May 5, 2025

(no music) (5 hours) Placebo, Belief and Expectation | Let me bore your pain away #32 | Jason Newland | 5th May 2025

(no 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.

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I was a hit.

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We'd start finish making some strange noises. Welcome to Jasonnewland

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dot com. My name's Jason Newland, and this is let

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me boil your pain away. Please only listen when you

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can safely close your eyes. Also, only listen to this

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when you know the cause of you chronic pain and

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you have permission from your doctor to listen to this. Otherwise,

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please gain permission from your doctor or your medical practitioner.

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This is not a replacement 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, so you see that

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was quite a big I did five in twenty twenty two,

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and I think I did three in twoenty twenty four

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or three, you know. Anyway, So I'm now at number

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thirty two. Now this is the thirty second one, so

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I've done quite a few this year. Phini's making some

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weird noises.

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All right, I'm.

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Distracted, So before I go on, just let you know

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that my website has all my recordings which you can

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

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

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kind of go through lots of different things. Thousands of recordings,

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and I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group.

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I may shortly have 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 player, another place you.

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Can listen I did.

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I've got rid of my SoundCloud accounts, which I didn't

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realize was going to have an effect on people. It's

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about a few people contact me. I've tried to get

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them back, but they're deleted now, so they've gone. But

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you can listen to me on my website. You can

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listen on all of the major apps podcast apps, Spotify,

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Apple Podcasts, cast Box, all those and also on YouTube

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as well as directly on my website, and I post

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all the new recordings onto my Facebook group. Wow, that

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was a lot of it. So today I just had

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the urge. I don't really know why I have the

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little urge to talk about placebo and belief, which may

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seem like a strange thing to talk about when it

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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 they put people

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into groups, give the correct medication to. They give medication

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to all three, but they don't tell the three groups

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who's in each group. They'll all let the same condition.

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And let's say it's a new diabetic medication or it's

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a new paying relief for someone with arthritis in their foot,

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for example. So you're three groups. One gets the new medication,

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one gets no medication, and one gets the blacibo medication.

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So you got three people. That's probably not a good example.

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I'm not sure the one to get no medication because

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that would be bliss ebo. But so you've got ones

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that just have no medication, and is to see how

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the person feels after a week or two weeks or whatever,

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because sometimes people with no medication can have effects that

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are positive as well. Or maybe I'll have a one

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group that has just has the old medication, but they

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won't tell the people what it is, so they'll get tablets.

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So if they listen, they've got two groups. I'm not

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explaining this very well, am I. Yeah, So you've got

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both two groups, both getting place, both getting tablets. I

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should have thought this through before I started. I thought

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about it in my head for about five minutes, and

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which shows you how much effort I go into. One

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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.

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New drug that's supposed to be really useful, and they

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test it, and the placebo generally always get a high

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level as well high level of success.

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Now, I think if the people are told.

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There's two groups, one of you is going to get

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the new medication, one of you group is going to

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get the placebo. I think if someone's told that there's

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a fifty percent chance that they're going to get a placebo,

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which would just be like a sugar pill, which has nothing.

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Mind you, a pill full of sugar would be quite

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nice unless you're diabetic. And I'm kind of on the

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cusp of diabetes at the moment, so I love sugar,

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but it doesn't love me that Okay, you see the

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size of my back anyway. So if you notice a

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fifty percent of the placebo, how's that going to affect

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the outcome? It's a weird one. But anyway, I've kind

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of done a little bit of research, a little bit

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of had a little look, kind of a roots up

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exploration of how placebos can help to relieve chronic pain,

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and sort of looking into psychology, neurobiology and some clinical data.

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I'm just like looking looking.

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Through it and just seeing what comes up.

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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.

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Actually telling someone that a sugar pill is just the

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pill that they get being given is a new wonder

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drug and if the person really believes it. Because it's

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about belief as well. So that's one kind of looking

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

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have the power. Placebo needs that energy of belief. And

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that's Finny in the background, chomping on a chew chewy

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boney thing in case you're wondering what the noise is

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in the background. In a way, hypnosis is reliant upon

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I would say, I don't know. It's not reliant on belief,

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but there's the more belief you have. For example, if

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you listen to me regularly. Maybe you've listened to me

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for years doing other different recordings. Maybe you've been listening

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to these recordings for years, although there was quite a

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big gap between each recording, and you're a regular listener,

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or you become a regular listener, You're going to expect

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to feel more relaxed. You're going to expect me to

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come out with some weird things as well, which I'm

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going to do. I'm going to say some stuff that

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you won't normally 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, as you believe you're going to feel relaxed,

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you expect to for the part of your body that

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was troubling you before to feel more comfortable. Is that

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you believe that you're going to feel more at ease

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and more peaceful and loose and calm in that part.

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Of your body.

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So that's kind of what expectation is really isn't it.

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It's just belief, and so placebo and belief as well.

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It's kind of the same word is to see bow

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is expectation. It's expecting something to happen, something positive to happen,

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

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expect to feel relaxed.

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In your body.

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You expect your mind to calm down and become slower,

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your thoughts slowing down and almost to the point where

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you realize they're not necessarily needed right now as you

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focus on my voice. You expect that and you believe

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it's going to happen, because it's happened before. Maybe you

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know it's like a I don't know what it's self fulfilling,

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prophecy or something like that. I'm not sure we've prophecies

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the right word. That sounds way too spiritual, way too

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esoteric for me. So I think everyone knows what the

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word placebo means, but I'll mention it just in case

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I should see what the correct definition of is in

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the dictionary. So look a pla. A placebo effect is

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the portion of symptom change produced by the psychosocial context

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of treatment, expectations, conditioning, therapeutic ritual rather than by any

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direct pharma, pharmacological or physical action of the treatment itself. Wow,

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I said, mouthful, wasn't it. So it's based and you

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think about it. Yeah, placebo has a lot to do

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with healing anyway. So if someone goes to have an

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operation hip replacement, for example.

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And they're expecting to.

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Feel relief when they wake up after the operation, they're

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expecting to feel grateful because they're no longer going to

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be having that discomfort that they used to have. They're

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expecting to be walking. They're going to imagine themselves walking

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freely again soon with a bit of rehabilitation, a little

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bit of rest, a little bit of exercise, physiotherapy, whatever.

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But their expectation is positive and a belief is there

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that it's just a very positive situation. And because it's

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such a I'm not going to say simple operation, it's

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just a very often done operation. Millions of them are

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done around the world every year. So it's one of

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those almost like it's a stand it's almost like having

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your tonsils out. Now it's not, but you know what

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I mean, It's like the fear that would have been

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there fifty forty years ago doesn't need to be there anymore,

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because it's you can literally knock on the doors in

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your street and probably find two or three people have

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had their hip replaced, hip replaced, hips replaced. If I

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can get the words out, I mean, you might only

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live in a small road. So maybe not in that road,

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

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

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of more of a standard thing these days. So when

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you expect the recovery, when you expect to feel calmer

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and to feel that relief, then your healing is going

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to improve. And that belief is technically a placebo effect

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because you've almost tort yourself into believing that during or before,

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

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And every stage, every step of that process leads you

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towards freedom, leads you towards where you want to be,

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where you're looking forward to being. So it's kind of

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powerful that I quite like that, you know the idea

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that we actually use that placebo effect on ourselves, and

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it's more powerful when we do it on ourselves. But

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it doesn't seem like a placebo effect.

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Because it's real.

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It's not a little 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 gonna work out fine. And when

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

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

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

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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 could begin with P. Maybe you experienced that

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physical sensation in a different way so that it's now

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begins of h healing. I did notice years ago this

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is weird. I had a really.

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Dodgy back for my upper back, not my lower back.

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So I got arthrights on my lower back, but my

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upper back was problematic, and I think there's a lot

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of to do is I don't get.

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Back.

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Then I wasn't getting out enough and I went to

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the doctors and they put me on these 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 had to stop taking

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them because it was weird that they didn't really agree

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with me, and I thought they were just painkillers, but

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they weren't. They were as well, but that muscle like, nah,

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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 helped me

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put it on.

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It was basically not to stretch but.

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Straight, and I suppose just straight in my back because

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I was a bit of a sloucher, which is weird

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because I'm only three foot tall. I should be looking

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up at the sky a bit more often.

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Oh look at them things?

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Was that clouds And it was weird because I didn't

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like it, so I took it off. But I started

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doing exercise and after about two weeks of doing gener exercises,

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gentle stretches and going for regular walks, I was in

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the field and I was walking andre this is you know,

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it's quite a few years back, and I could feel

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my lower now I could feel my back, but I

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had a different feeling. It was almost like it was

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the same feeling, but it felt different, if that makes

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any sense. I wasn't seeing it, I wasn't experiencing it.

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I wasn't thinking.

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About it in the same way it was. And I

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

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sometimes feel that when the part of your body that

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

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my lower back. Sometimes if I give a bit of attention,

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

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whatever this is, you know, a bit of.

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A bit of calm, a bit of.

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You know, sometimes it feels a little bit itchy, not

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scratchy itchy, but just a little bit almost like parts

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of that part of my body, parts of it are

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kind of.

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I don't know how to explain.

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Do you know that that that Sherbert you can get

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and you put it in your mouth and it starts

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to sparkle. I don't know, it's got it really is

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love it and it just like basically pops out of

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your mouth. It's like it's really nice. I mean, I

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haven't had any for since two thousand and four, But

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which is weird that I remember that it was Christmas.

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I did a lot in two thousand and four, but

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it's a whole year, isn't it. And it felt a

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little bit like that, but like it was coming out

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of my back like a gentle sparkled definitely a feeling,

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but not a feeling that felt the same as what

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it was before. So you a part of your body

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don't feel the same. It feels having that sparkly kind

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of sensation, which is strange, but it's at the same

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time unusual. Maybe not might not class it's pleasurable, but

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it's definitely a weird sensation. Yeah, so I get that sometimes,

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and I just I noticed that back then when my

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back kind of sorted itself out. That's another thing that

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I found weird. While my upper back was being problematic,

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my lower back I had no problems with it. It's

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almost like I could only focus on one part at

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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 is it a little bit like pleasure,

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isn't it? It's some times focused Or when you've been

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doing a lot of walking, you take your shoes off,

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what do you notice? First of all, you notice how

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how much relief your feet have. Or if you get

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in from a cold day, you walk in and you

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take your coat off, and you realize how loose you fit,

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your shoulders feel because they were kind of a little

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bit restricted before. You might notice how light your body

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feels not having that big coat on. And when you

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take your parachute pack off, you realize, oh, it's much

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easier to walk about that one back. Next time I

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

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what we little things just 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 Vinny doing his utmost to be

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as noisy as possible in the background. So look at

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it place sebo 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 plasticity,

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which something that neuroscientists have really kind of It's not

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like a recent discovery, but I've read a couple of

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

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the technology, or a lot of the knowledge rather has

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come from people that have had medical conditions that affected

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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 it's true, but when someone, let's say, has

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

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conditions when I do these. But they realized that the

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brain can start to rewire and change, so rewire itself

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

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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

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third 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 newal plasticity, it can affect, it can help you. Basically,

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

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it's these are the old things. And used 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 they're 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

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we've got one, or a computer. Imagine if we were

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still running our laptops or our computers off of Windows,

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the first Windows, which is probably what the nineties. In

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the nineties, we couldn't do any of the stuff we

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do now, we still are the same. You know, this

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circutary everything changes and it's adapted. And I realized that's

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man made. But the brain adapts. And even now, you know,

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even neuroscientists and specialists, they're still only I only got

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started on the brain. Really, they still know a million

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times more than I'll ever know. But in compared to

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what they will know in let's say twenty thirty fifty

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years time, they've just started, it's phenomenal. I mean a

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fifty years time, the brain and computers and all that stuff,

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it will all be mixed together anyway. I mean it's

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already neurolink and all stuff that's already been done. And

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it's amazing. It's absolutely amazing that someone who ten years ago,

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well you could say now, is maybe stuck in a wheelchair,

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quadrily quadriplegic, can't move, can't do anything, and with a

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small procedure they can start to do things, start to

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use a computer just with their thoughts, and maybe even

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have one of those skeletal robotic skeletal frames. Yeah, so

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many things can be done. It's phenomenal. Stuff like that

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excites me. Don't understand it all, 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. Something's going to look and there's

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quite a lot of information here about placebos. The main

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thing really is placebos have shown to be effective and

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there was a story years ago. 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 so stories of when placebos were effective. It's

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very hard to type and talk at the same time,

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which is weird because that's what I used to do

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for a living. I mean, I wasn't just typing talking,

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but I was working in a call center typing the

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whole time and talking as like. Now, well, so I

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

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you know this is not a 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 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 in something doesn't

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have to make sense, and quite often with superstitions there

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is 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 spoiling myself.

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He yes, no is Steve.

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Anyway, make a bit more noise, please, Benny whatever his

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name was. He had this thing where he would go

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up because there'd be a board and every time he

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gets sale, would go up and write down the number,

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

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whatever it is now.

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What he used to do, he'd wipe it.

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Out, putt in the new number, wipe it out, putting

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

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new number again, so.

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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 one of the best sellers. It was only

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car insurance, but he was still he literally put no

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effort in selling in the sense of it is natural,

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and he just did it. He was so good, so

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naturally good of what he did. And the sales manager decided,

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

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know what you tell us when you've got to sell,

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and will put it on the board. And he stopped

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selling because 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 put the

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number and wipe it out twice before putting it in again.

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And people just to wind him up, knowing that it

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was something that it was superstitious about, and they'd wipe

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it out just to wind him up, and it affected

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his performance. So I found that quite interesting. I personally

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have been this an old trick, but I'd never heard

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of it before. And when I was for seventeen, sixteen

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

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so sixteen, went around my boss's new house and all

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the stuff around there. We were drinking. I got drunk,

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and then at the end of the evening everyone gathered

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around as he showed me that I'd been drinking non

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Olco polic lager the whole time, and everyone laughed at me.

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So again, that's a placebo, isn't it. It was a

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horrible experience, and you know, it wasn't a nice, nice

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thing to do to someone. But I genuinely felt drunk

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until I saw that it was.

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Not alcohol.

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I wonder if they had given me alcohol all night

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and just showed me that I wasn't drinking. It showed

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me like, oh, you've been drinking non alcoholic. How would

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that have affected me? Because the alcohol is already in

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my system.

