April 29, 2025

(no music) Altered Sensory Experience | Let me bore your pain away #31 | Jason Newland | 29th April 2025

(no music) Altered Sensory Experience | Let me bore your pain away #31 | Jason Newland | 29th April 2025
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Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. Money Miss Jason Newland,

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please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

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This is let me boil your pain away. So also

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

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

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been diagnosed by a doctor and a doctor has given

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you permission to listen to this particular recording. Now, what

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I do before we go further to let you know,

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

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I have a YouTube channel which is also got all

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

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

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

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And the five and ten hours also have like affirmations,

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

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you can have ten hours of me just talking softly

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

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give you like a summary of what these podcasts are.

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

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been doing for a while, but I think this is

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the thirty first recording. I started doing it a bit

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

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to help, to try and what as it says on

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

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I've actually got a lovely comment on my group, my

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Jason Newland's boring group on Facebook from Ali says, not

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sure the best way to leave your feedback, but especially

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

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you have no idea if let Me Bore your Pain

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Away was helping anyone, which is true. I have not

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really had much feedback on these recordings, and Ali goes

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on to say, I've been meaning to say something even

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before you said that. These recordings especially have been helping

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me enormously this year. I've had multiple health issues since

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the start of the year and sphere nerve pain and

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going to too much detail. But since February signed beyond appreciate,

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appreciated for being bored to not feel the pain so intensely,

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

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

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

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every I kind of figured out years ago that for

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every one person that does actually say something like say

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

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

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got round to leaving a message or sending a message

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or leaving a comment. And a lot of that is

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possibly due to even not wanting to. But also when

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

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

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

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let me have a look at my phone and post

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

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lovely to hear messages like that or to read messages

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

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

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

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

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

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with different ideas and I talk about various different chronic

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pain relief techniques. So what I started yesterday is looking

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

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Chronic Pain Management Therapist Guide by Mark P. Jensen entire

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

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

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got detailed hypnosis scripts and cognitive behavior techniques combined with

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

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So what I'm going to do, what I've started doing

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

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

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through the book and go through various different things. So

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what stuck out mostly was if I can find it

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is the key techniques. So the key techniques of this

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

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

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to do is talk about each of those one at

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

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

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

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

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altered sensory experiences uses hypnotic suggestions to transform the felt

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quality of pain into something neutral or even pleasant, which

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dramatically reduces the emotional and sensory intensity of chronic pain.

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

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

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imaginations are. Now, we think about something and it's almost

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like our brain doesn't even know the difference between what's

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

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

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edge of a river bank and just got your feet

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in the cold river. And the more you get into it,

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the cooler your feet become. Because you know, even if

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you had never done that, you've probably done something similar.

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You know what it's like to have your feet in

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cold water at some point, even if it's just stepping

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into a getting into a swim swim pool, or paddling

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in the sea, or getting into a bath that's a

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bit cold. I think you have to wait until it's

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heated up. And it's lots of different scenarios stepping into

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a puddle, so we know what it feels like and

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to have cold water on your foot, and when you

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imagine that feeling, it's really weird. The more you talk

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

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you start to have that coolness feeling in your feet.

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And it's just weird. It's weird, it's kind of I

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guess it's obvious that it's going to happen, but the

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same side, it might feel a bit strange that it's happening,

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because why we're just thinking about something cause the feelings,

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the physical feelings in your feet to change. But then

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it's the same thing with emotions, isn't it. When we

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focus on something, the feelings get stronger. If you focus

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on how much you care about someone, or you focus

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about something that you're angry about, those emotions increase because

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you're focused on it. So if you focus on just

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like how you feel now emotionally, and now focus on

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someone the absolutely adore. It could be grandchild, it could

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be your parent, It could be your partner, It could

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be your own child. It could be your dog, or

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your cat, or your ferret or your goldfish, it could

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be anything, any any kind of person, and focus on them.

