:34:52.000 --> 03:34:56.360
As we now focus on your legs, just your legs.

1364
03:35:12.360 --> 03:35:32.479
We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs. Of course,

1365
03:35:32.639 --> 03:35:37.520
it's not the most exciting thing to be doing because

1366
03:35:40.920 --> 03:35:43.600
I'm sure like most of your body is not a

1367
03:35:43.760 --> 03:35:56.120
lot going on right now, Just focusing on the whole

1368
03:35:56.280 --> 03:36:02.639
of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the sides

1369
03:36:02.799 --> 03:36:09.799
of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs, your outer thighs,

1370
03:36:09.920 --> 03:36:14.799
and your inner thighs. Basically the whole of your thigh

1371
03:36:14.920 --> 03:36:17.159
that leads into.

1372
03:36:16.959 --> 03:36:17.639
Your hip.

1373
03:36:21.520 --> 03:36:26.879
And it goes down to your knee joints.

1374
03:36:32.000 --> 03:36:39.239
Now, this is a big area. It's a very heavy area.

1375
03:36:39.719 --> 03:36:45.719
It's very strong, probably the strongest muscles in your body

1376
03:36:46.440 --> 03:37:00.680
or in your thighs. But I don't think we perhaps

1377
03:37:02.719 --> 03:37:15.440
give enough attention to our thighs. Perhaps we don't acknowledge

1378
03:37:16.120 --> 03:37:35.479
how important our thighs are to our lives, how much

1379
03:37:38.120 --> 03:37:51.639
they actually do for us all through our lives. And

1380
03:37:51.760 --> 03:37:53.200
it may seem.

1381
03:37:53.040 --> 03:37:54.239
To sound really weird, but.

1382
03:37:57.120 --> 03:38:03.239
I think that all of our body parts, especially our thighs,

1383
03:38:04.239 --> 03:38:11.559
need some TLC, a bit of love shown, a bit

1384
03:38:11.639 --> 03:38:30.879
of acknowledgement, thank you, gratitude for our thighs do for us.

1385
03:38:37.440 --> 03:38:43.079
And I know this may sound a bit strange. Maybe

1386
03:38:43.120 --> 03:38:45.920
you think, why am I sure that I should be

1387
03:38:45.959 --> 03:38:50.760
out in the garden hugging a tree or something. Well,

1388
03:38:54.879 --> 03:38:57.159
it's hard to set a microphone up on a tree.

1389
03:38:58.200 --> 03:39:00.079
That's why I'm doing this in doors something wise, I

1390
03:39:00.120 --> 03:39:03.600
wouldn't be outside ar in a try. I can't see

1391
03:39:03.639 --> 03:39:12.280
the television from the tree. If you move down to

1392
03:39:12.360 --> 03:39:13.239
your knees.

1393
03:39:14.760 --> 03:39:16.959
Gain such an important part.

1394
03:39:21.280 --> 03:39:26.520
And I think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself.

1395
03:39:26.200 --> 03:39:31.319
Here, I don't necessarily appreciate.

1396
03:39:32.440 --> 03:39:37.520
All that my needs do for me until I have

1397
03:39:37.639 --> 03:39:38.799
a problem with my knee.

1398
03:39:39.760 --> 03:39:43.879
It's occasionally, if I ever, maybe i'll pash it, or

1399
03:39:44.840 --> 03:39:50.399
it's aching for some reason. It's then that I realize

1400
03:39:51.559 --> 03:39:55.559
how much it does. You know, the benefit of being

1401
03:39:55.600 --> 03:40:05.200
able to use my legs without any kind of physical discomfort.

1402
03:40:06.040 --> 03:40:07.920
Is a beautiful thing.

1403
03:40:09.319 --> 03:40:15.639
That's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

1404
03:40:16.760 --> 03:40:18.159
You know that's comfort.

1405
03:40:22.280 --> 03:40:26.879
But as you focus on your knees, regardless of how

1406
03:40:26.959 --> 03:40:34.440
your knees feel, you can have that sense of gratitude

1407
03:40:36.000 --> 03:40:38.600
and love to your knees for all that they do

1408
03:40:38.799 --> 03:40:51.760
for you, And you can still have that attention on

1409
03:40:51.920 --> 03:40:58.440
your thighs. Maybe notice how your thighs feel. Maybe you

1410
03:40:58.799 --> 03:41:16.719
notice that are relaxing more deeply as you focus now

1411
03:41:18.600 --> 03:41:22.319
on the bottoms of your legs, your shins and your

1412
03:41:22.399 --> 03:41:31.319
calf muscles, the bones between your knees and your feet incorporate,

1413
03:41:31.440 --> 03:41:42.760
and of course your ankles so important. Anyone that's had

1414
03:41:43.639 --> 03:41:48.159
even there like the slightest sprain of an ankle. Who

1415
03:41:48.280 --> 03:41:54.840
knows how how much we take our ankles for granted.