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I don't know.

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That's just just chucking out any air. Really, So you've

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got some things here there.

482
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:12.880
Some actual So look, So here's a study. It was done.

483
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:20.480
It's a Houston, Texas, USA VA Medical Center, nineteen ninety

484
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:27.280
five to two thousand. Orthopedic author, orthopedic orthopedic surgeon J.

485
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:34.079
Bruce Moseley recruited one hundred and eighty military veterans with

486
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:41.239
grinding the osteo arthritis. It's weird, isn't it? Just Just

487
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:45.000
the description lets you know exactly what it is in

488
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:50.880
your operating room. A third received the usual arthroscopic de bribement,

489
00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:57.119
which I'm pretty sure is filing it filing it down.

490
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:04.000
Another third gotten en scopic leverage, got no idea what is,

491
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:08.000
and the final group had nothing more than three skin

492
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:14.679
insurtions while the team pretended to operate, moving instruments, splashing

493
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:23.079
the sayline, and even talking through a fake procedure. So

494
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:28.760
so I said sixty, So sixty people had nothing done

495
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:34.199
other than a couple of insurtions under local anesthetic and

496
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:46.519
no treatment whatsoever. Wow. Two years later, the sham surgery

497
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.239
group could walk and climb stairs every bit as well

498
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:57.039
as those who'd had the real operations. Pain scores overlapped completely,

499
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:05.280
and one participant later told reporters he'd run out of

500
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.320
excuses not to mow the lawn. The trial re shaped

501
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:14.400
orthopedic guidelines around the world. So there's some things that

502
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:18.599
perhaps they wouldn't be allowed to do anymore. But isn't

503
00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:27.320
it interesting don't you think that believing that you can

504
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:32.000
feel relaxed and believing that you can recover fully and

505
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:41.679
believing that you can have relief, maybe believe that you

506
00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:52.719
deserve relief, expect relief. So this is a study in Lisbon, Portugal,

507
00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:58.639
twenty sixteen. Right, just let you that that last one

508
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:06.760
controlled this was in the National Library of Medicine, and

509
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:15.280
so yeah, wow, okay. Citation Mosey JB. O'Malley, K. Peterson,

510
00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:26.199
mink Brodie, Kai, Kendall, Hollingsworth, ash Ray so controlled trial

511
00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:33.880
of oustroscopic surgery for ostroforus osteo arthritis of the knee.

512
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:40.800
That's just I just absolutely it boggles my boggles my

513
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:47.119
novel that does. So this one is Lisbon, Portugal, twenty sixteen.

514
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:59.480
Capsules literally labeled place that's funny, literally labeled placebo, eased

515
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:05.599
stub and a low back pain. So ninety seven adults

516
00:45:05.639 --> 00:45:08.840
whose backs are dated for an average of fourteen years

517
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.599
were split into two groups. Both kept their user treatment,

518
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:18.320
but one group also took two white pills twice a

519
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:23.320
day from a bottle that read open labeled placebo in

520
00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:28.519
bold letters. It's hard to read that out about laughing

521
00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:37.519
to be fair, and not everybody's going to know what

522
00:45:37.559 --> 00:45:42.079
the word placebo means. But possibly I'm just chucking it

523
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:47.159
out there. I imagine most people do.

524
00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:48.239
But then.

525
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:53.000
If it was in Portugal, was it written in English

526
00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.119
or was it written in Portuguese or in Spanish? So

527
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.599
you know, that's just a few questions a cover.

528
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:03.000
Up in my head.

529
00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:08.719
Anyway, after just three weeks, usual and worst pain were

530
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:14.239
down about thirty percent. A change is large enough for

531
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:18.599
conditions to call it much improved. I'd say down thirty

532
00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:23.760
percent is much improve wouldn't you. Minimum pain felt sixteen

533
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:33.079
percent while actually rose while in control minimum pain fell

534
00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:39.519
sixteen percent, but in the other group it actually rose

535
00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:46.519
twenty five percent. So the people that didn't take the

536
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:48.199
placebo pills.

537
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.000
Didn't. And then there's that one.

538
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:55.800
That's that's the thing. Do you imagine if you're in

539
00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:57.880
two groups, Well, you run in one group, but there's

540
00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:58.480
another group.

541
00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:00.239
You both.

542
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:04.000
That both groups got the same conditions. So let's say,

543
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:07.360
through my example, everyone in my group's got a lower

544
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:11.559
lower back AFT writers like me, and all the other

545
00:47:11.599 --> 00:47:14.760
group have got it as well. Same thing, same situation.

546
00:47:18.119 --> 00:47:22.679
We're all doing our exercises, we're all doing what we

547
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.840
need to do, and you know, to try and help it.

548
00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.440
But I'm in a group and the other group are

549
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:36.400
taking these pills. I'm not allowed to take these pills,

550
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.239
and maybe I feel put out, like that's not fair.

551
00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:48.000
We're going to trial and study. They're the ones with

552
00:47:48.079 --> 00:48:00.119
the pills, maybe not knowing that their placebo thinking. So

553
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:04.760
in a sense, the placebo effect is working opposite. There's

554
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:09.599
a negative placebo effect on the other people watching them,

555
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:13.480
thinking you've got the good pills and it's helping you,

556
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:21.599
which has the opposite effect by making them feel worse.

557
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:30.039
Maybe just chucking that out, So no deception, just a

558
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:37.639
clear explanation that placebos activate mind body self healing, and.

559
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:41.199
I mean they do.

560
00:48:41.400 --> 00:48:46.320
But generally, I mean placebos do activate mind body self healing,

561
00:48:46.719 --> 00:48:50.079
and they do help to relieve chronic pain and to

562
00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:55.599
help someone feel more relaxed. I mean usually if the

563
00:48:55.639 --> 00:48:59.159
person don't know it's a placebo, the fact that they

564
00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:01.559
know it's a pliicit that is.

565
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:04.280
A bit.

566
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:13.599
I don't know, very fascinating. So but then you think

567
00:49:13.639 --> 00:49:28.679
about it. Sometimes by taking action, whether it's listening to

568
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:32.360
a recording, listen to some weirdo like me, rabiting on

569
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:41.480
about all kinds of weird things, taking action, doing something different,

570
00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:48.960
thinking differently, wrapping your mind around the idea that actually

571
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:54.440
things can change, and things will change, and things have

572
00:49:54.559 --> 00:49:57.480
changed in the past, they will change in the future,

573
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:01.280
and this is just an or one of those things

574
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:03.800
that will change.

575
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:06.199
And when you decided.

576
00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:11.920
That those things are going to change, and you start

577
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:17.199
making those decisions to do different things, such as listening

578
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:23.320
to this, you've kind of opened up that I suppose

579
00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:29.039
you could call it. You've got in touch with that

580
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:35.599
neuroplasticity in your brain to affect your nervous system in

581
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:41.599
a positive way to make changes. You're kind of opening

582
00:50:41.639 --> 00:50:47.360
yourself up to the idea that actually you're not stuck,

583
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:51.039
you're not set in any one particular way of thinking

584
00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:55.119
about things. That there's millions of different ways to think

585
00:50:55.159 --> 00:51:02.519
about something and it can affect you in a real

586
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:08.840
positive way. When you start to realize that actually you're

587
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.239
not limited in a way that you maybe thought you were.

588
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:18.599
You've got more flexibility, more options, I want to say

589
00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:25.880
more options. I'm talking like infinite, infinite options. Because you

590
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:29.719
choose what you do next every second of every day.

591
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.280
You choose what you do next. You don't have to

592
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.079
do anything. You don't have to say anything. Of course,

593
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:39.559
we have to breathe, you know, there's things that we

594
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:41.400
have to do. But I'm talking about things that you

595
00:51:41.440 --> 00:51:48.239
do consciously. You choose. You know. Some people say, oh yah, yeah,

596
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.199
you have to go to work.

597
00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:50.639
Yeah you do.

598
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.119
If you want to pay the rent and buy the

599
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.760
food and all the stuff, you don't.

600
00:51:54.639 --> 00:51:56.440
Have to you choose to.

601
00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.800
It takes that that vic mentality out of it, that

602
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:05.800
feeling sorry for ourselves. When you realize and when I

603
00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:12.559
realized that, actually it is a choice. No one's making.

604
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:15.559
You listen to this and I keep this is my

605
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:17.719
choice not to get rid of that metal thing sticking

606
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:19.840
out of my desk, and I keep banging it when

607
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:24.480
everyone's on a recording. I choose to both moan about

608
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:26.599
it and to do nothing about it. At the same time.

609
00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:31.920
It's a choice. I could just remove it or I

610
00:52:31.920 --> 00:52:36.280
could just not mention it. But for some reason I

611
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:43.159
don't do either of those things. All look at this

612
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:48.199
a single sayline and if it's saline or saaline jab

613
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:57.159
squirted into the back of yeah, so put into the

614
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:11.360
back a single sell jab Okay. Researchers I'm just reading this.

615
00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:14.800
Researchers gave one hundred and one chronic back pain patients

616
00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:20.679
a brief mind body explanation and then an open label

617
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:30.360
subcutaneous injection of sterile saline. Pain intensity dropped for four weeks,

618
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:36.480
with secondary gains in mood and sleep. Brain scans revealed

619
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:42.480
stronger connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and brain stem

620
00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:50.440
pain control nuclear or nuclei, so the very circuitry mapped

621
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:57.280
in classic deceptive placebo studies, suggesting that the brain doesn't

622
00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:02.360
care whether the treatment is real, only whether the meaning

623
00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:03.800
feels real.

624
00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:11.480
I just can't repeat that.

625
00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.519
The brain doesn't care whether the treatment is real, only

626
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:22.079
whether the meaning feels real. And follow up reports showed

627
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:29.440
durable function durable functional improvements at twelve months.

628
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:31.239
See.

629
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:39.559
The only reason why placebo wasn't continued like put into

630
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:42.119
mainstream medicine as far as I know, maybe it has

631
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:43.039
been that we.

632
00:54:43.039 --> 00:54:52.400
Don't know about is because of the ethics.

633
00:54:52.440 --> 00:54:57.599
I suppose the ethics of it. The idea idea of

634
00:54:57.679 --> 00:55:06.199
lying to people but I know is another one. More

635
00:55:06.239 --> 00:55:10.639
than one thousand people with chronic lower back pain were

636
00:55:11.639 --> 00:55:21.039
randomized to a traditional acupuncture b fake acupuncture where needles

637
00:55:21.320 --> 00:55:28.199
were inserted shallowly at non meridian points, or c standard

638
00:55:28.360 --> 00:55:37.719
medical care ie physiotherapy, pain, meds, exercise advice. Okay, so.

639
00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:46.440
Blind me.

640
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:49.119
So that's that's quite a few people, isn't it. So

641
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:53.639
one three groups, one with traditional acupuncture, one with fake acupuncture,

642
00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:58.559
and one would just standard medical care. After six months,

643
00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:04.599
about fifty percent are both acupuncture groups reported meaningful relief

644
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:10.360
versus twenty five percent of those getting conventional care. So

645
00:56:11.639 --> 00:56:15.840
the press, they would do this of the press spun

646
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:23.320
the finding as even sham acupuncture works, but investigators highlighted

647
00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:29.239
a deeper lesson. A tactile, time intensive ritual delivered with

648
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:39.000
confidence can beat many drugs. I've had acupuncture a few

649
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:40.079
times over the years.

650
00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:43.000
I'll tell you what was weird? Did you know?

651
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:46.400
I don't know if it's still the same, but I

652
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.960
wasn't allowed to give blood because I'd had acupuncture in

653
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.320
the last two years.

654
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:56.960
This is a while back, So that's weird.

655
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:03.800
I think if you had a tattoo or acupuncture, you

656
00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:11.320
can't can't get blood. And I really was in to

657
00:57:11.360 --> 00:57:13.360
be fair, I wanted to see what the biscuits were like.

658
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:26.079
I've heard good things, but never mind so ritual. I

659
00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:29.719
do wonder, to be honest with you, when because when

660
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:33.199
I had I had a shoulder injury two thousand and

661
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:39.360
five and I ended up with two steroid injections. I

662
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:44.119
do wonder what would have happened if they gave you

663
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:49.159
the first steroid injection which did the job, and they

664
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.760
told me you can have one. This will last you

665
00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:55.639
for six months. You can have one every six months

666
00:57:56.519 --> 00:58:01.079
and eventually it will heal anyway, it'll just you know,

667
00:58:01.320 --> 00:58:04.480
it'll begin to feel better. But you know, it'll just

668
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:09.599
do the job. And after the first one, the second one,

669
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:10.880
they gave me one which was just.

670
00:58:13.400 --> 00:58:14.000
Placebo.

671
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:16.719
We don't know. It was like saline or whatever it

672
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:25.440
was that they squirting. How would that have affected? How

673
00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:31.079
would that have what would that have done? Because I

674
00:58:31.400 --> 00:58:35.360
genuinely when I went and had the second one, I

675
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:41.000
was genuinely expecting it to work because the first one

676
00:58:41.039 --> 00:58:45.960
I couldn't believe how well it worked. You know, I

677
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:49.360
went from being like, A YEA quite a higher level

678
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:50.159
of what's it?

679
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:54.440
Two practically nothing.

680
00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:08.639
And I thought, Wow. I just I remember thinking to myself, Wow,

681
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:16.079
it's one of those wow moments. I do find it

682
00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:22.679
interesting that there's there's something about that, you know, it's

683
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:26.559
all about the acupuncture, something about bit of care, a

684
00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:31.480
bit of kindness, a bit of attention. So with the

685
00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:35.039
you know, putting the needles on, and with acupuncture, there's

686
00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:40.400
also like maybe the talking, maybe some soft music. The

687
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:46.960
relaxation and the gentleness considering its needles is still quite

688
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:48.320
a gentle thing.

689
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:54.440
And and it is, I guess, quite.

690
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:58.159
Ritualistic, especially if you have it done more than once,

691
00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:01.719
because it will be like you're going through the same

692
01:00:01.800 --> 01:00:09.360
process again, even if the needles maybe putting different parts.

693
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:15.280
And I always found it weird when I had Remember

694
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:24.039
I went to this a trainee acupuncturist, and I'm like saying,

695
01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:27.920
he did it for like half price or twenty quid

696
01:00:28.000 --> 01:00:30.559
or something, and he was a friend of mine, so

697
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:33.400
I just like, okay, cool, I didn't have much money.