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Just focus on that person. You might be able to

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see their face in your mind and your imagination. Maybe

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you can kind of hear their voice, their smile. Maybe

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it's just a feeling. You have a really strong feeling,

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and maybe that feeling causes you to smile because it's pleasurable,

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and maybe you're thinking about something funny that they did,

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something cute that they did, and it feels nice. I mean, technically,

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you could perhaps move that feeling into the body part

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that you've been having problems with, and notice what happens there.

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I guess that's I'm going to move it into my

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lower back. At the moment, it's kind of in my

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head and my chest, so I'm going to move it

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into my lower back. It's strange. It's just weird the

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way it's kind of just moved. Ah, So it's changed.

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And it's weird because it's not a feeling that I

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can actually really verbalize, as in, you know, you've got comfort, discomfort, hot, cold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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and you can maybe put a grape or maybe maybe

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like a little pair can put in their hands and

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they can hold it. But you put a watermelon in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I find with nice feelings is even when it moves,

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

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all of my body. My whole body is feeling quite

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

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

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

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got the window open. There's the birdies singing downstairs. I

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

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

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

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because it has been for the last hour or so,

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

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

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

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

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the background, then you need to have a word with

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

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

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

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

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This is a sleep recordings, and I like the recordings,

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

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

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

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

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really late. And that tree was there long before I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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someone's got a problem in their left, you know, one

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part of their body. So for example, the left side

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of my right. If I focus, I can get the

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pain back in my chronic in my lower back if

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I focus on it, yeah, because arthritis, it's kind of

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it's there, but I can like manipulate it a bit.

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So okay, right, So I can't get it to be

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when I'm doing his recordings, no veny, don't bark lose mate.

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When I do these recordings, I can't get it to

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be high because it just won't. Because when I'm making

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

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

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

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a way as stress going on in my body or

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

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operating in you know, in a way that that allows

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me to work to talk HM. So if I focus

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on my left side of my back. This is something

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

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

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

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

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have to be the other side, doesn't have to be

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

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

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a completely different part of your body if you want.

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So if someone had a bad like a wrist problems

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

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you could focus on your shoulder, you can focus on

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

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

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of your body, the part that was problematic to start

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with before you start listening to this, and then choose

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another part of your body to focus on, a part

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that feels absolutely fine. And this is a way where

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you can maybe start to neutralize that physical sensation. So

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if I focus on my lower back and then focusing,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I focus on the left side of my lower back,

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and then I focus on the right side of my

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

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keep moving between the different sides, that the left side

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

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

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

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

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all differently and one thing might be more helpful than

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another thing. You may find that as soon as you

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start listening to my voice that something changes within your

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mind and your body. And the more often you listen

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

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

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whatever it is. You might find that you just to

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

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parts of your body that maybe had a degree of

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discomfort before you started listening to me start to automatically

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

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

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maybe focus now on doing some of the exercises. But

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I'm not going to ask you to do anything difficult,

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and I'm not even going to ask you to necessarily

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do anything. It's just about imagining if you were to

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

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you through how it feels for me. And if you

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want to join in and participate, then of course you can.

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

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wrap your mind around the ideas, and some of these

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

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

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

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

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So for that technique, I've just focusing on different parts

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of your body, like you knows. Say for me, my

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

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

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without really I mean you could say, well, I wasn't

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

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you are doing something, and maybe the fact that you're

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expecting changes to occur it is also having a positive

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

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

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you even focus on changing the sensory qualities, and so

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you're focusing on maybe changing or imagining, just imagining it's changing.

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So you can focus on things like temperature changing hot

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to cool or cold to warm, you know, whichever suits you.

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Then this text changing sharp to smooth and color. This

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is something that I've done. One of my earliest things

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I used to do with helping people with chronic pain

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is changing the color. So I would start off with

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the color that the person has already, So I just

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get the person and get you to imagine that part

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of your body just moving it out of your body

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like it was a circle, like it was an object

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just moving out in front of you and just noticing

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what color is naturally as the bathroom continues to be built.

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I hope you can't hear that too much. A lot,

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a lot I can do about it. It's either do this.