1416
03:42:00.760 --> 03:42:02.760
And it's kind of strange in a way when you

1417
03:42:02.840 --> 03:42:08.440
think that. You know, logically, our wrists are a lot

1418
03:42:08.600 --> 03:42:13.440
thinner than the rest of our arms, which is okay,

1419
03:42:13.559 --> 03:42:17.239
it doesn't I can't see any problem with that because

1420
03:42:17.239 --> 03:42:18.639
we're just picking stuff up.

1421
03:42:20.120 --> 03:42:21.559
By our ankles.

1422
03:42:22.840 --> 03:42:32.799
So much thinner than the rest of our legs. And

1423
03:42:32.920 --> 03:42:37.440
from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't really

1424
03:42:37.520 --> 03:42:44.760
make sense that all this weight would ultimately be resting

1425
03:42:45.799 --> 03:42:55.799
on your ankles then leading to your feet, that thin area,

1426
03:42:57.280 --> 03:43:03.879
thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

1427
03:43:06.040 --> 03:43:07.879
Supports us, supports our.

1428
03:43:07.840 --> 03:43:19.600
Body for a lifetime, helps us to balance, It helps

1429
03:43:19.680 --> 03:43:20.000
you to.

1430
03:43:23.959 --> 03:43:25.639
Get her around and be mobile.

1431
03:43:31.959 --> 03:43:39.760
And there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger,

1432
03:43:40.120 --> 03:43:43.520
I couldn't see the pointing. Calf muscles didn't seem to

1433
03:43:43.639 --> 03:43:49.520
do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes, then

1434
03:43:49.719 --> 03:43:53.440
my calf muscles get some work. But of course that's

1435
03:43:53.559 --> 03:43:57.520
not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever we

1436
03:43:58.000 --> 03:44:11.520
use their legs and your shins there to protect your

1437
03:44:11.639 --> 03:44:20.639
lower legs, shaped in a way almost as a protector

1438
03:44:21.079 --> 03:44:32.959
for the bone, leading of course to your ankles.

1439
03:44:35.719 --> 03:44:36.479
And your feet.

1440
03:44:41.159 --> 03:44:43.120
But we're not going to focus on your feet. We're

1441
03:44:43.159 --> 03:44:49.440
just going to focus on the legs. I realize, and

1442
03:44:49.559 --> 03:44:53.239
now that I've mentioned your feet, you'll probably focus on

1443
03:44:53.520 --> 03:44:56.920
number anyway, So maybe I should focus on your feet

1444
03:44:56.959 --> 03:45:03.079
a little bit. You can have them in your awareness

1445
03:45:05.280 --> 03:45:08.959
the same as you have your thighs in your awareness.

1446
03:45:09.799 --> 03:45:13.639
Even though we haven't been focusing on your thighs for

1447
03:45:13.639 --> 03:45:24.639
a few minutes and we're focusing on your ankles, there's

1448
03:45:24.680 --> 03:45:39.920
still that sensation of comfort in your thighs, and there's

1449
03:45:40.000 --> 03:45:41.399
that movement.

1450
03:45:42.600 --> 03:45:43.639
Of energy.

1451
03:45:45.399 --> 03:45:52.440
Because the thighs hold lots of different sensations. Of course,

1452
03:45:52.520 --> 03:45:57.280
there's the muscles, the big straw muscles that we have

1453
03:45:57.479 --> 03:46:10.799
in our thighs, but the skin on the outside of

1454
03:46:10.879 --> 03:46:16.200
the thighs, as in the outside of all of our body,

1455
03:46:17.000 --> 03:46:28.559
can be very sensitive, sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature,

1456
03:46:35.120 --> 03:46:37.079
and inside your thighs.

1457
03:46:39.200 --> 03:46:42.559
The bones, there's the muscle.

1458
03:46:42.440 --> 03:46:46.879
There's the blood, vessels, the ar trees, to all this

1459
03:46:47.120 --> 03:46:56.319
stuff that's inside your thighs. I guess sometimes it'd be

1460
03:46:56.479 --> 03:47:00.440
nice if you could actually put your fingers in sides

1461
03:47:00.479 --> 03:47:05.879
your thighs and a message, so you can message on

1462
03:47:05.959 --> 03:47:09.200
the outside, of course, but to be able to get

1463
03:47:09.440 --> 03:47:13.319
deep into the muscles, to be able to just massage

1464
03:47:14.360 --> 03:47:19.479
inside your thighs, message in the bones of your leg.

1465
03:47:21.440 --> 03:47:22.120
Massage in.

1466
03:47:24.719 --> 03:47:35.719
All the veins, just gently healing your thighs. You can

1467
03:47:35.879 --> 03:47:42.760
move down message and inside your knees, just message in

1468
03:47:42.879 --> 03:47:51.520
those bones, but with healing fingertips, spreading the healing energy deep.

1469
03:47:51.399 --> 03:47:52.840
Into the choice.

1470
03:47:54.000 --> 03:47:54.520
Your knees.

1471
03:48:00.040 --> 03:48:03.559
Of course, there's the back of your need.