698
01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:38.519
He was training, and I remember I'm walking, I see him,

699
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:42.400
I said goodbye, and I'm walking down the street and

700
01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:46.039
I hear him yelling. I'm thinking, oh no, it's realized

701
01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:50.280
the money I gave him was a fake twenty And

702
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:52.280
he comes running up to me and I said, I'm sorry,

703
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.639
I'm sorry. He said, what do you mean you're sorry?

704
01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:59.440
So sorry about the fake twenty? He said fake twenty?

705
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:01.039
I said that way you call them, isn't it? He

706
01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:04.239
said no. I said, oh, forget about that then, So

707
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:06.679
what is it? He said, you gave me a fake twenty.

708
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:12.880
I said no, it's joking, he said. I said, why

709
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.519
are you calling me? He said, oh, I forgot to

710
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:18.119
take a needle out. He's still one in your head.

711
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:24.559
So I said, all right, just take it out now

712
01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.599
if you want. He said no, can we go back inside?

713
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:27.880
I said why?

714
01:01:28.039 --> 01:01:32.840
He said, there's too many got too many people around watching.

715
01:01:33.119 --> 01:01:35.239
He said, no, there's too many needles stuck in your head.

716
01:01:36.000 --> 01:01:40.559
There's about twenty left. I just forgot about them. How

717
01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:43.639
can you forget about needles being stuck in someone's head?

718
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:50.800
And that's the truth sto Well, it's a semi true story.

719
01:01:51.320 --> 01:01:58.480
But he did did leave some needles in my head.

720
01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:00.719
I'm not sure if you got them back.

721
01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:02.840
I did.

722
01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:03.079
Oh.

723
01:02:03.199 --> 01:02:06.280
One thing I did when I was working while volunteering

724
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:10.800
in a drug rehab center doing relaxation sessions.

725
01:02:10.519 --> 01:02:12.920
With groups, and.

726
01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:16.280
There was a lady there that worked there, and she

727
01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:26.119
did ear acupuncture and she used to put these things

728
01:02:26.159 --> 01:02:30.400
on people's ears, and she did it on me once

729
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:31.559
and it was so weird.

730
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:33.920
It felt strange, like.

731
01:02:33.920 --> 01:02:38.599
On the ear lobes and.

732
01:02:38.760 --> 01:02:39.559
Just looking around.

733
01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:42.320
Everyone was like sitting around there a ten folve things

734
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:47.679
on their ears and I was there just talking and

735
01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:51.559
relaxing people like in a group setting. So maybe there's

736
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:56.400
like twelve of us, and she was going around readjusting

737
01:02:56.440 --> 01:02:57.239
their ear lobes.

738
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:03.639
It was just, yeah, so real.

739
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:16.000
Which one of those do you find most fascinating out

740
01:03:16.000 --> 01:03:28.840
of the studies? The fake operations I find, you know,

741
01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:34.280
that's just that's just crazy. It seems the more you do,

742
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:44.320
the more you build it up, it's I don't know,

743
01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:47.079
it's like I don't want to say the word con

744
01:03:47.440 --> 01:03:51.599
con job or like a big it's the long game,

745
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:57.480
you know, the bigger the magic trick is, and the

746
01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.159
longer it takes, and the more you put in to

747
01:04:00.199 --> 01:04:05.239
it and the more distractions there are, the bigger it gets.

748
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.760
And I went and saw Darren Brown in about two

749
01:04:08.840 --> 01:04:12.480
thousand and five to probably two thousand and seven in

750
01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:18.000
the theater, and he started his show before we even

751
01:04:18.039 --> 01:04:24.880
got into the theater. He had things posted and he

752
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:29.880
was watching people walking into the foyer. He had sort

753
01:04:29.920 --> 01:04:36.000
of subliminal stuff in the foyer. He was basically messing

754
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:38.760
with people with what he even got to their seats,

755
01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:42.880
and he showed it at the end what.

756
01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:44.400
He had done.

757
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:46.760
And I know for a fact that he wasn't showing everything.

758
01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:50.360
You know, even the way he showed it how it's done,

759
01:04:50.360 --> 01:04:57.880
probably wasn't how it was done. I still find it

760
01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:07.599
the weird is so I think the injections of there

761
01:05:07.639 --> 01:05:08.760
are sailing.

762
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:14.599
Again. That's another thing. It's like wow, to be.

763
01:05:14.559 --> 01:05:20.400
Able to believe, to really believe.

764
01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:24.719
That something is going.

765
01:05:24.519 --> 01:05:30.800
To be useful for you, it can be useful for you.

766
01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:40.679
I mean, I think that's one of the things with

767
01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:49.920
the I think with medical practitioners today, they kind of

768
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:52.840
have to be more honest than they used to be.

769
01:05:53.239 --> 01:05:54.719
I don't mean in.

770
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:58.480
A way like they were deceptive, but there's ways of

771
01:05:58.519 --> 01:06:04.039
being deceptive which is useful to the patient, which will

772
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:05.719
set the patient.

773
01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:07.719
Up for to have that.

774
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:13.159
Belief and expectation that things are going to be really

775
01:06:13.199 --> 01:06:16.599
good and you know, that kind of side of things.

776
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:19.760
But it seems I.

777
01:06:19.719 --> 01:06:23.159
Don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that there

778
01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:25.840
seems more of a practice of going through every single

779
01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:33.239
situation that could happen. And when someone's in a hospital

780
01:06:33.239 --> 01:06:37.480
bed or sitting the other side of a doctor's desk,

781
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:44.480
that person is very susceptible, you know. It is in

782
01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:47.519
a sense a little bit like they say, a deer

783
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:53.400
in the headlights. It's especially in a serious sort of scenario.

784
01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:57.199
It's so whatever the doctor.

785
01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:07.079
Says next is so so important and so powerful. In

786
01:07:07.119 --> 01:07:08.840
the same way as if someone as about to have

787
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:12.800
an operation, what the doctor says to them or what

788
01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:16.119
the surgeon says to them before they get taken into

789
01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:23.960
the theater, it can have such a positive effect or opposite,

790
01:07:24.039 --> 01:07:28.079
depends on how they've been talked to, what's been said

791
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:38.239
to them. And then you know, with beliefs, what do

792
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:47.320
we say to ourselves? What's self limiting? Things do you

793
01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:50.119
say to yourself? I mean that get in the way

794
01:07:50.360 --> 01:07:57.760
of you feeling more comfort or relaxed, because when you're

795
01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:03.079
listening to me babbling on, you're not thinking in your

796
01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:08.519
mind with that same self limiting self.

797
01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:12.880
Talk, because.

798
01:08:15.519 --> 01:08:18.199
It's not that my voice has taken over and everything,

799
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:22.239
but it's probably what you're more focusing on. You're drifting,

800
01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:27.079
and when you drift, you're going to be absorbing any

801
01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:31.399
positive suggestions or a lot of ideas rather than suggestions.

802
01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:34.920
So I'm not giving any suggestions. I'm just talking, but

803
01:08:35.079 --> 01:08:39.359
any ideas that you wrap your mind around that can

804
01:08:39.439 --> 01:09:02.319
be useful for you, and you really can notice, you

805
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:14.680
can notice how you feel different, because belief is not

806
01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:24.960
mere wish for thinking. It's actually a signal that recruits

807
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:31.880
the parts of your body, your prefrontal, limbic whatever, and

808
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:40.880
mobilizes parts of your brain and your you know, all

809
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:44.720
that stuff that experts know about and rewrites the brain's

810
01:09:44.800 --> 01:09:51.760
predictions about pain. Because if you hold the knowledge that

811
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.960
actually what you think affects your brain affects your mind,

812
01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:59.399
and that affects your body. And when you remember that,

813
01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:05.119
you're brain doesn't care if it's real or not. I

814
01:10:05.239 --> 01:10:11.920
found that very powerful that sentence. Your brain doesn't care,

815
01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:26.600
it doesn't care. And there's something about that that sticks

816
01:10:26.640 --> 01:10:36.439
in my head is it's not bothered. Because Lacebo research

817
01:10:36.560 --> 01:10:39.439
doesn't say that pains all in the mind. It shows

818
01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:45.600
that the mind is part of the body's pain control circuitry.

819
01:10:47.800 --> 01:10:54.199
So by consciously shaping expectations and ritual or our beliefs

820
01:10:55.880 --> 01:11:00.239
instead of just leaving up to chance, by consciously, folkscus

821
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:06.560
on it. We invite the brain's own pharmacy to join

822
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:12.560
the team, and there's no side effects, no withdrawal.

823
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:16.239
Just that can be like.

824
01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:24.079
A quiet ally a friend working in the background doing

825
01:11:24.119 --> 01:11:26.960
what it needs to do. I mean, in a way,

826
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:29.279
we've got that anyway in our brain, all the things

827
01:11:29.279 --> 01:11:34.680
that are automatic. Let me think about it, most of

828
01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:44.640
our body. Pretty much everything is automatic within the body.

829
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:49.600
You can sit there or lie down and everything works

830
01:11:51.359 --> 01:12:19.960
on its own. So I think it's interesting expectancy. And

831
01:12:20.000 --> 01:12:23.199
there's a few things you can do. You can do

832
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:29.119
things like ritualized self care, so that's regular, meaningful actions

833
01:12:29.279 --> 01:12:38.359
created and to basically make you feel better, so that

834
01:12:39.159 --> 01:12:44.079
it's no different in some ways to you know, if

835
01:12:44.119 --> 01:12:46.520
you clean, you brush your teeth, if you do certain

836
01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:51.199
things in a certain order, and it feels nice to

837
01:12:51.279 --> 01:12:54.279
do it like that, and you get used to doing

838
01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:57.960
like that, and you expect your mouth to feel clean

839
01:12:58.039 --> 01:13:03.800
and fresh once you brush your teeth, you expect it.

840
01:13:07.920 --> 01:13:11.359
And there's been times when I've been distracted and I've

841
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:13.600
gone to the door. You know, someone's knocked on the doors.

842
01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:18.840
I've just gone in the bathroom, and I go to

843
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:23.279
bed and I'm thinking, oh, I thought i'd clean my teeth,

844
01:13:23.279 --> 01:13:26.800
because my teeth it maybe I've just got just amazingly

845
01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:34.039
fresh breath, but but it was just maybe it's all

846
01:13:34.039 --> 01:13:39.680
the mints that I eat when I'm in sleep, but

847
01:13:39.800 --> 01:13:43.840
sometimes expecting. There's been times when I've It's not very

848
01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:45.520
often if you look at my belly, but it's times

849
01:13:45.520 --> 01:13:48.399
when I've forgotten to eat, Like I've just been so

850
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:51.359
busy doing something and I thought I'd had my meal

851
01:13:51.560 --> 01:13:57.079
and I hadn't, But I didn't miss it because I

852
01:13:57.199 --> 01:14:04.560
kind of just expected to have had it, and because

853
01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:08.720
it's almost ritualistic, because it's the same kind of thing

854
01:14:08.840 --> 01:14:13.920
that I would do every day back then, that not

855
01:14:13.960 --> 01:14:21.159
a lot of thought goes into it. But you expect,

856
01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:24.079
I mean a bit like in sales as well. Those

857
01:14:24.119 --> 01:14:33.560
people that expect to do well do well. You know

858
01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:40.560
those people in sports, they might have a special coin

859
01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:46.119
or a special ritual that they do before they get

860
01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:48.119
into the ring or before they go on to the

861
01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:55.159
football pitch, something that means something to them, has nothing

862
01:14:55.199 --> 01:15:03.000
to do with what they're doing, not really, but has

863
01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.520
a huge effect on.

864
01:15:07.760 --> 01:15:08.359
Their brain.

865
01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:12.800
Believes still it's helping. Then he's then he's trying to

866
01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:18.760
catch a fly. But your brain believes that those rituals

867
01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:19.640
are helping.

868
01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:23.399
You.

869
01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:25.960
Know, it doesn't matter if it is or not, because

870
01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:33.920
your brain believes it. So therefore it is. If you

871
01:15:34.039 --> 01:15:46.279
believe that rubbing rubbing your knees has an effect on

872
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:54.880
your confidence, then it will. Rubbing your knees will have

873
01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:56.279
an effect on your confidence.

874
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:04.720
It's a weird one, isn't it.

875
01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:15.439
Really You've got the therapeutic thing as well. So empathy

876
01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:20.600
releases endogenous opioids and oxytocin according to.

877
01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:22.000
This, So.

878
01:16:24.199 --> 01:16:30.680
Really choose clinicians who take time and validate your experience.

879
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:39.560
So when you're seen a physician or therapy person, find

880
01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:41.760
someone that's going to take their time. It's going to

881
01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:46.199
be gentle because that can really have an effect, a

882
01:16:46.319 --> 01:16:47.279
positive effect.

883
01:16:48.640 --> 01:16:51.000
And it's a.

884
01:16:50.920 --> 01:16:54.600
Practical way of kind of tapping into the placebo science

885
01:16:56.880 --> 01:17:02.079
because ultimately you could you having someone It may if

886
01:17:02.079 --> 01:17:04.359
someone's going to give you an injection into your back,

887
01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:07.800
and so let's say someone had a doctor going to

888
01:17:07.800 --> 01:17:11.680
inject me in my back with something that's going to

889
01:17:11.720 --> 01:17:17.880
help with the arthritis. It shouldn't really make any difference

890
01:17:17.880 --> 01:17:23.760
if it's someone that's completely cold to me, just you know,

891
01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:27.520
bend over, like no, send me back, okay, and just

892
01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.680
like just do the back, or someone that's being gentle

893
01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:36.319
and kind and takes a little bit of time asks.

894
01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:39.439
Me how I am.

895
01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:42.359
Make sure that I'm okay with the procedure, and I

896
01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:51.479
understand that I'm going to feel better afterwards, and as

897
01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:57.800
opposed to someone just saying come on, put your shirt

898
01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:03.640
up and just sticking thing and that's it done, goodbye.

899
01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:04.159
Next.

900
01:18:08.760 --> 01:18:12.039
I had a doctor once and I joined the surgery

901
01:18:12.680 --> 01:18:15.000
and I'm just moved to a different town. It's two

902
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:22.479
thousand and ten, No, two thousand and seven, and it's

903
01:18:22.600 --> 01:18:25.800
really a bit aggressive. Not like it wasn't punching me

904
01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:28.920
or anything, but it's like he's like calling me.

