April 29, 2025

(music) Altered Sensory Experience | Let me bore your pain away #31 | Jason Newland | 29th April 2025

(music) Altered Sensory Experience | Let me bore your pain away #31 | Jason Newland | 29th April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. Money Miss Jason Newland,

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please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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This is let me boil your pain away. So also

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only listen to this when, first of all, you know

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the cause of your chronic condition, and also you've being

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diagnosed by a doctor and a doctor has given you

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permission to listen to this particular recording. Now, what I'll

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do before we go further to let you know, I

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do have a Facebook page, Jason Newland's Boring Group. I

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have a YouTube channel which is also got all my

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podcast episodes on It's at Jason Newland and I basically

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do six versions of each recording, one with music, one

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without music, five and ten hours with and without music.

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And the five and ten hours also have like affirmations,

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counting down, body scans, relaxation, So it's you know, it's

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you can have ten hours of me just talking softly

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with or without music. So today what the main let's

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give you like a summary of what these podcasts are.

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Let Me Boil your Pain Away is something that I've

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been doing for a while, but I think this is

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the thirty first recording. I started doing it a bit

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more regularly and recently, so it's just here, me here

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to help, to try and what as it says on

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the tin, you know, let me bore your pain away.

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I've actually got a lovely comment on my groupe Jason

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Newland's Boring group on Facebook from Ali says, not sure

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the best way to leave your feedback, but especially after

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I think Friday's recording where you admitted that you have

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no idea if let Me Bore your Pain Away was

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helping anyone, which is true. I have not really had

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much feedback on these recordings, and Ali goes on to say,

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I've been meaning to say something even before you said that.

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These recordings especially have been helping me enormously this year.

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I've had multiple health issues since the start of the

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year and sphere nerve pain and go too much detail,

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but since February. So I'm beyond appreciate it appreciated for

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being bored to not feel the pain so intensely. And

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please let you know that you're helping so many people.

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Thank you, and love to Vinnie as well, So thank

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you very much. Ali. I mean, it's, you know, for

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every I kind of figured out years ago that for

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every one person that does actually say something like say

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that it's useful. There's going to be other people out

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there that also feel the same way. They just haven't

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got round to leaving a message or sending a message

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or leaving a comment. And a lot of that is

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possibly due to even not wanting to. But also when

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you're listening to me, because I'm guessing a lot of

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people would be sitting or lying down with their eyes closed.

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You're not going to want to jump up and so

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let me have a look at my phone and post

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a message because you're relaxing. So it's fine, but it's

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lovely to hear messages like that or to read messages

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like that. It does make a big difference to me.

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It gives me more of a i don't know, more enthusiasm.

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I guess to keep doing it. So, yeah, this is

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number thirty one. So I've been doing it quite regularly recently.

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And what I started, and I'm kind of playing around

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with different ideas and I talk about various different chronic

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pain relief techniques. So what I started yesterday is looking

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through lots different books and so you've got hypnosis or

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Chronic Pain Management Therapist Guide by Mark P. Jensen. Entire

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book is on hypnosis for chronic pain, and it's based

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on research at the University of Washington Pain Center. It's

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got detailed hypnosis scripts and cognitive behavior techniques combined with

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hypnotic methods, and there's a few books that's have come up.

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So what I'm going to do. What I've started doing

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is just focusing on that book. I've got my bookshelf

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as well, but I've used chat GPT just to scan

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through the book and go through various different things. So

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what stuck out mostly was if I can find it

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is the key techniques. So the key techniques of this

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book pain dissociation, altered sensory experience, time distortion, pain blocking, imagery,

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empowerment scripts, and post hypnotic cues. So what I'm going

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to do is talk about each of those one at

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a time. So yesterday I talked about pain dissociation. Today

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I'm going to discuss altered sensory experience, which is changing

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the feeling of pain into another sensation like warmth for coolness.

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So that's what I'm focusing on in this recording. Basically,

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altered sensory experiences uses hypnotic suggestions to transform the felt

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quality of pain into something neutral or even pleasant, which

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dramatically reduces the emotional and sensory intensity of chronic pain.