1472
03:48:03.559 --> 03:48:09.479
You know, the inside crease where your need is. It's

1473
03:48:09.479 --> 03:48:15.159
a very sensitive area. It feels very nice when you

1474
03:48:15.399 --> 03:48:20.040
stroke it. That might be because it's an area that's

1475
03:48:20.120 --> 03:48:25.920
not really touched very often. It's almost like a hidden part,

1476
03:48:27.280 --> 03:48:34.040
that crease in your legs. It's almost it's like a

1477
03:48:34.120 --> 03:48:39.360
part that has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different.

1478
03:48:47.200 --> 03:48:57.120
Of course, it's protected by your legs, so you can

1479
03:48:57.200 --> 03:49:08.719
imagine putting your fingers into that crease your legs fold

1480
03:49:08.879 --> 03:49:12.959
in between your legs. You can just message with your fingertips.

1481
03:49:14.200 --> 03:49:20.360
Imagine your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle or

1482
03:49:20.440 --> 03:49:29.799
tissue you can cause, field the bones of your knees,

1483
03:49:31.319 --> 03:49:41.760
heading through your fingertips, and then as you go down

1484
03:49:44.600 --> 03:49:47.440
to your calf muscles, and that's the part I'd like

1485
03:49:47.520 --> 03:49:52.239
to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside

1486
03:49:53.000 --> 03:50:02.319
my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle.

1487
03:50:03.520 --> 03:50:05.319
Healing every part.

1488
03:50:11.280 --> 03:50:18.639
And then doing the same for my shins, massage generally,

1489
03:50:18.879 --> 03:50:25.680
stroking the bones, generally stroking them, healing in a loving

1490
03:50:25.760 --> 03:50:33.120
way because they deserve to be treated. There's the precious

1491
03:50:33.280 --> 03:50:37.239
bones that they are, because our legs are so precious

1492
03:50:38.239 --> 03:50:42.840
as in all the other parts of our body, the

1493
03:50:43.000 --> 03:50:44.959
more precious of any chul.

1494
03:50:47.280 --> 03:50:59.959
On the planet. When you start to think about.

1495
03:51:03.120 --> 03:51:11.920
Your legs in this way, it can change your perspective.

1496
03:51:14.639 --> 03:51:20.399
In my sound a bit a bit silly to start

1497
03:51:20.479 --> 03:51:21.879
with the.

1498
03:51:22.000 --> 03:51:30.159
Idea of having love for your legs, showing appreciation for

1499
03:51:30.280 --> 03:51:35.719
your thighs, want them to be able to put your

1500
03:51:35.879 --> 03:51:44.159
hands in your thighs, massage the muscles and the bones,

1501
03:51:46.040 --> 03:51:51.719
and to get your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension,

1502
03:51:54.600 --> 03:52:03.200
just to show how much you care about your legs,

1503
03:52:04.239 --> 03:52:10.200
What you care for what your legs do for you regularly,

1504
03:52:12.559 --> 03:52:22.040
your knees, your cars, your ankles, The strength of your

1505
03:52:22.200 --> 03:52:30.280
ankles considering how thin they are compared to the rest

1506
03:52:30.360 --> 03:52:37.760
of your legs, especially your thighs. Yeah, they're so strong,

1507
03:52:39.319 --> 03:52:49.200
so flexible, absolutely amazing things. Your ankles are.

1508
03:52:52.920 --> 03:52:54.479
Truly a gift.

1509
03:52:56.520 --> 03:53:05.639
Because of what they do for you, supporting all that weight,

1510
03:53:07.639 --> 03:53:12.040
regardless of how what weight you are, even if you

1511
03:53:12.159 --> 03:53:16.879
only eat ate stone, there's still a lot of weight

1512
03:53:17.120 --> 03:53:23.680
for these little ankles. How am I a lot heavier

1513
03:53:23.719 --> 03:53:24.840
than eight stone.

1514
03:53:26.040 --> 03:53:26.639
Double down?

1515
03:53:30.120 --> 03:53:39.079
Yet my ankles support my body all the time? Or

1516
03:53:39.120 --> 03:53:41.920
do they do give off a sigh of relief when

1517
03:53:41.959 --> 03:53:42.639
I sit down?

1518
03:53:44.959 --> 03:53:47.079
That's you have my whole legs to.

1519
03:53:50.719 --> 03:53:58.120
My feet feels to go. My toes clap so happy.

1520
03:54:17.879 --> 03:54:27.479
Your legs really are amazing, And I know they're talking about.

1521
03:54:28.040 --> 03:54:33.520
Talking about your legs is probably possibly one of the

1522
03:54:33.639 --> 03:54:39.239
most most boring things I've ever heard anyone say. Possibly

1523
03:54:42.079 --> 03:54:48.799
you're boring or not. Everything I said is true. Your

1524
03:54:48.920 --> 03:55:03.520
legs are amazing. M Your licks deserve not just respect,

1525
03:55:09.360 --> 03:55:11.079
They deserve to relax.

1526
03:55:12.479 --> 03:55:12.879
Deeply.

1527
03:55:20.159 --> 03:55:23.719
They deserve to take some time out of the day.