905
01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:30.159
Out, come on, I sell a fight.

906
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:34.520
This fight. No, it wasn't like that. But he said,

907
01:18:34.560 --> 01:18:36.199
what medication you want? I said, I don't know.

908
01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:39.680
You have to and he kept.

909
01:18:39.479 --> 01:18:43.960
Going into this big, big lecture about all of his

910
01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:47.920
patients have to know exactly what medication them on, and like,

911
01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:57.880
you know what, you know, it's fairly new medication and

912
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.560
I didn't know what it's called. I didn't know what

913
01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:03.920
the I knew it was for I didn't know what

914
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:07.039
the because some of the names and medications long in it,

915
01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:11.520
like is it based on Latin? I think it's like ridiculous,

916
01:19:11.960 --> 01:19:15.680
some of the names Petrocholean, shalumbly move.

917
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:20.239
Like no, you must know.

918
01:19:20.319 --> 01:19:25.920
What like not. I didn't like him after that. I'm

919
01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:28.000
sure he was a really good doctor, but it was

920
01:19:28.079 --> 01:19:31.640
just a little bit. And then I saw another doctor

921
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:36.079
when he wasn't there. I was stuck with him, but

922
01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:40.039
I didn't have to see him, luckily. But then I

923
01:19:40.079 --> 01:19:44.199
see another doctor who was there who he wasn't there

924
01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:46.079
that day, so I was lucky. I saw a different

925
01:19:46.079 --> 01:19:54.760
doctor and she was lovely, and she looked at my

926
01:19:54.880 --> 01:20:01.840
pa and said oh, and looked and took a bit

927
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.560
of time, said well, I think we need to refer you,

928
01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:07.560
and this is for a different thing to my back,

929
01:20:07.640 --> 01:20:12.119
and she really sort of set the ball rolling for

930
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:19.560
getting me some help and to be taken. I don't

931
01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:24.680
know that seriously. We've just been taken carefully, to be

932
01:20:24.960 --> 01:20:36.279
treated gently with respect. And I suppose in a way

933
01:20:36.319 --> 01:20:44.119
it's useful if we can aim to do that ourselves,

934
01:20:49.960 --> 01:21:02.039
treating ourselves with respect. I also says on here, yeah,

935
01:21:02.079 --> 01:21:09.840
listening to audio, content can also in itself, function as

936
01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:19.079
a therapeutic ritual. The primes listeners expectancy of relief. There's

937
01:21:19.119 --> 01:21:36.960
a lot of words there. I still find that interesting,

938
01:21:41.560 --> 01:21:48.279
just the old idea of the brain. The brain doesn't

939
01:21:48.359 --> 01:21:55.800
care if you tell. If you tell the brain, if

940
01:21:55.800 --> 01:22:00.359
you tell yourself you're going to feel relaxed, you're gonna

941
01:22:00.359 --> 01:22:06.359
feel calm, then I guess that's what's going to happen.

942
01:22:12.439 --> 01:22:18.760
You tell yourself that, you're not going to notice Finny

943
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:20.960
jumping up and down trying to catch that fly.

944
01:22:22.880 --> 01:22:23.760
He loves to fly.

945
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:26.039
That's his favorite thing.

946
01:22:27.800 --> 01:22:28.640
He loves to fly.

947
01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:32.960
More than any toy. And he can't catch it. He's

948
01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:36.520
never pretty well. He might do one day, but you know,

949
01:22:36.640 --> 01:22:42.000
the fly can but it can fly, caren't it? And

950
01:22:42.159 --> 01:22:47.159
he can't quite reach. He's only tiny.

951
01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:49.039
You are tiny, little sausage.

952
01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:49.960
You.

953
01:22:50.199 --> 01:22:54.399
Oh, I said the word sausage. You're tiny, little doggie,

954
01:22:54.960 --> 01:23:01.479
your tiny little doggie. If I say stops, if I

955
01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:10.079
say that word s you know, and with udge begins

956
01:23:10.159 --> 01:23:14.800
fifth sus Oh, no, he's staring at I haven't got

957
01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:15.520
any to give him.

958
01:23:17.079 --> 01:23:18.399
Don't stare at me like that.

959
01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:24.439
I don't have any there's favorite things my neighbor. Obviously,

960
01:23:24.520 --> 01:23:28.520
he gets some started packet from the petrol station. Only

961
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:32.520
are like a pound. He loves them. They're like those

962
01:23:32.640 --> 01:23:37.720
really dead I don't know what they are and more

963
01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:43.600
like robbery. Yeah I don't I wouldn't eat it myself,

964
01:23:44.520 --> 01:23:52.359
but he loves them. Right, He's distracted by the fly again,

965
01:23:53.199 --> 01:23:55.520
So I'm going to go. So I hope this has

966
01:23:55.600 --> 01:24:05.159
been mildly mildly something. I don't know what, but's something,

967
01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:15.840
So I'm going to go. I'm not sure how focused

968
01:24:16.039 --> 01:24:22.720
this has been. To be honest with you, I don't know,

969
01:24:25.199 --> 01:24:32.880
but you know it's just me talking. So thank you

970
01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:36.399
for listening. Let me know how you get on, and

971
01:24:36.439 --> 01:24:39.479
remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve

972
01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:46.199
to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You deserve

973
01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:49.640
to feel safe. Lots of love.

974
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:54.359
Bye.

975
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:15.039
Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in

976
01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:20.640
a way that can not just allow you to feel

977
01:25:22.000 --> 01:25:31.239
calmer now and throughout the time we spend together here,

978
01:25:33.239 --> 01:25:38.960
not just relaxed at the end of the recording when

979
01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:45.640
it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort

980
01:25:45.800 --> 01:26:00.920
and peace, but also I think it be nice to

981
01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:20.800
have those feelings of relaxation, continue for longer after the

982
01:26:20.840 --> 01:26:34.399
recording has ended, so that you can still benefit from

983
01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:41.439
listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,

984
01:26:43.359 --> 01:26:56.840
perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you

985
01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:02.239
find like some people do and myself as well. Sometimes

986
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:08.560
I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,

987
01:27:12.920 --> 01:27:15.279
and I just listened to it over and over again

988
01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:30.600
every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're

989
01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:35.279
going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It was it

990
01:27:35.319 --> 01:27:40.359
wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations. It kind

991
01:27:40.359 --> 01:27:47.479
of was hypnosis, really, and I managed to find it

992
01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:51.439
again and it still has the same effect on me,

993
01:27:54.039 --> 01:28:03.800
And part of it was the person's for relaxed me

994
01:28:07.800 --> 01:28:14.439
just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to listening

995
01:28:15.000 --> 01:28:27.239
to her in the morning and in the evening. And

996
01:28:27.439 --> 01:28:36.560
I knew before even pressing the play button that since

997
01:28:36.640 --> 01:28:41.039
I've done that, pressed the play button. This is in

998
01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:55.640
the days of CD players pressed the play button. In fact,

999
01:28:55.680 --> 01:28:59.720
it might have even been a tape tape recorder. I'd

1000
01:28:59.720 --> 01:29:09.520
lie down on the bed and then even without necessarily

1001
01:29:10.640 --> 01:29:21.359
listening to her words because I had them memorized. Really,

1002
01:29:26.000 --> 01:29:32.000
it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,

1003
01:29:36.800 --> 01:29:58.600
and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and

1004
01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:12.119
I remember my mind and would slow down. Now. Now,

1005
01:30:12.640 --> 01:30:18.920
I was listening to this recording in the early days

1006
01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:27.239
of learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made any

1007
01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:34.560
videos or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start doing

1008
01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:48.119
that till two thousand and six. But I knew, I

1009
01:30:48.199 --> 01:31:01.720
knew how helpful I found being able to just let go,

1010
01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:10.119
to have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,

1011
01:31:17.800 --> 01:31:24.520
knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if

1012
01:31:25.960 --> 01:31:35.319
not more so. Each time you hear my voice, you

1013
01:31:35.399 --> 01:31:47.039
may feel the same. Some people have been listening to

1014
01:31:47.119 --> 01:32:01.039
me for over a decade, maybe not solidly, obviously not

1015
01:32:01.039 --> 01:32:07.359
twenty four hours a day, but maybe people come back.

1016
01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:24.279
Some people maybe listen every day. That's something that I

1017
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:40.319
do which you may not realize by listening, is when

1018
01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:56.079
I record these recordings. Now, for example, I also am

1019
01:32:56.319 --> 01:33:10.159
affected by the words that I say. So if I

1020
01:33:10.159 --> 01:33:17.520
said to you, focus on your feet, notice your feet relaxing,

1021
01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:28.920
I will be focusing on my feet. I will be

1022
01:33:29.039 --> 01:33:46.600
noticing my feet relaxing. If I said focus on your

1023
01:33:46.680 --> 01:33:58.880
hands and maybe notice the difference between each hand. Perhaps

1024
01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:05.199
notice the the air in the room, the temperature of

1025
01:34:05.239 --> 01:34:17.239
the room. On the backs of your hands. You may

1026
01:34:17.359 --> 01:34:25.600
start to notice what almost feels like a very light breeze,

1027
01:34:26.239 --> 01:34:30.359
even though there may not be any type of breeze

1028
01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:43.319
at all where you are right now. And as you

1029
01:34:43.399 --> 01:34:57.079
become aware of your hands, I'm also aware of how

1030
01:34:58.239 --> 01:35:22.680
relaxed my hands our feeling now and when it comes

1031
01:35:22.840 --> 01:35:29.840
to potentially drifting off to sleep, which may be the

1032
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:45.840
reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy when I make

1033
01:35:45.920 --> 01:36:07.119
these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting. In fact,

1034
01:36:07.359 --> 01:36:24.119
at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing, and

1035
01:36:24.119 --> 01:36:35.079
then I carry on talking. And it's only when I

1036
01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:44.560
listen back to do the editing I hear snoring, and

1037
01:36:44.640 --> 01:36:54.399
I think, I don't remember snoring. I remember talking. I

1038
01:36:54.520 --> 01:37:01.760
was snoring. Was a pig turned up? That's why it

1039
01:37:01.880 --> 01:37:10.000
sounds like when a snore. How I get really into

1040
01:37:10.079 --> 01:37:29.439
the whole experience, I don't know how you feel. How

1041
01:37:29.560 --> 01:37:39.840
relaxed do you feel in your feet, how relaxed you

1042
01:37:39.960 --> 01:38:03.199
feel in your hands. I have noticed more and more

1043
01:38:07.159 --> 01:38:19.880
that the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel,

1044
01:38:23.479 --> 01:38:39.680
the easier your breathing becomes It's almost like that additional

1045
01:38:42.800 --> 01:39:03.800
muscle relaxation. So this allows you to breathe easier without

1046
01:39:05.239 --> 01:39:36.199
necessarily focusing on your breath, however, being able to notice

1047
01:39:36.600 --> 01:40:05.640
the ease in which you breathe so naturally. Yah, you

1048
01:40:05.880 --> 01:40:48.319
breathe so very easily and smoothly. Whenever I imagine my

1049
01:40:48.560 --> 01:41:04.920
breathing improving when I've got my eyes closed, I tend

1050
01:41:05.000 --> 01:41:25.520
to visualize a beautiful field with trees and flowers producing

1051
01:41:25.640 --> 01:41:59.640
all that life giving oxygen. It feels nice two if

1052
01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:18.399
nothing thing else, just taking some time away from everything,

1053
01:42:29.720 --> 01:43:02.520
enjoying that feeling of peace, serenity with a joyful heart.

1054
01:43:27.600 --> 01:43:53.079
Time seems to just drip by so very slowly, relaxed,

1055
01:43:58.960 --> 01:44:33.720
so deep play peaceful, completely unattached to any thoughts whatsoever

1056
01:44:38.079 --> 01:45:41.000
in this moment, completely free, noticing that your mind has

1057
01:45:41.319 --> 01:46:20.880
slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really requires your attention.

1058
01:46:37.279 --> 01:46:51.640
You can enjoy the physical sensations of allowing the stress

1059
01:46:51.920 --> 01:47:03.600
to drip out of your body, to appear out of

1060
01:47:04.119 --> 01:47:33.319
every part of your body, being released from your brain,

1061
01:47:38.920 --> 01:48:14.640
er your mind. Slowly but surely, the muscle sing, legs

1062
01:48:29.960 --> 01:49:25.800
relax rs R so very deeply, so deeply, and the feelings,

1063
01:49:28.399 --> 01:49:53.319
the pleasant feelings in your arms and shoulders, deepening each

1064
01:49:53.680 --> 01:50:31.680
part of your body further and deeper and deeper. Noticing

1065
01:50:35.000 --> 01:51:01.880
the feelings in the back of your neck, feelings in

1066
01:51:01.920 --> 01:52:00.359
your wrists, muscles, in front of your body. I allsay,

1067
01:52:01.239 --> 01:52:40.520
feeling peaceful, deeply, there's a sense of peace spreads through

1068
01:52:42.039 --> 01:53:19.840
your fairy core. Even when you focus on your mind.

1069
01:53:31.760 --> 01:54:42.199
Your mind becomes eve and slower, even deep relaxing, so

1070
01:54:42.840 --> 01:55:42.840
very slow. Your stomach peace for in your stomach you're back.

1071
01:55:48.239 --> 01:56:17.119
Notice Notice how relaxed you'd now feel in the hole

1072
01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:50.279
of your back. Your spy from your brain all the

1073
01:56:50.359 --> 01:56:59.079
way down the middle of your back, sending and receiving

1074
01:57:01.479 --> 01:58:30.840
millions of messages every day, deepcomfort, increasing deeply relaxed, your knees, legs,

1075
01:58:34.319 --> 01:58:43.720
spreading these signals down a spine or cord into air.

1076
01:58:43.880 --> 01:59:02.560
Every part of your body, your shins and your half

1077
01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:59.279
muscles were outbows, feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through

1078
01:59:59.399 --> 02:00:16.760
your body, tips of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers,

1079
02:00:21.079 --> 02:00:22.880
all the way till you lower back.

1080
02:00:24.840 --> 02:00:25.279
Mhm.