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So it's changing the feeling ultimately. And because our imaginations

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are so powerful, and it's just amazing how powerful our

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imaginations are now when we think about something, and it's

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almost like our brain doesn't even know the difference between

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what's real and what's actually being imagined. You imagine they're

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having your feet in a cold river. You're sitting on

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the edge of a river bank and just got your

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feet in the cold river. And the more you get

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into it, the cooler your feet become. Because you know,

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even if you had never done that, you've probably done

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something similar. You know what it's like to have your

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feet in cold water at some point, even if it's

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just stepping into a getting into a swim swim pool,

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or paddling and the sea, or getting into a bath

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that's a bit cold. I thinks you have to wait

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until it's heated up. And there's lots of different scenarios

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stepping into a puddle, so we know what it feels

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like and to have cold water on your foot. And

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when you imagine that feeling and it's really weird. The

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more you talk about it, the more you focus on it,

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the more you start to have that coolness feeling in

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your feet, And it's just weird. It's weird. It's kind

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of I guess it's obvious that it's going to happen,

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but the same side, it might feel a bit strange

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that it's happening, because why we're just thinking about something

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cause the feelings, the physical feelings in your feet to change.

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But then it's the same thing with emotions, isn't it.

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When we focus on something, the feelings get stronger. If

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you focus on how much you care about someone, or

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you focus about something that you're angry about, those emotions

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increase because you're focused on it. So if you focus

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on just like how you feel now emotionally, and now

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focus on someone the absolutely adore. It could be grandchild,

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it could be your parent, it could be your partner,

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it could be your own child. It could be your

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dog or your cat, or your ferret or your goldfish,

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it could be anything, any any kind of person, and

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focus on them. Just focus on that person. You might

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be able to see their face in your mind and

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your imagination. Maybe you can kind of hear their voice,

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their smile. Maybe it's just a feeling. You have a

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really strong feeling, and maybe that feeling causes you to

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smile because it's pleasurable, and maybe you're thinking about something

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funny that they did, something cute that they did, and

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it feels nice. I mean, technically, you could perhaps move

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that feeling into the body part that you've been having

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problems with, and notice what happens there. I guess that's

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I'm going to move it into my lower back. And

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at the moment it's kind of in my head and

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my chest, so I can move it into my lower back.

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It's strange. It's just weird the way it's kind of

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just moved. Ah. So it's changed. And it's weird because

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it's not a feeling that I can actually really verbalize,

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as in, you know, you've got comfort, discomfort, hot, cold.

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This is an emotion, but it's also a feeling. I

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suppose I'd describe it as a kind of a lightness, cool, uplifting, gentle,

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very gentle, somewhere that only comfort could be Sometimes, I

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think comfort can can only be comfortable when that comfort's there,

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nothing else can really be there. I'm just trying to

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think of like a little child's hands, you know, like

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a two year old child hands. Put their hands together,

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and you can maybe put a grape or maybe maybe

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like a little pair can put in their hands and

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they can hold it. But you put a watermelon in

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it in their hands and they're probably going to drop

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it because their hands aren't really suitable for holding watermelons.

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Weird analogy. I just realize it's quite a strange thing

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to say. But at the same time, the hands are

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not suited for that, suited for small, gentle things. And

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when you've got a nice emotion moves into a part

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of your body, then it feels different. The weird thing, though,

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I find with nice feelings is even when it moves,

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it's spread to my lower back, but it's spread to

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all of my body. My whole body is feeling quite

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good right now. Oh that's nice. Ah, yeah, it's nice.

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It's nice sometimes just to take some time to relax,

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you know, takes some time to just let go. I

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got the window open. There's the birdie singing downstairs. Are

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having a bathroom refitted, so it's been it's been a

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fair bit of noise down there. There's proper building work

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going on. I'm hoping that it will be fairly calm,

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because it has been for the last hour or so,

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so I'm hoping it's going to be calm. If there

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is background sound, it doesn't really matter because this is

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not sleep recording, or they may find yourself drifting off.

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And if you don't know it sounds about birds in

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the background, then you need to have a word with

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the birds, because even if the window was closed, I'd

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still hear them. They're very loud sometimes, but I'm a

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big fan of birds singing. It's beautiful. I think I

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did as someone complain once saying, I like your recordings.