1528
03:55:25.719 --> 03:55:54.440
To just lecker completely. Licks really can relax.

1529
03:56:02.079 --> 03:56:06.200
And because the legs are so such a most, you know,

1530
03:56:06.440 --> 03:56:12.399
very important part of your body. When you relax your legs,

1531
03:56:12.479 --> 03:56:19.719
the rest of your body also naturally follows in that

1532
03:56:23.440 --> 03:56:34.280
journey of comfort. Like I feel it in my hips.

1533
03:56:35.680 --> 03:56:42.799
My hips feel really loose, and also my lower back

1534
03:56:42.840 --> 03:56:43.239
as well.

1535
03:56:45.239 --> 03:56:46.799
My lower back really.

1536
03:56:47.239 --> 03:56:51.879
Feels it feels stretched, even though I'm just sitting in

1537
03:56:51.959 --> 03:56:58.000
a chair and there's no stretching as far as I'm

1538
03:56:58.040 --> 03:57:01.520
aware that I'm doing. It's almost as if the muscles

1539
03:57:01.559 --> 03:57:05.559
are just relaxed so much that there is a natural

1540
03:57:05.879 --> 03:57:12.280
stretch as the tension has reduced.

1541
03:57:13.079 --> 03:57:13.440
A lot.

1542
03:57:29.799 --> 03:57:32.879
And I'm now going to count down from ten down

1543
03:57:32.920 --> 03:57:38.239
to one, you can.

1544
03:57:38.280 --> 03:57:44.239
Continue to feel wonderfully relaxed.

1545
03:57:48.040 --> 03:57:52.360
Ten nine.

1546
03:57:55.239 --> 03:58:12.120
Eight, seven, six, five, four.

1547
03:58:15.280 --> 03:58:20.000
Three two.

1548
03:58:24.200 --> 03:58:42.479
One relax. So I'm just going to count down five

1549
03:58:42.680 --> 03:58:46.879
down to one. And as a countdown, if you just

1550
03:58:47.000 --> 03:58:54.799
focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down, and

1551
03:58:55.000 --> 03:59:04.200
notice how you feel in this moment as you hear

1552
03:59:04.280 --> 03:59:09.000
the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers.

1553
03:59:11.159 --> 03:59:13.600
Counting down represent you.

1554
03:59:15.399 --> 03:59:25.399
Feeling calmer not just in your body, but also relaxing

1555
03:59:25.520 --> 03:59:32.959
your mind. Just notice how you feel. There's nothing to do,

1556
03:59:34.079 --> 03:59:38.040
there's nothing to say, there's nothing to think about.

1557
03:59:41.079 --> 03:59:44.799
Starting with number five.

1558
03:59:53.280 --> 04:00:03.520
Four three.

1559
04:00:13.879 --> 04:00:36.200
Two one. How as you notice the gradual.

1560
04:00:38.440 --> 04:00:39.000
Letting go.

1561
04:00:41.360 --> 04:00:48.319
Of the tension in your body, you may also begin

1562
04:00:48.600 --> 04:00:54.600
to notice and be aware of how your mind is

1563
04:00:55.680 --> 04:01:03.479
starting to slow down. This is just a natural thing

1564
04:01:04.000 --> 04:01:09.760
that happens. It's not really a special procedure.

1565
04:01:11.040 --> 04:01:11.920
It's just natural.

1566
04:01:12.079 --> 04:01:18.440
Because is your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax.

1567
04:01:20.040 --> 04:01:23.680
And the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.

1568
04:01:23.840 --> 04:01:34.319
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that

1569
04:01:35.600 --> 04:01:37.719
calmness that comes from.

1570
04:01:39.479 --> 04:01:40.639
Relative quietness.

1571
04:01:42.239 --> 04:01:47.120
You know, even even if this background sounds, either your

1572
04:01:47.319 --> 04:01:48.600
side orline.

1573
04:01:50.000 --> 04:01:53.799
Is still going to be quite calm.

1574
04:01:55.520 --> 04:01:58.159
You know, you haven't got the television on, there's no

1575
04:01:58.440 --> 04:02:02.680
music in the background, unless you're listening to the recorded

1576
04:02:02.760 --> 04:02:10.159
with music. Of course, you're very likely not going to

1577
04:02:10.200 --> 04:02:13.280
be sitting in a room with other people. Of course

1578
04:02:13.360 --> 04:02:17.840
you might be, but generally it's more ideal if you

1579
04:02:17.959 --> 04:02:28.840
can do this on your own, so no distractions, and

1580
04:02:28.959 --> 04:02:44.159
when you stop thinking about stuff, relaxation automatically rises. A

1581
04:02:44.280 --> 04:02:54.959
sense of comfort starts to grow and without trying to

1582
04:02:55.079 --> 04:02:59.399
build it up into something fantastical or.

1583
04:03:02.760 --> 04:03:08.079
Something magical. This is just a natural.

1584
04:03:07.840 --> 04:03:13.440
Process, something that's easy.

1585
04:03:15.440 --> 04:03:16.120
To accomplish.