1081
02:00:34.680 --> 02:01:46.600
The tinker, redia, thinker, peace, drifting mind just wandering away,

1082
02:01:47.279 --> 02:02:28.920
happy to let go, Let go completely, let go, so tranquil,

1083
02:02:53.079 --> 02:03:30.279
the whole body enjoying a sense of listening God, heph

1084
02:03:30.600 --> 02:05:25.439
more Pece, enjoying the space, this space.

1085
02:05:27.920 --> 02:05:29.079
Of peace.

1086
02:05:32.199 --> 02:05:53.760
And safety.

1087
02:05:56.039 --> 02:07:35.880
So fary, hey yy, letting go.

1088
02:07:53.800 --> 02:08:01.359
Maybe we can just focus on the different parts of

1089
02:08:01.520 --> 02:09:09.399
your body, just to notice your forehead and your eyes mutual,

1090
02:09:15.000 --> 02:10:54.720
so loose, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom. Yes, yes,

1091
02:11:08.199 --> 02:12:34.640
peace for energy, peace to breathe so much easier. Yes.

1092
02:12:55.640 --> 02:13:07.239
You may have or may not have noticed your mind

1093
02:13:07.920 --> 02:14:09.680
drifting peaceful, manly, even more deeply in the direction of

1094
02:14:14.479 --> 02:16:10.079
total blissful pace, blissful pace, terrefting out to pace. Come

1095
02:16:15.760 --> 02:17:30.799
so calm, letting go, peace with mind relaxed foty c relax.

1096
02:17:38.760 --> 02:17:40.239
Cy relaxed.

1097
02:18:04.760 --> 02:18:38.120
Your body feels almost invisible, so very relaxed. I'm peaceful, so.

1098
02:18:45.799 --> 02:19:42.760
Pa so h likes.

1099
02:19:34.479 --> 02:19:51.239
Fair. And you could start to notice that you are

1100
02:19:51.479 --> 02:20:02.440
feeling more relaxed, even though if not purpose le focused

1101
02:20:02.840 --> 02:20:11.000
your mind upon that sense of physical comfort that is

1102
02:20:11.159 --> 02:20:20.479
growing within you throughout your body, and your mind starts

1103
02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:30.159
to slow down, and that could be almost in recognition

1104
02:20:30.639 --> 02:20:44.520
of I guess my speech not being particularly fast, and

1105
02:20:44.680 --> 02:20:58.200
things just generally feel calmer. Just by listening to my voice,

1106
02:20:58.639 --> 02:21:04.120
you give yourself a an opportunity to take a break

1107
02:21:05.399 --> 02:21:11.840
from the day, take a break from your life as

1108
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:20.600
it is, and to give yourself a rest, giving yourself

1109
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:28.000
permission to take some time off and to allow your

1110
02:21:28.000 --> 02:21:34.000
body to relax and allow your mind to slow down,

1111
02:21:38.040 --> 02:21:45.840
which in turn releases the tension and he stresses that

1112
02:21:45.920 --> 02:21:55.600
you had in your body. It's almost as if the

1113
02:21:55.719 --> 02:21:59.920
parts of your body just open up, allowing the new

1114
02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:12.600
activity out and at the same time replacing that negativity

1115
02:22:12.840 --> 02:22:21.799
with positive heathing energy which then fills your body up

1116
02:22:23.120 --> 02:22:35.360
and your mind to also starts to appreciate those feelings

1117
02:22:35.399 --> 02:22:55.680
of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing, an

1118
02:22:55.840 --> 02:23:07.159
energy that spreads through your body like a wave of comfort,

1119
02:23:11.959 --> 02:23:22.239
and all this comes and just allowing yourself a few minutes,

1120
02:23:24.079 --> 02:23:27.280
maybe half an hour, however long you want it to be,

1121
02:23:28.600 --> 02:23:40.520
to just rest and allow your mind and your body

1122
02:23:42.760 --> 02:23:59.719
to almost reset itself to the settings of comfort and relaxation, calmness,

1123
02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:13.200
which allows more room for feelings of pleasure and happiness

1124
02:24:17.200 --> 02:24:26.280
to move around your body and into your mind, almost

1125
02:24:26.840 --> 02:24:31.440
as if your mind and your body are sinking together,

1126
02:24:35.680 --> 02:24:45.399
almost mirroring each other with that growing positivity and calmness,

1127
02:24:50.440 --> 02:24:57.680
and it feels nice. It really does feel nice to

1128
02:24:57.840 --> 02:25:03.600
know that you are the one that has allowed yourself

1129
02:25:07.000 --> 02:25:19.280
to feel more comfort and to experience more of this

1130
02:25:21.000 --> 02:25:36.479
deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus

1131
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:43.719
on each part of your body, you can notice that

1132
02:25:43.719 --> 02:26:00.799
that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.

1133
02:26:00.799 --> 02:26:10.479
It becomes even more calm and comfortable just by focusing.

1134
02:26:14.479 --> 02:26:20.639
And as I move down your body, starting at your head,

1135
02:26:22.959 --> 02:26:29.680
the parts that you've already focused on will continue to

1136
02:26:29.840 --> 02:26:37.479
relax deeply, and those parts that we've not yet focused

1137
02:26:37.520 --> 02:26:50.920
on or just automatically release any remain intention in anticipation

1138
02:26:51.280 --> 02:27:04.479
of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm gonna

1139
02:27:04.520 --> 02:27:11.639
start by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware of

1140
02:27:11.920 --> 02:27:22.040
the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds like

1141
02:27:22.239 --> 02:27:27.399
mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow you to feel

1142
02:27:27.479 --> 02:27:37.520
even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment. This

1143
02:27:37.600 --> 02:27:44.479
isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world.

1144
02:27:46.200 --> 02:27:52.280
I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature

1145
02:27:52.760 --> 02:28:03.319
sounds around. So as your focus on your forehead. Just

1146
02:28:03.520 --> 02:28:11.879
notice how it becomes even more relaxed as you focus

1147
02:28:13.600 --> 02:28:22.319
only on my voice and that part of your body.

1148
02:28:23.280 --> 02:28:31.600
Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing

1149
02:28:34.040 --> 02:28:43.760
how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at

1150
02:28:43.799 --> 02:28:50.239
the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes

1151
02:28:50.479 --> 02:29:04.959
relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,

1152
02:29:05.399 --> 02:29:12.040
your tongue, your teeth, and your gumbs, the whole of

1153
02:29:12.159 --> 02:29:27.159
your mouth relaxing, calm and lease. As you focus now

1154
02:29:27.760 --> 02:29:34.639
on your jaw, not just the parts of your jaw

1155
02:29:34.799 --> 02:29:39.239
near your mouth and your chin, but all the way

1156
02:29:39.319 --> 02:29:45.639
up the size of your face to your ears, that

1157
02:29:45.920 --> 02:30:13.159
hole of your jaw feeding more relaxed and calm. Focusing

1158
02:30:13.879 --> 02:30:19.120
on your neck, the front of your neck and your

1159
02:30:19.200 --> 02:30:32.520
throat relaxing and loose and calm. The side of your neck,

1160
02:30:34.559 --> 02:30:37.000
the right and left side.

1161
02:30:36.680 --> 02:30:37.559
Of your neck.

1162
02:30:40.239 --> 02:30:56.079
Relax and loose and calm. And now the back of

1163
02:30:56.159 --> 02:31:02.760
your neck. Focus in on the back of your neck,

1164
02:31:08.680 --> 02:31:13.879
letting go of any tension that may have been there before,

1165
02:31:15.680 --> 02:31:29.799
and enjoying that sense of increasing comfort and release that

1166
02:31:30.000 --> 02:31:40.399
you can experience in the back of your neck. Moving

1167
02:31:40.639 --> 02:31:47.479
down your back and moving either side of your spine

1168
02:31:48.520 --> 02:31:53.280
right from the top of your back all the way

1169
02:31:53.440 --> 02:32:06.159
down to the bottom of your back, down to your

1170
02:32:06.200 --> 02:32:18.680
lower back, and as you move up and down your spine,

1171
02:32:18.879 --> 02:32:25.079
you can feel the muscles either side of your spine

1172
02:32:25.559 --> 02:32:40.159
relaxing even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense

1173
02:32:40.200 --> 02:32:50.719
of comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into

1174
02:32:50.879 --> 02:32:57.559
both sides of your back, the top of your back,

1175
02:32:58.399 --> 02:33:04.639
the middle, and your lower back. And as you scan

1176
02:33:06.319 --> 02:33:14.159
gently and slowly up and down your back, there's the

1177
02:33:14.280 --> 02:33:20.200
muscles in the top of your back relax and become looser.

1178
02:33:24.479 --> 02:33:30.520
The muscles in the middle of your back also seem

1179
02:33:30.600 --> 02:33:40.120
to just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,

1180
02:33:45.879 --> 02:33:51.920
And in your lower back there seems to be an

1181
02:33:51.920 --> 02:34:06.200
extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,

1182
02:34:08.440 --> 02:34:16.399
sit down your lower back, into your hips, into the

1183
02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:25.239
area where your cosicks are, and into your buttocks, and

1184
02:34:25.319 --> 02:34:34.559
all those muscles that spread from your lower back into

1185
02:34:34.559 --> 02:34:48.159
your hip area start to melt, start to really let go.

1186
02:34:54.600 --> 02:34:59.639
I don't even know where about. To focus on your shoulders.

1187
02:35:01.319 --> 02:35:08.520
Your back and your spine will continue to let go,

1188
02:35:11.399 --> 02:35:27.120
continue to relax so calmly, and as you focus on

1189
02:35:27.159 --> 02:35:40.120
your shoulders, you may notice that they're already feeling really loose,

1190
02:35:44.920 --> 02:36:11.319
they're already feeding calm and fear. Those muscles then move

1191
02:36:11.719 --> 02:36:27.559
from your neck into your shoulders. Feel so soft and gentle,

1192
02:36:31.639 --> 02:36:53.440
so smooth and calm, and the feeling in your shoulders

1193
02:37:00.559 --> 02:37:09.120
seens to spread deep into your shoulders, that sense of relaxation,

1194
02:37:10.280 --> 02:37:21.799
not just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing

1195
02:37:24.639 --> 02:37:34.639
the bones and moving all away to underneath your arms,

1196
02:37:37.360 --> 02:37:43.440
relaxing that whole area between the tops of your shoulders

1197
02:37:44.639 --> 02:38:02.440
and underneath your arms healing. You feel so relax and

1198
02:38:02.639 --> 02:38:10.559
comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that.

1199
02:38:12.719 --> 02:38:14.920
Deep healing.

1200
02:38:17.719 --> 02:38:35.040
Message into your arms, and you may feel almost as

1201
02:38:35.079 --> 02:38:41.840
if your arms are not even there, because they're so relaxed,

1202
02:38:45.040 --> 02:39:31.040
so deeply relaxed, so so calm.

1203
02:39:15.920 --> 02:39:16.000
So.

1204
02:39:22.680 --> 02:39:37.840
Poose, not feeling spreading all the way down your arms,

1205
02:39:40.520 --> 02:40:09.639
two elbows, including your elbows succumfort spreads or away into

1206
02:40:09.959 --> 02:40:17.200
rests of forearments, and your wrists.

1207
02:40:23.399 --> 02:40:27.159
So heavy.

1208
02:40:27.879 --> 02:41:09.520
Yet at the same time so light and gentle. Fred sip.

1209
02:41:11.639 --> 02:41:13.079
Now on.

1210
02:41:15.360 --> 02:42:09.040
Your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands. There's

1211
02:42:09.040 --> 02:42:10.120
a sense of.

1212
02:42:13.440 --> 02:42:14.920
Real peace.

1213
02:42:26.600 --> 02:42:40.399
It just seems to I feel so familiar when your hands,

1214
02:42:40.760 --> 02:43:48.440
relax deeply els a thing is a thing is sidles

1215
02:44:17.719 --> 02:44:51.200
you think it tips maving your attention to the front,

1216
02:44:51.360 --> 02:45:22.440
to your body, so comfortable, move in your focus, your legs,

1217
02:46:41.079 --> 02:47:08.399
why my souls in your thighs, in knees, so relaxed,

1218
02:47:35.559 --> 02:49:44.040
a carved mussels and just chins compazya four and the

1219
02:49:44.280 --> 02:49:57.840
fathing and new feats. So peaceful, so.

1220
02:49:58.120 --> 02:50:50.079
Calm, say peaceful, sircom.

1221
02:50:43.200 --> 02:51:14.000
So peaceful, sycomm so peace for RelA, sin peace for

1222
02:51:17.879 --> 02:51:33.319
so calm, loving that deep relaxation, to spread your chest,

1223
02:51:33.600 --> 02:51:49.200
in your stomach, so RelA, letting him go.

1224
02:51:52.719 --> 02:51:53.440
Everything.

1225
02:52:04.680 --> 02:52:10.319
So I'm going to start counting down now from twenty

1226
02:52:10.440 --> 02:52:18.719
down to one. You can imagine in a way it's

1227
02:52:18.799 --> 02:52:25.040
like just walking down some steps and each step or

1228
02:52:25.079 --> 02:52:31.079
twenty steps, and each step represents a level of comfort.

1229
02:52:34.520 --> 02:52:50.120
Each step represents a deepening of that comfort, and the

1230
02:52:50.120 --> 02:52:56.239
fervies you walk down those steps, the deeper and more

1231
02:52:56.280 --> 02:54:52.120
relaxed you feel. So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen,

1232
02:55:38.319 --> 03:02:43.959
sixteen three four four see too well five eight four

1233
03:03:00.920 --> 03:13:49.120
nine eight seven six five four four one. No. As

1234
03:13:49.159 --> 03:14:01.639
you focus on your eyes, We're going to count down

1235
03:14:01.959 --> 03:14:13.159
from ten down to one. Focus in just on your eyes,

1236
03:14:16.879 --> 03:14:25.399
your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eye walls themselves,

1237
03:14:26.879 --> 03:14:43.959
our whole area that makes up your eye. And as

1238
03:14:44.000 --> 03:14:52.440
we count down from ten down to one, whilst focus

1239
03:14:52.520 --> 03:15:07.559
in on your eyes, will become twice is relaxed with

1240
03:15:07.879 --> 03:15:20.959
each number counting down, and you may find the all

1241
03:15:21.040 --> 03:15:27.159
you want to do is just drift off to sleep.