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This is a sleep recordings. Yeah, I like the recordings,

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but will you shut them bloody birds up? Like, yeah,

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I'm i supposed to shut It's hard because they're up

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at like three in the morning in the summer, the peak,

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the peak hours. You know, they're up really early until

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really late. And that tree was there long before I

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was here, and I'm guessing that tree was possibly there

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before this building was even here. This building's been here

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since about nineteen seventy eight, so basically you've got altered

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century experience, also known as century substitution or transformation. So

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it's different ways of doing this really. I mean, it's

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going to list some ways to do it from the book,

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but I know about this anyway. So this here's something

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I used to do. So I used to Let's say

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someone's got a problem in their left one part of

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their body. So for example, the less side of my

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right if I focus, I can get the pain back

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in my chronic in my lower back if I focus

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on it. Yeah, it's arthritis, it's kind of it's there,

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but I can like manipulate it a bit. It's okay, right.

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So I can't get it to be when I'm doing

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the recordings, No venon, don't bark, lose mate. When I

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do these recordings, I can't get it to be high

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because it just won't. Because when I'm making these recordings,

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I'm in a certain state of mind, very peaceful, calm,

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relaxed mode, you know, mentally physically as well. Actually, to

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be fair, and there's very limited you're not much in

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a way as stress going on in my body or

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my mind. My mind does slow down, but it's also

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operating in you know, in a way that that allows

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me to work to talk HM. So if I focus

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on my left side of my back. This is something

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you can do if you've got like a mirror to

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where you I say, it's your left hand that was

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the problem, or your left need it was a problem,

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or or your shoulders or whatever. As an example. Doesn't

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have to be the other side. Doesn't have to be

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like you're right here your left knee like that, but

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it can be useful. I mean, you can just do

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a completely different part of your body if you want.

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So if someone had a bad like a wrist, problems

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with their left wrist, they could focus on I don't know,

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you could focus on your shoulder, you can focus on

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your lower back, or you can focus on your jaw,

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doesn't really matter. So you focus on the first part

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of your body, the part that was problematic to start

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with before you start listening to this, and then choose

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another part of your body to focus on, a part

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that feels absolutely fine. And this is a way where

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you can maybe start to neutralize that physical sensation. So

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I focus on my lower back and then focus in

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I'm gonna do it with my hands. I focus on

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my lower back, then focus on my right hand. Okay,

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focus on my lower back. Focus on my right hand,

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and I'm not trying to do anything with my right hand.

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I'm not trying to do anything on my left with

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my lower back either. It's a technique with an outcome.

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You don't really need to focus on the outcome, not really,

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although you know there's the benefits of expectation when you

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expect it to be useful and to work. And they say,

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I focus on the left side of my lower back,

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lower back, and I expect that by doing that, I

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keep moving between the different sides, that the left side

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will start to become almost neutral. So there's that expectation.

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expecting what I talk about to work really well for you,

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it can still be useful because you're learning and finding

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out for yourself what is useful for you. Because they're

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all differently, and one thing might be more helpful than

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another thing. You may find that as soon as you

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start listening to my voice that something changes within your

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mind and your body. And the more often you listen

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to me, whether it's to let me boil you to

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sleep or let me buoil your pain away, whether it's

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whatever it is. You might find that you just to

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automatically feel more relaxed. And when you feel relaxed, those

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parts of your body that maybe had a degree of

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discomfort before you started listening to me start to automatically

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neutralize in their own time without any effort on your part.

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But for the sake of this recording, that that's probably worth.

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Maybe focus now on doing some of the exercises. But

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I'm not gonna ask you to do anything difficult, and

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I'm not even going to ask you to necessarily do anything.

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It's just about imagining. If you were to do it,

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I'm going to do it, and I'll talk you through

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how it feels for me. And if you want to

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join in and participate, then of course you can. But

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it's up to you. You may just decire to listen,

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wrap your mind around the ideas, and some of these

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ideas may stay with you so you can change. I mean,

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that's different ways of doing this. You can change how

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it feels by not even trying to change how it feels.

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So with that technique, it's the time for bell I think.