1586
04:03:18.920 --> 04:03:23.280
In fact, it's almost you know, the sense of relaxing

1587
04:03:24.159 --> 04:03:29.879
completely happens really when you put no effort into it.

1588
04:03:30.920 --> 04:03:36.600
It's not something that you can really force. It's something

1589
04:03:36.760 --> 04:03:39.920
that happens naturally.

1590
04:03:42.879 --> 04:03:50.479
And part of the process of this recording and others.

1591
04:03:51.760 --> 04:03:53.319
Is simply.

1592
04:03:54.600 --> 04:04:03.319
Two allow you to take it advantage of this space

1593
04:04:06.000 --> 04:04:18.959
this time, to just let go, to just be here,

1594
04:04:20.399 --> 04:04:33.319
to be in tune with how you feel, yet with

1595
04:04:34.040 --> 04:04:45.879
the intention of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even

1596
04:04:47.559 --> 04:04:51.959
to fall asleep, depending on what it is that you

1597
04:04:53.079 --> 04:04:55.239
wish for yourself.

1598
04:04:56.520 --> 04:04:57.319
In this moment.

1599
04:05:04.319 --> 04:05:14.120
As we know, relaxing is the majority of the process.

1600
04:05:13.799 --> 04:05:14.799
Of falling asleep.

1601
04:05:15.959 --> 04:05:19.840
The actual falling asleep part is the tiny bit at

1602
04:05:19.879 --> 04:05:32.280
the end. The deeper relaxed you become, the easier.

1603
04:05:34.799 --> 04:05:35.680
You find.

1604
04:05:36.959 --> 04:05:53.000
Yourself drifting. You can also if you choose stay focused

1605
04:05:54.159 --> 04:06:18.920
on my voice and really enjoy the process coradually relaxing.

1606
04:06:22.440 --> 04:06:29.239
Each muscle in your body.

1607
04:06:34.000 --> 04:06:50.360
Effortlessly and just observing the sensation.

1608
04:06:55.000 --> 04:07:03.120
Of letting go completely.

1609
04:07:09.159 --> 04:07:13.200
This time I'm gonna count from six down to one.

1610
04:07:18.360 --> 04:07:27.879
You can notice your mind calming down more with each

1611
04:07:28.479 --> 04:07:32.479
number that you hear me say.

1612
04:07:36.920 --> 04:07:39.239
Naturally, feeling.

1613
04:07:40.879 --> 04:10:42.239
Calm and slow, be peaceful, sex, five, four, being aware

1614
04:10:45.520 --> 04:11:01.600
how you mind to slowe, write down, sinking deeply into relaxation.

1615
04:11:15.479 --> 04:11:16.959
As you focus on your.

1616
04:11:16.959 --> 04:11:17.719
Mind, you.

1617
04:11:21.159 --> 04:11:22.440
May notice that.

1618
04:11:24.319 --> 04:11:32.399
There are some thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts that.

1619
04:11:34.879 --> 04:11:40.399
For some reason perhaps need your attention.

1620
04:11:47.399 --> 04:11:48.760
So what you can do is.

1621
04:11:54.239 --> 04:12:06.719
Send lough to those thoughts. Sprink or those thoughts with love,

1622
04:12:08.479 --> 04:12:12.639
my little petals from my flower. Just sprinkle over them,

1623
04:12:14.159 --> 04:12:21.280
petals feel good love towards those thoughts to let those

1624
04:12:21.520 --> 04:12:28.920
thoughts smother. You're not abandon the number, You just need them.

1625
04:12:30.159 --> 04:12:42.079
You require them to just calm down, slow down, quiet down.

1626
04:12:45.799 --> 04:12:46.159
For now.

1627
04:12:54.079 --> 04:12:59.079
So as you focus on those remaining thoughts as a

1628
04:12:59.239 --> 04:13:05.319
countdown is time from seven down to one of each number,

1629
04:13:08.319 --> 04:13:20.879
just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness, gratitude

1630
04:13:24.120 --> 04:13:33.479
over those thoughts, which will allow them to just not

1631
04:13:33.719 --> 04:13:49.200
away relax deeply. With every number, those thoughts will become

1632
04:13:49.399 --> 04:13:55.200
more and more relaxed.

1633
04:14:00.799 --> 04:15:23.520
Starting if not the seven, six, five, four, three.

1634
04:16:32.159 --> 04:16:33.040
Lets you now.

1635
04:16:37.120 --> 04:16:58.360
Notice how relaxed your feeling in your body. We got

1636
04:16:58.479 --> 04:17:12.680
to focus on your hands because the oil extra hands

1637
04:17:12.840 --> 04:17:37.040
on the relax your body and my dog. You focus

1638
04:17:37.360 --> 04:17:47.600
on your hands and your fingers. There's nothing needed to

1639
04:17:47.680 --> 04:17:53.360
be done. There's no clenching of fists, long dens in

1640
04:17:53.520 --> 04:18:07.879
the fingers, rathing that. It's just noticing and focusing on

1641
04:18:08.079 --> 04:18:36.639
your hands, not to searly feel because the relacs do

1642
04:18:36.719 --> 04:18:45.959
your hands feel the calm w your mind feels and

1643
04:18:49.879 --> 04:18:54.840
comforts you feel throughout your body.