1242
03:15:30.120 --> 03:15:36.799
And if that's what you want, then just allow yourself

1243
03:15:36.879 --> 03:15:51.559
to do that. Now, focusing on your eyes, I'm going

1244
03:15:51.600 --> 03:16:01.600
to begin counting down from ten down to one right now,

1245
03:16:10.040 --> 03:17:11.760
two nine eight.

1246
03:18:05.000 --> 03:19:04.719
Four y.

1247
03:20:09.040 --> 03:21:20.959
Five four.

1248
03:22:33.719 --> 03:25:24.399
Three two hu one. So counting down from ten to

1249
03:25:24.520 --> 03:25:57.479
one ten nine eight seven six five four three two one.

1250
03:25:58.079 --> 03:26:01.000
And maybe that was a bit too quick in order

1251
03:26:01.040 --> 03:26:05.040
to relax. Maybe it's a bit too fast for you

1252
03:26:05.280 --> 03:26:15.040
to notice the calming of your body, maybe even a

1253
03:26:15.040 --> 03:26:18.920
little bit of pressure there, Like you're counting down from

1254
03:26:18.959 --> 03:26:21.760
ten to one. Would you expect me to do man,

1255
03:26:22.559 --> 03:26:27.280
expect me to stick go floppy just because you're counting down.

1256
03:26:32.719 --> 03:26:36.000
We could try it again, but this time I go

1257
03:26:36.159 --> 03:26:43.559
this lower. This time, as you focus on the whole

1258
03:26:43.639 --> 03:26:49.920
of your body, before we focus on your legs, just

1259
03:26:50.120 --> 03:26:59.879
notice how your body does start to feel more relaxed.

1260
03:27:00.000 --> 03:27:39.760
Next with every number that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six,

1261
03:27:48.120 --> 03:28:57.079
five four three two one, and just notice how how

1262
03:28:57.159 --> 03:29:07.319
you feel, generally, how your body feels. It's not necessarily

1263
03:29:07.360 --> 03:29:17.760
even about counting down from ten to one. It's that

1264
03:29:18.040 --> 03:29:37.799
space that you have, that space between being active physically

1265
03:29:37.920 --> 03:29:47.559
or mentally to just sitting or lying down, just being there,

1266
03:29:48.280 --> 03:29:53.760
not doing anything, not saying anything, or needing to think

1267
03:29:53.840 --> 03:29:59.760
about anything. So that opens up a space, you know,

1268
03:30:00.079 --> 03:30:10.600
bit of a space, a gap. And the more I

1269
03:30:10.760 --> 03:30:15.680
came down from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes.

1270
03:30:18.680 --> 03:30:31.200
So there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's

1271
03:30:31.200 --> 03:30:44.920
a nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts

1272
03:30:44.920 --> 03:31:01.000
physically or emotionally, moves them away. Allows you to just

1273
03:31:03.959 --> 03:31:10.719
slow down, someone to count again from ten down to one,

1274
03:31:11.120 --> 03:31:21.360
and notice that gap widening the gap. And as it widens,

1275
03:31:21.399 --> 03:31:27.479
it's almost like the stress and attention falls into the

1276
03:31:27.520 --> 03:31:53.040
gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now ten

1277
03:31:57.559 --> 03:33:54.600
nine eight, seven, six, five four three two one. How

1278
03:33:54.639 --> 03:34:15.760
does your body fel now? Can you notice do you

1279
03:34:15.879 --> 03:34:52.639
feeling calmer, the you feeling more relaxed as we now

1280
03:34:52.799 --> 03:35:13.520
focus on your legs, just your legs. We're just gonna

1281
03:35:13.559 --> 03:35:33.000
start with focusing on your thighs. Of course, it's not

1282
03:35:33.079 --> 03:35:41.600
the most exciting thing to be doing, because I'm sure,

1283
03:35:41.680 --> 03:35:44.319
like most of your body is not a lot going

1284
03:35:44.360 --> 03:35:57.159
on right now. Just focusing on the whole of your thighs,

1285
03:35:59.799 --> 03:36:03.760
the tops of your thighs, the sides of your thighs,

1286
03:36:05.799 --> 03:36:10.280
the bottoms of your thighs, your outer thighs, and your

1287
03:36:10.360 --> 03:36:15.680
inner thighs. Basically the whole of your thigh that leads

1288
03:36:16.639 --> 03:36:32.200
into your hip and it goes down to your knee joints. Now,

1289
03:36:32.280 --> 03:36:39.319
this is a big area. It's a very heavy area.

1290
03:36:39.760 --> 03:36:45.799
It's very strong. Probably the strongest muscles in your body

1291
03:36:46.360 --> 03:36:47.760
are in your thighs.

1292
03:36:57.559 --> 03:36:58.520
But I don't think we.

1293
03:37:00.200 --> 03:37:13.200
Perhaps give enough attention to our thighs. Perhaps we don't

1294
03:37:14.760 --> 03:37:35.239
acknowledge how important our thighs are to our lives, how

1295
03:37:35.319 --> 03:37:44.520
much they actually do for us all through our lives.

1296
03:37:51.639 --> 03:37:57.280
And it may seem to sound really weird, but I

1297
03:37:57.319 --> 03:38:03.479
think that all of our body parts, especially our thighs,

1298
03:38:04.280 --> 03:38:11.639
need some TLC, a bit of love shown, a bit

1299
03:38:11.680 --> 03:38:30.120
of acknowledgement. I thank you gratitude for what our thighs

1300
03:38:30.319 --> 03:38:39.200
do for us. And I know this may sound a

1301
03:38:39.200 --> 03:38:45.559
bit strange. Maybe you think, why am I sure? How

1302
03:38:45.559 --> 03:38:48.399
I should be out in the garden hugging a tree

1303
03:38:48.520 --> 03:38:56.680
or something. Well, it's hard to set a microphone up

1304
03:38:56.680 --> 03:38:59.959
on a tree. That's why I'm doing this indoors. Otherwise

1305
03:39:00.040 --> 03:39:03.440
there would be outside hugging a tree. Now I can't

1306
03:39:03.440 --> 03:39:12.200
see the television from the tree. If you move down

1307
03:39:12.280 --> 03:39:22.079
to your knees gain such an important part. And I

1308
03:39:22.120 --> 03:39:29.000
think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself here, I

1309
03:39:29.040 --> 03:39:34.200
don't necessarily appreciate all that my knees do for me

1310
03:39:35.440 --> 03:39:40.600
until I have a problem with my knee. It's occasionally,

1311
03:39:40.680 --> 03:39:45.639
if I ever maybe i'll pash it or it's aching

1312
03:39:45.799 --> 03:39:52.280
for some reason. It's then that I realize how much

1313
03:39:52.319 --> 03:39:56.760
it does. You know, the benefit of being able to

1314
03:39:56.920 --> 03:40:06.920
use my legs without any kind of physical discomfort is

1315
03:40:06.959 --> 03:40:15.719
a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until it's temporarily removed.

1316
03:40:16.799 --> 03:40:23.959
You know that's comfort. But as you focus on your knees,

1317
03:40:25.959 --> 03:40:31.639
regardless of how your knees feel, you can have that

1318
03:40:31.879 --> 03:40:38.120
sense of gratitude and love to your needs for all

1319
03:40:38.159 --> 03:40:50.479
that they do for you and you can still have

1320
03:40:50.559 --> 03:40:54.760
that attention on your thighs and maybe notice how your

1321
03:40:54.799 --> 03:41:06.680
thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that they are relaxing more

1322
03:41:08.479 --> 03:41:20.200
deeply as you focus now on the bottoms of your legs,

1323
03:41:20.559 --> 03:41:26.000
your shins and your calf muscles and the bones between

1324
03:41:26.159 --> 03:41:32.360
your knees and your feet incorporate, and of course your

1325
03:41:32.399 --> 03:41:44.040
ankles so important. You know, anyone that's had even the

1326
03:41:44.799 --> 03:41:51.680
slightest sprain of an ankle knows how how much we

1327
03:41:51.760 --> 03:42:02.040
take our ankles for granted. And it's kind of strange

1328
03:42:02.079 --> 03:42:06.959
in a way when you think that. You know, logically,

1329
03:42:07.239 --> 03:42:10.360
our wrists are a lot thinner than the rest of

1330
03:42:10.360 --> 03:42:15.239
our arms, which is okay, it doesn't can't see any

1331
03:42:15.239 --> 03:42:20.200
problem with that because we're just picking stuff up. But

1332
03:42:20.319 --> 03:42:26.440
our ankles so much thinner than the rest of our legs,

1333
03:42:32.799 --> 03:42:37.239
and from a physics perspective or logical even it doesn't

1334
03:42:37.280 --> 03:42:43.440
really make sense that all this weight would ultimately be

1335
03:42:44.360 --> 03:42:54.440
resting on your ankles then leading to your feet. That

1336
03:42:54.959 --> 03:43:04.000
thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it does so much great work.

1337
03:43:06.120 --> 03:43:15.840
Supports us, supports our body for a lifetime, helps us

1338
03:43:16.319 --> 03:43:25.719
to balance, It helps you to get around and be mobile.

1339
03:43:32.000 --> 03:43:39.959
And there's the calf muscles. Of course, when I was younger,

1340
03:43:40.159 --> 03:43:43.520
I couldn't see the point in calf muscles didn't seem

1341
03:43:43.520 --> 03:43:48.680
to do anything. Okay, if I walked around on tiptoes,

1342
03:43:49.399 --> 03:43:53.280
then my calf muscles get some work. But of course

1343
03:43:53.319 --> 03:43:57.479
that's not true. The calf muscles are being used whenever

1344
03:43:57.520 --> 03:44:09.440
we use our legs and your shins there to protect

1345
03:44:11.440 --> 03:44:20.120
your lower legs, shaped in a way, almost as a

1346
03:44:20.159 --> 03:44:32.479
protector for the bone, leading of course to your ankles

1347
03:44:35.799 --> 03:44:42.440
and your feet. But we're not going to focus on

1348
03:44:42.479 --> 03:44:44.680
your feet. We're just going to focus on the legs.

1349
03:44:46.680 --> 03:44:51.280
I realize that now that I've mentioned your feet, it

1350
03:44:51.440 --> 03:44:56.399
probably focuses on them anyway, So maybe I should focus

1351
03:44:56.399 --> 03:45:02.280
on your feet a little bit. You can have them

1352
03:45:02.280 --> 03:45:08.079
in your awareness the same as you have your thighs

1353
03:45:08.120 --> 03:45:12.520
in your awareness. Even though we haven't been focusing on

1354
03:45:12.559 --> 03:45:17.399
your thighs for a few minutes, we've been focusing on

1355
03:45:17.440 --> 03:45:35.239
your ankles, there's still that sensation of comfort in your thighs.

1356
03:45:39.639 --> 03:45:41.520
And this that movement.

1357
03:45:42.639 --> 03:45:50.680
Of energy, because the thighs hold lots of different sensations.

1358
03:45:52.079 --> 03:45:56.959
Of course, there's the muscles, the big straw muscles that

1359
03:45:57.040 --> 03:46:10.000
we have in our thighs. But the skin on the

1360
03:46:10.040 --> 03:46:15.520
outside of the thighs, as in the outside of all

1361
03:46:15.600 --> 03:46:24.440
of our body, can be very sensitive, sensitive to the touch,

1362
03:46:27.200 --> 03:46:41.200
sensitive to temperature. And inside your thighs the bones, there's

1363
03:46:41.559 --> 03:46:46.360
the muscle, there's the blood, vessels, the arch trees, to

1364
03:46:46.520 --> 03:46:54.559
all this stuff that's inside your thighs. And I guess

1365
03:46:54.600 --> 03:46:57.959
sometimes it'd be nice if you could actually put your

1366
03:46:58.079 --> 03:47:05.200
fingers in side your thighs and a message, so you

1367
03:47:05.200 --> 03:47:08.799
can message on the outside, of course, but to be

1368
03:47:08.799 --> 03:47:12.000
able to get deep into the muscles and to be

1369
03:47:12.000 --> 03:47:17.159
able to just massage inside your thighs, message in the

1370
03:47:17.239 --> 03:47:26.040
bones of your leg, message in all the veins, and

1371
03:47:26.159 --> 03:47:36.639
just gently healing your thighs, and you could move down

1372
03:47:38.639 --> 03:47:43.760
message and inside your knees, just a message in those bones,

1373
03:47:44.719 --> 03:47:51.799
but with healing fingertips spreading that healing energy deep into

1374
03:47:51.840 --> 03:48:01.319
the joints of your knees. Of course, there's the back

1375
03:48:01.520 --> 03:48:06.479
of your your knee, you know, the inside crease where

1376
03:48:06.479 --> 03:48:13.959
your knee is. It's a very sensitive area. Very it

1377
03:48:13.959 --> 03:48:18.000
feels very nice when you stroke it. That might be

1378
03:48:18.000 --> 03:48:22.000
because it's an area that's not really touched very often.

1379
03:48:24.000 --> 03:48:30.920
It's almost like a hidden part that crease in your legs.

1380
03:48:30.959 --> 03:48:38.319
It's almost like a part that has a sensitivity, which

1381
03:48:38.360 --> 03:48:48.840
is a little bit different. Of course, it's protected by

1382
03:48:48.879 --> 03:49:00.360
your legs, so you can imagine putting your fingers into

1383
03:49:00.399 --> 03:49:10.120
that crease in your legs. Fold in between your legs,

1384
03:49:10.760 --> 03:49:15.440
you can just message with your fingertips. At your fingertips

1385
03:49:15.479 --> 03:49:26.079
going inside, massage in the muscle tissue. You can of

1386
03:49:26.120 --> 03:49:33.239
course field the bones of your knees heading through your fingertips,

1387
03:49:40.600 --> 03:49:45.959
and then as you go down to your calf muscles.