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I watch television and I think this is a bit

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more useful of my time. So you can imagine this

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thing moving out of your body, the part of the

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body that physical sensation. You can give it a color.

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You could call it angry red and then change it,

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or you can just what color is already naturally in

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your mind. So you do this with your eyes closed.

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

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And then just change the color. Change it from red

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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that shape so it's a soft circle and then turns

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into a triangle or a rectangle or just a blob.

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Maybe it becomes fainter so not quite as clear, like

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

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

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as we all know, can have a big impact on

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how you feel differently from what you did before when

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

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You can turn it around. If it's already spinning in

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a certain direction, stop it and turn it around and

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

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because that can reverse the way you were feeling before.

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

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

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and you spin it the opposite way. You could even

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speed up the spin in the opposite way, so the

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feeling turns from neutral to even pleasurable. You can move

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it even further away to the point where you can

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you can nail it against the wall far away so

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

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

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of it first, and then you can turn around in

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

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

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Maybe you can hear buzzing or humming, so perhaps you

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

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maybe change it from buzzing to humming. Maybe even give

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that image a silly tune. So when you focus on

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

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whenever you think about that part of your body where

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

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

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You know, do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

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Do Do Do Do do that one. But it can

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be anything. It can be the most sticky Barbie Girl.

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It could be a song that you find silly. So

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this tricks the brain into reinterpreting the signal, which reduces

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stress and often the physical intensity itself. It's like you're

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telling the brain, this is not dangerous. This is something different.

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Now it's a different feeling. It's a different sensation because

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the brain interprets that physical feeling based on context and meaning.

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It's not a fixed experience, and we're always changing anyway.

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How we feel is changing all the way through the day.

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How you felt at the beginning of this recording or

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

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to feel different to how you feel now. Say now

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about my voice, I feel like I might my voice

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

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

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little bit. I feel like I'm turning into a daralek.

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I wonder what, Yeah, you can relax, relax, that's that

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would be? Would it work? Come set, calm yourself down,

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focus on your mind, focus on your brain. Relax. I

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tell it's weird because I've done I've been doing body

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scans for years and years and years, and someone found

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out my telephone number somehow, and they left me a

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message on my phone on my answer machine, and the

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message was this, relax your face, relax, your hands, relax,

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And they started going through body parts that I wouldn't

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normally talk about in a body scan, and they started

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laughing hysterically and hung Up. To this day, I still

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do not know who it was that was about. Wow,

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thirteen years ago. So physical sensations, as I said, it's

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always changing, always changing, and it involves multiple pain areas

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

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

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

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

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

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as well. And also by changing how or telling how

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the brain how to label the feelings, such as when

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

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then down grades or down regulates that physical perception changes

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how you feel. Now you are retraining the brain to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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you know, they to find basically like his boot filled

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with blood because I had to remove the It was

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a really big it's one of those big spiky nails

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

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

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they nail had gone through his between his big toe

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and his and his first thing, yeah, the first finger,

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

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that second his brain retrained. So his brain was being

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retrained to reinterpret the signal like instantly. And the weird

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

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But as soon as he saw it was his own eyes

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that there is no damage. His foot had not even

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been touched. And I don't know if he's wearing clown

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shoes or something, but it's like didn't hurt anymore, which

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just goes to show that our brain is responsible. And

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it still blows my mind really, the fact that all

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physical sensations come from the brain, but the brain has

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no physical sensations in it. There are no nerve endings

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

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

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

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whatever it's gonna They scooped out. But you know, whatever

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

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

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by different parts of the body, being different parts of

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the brain activating different things in the in the body.

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

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part of the brain, the part of the body, it

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

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

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in the brain. It's just it's a weird concept. And

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

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I suppose to understand, but it still seems like weird.

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It's it's just strange. So retraining the brain, that's kind

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of a supposed part of what we do here, what

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we're doing. And also our opinions can change in an instant.