1644
04:19:00.760 --> 04:19:11.440
Gee may have whody.

1645
04:19:13.559 --> 04:19:26.920
Noticed you mid is.

1646
04:19:29.719 --> 04:19:56.520
Starting to draft, Like said, just on your hands and fingers,

1647
04:20:01.440 --> 04:20:13.920
allowing and cheat the experience a real deepening of that

1648
04:20:14.280 --> 04:20:30.399
relaxation in your hands and fingers, a more relaxed.

1649
04:20:34.879 --> 04:20:36.360
With each number.

1650
04:20:43.920 --> 04:20:59.639
From eight down to one, almost feel that healing really

1651
04:21:00.600 --> 04:21:07.040
in the y spread it into your hands and fingers,

1652
04:21:10.360 --> 04:21:37.120
becoming relaxing with each number going down eight down to one,

1653
04:21:41.440 --> 04:22:43.520
drifting drifting again started with number seven.

1654
04:24:32.280 --> 04:25:54.559
Three, just being here now.

1655
04:25:58.040 --> 04:26:04.120
Nothing to think about, nothing to do, nothing to say,

1656
04:26:08.239 --> 04:26:19.840
and everything just feels calm. This is your natural state

1657
04:26:19.959 --> 04:26:28.399
of being. This is how you just normally feel when

1658
04:26:29.000 --> 04:26:33.360
you take away all that other stuff.

1659
04:26:35.440 --> 04:26:36.360
That we add.

1660
04:26:37.920 --> 04:26:44.399
I thinks like stress and way we're here, I think.

1661
04:26:47.440 --> 04:26:49.239
Anxiety in ten.

1662
04:26:54.040 --> 04:26:55.719
Ship, thinking about so.

1663
04:26:58.399 --> 04:27:01.319
Take that away, which is what we do.

1664
04:27:02.079 --> 04:27:02.959
What we do now.

1665
04:27:09.399 --> 04:27:10.120
He left with.

1666
04:27:12.879 --> 04:27:21.360
A real sense of apasonments which comes to you very

1667
04:27:21.479 --> 04:27:35.159
quickly because ANSI please. It's just a feeling, a feeling

1668
04:27:36.200 --> 04:27:43.399
of confidence, a most as if you've got inside yourself.

1669
04:27:43.680 --> 04:27:58.639
You've found a special place where everything is as place

1670
04:27:58.840 --> 04:28:03.840
with in the film relaxed and you're actual.

1671
04:28:05.559 --> 04:28:17.399
Sense confid a place where bak, we can.

1672
04:28:18.000 --> 04:28:24.719
Accept yourself and you are the place where you're not

1673
04:28:24.959 --> 04:28:41.639
try release anybody else place week again actually not just

1674
04:28:42.040 --> 04:28:47.120
love yourself, but in some ways more importantly, you can

1675
04:28:47.520 --> 04:29:04.959
like yourself, appreciate who you are, a sense of gratitude.

1676
04:29:08.120 --> 04:29:19.520
In the air world. That's also a place where you

1677
04:29:21.879 --> 04:29:29.840
can actual feel the healing energy soaking into your body.

1678
04:29:36.520 --> 04:29:50.040
Healing energy soaking into your body, hearing energy spreads through

1679
04:29:50.239 --> 04:30:01.600
your face, traveling to each every single part of your body.

1680
04:30:07.760 --> 04:30:12.120
You start to realize that actually a healing energy.

1681
04:30:14.600 --> 04:30:21.000
It's not just entered into your brain, it's become part

1682
04:30:21.520 --> 04:30:22.639
of your brain.

1683
04:30:27.760 --> 04:30:29.639
The spinal fluid.

1684
04:30:32.000 --> 04:30:42.719
Is now mixed up healing energy, not just allowing you

1685
04:30:43.040 --> 04:30:46.360
to feel so much more relaxed.

1686
04:30:47.799 --> 04:30:48.959
And healthy.

1687
04:30:50.120 --> 04:30:51.040
In this moment.

1688
04:30:55.520 --> 04:30:56.600
But also.

1689
04:30:59.120 --> 04:31:07.639
You start to realize to actually, what's happening now, the healing,

1690
04:31:08.719 --> 04:31:18.360
relaxing energy spreading through your body, it's actually changing your life.

1691
04:31:23.520 --> 04:31:28.639
It's actually changing the way you're going to feel not

1692
04:31:28.920 --> 04:31:36.280
just now, but tomorrow and the next day. Because your

1693
04:31:36.399 --> 04:31:44.440
health improves, not just your physical health, but your mental health.

1694
04:31:48.440 --> 04:31:53.600
Things that used to bother you in the past, for

1695
04:31:53.760 --> 04:31:59.719
some reason, no longer have the effect that the yeast

1696
04:32:02.920 --> 04:32:05.639
because something has changed.