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So for that technique of just focusing on different parts

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of your body, like you know, let's say for me,

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my lower back, left side, then my right side, then

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my left side, then my right side, left side, right side,

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without really I mean you could say, well, I was

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gonna say, without doing anything. You are focusing, so I

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guess you are doing something, and maybe the fact that

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you're expecting changes to occur it is also having a

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positive effect on how you feel differently. Now, it's not

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like we're trying to eliminate the physical discomfort directly. Instead,

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when you even focus on changing the sensory qualities, and

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so you're focusing on maybe changing or imagining, just imagining

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it's changing. So you can focus on things like temperature

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changing hot to cool or cold to warm, you know,

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whichever suits you. Then this text changing sharp to smooth

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and color. This is something that I've done. One of

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my earliest things I used to do with helping people

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with chronic pain is changing the color. So I would

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start off with the color that the person has already,

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So I just get the person and get you to

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imagine that part of your body just moving it out

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of your body like it was a circle, like it

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was an object just moving out in front of you

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and just noticing what color is naturally as the bathroom

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continues to be built. I hope you can't hear that

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too much. Lot lot I can do about it. It's

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either do this. I watch television and I think this

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is a bit more useful of my time. So you

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can imagine this thing moving out of your body, the

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part of the body that physical sensation. You can give

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it a color. You could call it angry red and

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then change it, or you can just what color is

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already naturally in your mind. So you do this with

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your eyes closed. If you can visualize of your eyes open,

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you can do it your eyes open. It's up to you.

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And then just change the color. Change it from red

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to blue. Then maybe change it for blue to yellow,

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change it from yellow to green, green to orange, and

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just changing it all time, moving around, just you know,

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playing with the different colors. But there's more you can

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do with that. So you've got it in front of you.

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change the shape. So if it comes out and it's

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a triangle, or if it's spiky, spiky, you can change

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that shape. So it's a soft circle and then turns

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into a triangle or a rectangle or just a blob.

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Maybe it becomes fainter so not quite as clear, like

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you've changed the focus on the lens. And then you

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can perhaps move it away so it's further away, and

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as we all know, can have a big impact on

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how you feel differently from what you did before when

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that feeling is pushed away, and then you can move it.

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You can turn it around, if it's already spinning in

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a certain direction, to stop it and turn it around

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and spin it the other way, and notice how that feels,

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because that can reverse the way you were feeling before.

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It's a spinning wheel, and stopping it and spinning it

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the other way, and just notice how that feels differently,

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and you spin it the opposite way. You could even

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speed up the spin in the opposite way, so the

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feeling turns from neutral to even pleasurable. You can move

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it even further away to the point where you can

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you can nail it against the wall far away so

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it can't move, nail it in so it's in the wall,

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can't move maybe add some super glued to the back

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of it first, and then you can turn around in

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your mind and look at something else, focusing on something different,

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noticing feeling relaxed. Maybe there's a sound connected to it.

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Maybe you can hear buzzing or humming, so perhaps you

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can just turn out volume down so it's silent, or

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maybe change it from buzzing to humming. Maybe even give

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that image a silly tune. So when you focus on

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that image that you've pushed out of your body, or

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whenever you think about that part of your body where

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that discomfort used to be, you have a silly tune.

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I always like to think of the Benny Hill thing tune.

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You know, do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

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Do Do do do that one. But it can be anything.

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It can be the most sticky Barbie Girl. It could

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be a song that you find silly. So this tricks

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the brain into reinterpreting the signal, which reduces stress and

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often the physical intensity itself. It's like you're telling the brain,

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this is not dangerous. Is something different now, it's a

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different feeling. It's a different sensation because the brain interprets

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that physical feeling based on context. And meaning, it's not

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a fixed experience and we're always changing anyway. How we

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feel is changing all the way through the day. How

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you felt at the beginning of this recording or before

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you started listening to my squeaky voice, it's going to

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feel different to how you feel now. Say now about

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my voice, I feel like I might my voice is

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getting a little bit. I don't know. We need to water.

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Does feel a little bit? It just a little bit.

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I feel like I'm turning into a daralek. I wonder what, Yeah,

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you can relax relax, that's that would be? Would it work?

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Come set, calm yourself down, Focus on your mind, focus

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on your brain. Relax. I tell it's weird because I've

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done I've been doing body scants for years and years

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and years, and someone found out my telephone number somehow,

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and they left me a message on my phone on

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my answer machine, and the message was this, relax your face,

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relax your hands, relax, And they started going through body

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parts that I wouldn't normally talk about in a body scan,

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and they started laughing hysterically and hung Up. To this day,

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I still do not know who it was. That was

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about Wow, thirteen years ago. So physical sensations. As I said,

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it's always changing, always changing, and it involves multiple pain

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areas or brain areas. The pain involves with multiple brain areas,

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has done all other feelings always, It's not just one

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particular part of your brain. So you've got the sensory cortex,

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the emotion center, attention networks. So there's a lot more

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going on, but again down to what you're focusing on

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as well. And also by changing how or telling how

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the brain how to label the feelings, such as when

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you're changing it to warmth or tingling or vibration, it

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then down grades or down regulates that physical perception changes

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how you feel. Now you are retraining the brain to

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reinterpret the signal. I mean, it's a little bit like

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I talked about this thing maybe yesterday or the day before.