1388
03:49:46.319 --> 03:49:48.079
Now that's the part I'd like to be able to

1389
03:49:48.840 --> 03:49:56.239
really put my fingertips deep inside my calf muscles, massage

1390
03:49:56.319 --> 03:50:05.399
in every single tissue of that muscle, healing every part,

1391
03:50:11.360 --> 03:50:17.479
and then doing the same for my shins, massage in

1392
03:50:17.600 --> 03:50:25.200
and gently stroking the bones, gently stroking them, healing in

1393
03:50:25.239 --> 03:50:32.440
a loving way, because they deserve to be treated as

1394
03:50:32.520 --> 03:50:36.559
the precious bones that they are, because our legs are

1395
03:50:36.559 --> 03:50:40.399
so precious as in all the other parts of our body,

1396
03:50:42.879 --> 03:50:56.879
and more precious of anyture on the planet. When you

1397
03:50:57.040 --> 03:51:09.239
start to think about your legs in this way, it

1398
03:51:09.280 --> 03:51:19.040
can change your perspective. It might sound a bit a

1399
03:51:19.040 --> 03:51:24.360
bit silly to start with the idea of having love

1400
03:51:24.879 --> 03:51:34.280
for your legs, showing appreciation for your thighs, wanting to

1401
03:51:34.319 --> 03:51:40.120
be able to put your hands in your thighs a

1402
03:51:40.360 --> 03:51:46.799
massage the muscles and the bones, and to get your

1403
03:51:46.799 --> 03:51:55.479
fingers deep in there, releasing all tension. Just to show

1404
03:51:57.239 --> 03:52:04.639
how much you care about your legs, how much you

1405
03:52:04.719 --> 03:52:13.280
care for what your legs do for you regularly, your knees,

1406
03:52:13.520 --> 03:52:26.360
your calves, your ankles, the strength of your ankles, considering

1407
03:52:26.559 --> 03:52:31.120
how thin they are compared to the rest of your legs,

1408
03:52:31.239 --> 03:52:44.959
especially your thighs, yet they're so strong, so flexible, absolutely

1409
03:52:45.159 --> 03:52:57.000
amazing things. Your ankles are truly a gift because of

1410
03:52:57.040 --> 03:53:09.040
what they do for you, supporting all that weight, regardless.

1411
03:53:08.399 --> 03:53:12.440
Of how what weight you are, even if you only

1412
03:53:12.799 --> 03:53:17.639
ate stone, there's still a lot of weight for these

1413
03:53:18.000 --> 03:53:18.879
little ankles.

1414
03:53:22.399 --> 03:53:26.680
Now, I'm a lot heavier than eat stone double down,

1415
03:53:30.200 --> 03:53:39.200
Yet my ankles support my body all the time. Whether

1416
03:53:39.280 --> 03:53:42.040
they do give off a sigh of relief when I

1417
03:53:42.159 --> 03:53:51.360
sit down, In fact, my whole legs do. My feet

1418
03:53:52.559 --> 03:53:56.239
feet also go, my toes clap.

1419
03:53:57.399 --> 03:54:17.600
I'm so happy.

1420
03:54:17.920 --> 03:54:27.159
Your legs really are amazing, And I know that talking

1421
03:54:27.200 --> 03:54:33.639
about talking about your legs is probably possibly among the

1422
03:54:33.680 --> 03:54:39.280
most most boring things I've ever heard anyone say. Possibly

1423
03:54:42.159 --> 03:54:48.879
you're boring or not. Everything I said is true. Your

1424
03:54:48.959 --> 03:55:09.559
legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not just respect, they

1425
03:55:09.600 --> 03:55:22.239
deserve to relax deeply. They deserve to take some time

1426
03:55:22.280 --> 03:55:46.040
out of the day to just let go completely. Your

1427
03:55:46.159 --> 03:56:03.959
legs really can relax. And because the legs are so

1428
03:56:05.000 --> 03:56:09.840
such a most, you know, very important part of your body.

1429
03:56:11.079 --> 03:56:13.719
When you relax your legs, the rest of your body

1430
03:56:14.319 --> 03:56:33.120
also naturally follows in that journey of comfort. I can

1431
03:56:33.200 --> 03:56:38.200
feel it in my hips. My hips feel really loose,

1432
03:56:41.440 --> 03:56:45.799
and also in my lower back as well. My lower

1433
03:56:45.840 --> 03:56:51.399
back really feels it feels stretched, even though I'm just

1434
03:56:51.479 --> 03:56:57.760
sitting in a chair and there's no stretching as far

1435
03:56:57.760 --> 03:57:00.920
as I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost as if

1436
03:57:00.920 --> 03:57:04.920
the muscles are just relaxed so much that there is

1437
03:57:05.000 --> 03:57:13.520
a natural stretch as the tension has reduced a lot.

1438
03:57:29.840 --> 03:57:32.920
And I'm now going to count down from ten down

1439
03:57:32.959 --> 03:57:44.319
to one, and you can continue to feel wonderfully relaxed.

1440
03:57:48.120 --> 03:58:12.399
Ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.

1441
03:58:15.319 --> 03:58:31.239
Three two one relax.

1442
03:58:39.120 --> 03:58:42.959
So I'm just going to count down from five down

1443
03:58:43.000 --> 03:58:47.479
to one, and as a countdown. If you just focus

1444
03:58:47.520 --> 03:58:55.479
on the numbers, just the numbers counting down, and notice

1445
03:58:56.360 --> 03:59:04.399
how you feel in this moment as you hear the

1446
03:59:04.479 --> 03:59:12.600
numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting down represent

1447
03:59:13.559 --> 03:59:22.639
you feeling calmer, not just in your body, but also

1448
03:59:24.879 --> 03:59:31.520
relaxing your mind. I just notice how you feel. There's

1449
03:59:31.600 --> 03:59:37.399
nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing to

1450
03:59:37.479 --> 04:00:16.159
think about, starting with number five, four, three two.

1451
04:00:20.120 --> 04:00:20.360
One.

1452
04:00:29.799 --> 04:00:41.639
Now, as you notice the gradual letting go that the

1453
04:00:41.799 --> 04:00:49.399
tension in your body, you may also begin to notice

1454
04:00:49.520 --> 04:00:58.040
and be aware of how your mind is starting to

1455
04:00:58.079 --> 04:01:04.760
slow down. This is just a natural thing that happens.

1456
04:01:07.319 --> 04:01:12.479
It's not really a special procedure. It's just natural because

1457
04:01:12.559 --> 04:01:18.520
as your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax.

1458
04:01:20.079 --> 04:01:23.760
And the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.

1459
04:01:23.879 --> 04:01:34.479
It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And is that

1460
04:01:35.639 --> 04:01:43.520
calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even

1461
04:01:43.520 --> 04:01:50.079
if this background sounds either your side or mine, it's

1462
04:01:50.200 --> 04:01:56.120
still going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't

1463
04:01:56.120 --> 04:02:01.120
got the television on, there's no music in the background,

1464
04:02:01.200 --> 04:02:03.920
unless you're listening to the recording with music. Of course

1465
04:02:08.719 --> 04:02:10.879
you're very likely not going to be sitting in a

1466
04:02:11.000 --> 04:02:14.159
room with other people. Of course you might be, but

1467
04:02:15.399 --> 04:02:18.760
generally it's more ideal if you can do this on

1468
04:02:18.799 --> 04:02:30.159
your own, so no distractions, and when you stop thinking

1469
04:02:30.200 --> 04:02:47.360
about stuff, relaxation automatically rises, a sense of comfort starts

1470
04:02:47.399 --> 04:02:56.239
to grow, and without trying to build it up into

1471
04:02:56.280 --> 04:03:10.719
something fantastical or something magical, this is just a natural process,

1472
04:03:10.719 --> 04:03:21.520
something that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know,

1473
04:03:21.559 --> 04:03:28.440
the sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put

1474
04:03:28.600 --> 04:03:32.520
no effort into it. It's not something that you can

1475
04:03:32.559 --> 04:03:44.239
really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part of

1476
04:03:44.600 --> 04:03:54.840
the process of this recording and others is simply two

1477
04:03:56.440 --> 04:04:06.920
allow you to take it advantage of this space this time,

1478
04:04:09.799 --> 04:04:20.959
to just let go, to just be here, to be

1479
04:04:21.360 --> 04:04:34.799
in tune with how you feel, yet with the intention

1480
04:04:37.000 --> 04:04:48.479
of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,

1481
04:04:49.600 --> 04:04:54.840
depending on what it is that you wish for yourself

1482
04:04:56.559 --> 04:05:11.639
in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority

1483
04:05:12.840 --> 04:05:17.360
of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep

1484
04:05:17.399 --> 04:05:24.319
part is the tiny bit at the end. The deeper,

1485
04:05:25.479 --> 04:05:47.959
relaxed you become the easier you find yourself drifting. You

1486
04:05:48.000 --> 04:05:56.479
can also, if you choose stay focused on my voice

1487
04:05:56.799 --> 04:06:23.600
and really enjoy the process of gradually relaxing each muscle

1488
04:06:28.200 --> 04:06:55.239
in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of

1489
04:06:55.360 --> 04:07:11.000
letting go completely. This time, I'm going to count from

1490
04:07:11.200 --> 04:07:21.399
six down to one, and you can notice your mind

1491
04:07:24.000 --> 04:07:37.440
calming down more with each number that you hear me say, naturally,

1492
04:07:38.479 --> 04:08:40.760
feeling calm and slow and be peaceful. Six, five, four,

1493
04:09:12.719 --> 04:10:47.760
three two what being aware? How your mind to slow

1494
04:10:50.000 --> 04:11:16.440
right down, sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you focus

1495
04:11:16.559 --> 04:11:24.920
on your mind, you may notice that there are some

1496
04:11:25.799 --> 04:11:35.200
thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts that for some

1497
04:11:35.440 --> 04:11:48.520
reason perhaps need your attention. So what you can do

1498
04:11:48.639 --> 04:12:01.760
is send love to those thoughts. Spring call those thoughts

1499
04:12:06.200 --> 04:12:12.120
with love. I all petals from a flower. Just sprinkle

1500
04:12:12.159 --> 04:12:19.319
it over them, petals filled with love towards those thoughts,

1501
04:12:19.879 --> 04:12:26.719
to let those thoughts know that you're not abandoned in them.

1502
04:12:27.639 --> 04:12:29.040
You just need them.

1503
04:12:30.200 --> 04:12:42.440
You require them to just calm down, slow down, quiets down.

1504
04:12:45.840 --> 04:12:57.680
For now. So as you focus on those remaining thoughts

1505
04:12:58.840 --> 04:13:04.280
as we countdown this time from seven down to one.

1506
04:13:04.479 --> 04:13:18.799
With each number, just imagine sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness,

1507
04:13:20.159 --> 04:13:32.040
gratitude over those thoughts, which will allow them to just

1508
04:13:33.479 --> 04:13:48.520
melt away and relax deeply. Of every number, those thoughts

1509
04:13:48.600 --> 04:14:08.959
will become more and more relaxed. Starting with number seven.

1510
04:14:25.239 --> 04:16:26.799
Six, five, four, three, one.

1511
04:16:32.200 --> 04:16:49.680
As you now notice how relaxed you're feeling in your body,

1512
04:16:58.000 --> 04:17:11.959
began to focus on your hands, because the more relaxed

1513
04:17:12.040 --> 04:17:19.280
your hands are, the more relaxed your body and mind are.

1514
04:17:34.200 --> 04:17:34.479
And this.

1515
04:17:36.319 --> 04:17:46.520
You focus on your hands and your fingers. There's nothing

1516
04:17:47.000 --> 04:17:51.760
needed to be done. There's no clenching of fists or

1517
04:17:52.799 --> 04:18:03.159
dents in the fingers or anything like that. It's just

1518
04:18:03.600 --> 04:18:17.680
noticing and focusing on your hands, noticing how they feel.

1519
04:18:32.280 --> 04:18:42.920
Because the more relaxed your hands feel, the calmer your

1520
04:18:42.959 --> 04:18:54.879
mind feels, and the more comforts you feel throughout your body.

1521
04:19:00.120 --> 04:19:01.319
And gee.

1522
04:19:03.559 --> 04:19:06.360
May have.

1523
04:19:10.280 --> 04:19:49.319
Already noticed you mind is starting to dress like sense

1524
04:19:53.360 --> 04:20:08.000
just on your hands and fingers, allowing them to experience

1525
04:20:10.719 --> 04:20:18.239
a real deepening of that relaxation in your hands and

1526
04:20:18.440 --> 04:20:44.920
fingers more and more relaxed with each number from eight.

1527
04:20:47.079 --> 04:20:53.399
Down to one, you can.

1528
04:20:53.360 --> 04:21:04.639
Almost feel that healing and relax energy spreading into your

1529
04:21:04.760 --> 04:21:07.879
hands and fingers.

1530
04:21:10.440 --> 04:21:32.000
Becoming year war relaxing with each number you hear, going

1531
04:21:32.079 --> 04:21:52.360
down from eight down to one, drifting, drifting again starting

1532
04:21:52.639 --> 04:24:13.079
with number eight, seven, six, four, four.

1533
04:24:32.280 --> 04:26:01.319
Three, just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing

1534
04:26:01.399 --> 04:26:12.520
to do, nothing to say, and everything just feels calmer.

1535
04:26:17.000 --> 04:26:24.559
And this is your natural state of being. This is

1536
04:26:24.719 --> 04:26:27.479
how you just normally.

1537
04:26:27.159 --> 04:26:35.520
Feel when you take away all that other stuff that

1538
04:26:35.639 --> 04:26:49.520
we add, you know, things like stress and worrying and overthinking, anxiety, tension,

1539
04:26:53.760 --> 04:26:59.520
just generally thinking about stuff. And you take that away,

1540
04:27:00.520 --> 04:27:01.559
which is what we do.

1541
04:27:02.120 --> 04:27:02.639
What we do.