1697
04:32:06.760 --> 04:32:08.000
Deep within you.

1698
04:32:13.079 --> 04:32:19.479
Maybe things that used to cause you to feel anger

1699
04:32:23.319 --> 04:32:33.440
no longer have that power to control you the way

1700
04:32:33.520 --> 04:32:41.520
they seem to be able to before. As you realize

1701
04:32:42.559 --> 04:32:54.959
that you're the one who decides what affects you, You're

1702
04:32:55.520 --> 04:33:05.360
the one who decides to feel relaxed and calm when

1703
04:33:06.279 --> 04:33:24.520
you choose to enjoy noticing these natural developments, healing continue

1704
04:33:25.000 --> 04:33:38.840
to grow and improve your life day by day, include

1705
04:33:39.040 --> 04:33:41.240
and course, suability.

1706
04:33:42.560 --> 04:33:47.080
To relax so much easier.

1707
04:33:51.439 --> 04:34:00.599
And sleep in. It's the most natural thing in the

1708
04:34:00.759 --> 04:34:09.759
world to you because for in, the sleep is something

1709
04:34:09.959 --> 04:34:15.479
that you've done so many times.

1710
04:34:16.799 --> 04:34:22.400
In your life, and you know that you were born,

1711
04:34:23.919 --> 04:34:24.919
as we all were.

1712
04:34:25.599 --> 04:34:35.680
With the ability to fall asleep. Naturally, we're born.

1713
04:34:36.840 --> 04:34:39.439
With that ability.

1714
04:34:41.880 --> 04:34:43.639
To just drift.

1715
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Off into a deep, healing sleep. Even when we're kids,

1716
04:34:58.680 --> 04:35:01.560
sometimes it's all fall sleep, or Daddy don't want to

1717
04:35:03.599 --> 04:35:08.080
try to think of stay awake. Maybe it's a birthday

1718
04:35:08.159 --> 04:35:12.479
in the morning, though it's Christmas or holiday or something we.

1719
04:35:12.560 --> 04:35:15.000
Look forward to. Down't want to go to sleep.

1720
04:35:17.240 --> 04:35:22.200
But the more you want to stay awake, the more

1721
04:35:22.479 --> 04:35:30.759
we just start to drift. And the more you fight drifting,

1722
04:35:31.680 --> 04:35:37.159
which might stop yourself from drifting a sleep, the detail

1723
04:35:37.400 --> 04:35:48.880
is stronger thout drifting becomes because we're born not just

1724
04:35:49.080 --> 04:35:55.799
with the need to relax deeply and to naturally fall asleep,

1725
04:35:59.000 --> 04:36:00.400
but it's out the right.

1726
04:36:03.759 --> 04:36:04.680
It's part of our.

1727
04:36:04.880 --> 04:36:16.919
DNA, and sometimes as we get older in life, perhaps

1728
04:36:17.159 --> 04:36:30.040
at times we have built in the relaxing completely. It's

1729
04:36:30.159 --> 04:36:43.200
not only a wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also really easy.

1730
04:36:54.599 --> 04:36:57.360
It's very very easy.

1731
04:36:58.720 --> 04:36:59.319
Do they go.

1732
04:37:01.319 --> 04:37:03.080
Because that's all it is. It's just.

1733
04:37:06.599 --> 04:37:18.040
Decided to that game. And when you press the play

1734
04:37:18.159 --> 04:37:29.279
button on my recordings, you have given permission for my voice.

1735
04:37:30.599 --> 04:37:31.200
To election.

1736
04:37:35.040 --> 04:37:38.560
When you press that play button, you have given me

1737
04:37:38.720 --> 04:37:54.240
permission for my words to effect in a positive only

1738
04:37:54.720 --> 04:38:13.080
a positive way, and you know the mind to useful.

1739
04:38:14.119 --> 04:38:18.720
And healing suggestions.

1740
04:38:23.279 --> 04:38:23.919
They can have.

1741
04:38:28.520 --> 04:38:40.880
Such an amazing effect how you feel right now, as

1742
04:38:41.000 --> 04:38:51.840
well as those changes that continue long after the recording ends.

1743
04:38:53.639 --> 04:39:08.279
Those changes within you you to flourish and grow, transforming

1744
04:39:09.159 --> 04:39:17.000
your life in positive, beautiful way.

1745
04:39:19.840 --> 04:39:25.000
Allowing you to move forward your.

1746
04:39:24.880 --> 04:39:29.200
Life in the direction that you choose.

1747
04:39:30.439 --> 04:39:31.240
For yourself.

1748
04:39:40.560 --> 04:39:52.319
This feeling is feeding there and experience of safety, comfort, calmness.

1749
04:40:00.119 --> 04:40:14.080
This feels so nice, such a healthy place to be,

1750
04:40:21.959 --> 04:40:27.360
and that positivity grows within it.

1751
04:40:33.119 --> 04:40:45.439
In every day moved forward. You had to find that.

1752
04:40:47.159 --> 04:40:48.000
You are but.

1753
04:40:48.240 --> 04:40:52.080
Acted physically.