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It's not my story. It's just a story that I've

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heard multiple times about a man on a building's site

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and he stands on a nail, goes through his boot.

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He's screaming in agony, gets taken to the hospital, and

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you know, they back to find basically like his boot

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filled with blood because I had to remove the It

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was a really big one of those big spiky nails

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that you get on building sites. Wasn't a small now anyway.

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When they actually cut his shoe off or his boot off,

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they nail had gone through his between his big toe

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and his and his first thing, Yeah, the first finger,

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the first toe hadn't even touched his toes, so in

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that second his brain retrained. So his brain was being

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retrained to reinterpret the signal like instantly. And the weird

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thing about it is it's introing. I just find that interesting.

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But as soon as he saw his own eyes that

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there is no damage. His foot had not even been touched.

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And I don't know if he's wearing clown shoes or something,

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but he it's like it didn't hurt anymore, which just

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goes to show that our brain is responsible. And it

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still blows my mind really, the fact that all physical

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sensations come from the brain, but the brain has no

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physical sensations in it. There are no nerve endings in

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the brain, which has feeling. People can have brain surgery

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while they're awake as long as I have local anesthetic,

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they don't feel a single thing. When the brain's being

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whatever it's gonna say, scooped out but you know, whatever

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they do with the brain, no physical discomfort, no physical feelings.

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They love emotions that have smells, they'll have sensations caused

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by different parts of the body, being different parts of

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the brain activating different things in the in the body.

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But there's no pain sensation in the brain. So the

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part of the brain, the part of the body causes

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the pain, but there's no pain in the brain. Even

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though the brain causes the pain, there's no pain in

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the brain. Just it's a weird concept, and I still

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struggle with that one. It's not that difficult I suppose

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to understand, but it still seems like weird. It's it's

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just strange. So retraining the brain, that's kind of a

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supposed part of what we do here, what we're doing.

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And also our opinions can change in an instant. Our feelings,

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our thoughts, our interpretations of something can change so quickly,

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you know, if you sometimes just one little bit of

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information can transform the situation. I remember Big Brother. I

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was watching Big Brother years ago, and they're all in

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the garden if you haven't seen it as a TV

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show like reality show, cameras and stuff, so there's loads

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of them in the garden. It's right at the early

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I think things just started. It could be me, but

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hopefully not. And they're all in the garden and they're

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talking about loss. She was getting quite a heavy conversation,

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and one of the ladies said, my, you know, my

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child drowned, and they were all like cuddling her and

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like just she was crying and everyone was like upset

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and crying. And then when all that finished, she started

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saying about she's looking forward to seeing her daughter again

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when she gets out. And they said, what how many daughters?

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You got? Just one? But you said that she drowned. Said, oh,

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yes she did, but she she got resuscitated instantly. And

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I'm talking within a second, with an instant, less than

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a second. All those people that were around her comfort

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to her that had all this emotion, it turned to

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anger because they felt misled or manipulated or whatever. They

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turned to anger because they felt that she had just

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blatantly lied. She didn't start, you know. I mean, it's

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a heavy subject, I know, but it was so interesting

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to see because I drowned. I drowned in a swimming pool,

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but I got resuscitated, so technically I did drown, but

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I didn't die. But you know, it's a big difference,

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isn't there if you get saved. Imagine there's millions of

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people that have been saved over the years. But and

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I wasn't in hospital. I just got you know. It

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was in the seventies. There is a new new fad.

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We had wave machines in swimming pools, and I couldn't

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swim anyway, so I was always at the side. But

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I got pulled away from the side by the wave

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machine and I just went to the bottom of the

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just basically luckily someone had done. But I guess it's

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probably the swimming guard or whatever came and saved me.