1542
04:27:02.799 --> 04:27:20.159
Now, you're left with a real sense of peacefulness, which

1543
04:27:20.280 --> 04:27:30.200
comes to you very quickly, because ultimately it's just a feeling,

1544
04:27:34.559 --> 04:27:42.959
a feeling of comfort, almost as if you've gone inside

1545
04:27:42.959 --> 04:27:55.120
yourself and you've found a special place where everything is peaceful,

1546
04:27:58.079 --> 04:28:03.559
a place where you can feel relaxed and your natural

1547
04:28:05.639 --> 04:28:12.000
sense of comfort, a place where you can be you,

1548
04:28:16.680 --> 04:28:23.719
where you can accept yourself for who you are, the

1549
04:28:23.760 --> 04:28:30.319
place where you're not trying to please anybody else ever,

1550
04:28:34.280 --> 04:28:42.920
the place where you can actually not just love yourself,

1551
04:28:43.000 --> 04:28:48.440
but in some ways more importantly, you can like yourself,

1552
04:28:50.920 --> 04:29:08.120
appreciate who you are, and that sense of gratitude is

1553
04:29:08.200 --> 04:29:18.399
in the air all around you, and that's also a

1554
04:29:18.479 --> 04:29:28.639
place where you can actually feel the healing energy soaking

1555
04:29:28.959 --> 04:29:46.559
into your body. Healing energy soaking into your body, and

1556
04:29:46.719 --> 04:29:56.120
the healing energy spreads through your veins, traveling to each

1557
04:29:57.159 --> 04:30:08.280
and every single part of your body, and you start

1558
04:30:08.360 --> 04:30:15.319
to realize that actually, that healing energy, it's not just

1559
04:30:15.840 --> 04:30:22.719
entered into your brain, it's become part of your brain,

1560
04:30:27.639 --> 04:30:38.959
and the spinal fluid is now mixed with healing energy,

1561
04:30:39.559 --> 04:30:45.840
not just allowing you to feel so much more relaxed

1562
04:30:47.879 --> 04:30:59.840
and healthy in this moment, but also you start to

1563
04:31:00.120 --> 04:31:09.440
realize to actually, what's happening now with that healing, relaxing

1564
04:31:10.520 --> 04:31:22.079
energy spreading through your body, It's actually changing your life.

1565
04:31:23.520 --> 04:31:28.680
It's actually changing the way you're going to feel, not

1566
04:31:28.959 --> 04:31:36.360
just now, but tomorrow and the next day. There's your

1567
04:31:36.440 --> 04:31:44.600
health improves, not just your physical health, but your mental health.

1568
04:31:48.479 --> 04:31:53.680
Things that used to bother you in the past, for

1569
04:31:53.840 --> 04:31:59.799
some reason, no longer have the effect that they used

1570
04:31:59.799 --> 04:32:14.159
to because something has changed deep within you. Maybe things

1571
04:32:14.479 --> 04:32:24.120
that used to cause you to feel anger no longer

1572
04:32:24.479 --> 04:32:34.200
have that power to control you the way they seem

1573
04:32:34.319 --> 04:32:43.200
to be able to before as you realize that you're

1574
04:32:43.280 --> 04:32:56.120
the one who decides what affects you, You're the one

1575
04:32:56.600 --> 04:33:07.080
who decides to feel relaxed and calm when you choose

1576
04:33:10.599 --> 04:33:25.840
to enjoy noticing these natural developments of healing, continuing to grow.

1577
04:33:28.319 --> 04:33:39.680
And improve your life day by day, including of course,

1578
04:33:39.759 --> 04:33:41.119
your ability.

1579
04:33:42.639 --> 04:33:57.759
To relax so much easier and sleeping. It's the most

1580
04:33:58.000 --> 04:34:08.959
natural thing in the world to you, because falling asleep

1581
04:34:09.200 --> 04:34:20.040
is something that you've done so many times in your life,

1582
04:34:20.759 --> 04:34:25.560
and you know that you were born, as we all were,

1583
04:34:25.639 --> 04:34:35.799
with the ability to fall asleep naturally. You were born

1584
04:34:36.919 --> 04:34:47.360
with that ability to just drift off into a deep,

1585
04:34:48.639 --> 04:34:59.919
healing sleep. Even when we're kids, sometimes as will fall

1586
04:35:00.080 --> 04:35:05.360
asleep and we don't even want to try to stay awake.

1587
04:35:06.720 --> 04:35:10.240
Maybe it's a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas

1588
04:35:10.360 --> 04:35:13.319
or holiday or something we look forward to.

1589
04:35:13.840 --> 04:35:15.119
We don't want to go to sleep.

1590
04:35:17.279 --> 04:35:22.319
But the more you want to stay awake, the more

1591
04:35:22.479 --> 04:35:30.000
we just start to drift. And the more you fight

1592
04:35:30.040 --> 04:35:34.080
it drifting, the more you try to stop yourself and drift.

1593
04:35:33.799 --> 04:35:34.639
In a safe.

1594
04:35:36.479 --> 04:35:47.560
The deeper and stronger that drifting becomes. Because we're born

1595
04:35:48.520 --> 04:35:54.400
not just with the need to relax deeply and to

1596
04:35:54.560 --> 04:36:04.319
naturally fall asleep. But it's our birth right, it's part

1597
04:36:04.360 --> 04:36:16.159
of our DNA, and sometimes as we get older in life,

1598
04:36:16.479 --> 04:36:30.080
perhaps at times we have forgotten that relaxing completely. It's

1599
04:36:30.159 --> 04:36:50.360
not only a wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also really easy.

1600
04:36:54.639 --> 04:37:02.159
It's very very easy to let go, because that's all

1601
04:37:02.200 --> 04:37:16.639
it is, is just deciding to let go. And when

1602
04:37:16.720 --> 04:37:24.520
you press the play button on my recordings, you have

1603
04:37:24.720 --> 04:37:35.360
given permission for my voice to relax you. When you

1604
04:37:35.400 --> 04:37:40.599
press that play button, you have given me permission for

1605
04:37:40.759 --> 04:37:54.959
my words to effect you in a positive, only a

1606
04:37:55.000 --> 04:38:16.360
positive way, opening up your mind. Two useful and healing

1607
04:38:17.919 --> 04:38:34.000
suggestions that can have such an amazing effect on how

1608
04:38:34.119 --> 04:38:46.200
you feel right now, as well as those changes that

1609
04:38:46.520 --> 04:38:56.520
continue long after the recording ends, those changes within you

1610
04:38:59.360 --> 04:39:11.240
that continue you to flourish and grow, transforming your life

1611
04:39:12.040 --> 04:39:24.119
in a positive, beautiful way, allowing you to move forward

1612
04:39:24.560 --> 04:39:31.319
in your life in the direction that you choose for yourself.

1613
04:39:40.360 --> 04:39:52.400
And this feeling, this feeling that you can experience of safety, comfort, calmness,

1614
04:40:00.159 --> 04:40:14.119
this feels so nice. It's such a healthy place to be,

1615
04:40:22.000 --> 04:40:35.799
and that positivity grows within you each and every day.

1616
04:40:38.840 --> 04:40:48.680
Moving forward, you had to find that you're more relaxed

1617
04:40:51.000 --> 04:41:03.360
physically and in your mind is more relaxed. And it's

1618
04:41:03.400 --> 04:41:08.959
not that you're thinking slower, it's just that your mind

1619
04:41:09.040 --> 04:41:20.959
will be less clogged up with unnecessary negativity because from

1620
04:41:21.000 --> 04:41:31.319
now on, your mind rejects negativity. From now on, you're

1621
04:41:31.360 --> 04:41:42.439
going to start noticing when negativity arises. You can just

1622
04:41:42.520 --> 04:41:57.000
say stop, stop and then negativity will turn around and

1623
04:41:57.279 --> 04:42:24.520
leave you alone. Stop and that negativity would disappear. And

1624
04:42:24.639 --> 04:42:32.520
as you notice that you feel way more relaxed than

1625
04:42:32.560 --> 04:42:48.200
you probably expected, you can now congratulate yourself because you're

1626
04:42:48.680 --> 04:42:54.720
the person that has done this. You are the one

1627
04:42:55.240 --> 04:42:59.959
that has opened your mind up to the simple faith.

1628
04:43:03.599 --> 04:43:08.639
You can feel more relaxed in your body and in

1629
04:43:08.759 --> 04:43:20.799
your mind. You've opened your mind up to the birthright

1630
04:43:20.959 --> 04:43:29.599
of being able to just fall asleep easily when you choose.

1631
04:43:38.200 --> 04:43:45.400
And that's a nice feeling. Don't you think it feels nice?

1632
04:43:45.479 --> 04:43:55.479
Doesn't it? To feel calm full, that healing energy spreading

1633
04:43:55.599 --> 04:44:08.159
through your body in your mind to spend time a

1634
04:44:08.360 --> 04:44:24.919
special place where negativity can no longer enter. Negativity is banned.

1635
04:44:25.880 --> 04:44:33.360
It's bad, it's not allowed Entrygue doesn't. It doesn't. This

1636
04:44:33.880 --> 04:44:41.720
doesn't deserve to be here, It doesn't belong here. Negativity

1637
04:44:41.919 --> 04:44:56.080
has no place in your life, which makes room for

1638
04:44:56.439 --> 04:45:27.119
more comfort, more more heathing, more relaxation, more peace. It

1639
04:45:27.119 --> 04:45:29.759
feels nice, doesn't it.

1640
04:45:29.720 --> 04:45:30.400
It's just.

1641
04:45:33.799 --> 04:45:34.439
The let go.

1642
04:45:38.119 --> 04:45:56.799
Everything. I'm gonna count down now from twenty down to one.

1643
04:46:00.200 --> 04:46:06.720
He can continue to relax. If you choose, you can

1644
04:46:09.840 --> 04:46:20.400
career to sleep with every number you heard me say,

1645
04:46:24.680 --> 04:46:32.080
you can feel twice as relaxed, or if you choose,

1646
04:46:32.200 --> 04:47:50.319
you can feel twice to sleeping now. Twenty eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen,

1647
04:47:56.880 --> 04:48:39.319
toeve eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven.

1648
04:48:47.159 --> 04:48:47.840
Six.

1649
04:49:03.360 --> 04:49:38.400
Oh yeah, it's your time.

1650
04:49:40.840 --> 04:49:46.959
To just take a break, your.

1651
04:49:46.880 --> 04:49:57.599
Time to relax, to allow your mind to slow down,

1652
04:50:06.279 --> 04:50:20.360
to give yourself a permission to take a break from everything.

1653
04:50:25.040 --> 04:50:27.400
And you're the only person.

1654
04:50:27.680 --> 04:50:33.599
That can make that decision. You're the only person that

1655
04:50:33.720 --> 04:50:35.479
can actually tell your mind.

1656
04:50:40.319 --> 04:50:49.840
Just relax, to just.

1657
04:50:53.400 --> 04:51:04.799
Take some time off so that you.

1658
04:51:04.759 --> 04:51:07.319
Can focus on your body.

1659
04:51:07.880 --> 04:51:12.000
Getting in touch with how you felt.

1660
04:51:13.200 --> 04:51:28.840
Physically and in the process of this buddy scan where

1661
04:51:28.959 --> 04:51:40.080
you focus on different parts of your body, those parts

1662
04:51:40.159 --> 04:51:46.680
that you focus on and observe even though you're not

1663
04:51:47.919 --> 04:51:57.840
purposely requesting those parts of your body to relax, it's

1664
04:51:57.959 --> 04:52:04.240
kind of expected. You expect when you listen to my

1665
04:52:04.400 --> 04:52:17.360
voice to feel or words naturally, because when you're listening

1666
04:52:17.439 --> 04:52:32.119
to me, your attention is focused on my words, and

1667
04:52:32.279 --> 04:52:43.680
as my words by you to focus on those parts

1668
04:52:43.759 --> 04:52:48.240
of your body.

1669
04:52:48.200 --> 04:52:58.520
Your focus increases, which actually.

1670
04:53:00.799 --> 04:53:03.560
Calms your mind.

1671
04:53:10.040 --> 04:53:29.119
And when you wind calms down, your body relaxes, and

1672
04:53:29.319 --> 04:53:52.400
when you budy calms down, your mind relaxes. Indeed, though

1673
04:53:53.720 --> 04:54:02.279
not really started to focus on your body, it.

1674
04:54:02.400 --> 04:54:04.680
Can already.

1675
04:54:05.639 --> 04:54:13.639
Feel that healing energy spreading through your body.

1676
04:54:18.159 --> 04:54:19.400
Pushing out.

1677
04:54:22.560 --> 04:54:33.080
Stress at tension, heathing all the parts of your body

1678
04:54:35.159 --> 04:54:42.720
bleeding with skin, the bones, the blood, all of your

1679
04:54:42.880 --> 04:54:48.599
organs inside your body, all of the muscles, all of

1680
04:54:48.680 --> 04:54:58.360
the fact, all everything. Get the hair on your body's

1681
04:54:58.560 --> 04:55:09.959
filled of bay. When your brain.

1682
04:55:14.319 --> 04:55:29.439
Feels back in, the energy feed and the confidence relaxation.

1683
04:55:32.439 --> 04:55:55.400
Increases, deeply increases. No way your mind.

1684
04:55:57.360 --> 04:55:59.119
Stumps to fuel.

1685
04:56:02.080 --> 04:56:15.040
Perhaps speak too healthy because it's not needed. You may

1686
04:56:15.439 --> 04:56:35.240
start drip if that's what's needed. So you're listening to

1687
04:56:35.279 --> 04:56:40.840
this and what you need is deep relaxation.

1688
04:56:40.840 --> 04:56:41.639
That's what you get.

1689
04:56:43.840 --> 04:56:45.279
If what you need.

1690
04:56:45.159 --> 04:56:59.360
Is divorcely naturally easily your mind dreads. That's also weever,

1691
04:57:05.360 --> 04:57:16.639
he's why that they got podcast listening to me permission.

1692
04:57:18.759 --> 04:57:29.919
The body is your mind. In fact, give the command

1693
04:57:31.400 --> 04:57:43.439
to your bully, your mind to realize the cret want

1694
04:57:43.599 --> 04:57:48.319
to sleep, if that's what he wants.

1695
04:58:00.080 --> 04:58:01.040
And so I think this.

1696
04:58:03.080 --> 04:58:24.479
Different parts you stop, just come back down to fas

1697
04:58:25.319 --> 04:58:42.119
different put to the body. I just so connecting, be realized.

1698
04:58:44.040 --> 04:58:45.159
To stop.

1699
04:58:49.919 --> 04:58:55.200
To my voice, different.

1700
04:58:55.000 --> 04:58:58.799
Quart of the body starts to lax.

1701
04:59:04.520 --> 04:59:31.799
Is that question. It's basically heading to sleep, to attracting

1702
04:59:32.080 --> 04:59:41.319
continuous to sleep. It's the last.

1703
04:59:44.159 --> 05:00:19.159
Wait now my time. When experienced the sleep sleep pits sax.

1704
05:00:16.840 --> 05:00:17.799
Sp deep.

1705
05:00:21.880 --> 05:00:37.560
Sleep to wax.

1706
05:00:49.319 --> 05:00:53.599
Scraping les

1707
05:01:05.000 --> 05:02:00.000
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