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Our feelings, our thoughts, our interpretations of something can change

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so quickly, you know, if you sometimes just one little

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

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I was watching Big Brother years ago and they're all

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in the garden. You haven't seen it as a TV

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

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

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I think Phineas just farted. It could be me, but

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

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talking about loss. She was getting quite a heavy conversation

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

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child drowned. And they were all like cuddling her and

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like just she was crying and everyone was like upset

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

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

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

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

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

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

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a second. All those people that were around her comfort

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to her, that had all this emotion, it turned to

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anger because they felt misled or manipulated or whatever. They

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turned to anger because they felt that she had just

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

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

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

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

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

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

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people that have been saved over the years. But and

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

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was in the seventies there is a new fad. We

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

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so I was always at the side. But I got

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pulled away from the side by the wave machine and

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I just went to the bottom of the just basically

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luckily someone had done. But I guess it's probably the

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swimming guard or whatever came and saved me. And I've

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never really been able to I've never felt comfortable in

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

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

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

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foot tall, I'd love a swim pool. Becaud still be

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

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my knees. I suppose to be fair or below my knees,

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00:42:48.639 --> 00:42:54.159
below my chest, one of them. But they'd changed instantly,

476
00:42:55.280 --> 00:43:05.360
that extra little bit of information. Sometimes looking what else.

477
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.320
So you've got different things you can choose, like thermal shift,

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00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.760
which you kind of talked about earlier. Imagine in applying

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00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:22.320
cool gel, water, ice or warmth. So I do this

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00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:27.920
sometimes when it's hot. I imagine getting because you can

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00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:31.400
get those cool gel masks, can't you that you can

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00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:34.239
put on your eyes and stuff that you're put in

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00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:37.320
the freezer or fridge or whatever. I used to use

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00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.440
them years ago, And sometimes I just imagine it on

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00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:49.000
my forehead or on my eyes, a nice cool towel,

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00:43:49.159 --> 00:43:56.400
like a wet towel or something like that, or imagine

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

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

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

490
00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:18.559
to stand under. I don't know, I'm not talking about

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

492
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:27.880
un under Niagara falls. You'd need some kind of a

493
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:33.440
safety now, I suppose, But just having that water falling

494
00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:41.039
on top of your head gentle enough to be the

495
00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:55.679
most amazing scalp message. That's really nice. You can use

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00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.400
different textures you know, because if you imagine sort of

497
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:04.159
a part of your body feeling like, let's say, like sandpaper,

498
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:11.639
you can imagine it changing into a much softer material

499
00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:19.679
like silk or I suppose gentle rubber if you like rubber,

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00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:29.559
or just a smooth surface, maybe like leather. Leather can

501
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:40.639
be quite smooth. Because you know, if you're wearing uncomfortable shoes,

502
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:47.519
when you take those shoes off, it feels so nice,

503
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.559
doesn't it. Or even if you're wearing comfortable shoes and

504
00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:53.079
you've been walking around for ages or been wearing the

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00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:57.320
shoes for a long time, you get home or wherever

506
00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.920
you are, you just take the shoes off and you

507
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.679
sit down in a comfortable chair. It's a feeling. It's

508
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:12.760
a real lovely feeling, and your feet feel so relaxed.

509
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.079
In the same way as maybe you've got trousers on

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00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:19.960
and they're a little bit tight, and you take the

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00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:23.360
trousers off, or you undo your belt under the top

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00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:27.800
button of the trousers. I've done this sometimes after I've

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00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:31.920
been eating, just undo the trousers a little bit, just

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00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:37.320
the top two or three buttons under the zip. Definitely

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00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.800
get rid of the belt, but just you know, just

516
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.000
pull me underpants, you know, pull them out a little bit,

517
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:47.320
just a little bit of air, get into the belly region.

518
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:54.480
It can make such a difference for comfort. You get

519
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.320
your band from restaurants, but other than that, it's pretty good.