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And I've never really been able to I've never felt

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comfortable in water since, really above my chest, Like I'm okay,

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I'm good at paddling. See, if I was really tall,

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i'd be okay. If I was about, I don't know,

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twenty foot tall, I'd love a swimming pool. Becaud still

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be you know, above my chest, wouldn't it. I'd be

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above my knees. I suppose to be fair or below

475
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my knees, below my chest, one of them. But they've

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changed instantly. That extra little bit of information someone just

477
00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:09.159
looking what else. So you've got different things you can choose,

478
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:13.239
like thermal shift, which you kind of talked about earlier,

479
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:21.800
imagining applying cool gel, water, ice or warmth. So I

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00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:27.679
do this sometimes when it's hot, I imagine getting because

481
00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:31.079
you can get those cool gel masks, can't you that

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00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:34.000
you can put on your eyes and stuff that you're

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putting a freezer or fridge or whatever. I used to

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use them years ago, And sometimes I just imagine it

485
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:49.000
on my forehead or on my eyes, a nice cool towel,

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00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:56.440
like a wet towel or something like that, or imagine

487
00:43:56.559 --> 00:44:05.239
ice melting on my forehead. Something I do like to

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00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:09.719
imagine is standing under a waterfall, but not like a

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00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:15.800
really big waterfall, just one that's it feels really nice

490
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:18.360
to stand under. And I don't know, I'm not talking

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about Niagara falls or anything. It'd be harder just to

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00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:27.039
stand un under Niagara falls. You'd need some kind of

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00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:32.440
a safety now, I suppose, But just having that water

494
00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:40.719
falling on top of your head gentle enough to be

495
00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:55.119
the most amazing scalp message. That's really nice. You can

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00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:00.280
use different textures, you know, because if you imagine sort

497
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:03.039
of a part of your body feeling like let's say,

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00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:08.079
like sandpaper. You can imagine it changing into a must

499
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:18.679
much softer material like silk, or I suppose gentle rubber

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00:45:18.719 --> 00:45:26.239
if you like rubber, or just a smooth surface, maybe

501
00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:37.760
like leather. Leather can be quite smooth. Because you know,

502
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:43.119
if you're wearing uncomfortable shoes, when you take those shoes off,

503
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:49.480
it feels so nice, doesn't it. Or even if you're

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00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.280
wearing comfortable shoes and you've been walking around for ages

505
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:55.519
or been wearing the shoes for a long time, you

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00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:59.320
get home or wherever you are, you just take the

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00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:02.840
shoes off and you sit down in a comfortable chair.

508
00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:09.400
It's a feeling. It's a real lovely feeling, and your

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00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:15.840
feet feel so relaxed in the same way as maybe

510
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.320
you've got trousers on and they're a little bit tight,

511
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.800
and you take the trousers off, or you undo your

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00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:26.800
belt under the top button of the trousers. I've done

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00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:30.880
that sometimes after I've been eating, just undo the trousers

514
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.800
a little bit, just the top two or three buttons

515
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:38.880
under the zip. Definitely get rid of the belt, but

516
00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:43.239
just you know, just pull me underpants, you know, pull

517
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:44.679
them out a little bit, just a little bit of

518
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:49.559
air get into the belly region, and it can make

519
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:54.840
such a difference for comfort. You can get your band

520
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:58.760
from restaurants, but other than that, it is pretty good.

521
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.960
But it's a nice feeling, just like getting home from

522
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:07.679
work and taking your tie off. If you wear a tie,

523
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:13.679
I'm doing a top button of your shirt, or getting

524
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:17.360
home taking your bra off. I know I don't wear

525
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.880
a bra anymore anymore, I don't wear a bra, but

526
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.320
I know a lot of people have told me that

527
00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:26.559
it's one of the favorite partis of the day getting

528
00:47:26.599 --> 00:47:34.320
home and just taking that thing off. So there's certain

529
00:47:34.440 --> 00:47:39.760
parts of all of our days where we can experience

530
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:43.960
you can experience a sense of comfort, a sense of relief,

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00:47:45.079 --> 00:47:54.039
a sense of a you know, sense of just m

532
00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:59.159
that's nice, even if it's only for a short period

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00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:07.440
of time. And that goes back to the fact that

534
00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:17.679
our feelings our the way it feels always changing always.