1754
04:40:54.720 --> 04:41:05.400
And in mind acts And it's not that you're thinking slower,

1755
04:41:07.720 --> 04:41:11.319
it's just that your mind will be less knocked up

1756
04:41:12.400 --> 04:41:17.080
if unnecessary negativity.

1757
04:41:20.240 --> 04:41:22.319
Because from now your.

1758
04:41:22.360 --> 04:41:25.759
Mind rejects negativity.

1759
04:41:29.759 --> 04:41:31.720
From now you're going.

1760
04:41:31.639 --> 04:41:43.240
To start noticing when negativity arises. You can just say stop,

1761
04:41:48.319 --> 04:41:57.439
stop and that negativity will turn it around and believe

1762
04:41:57.720 --> 04:42:12.599
your life. Stop and then neget to the tea.

1763
04:42:15.639 --> 04:42:16.240
Disappear.

1764
04:42:24.599 --> 04:42:30.799
Did you notice that you feel way on the next

1765
04:42:32.319 --> 04:42:47.880
then you've probably expected now co congratulate yourself because you

1766
04:42:48.040 --> 04:42:49.639
are the person.

1767
04:42:49.959 --> 04:42:55.720
That has done this. You are the one that has.

1768
04:42:55.720 --> 04:42:59.919
Opened your mind up to the simple faith.

1769
04:43:03.360 --> 04:43:07.840
If you can't feel more resting body.

1770
04:43:08.400 --> 04:43:17.400
End in your mind, you follow your mind up.

1771
04:43:17.520 --> 04:43:25.560
To the birthright of being able to just all asleep

1772
04:43:25.919 --> 04:43:41.840
easily when he chews. That's a nice feeling, don't you think?

1773
04:43:44.599 --> 04:43:51.240
Who's nice? Doesn't that to feel calm?

1774
04:43:52.959 --> 04:43:53.880
Who may hear?

1775
04:43:54.000 --> 04:43:58.240
The energy is splitting through your body in your mind.

1776
04:44:04.919 --> 04:44:06.000
Spend time.

1777
04:44:08.080 --> 04:44:24.000
A special place where negativity can no longer inter Negativity

1778
04:44:24.200 --> 04:44:24.759
is bad.

1779
04:44:25.840 --> 04:44:28.319
It's bad, it's.

1780
04:44:28.200 --> 04:44:29.759
No allowed, dream.

1781
04:44:32.119 --> 04:44:36.439
Doesn't doesn't this doesn't deserve to be here, doesn't been

1782
04:44:36.639 --> 04:44:55.040
long here. Negativity has no place in your life, which

1783
04:44:55.200 --> 04:44:57.840
makes room for more comfort.

1784
04:44:59.880 --> 04:45:00.479
H oh he.

1785
04:45:03.479 --> 04:45:30.319
Relaxation, peace, It was nice as that it was just.

1786
04:45:34.000 --> 04:45:34.400
They go.

1787
04:45:38.080 --> 04:46:00.240
Everything. I count down now from twenty downs one. You

1788
04:46:00.360 --> 04:46:06.959
can continue to relax, change again.

1789
04:46:09.720 --> 04:46:12.439
To sleep.

1790
04:46:15.880 --> 04:46:28.080
Every number, he would say, film twoice is relaxed.

1791
04:46:31.000 --> 04:46:35.799
Who if you change, feel no wise sleeping.

1792
04:46:42.200 --> 04:46:42.360
Now.

1793
04:46:47.319 --> 04:46:48.799
I'm twenty.

1794
04:46:57.439 --> 04:47:06.799
Ninety eight.

1795
04:47:13.799 --> 04:48:30.680
Seven six stay nine eight.

1796
04:48:47.119 --> 04:48:47.520
Six.

1797
04:49:36.880 --> 04:49:38.000
This is your time.

1798
04:49:41.080 --> 04:49:56.560
Just take a break, your time, relax, to down wand

1799
04:49:56.720 --> 04:50:06.919
to slip down, to give.

1800
04:50:06.759 --> 04:50:08.200
Yourself as.

1801
04:50:12.919 --> 04:50:14.639
To take a great.

1802
04:50:19.319 --> 04:50:28.040
From everything. Would you have I'm the person to give

1803
04:50:28.520 --> 04:50:41.200
a decision, the person you can actually tell why, just as.

1804
04:50:49.279 --> 04:50:49.720
To just.

1805
04:50:53.400 --> 04:50:54.720
Take some time.

1806
04:51:05.680 --> 04:51:30.240
Fus on body getting to physically in the process, focus

1807
04:51:30.639 --> 04:51:53.799
on those parts and fads observes the question these parts

1808
04:51:53.840 --> 04:52:03.479
of the STS its spirits.

1809
04:52:03.319 --> 04:52:05.639
Is to.

1810
04:52:16.159 --> 04:52:38.000
Its past attention is focused. It's my words I famous

1811
04:52:43.119 --> 04:53:01.759
poets focus and classes actually shoots.

1812
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Since anybody, no man, any ms. Thank