520
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.559
But it's a nice feeling just you know, like getting

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00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:06.880
home from work and taking your tie off. If you

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00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:11.360
wear a tie, I'm doing the top button of your shirt,

523
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:16.880
or getting home taking your bra off. I know I

524
00:47:16.880 --> 00:47:20.000
don't wear a bra anymore anymore, I don't wear a bra,

525
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:23.159
but I know a lot of people have told me

526
00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:26.199
that it's one of the favorite partis of the day,

527
00:47:26.280 --> 00:47:33.400
getting home and just taking that thing off. So there's

528
00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:38.880
certain parts of all of our days where we can

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00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:43.280
experience you can experience a sense of comfort, a sense

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00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:53.159
of relief, a sense of a you know, sense of

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00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:58.599
just hm. That's nice, even if it's only for a

532
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:06.719
short period of time. And that goes back to the

533
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:14.840
fact that our feelings our the way it feels always

534
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:30.039
changing always. It's not a fixed experience, and maybe sometimes

535
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:39.239
it feels that every time you focus on that nice

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00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:44.599
feeling of comfort, relaxation, letting go. The more you focus

537
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:50.360
on those feelings, the more you're going to notice those

538
00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:55.280
feelings of comfort, and the more you're going to expect

539
00:48:55.880 --> 00:49:02.639
to experience more comfort and relaxation and sense of peace

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00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:08.320
of mind. And as you know, the more you expect

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00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:10.880
something to happen, the more likely it is going to happen.

542
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:14.679
Because we get what we focus on, We get more

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00:49:14.719 --> 00:49:20.679
of what we focus on, which then makes you wonder, Okay,

544
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:30.119
what am I focusing on? Or what do you want

545
00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:35.320
more of? So instead of focusing on what you don't want,

546
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:42.480
focus on what you do want. It's quite I find

547
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.480
it quite interesting. I don't know about you, but it's

548
00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:56.960
it's an interesting old thing. It's very it's quite a

549
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:02.360
powerful concept, you know, being able to be abut to

550
00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:07.519
alter how you feel in your mind just imagining it,

551
00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:10.159
to imagine that, you know, you focus on the part

552
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:15.079
of your body, Imagine that that warm, a warm heading,

553
00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:20.719
light begins to surround that area slowly, and as that

554
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:25.840
light blends in, the sharpness starts to soften, the heat phades,

555
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:32.199
the sensation becomes cooler, calmer, more like a gentle breeze

556
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:37.800
or a soft vibration. So you can almost like introduce

557
00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:48.519
a feeling and then change that feeling and test out

558
00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:56.119
the different feelings, and it's all imagination. But as you

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00:50:56.239 --> 00:51:05.880
imagine your hands became heavier, you imagine your hands becoming

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00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:17.639
more relaxed. That's what happens to them, especially when you've

561
00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:23.760
got a calm mind. You're relaxed and you're not fighting

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00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:29.199
against yourself. You're traveling in all in the right direction,

563
00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:34.159
the same direction. Your mind, your brain, your emotions, your

564
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:41.880
unconscious mind, everything's traveling in the same direction, wanting the

565
00:51:41.920 --> 00:51:48.719
same thing, which is comfort, peace. The sound of any

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00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.880
chewing on a bone in the background, something we all want,

567
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:57.000
don't alway, he has to do it. During a recording,

568
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:04.920
you can change sharpness to smoothness, heat to coolness, pressure

569
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:13.119
to floating, burning feelings to cool waves or tingling sparks.

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00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:18.360
You can imagine things like a cool mountain stream flowing

571
00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:25.000
through the area that we've been focusing on, So that

572
00:52:25.199 --> 00:52:30.559
cool mountain stream flowing gently through that area, soothing each nerve.

573
00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:43.320
It touches and continues to flow, cleaning, cleansing, healing, and

574
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.039
you can visualize it. You can if you want to.

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

576
00:52:49.320 --> 00:53:05.000
part of your body, or you could imagine someone's wrapped

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

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

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

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

581
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:50.679
slowly changing everything it touches, healing, relaxing. So how do

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

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00:53:53.599 --> 00:54:01.639
feel now? What's changed? And a good thing about it?

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

585
00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:07.519
about it is the more often you play around by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:36.960
because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle

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00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:48.480
with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love, Bye,