535
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:30.719
It's not a fixed experience, and maybe sometimes it feels

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00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:41.320
that every time you focus on that nice feeling of comfort, relaxation,

537
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:47.679
letting go. The more you focus on those feelings, the

538
00:48:47.719 --> 00:48:53.639
more you're going to notice those feelings of comfort and

539
00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:58.039
the more you're going to expect to experience more comfort

540
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:07.039
and relaxation and sense of peace of mind. And as

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00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.199
you know, the more you expect something to happen, the

542
00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:12.320
more likely it is going to happen. Because we get

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00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.159
what we focus on, We get more of what we

544
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:22.440
focus on, which then makes you wonder, Okay, what am

545
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:30.599
I focusing on? Or what do you want more of?

546
00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:36.719
So instead of focusing on what you don't want, focus

547
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:42.599
on what you do want. It's quite I find it

548
00:49:42.679 --> 00:49:47.360
quite interesting. I don't know about you, but it's it's

549
00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:58.199
an interesting old thing. It's very it's quite a powerful concept,

550
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:03.400
you know, being able to be abut to alter how

551
00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:08.360
you feel in your mind just imagining it, to imagine that,

552
00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:10.679
you know, you focus on the part of your body.

553
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:16.719
Imagine that that warm, a warm heading light begins to

554
00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:21.760
surround that area slowly, and as that light blends in,

555
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:26.599
the sharpness starts to soften, the heat phades, the sensation

556
00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:32.559
becomes cooler, calmer, more like a gentle breeze or a

557
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:38.679
soft vibration. So you can almost like introduce a feeling

558
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:49.679
and then change that feeling and test out the different feelings,

559
00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:59.639
and it's all imagination. But as you imagine your hands

560
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:12.320
became heavier, you imagine your hands becoming more relaxed. That's

561
00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:18.960
what happens to them, especially when you've got a calm mind.

562
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:27.519
You're relaxed and you're not fighting against yourself. You're traveling

563
00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:32.280
in all in the right direction, the same direction, your mind,

564
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:38.719
your brain, your emotions, your unconscious mind, everything's traveling in

565
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:44.480
the same direction, wanting the same thing, which is comfort, peace,

566
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:50.920
The sound of viny tune on a bone in the background,

567
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:56.119
something we all want, don't always has to do it.

568
00:51:56.199 --> 00:52:03.079
During a recording, you can change sharpness to smoothness, heat

569
00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:09.880
to coolness, pressure to floating, burning feelings to cool waves

570
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:17.079
or tingling sparks. You can imagine things like a cool

571
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:22.320
mountain stream flowing through the area that we've been focusing on,

572
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:28.079
So that cool mountain stream flowing gently through that area,

573
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:38.559
soothing each nerve, It touches and continues to flow, cleaning, cleansing, healing,

574
00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:46.000
and you can visualize it. You can if you want to.

575
00:52:46.119 --> 00:52:49.239
You can see it in your mind flowing through that

576
00:52:49.320 --> 00:53:04.960
part of your body, or you could imagine someone's wrapped

577
00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:09.360
that part of your body in a soft blue cloud

578
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:27.119
of comfort, cool, calming and protective. You can imagine spreading

579
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:31.360
honey over that part of your body and just imagine

580
00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:36.719
that honey soaking in deeply into that part of your body,

581
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:50.679
slowly changing everything it touches, healing, relaxing. So how do

582
00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:53.599
you feel now, How does that part of your body

583
00:53:53.599 --> 00:54:01.599
feel now? What's changed? And a good thing about it?

584
00:54:02.400 --> 00:54:05.280
Can you make more noise? Please, Penny. The good thing

585
00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.400
about it is the more often you play around with

586
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:11.559
this stuff, the easier it becomes. And then it starts

587
00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:19.320
to become automatic, because your brain starts to know that

588
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:27.920
when you have certain feelings, it's time to change them.

589
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:37.760
Time to change those feelings, transforming that quality, that physical

590
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:45.440
quality into something neutral or even pleasant, reducing the emotional

591
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:56.039
and physical intensity, leaving your feeling calm, loose, and peaceful.

592
00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:11.639
And that brings me to the end of this recording.

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I hope it's been mildly useful and I wish you well.

594
00:55:17.360 --> 00:55:20.880
Thank you for listening. Sorry, if there's been a bit

595
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:23.760
of background sound with this, I can't do a lot

596
00:55:23.800 --> 00:55:30.199
about that. As for Vinnie, well, he's the boss, So

597
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:33.000
thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself

598
00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:36.920
because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle

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00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:49.559
with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,