#135 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily - TRY NOT TO RELAX (Jason Newland)

Hello, welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

So I'd like to thank you for listening, thank you for your support and if you have any requests, any kind of recording that you'd like me to do, then please get in contact. Leave a message, maybe go to my Facebook page, Twitter, YouTube and I can look into doing something that may be useful for you. Now, I'd like you to get yourself comfortable lying on a bed or sitting in a comfortable supportive chair and I'm just going to talk.

You can close your eyes if you want to. I'm going to ask you to try, to start with, to try and stay tense. This might sound weird but let's just go along with me.

So first of all, have a little body scan, get in touch with how you physically feel and notice the most tense part of your body. Also notice the most relaxed part of your body. So for me, the most tense part of my body is my upper back at the moment and my most relaxed part, actually my feet, my feet feel very relaxed.

So I want you to just notice the difference between the part of you that is tense, maybe stressed, uptight, compare it to that part of you that feels relaxed. This may require you to just, you know, move your body a little bit in order to get in touch with those feelings. For example, I'm moving my back just a little bit, my feet, I don't need to move them, they're quite comfortable just being on the ground, you know, they don't need to do anything.

They're very, very calm, very relaxed. I didn't even notice that they were relaxed until I focused on them but I was aware of my back which does go to show you how easy it is for us to naturally focus on the negative or on what we don't want as opposed to what we already have. So I was focusing before this recording started, I was focusing on my upper back the area basically behind my ribs.

I guess it's more middle back than upper back actually but I wasn't giving any attention to my feet until I just observed the rest of my body. I thought first of all that maybe my jaw was the most relaxed part and I focused on my eyes and although I could feel that my jaw and my eyes were relaxing, they weren't the most relaxed part already. So it's only by searching that I became aware that my feet were indeed really relaxed.

I mean it's almost like they're not even there. I mean I could feel them but they're just so calm and as I focus on them it's almost I suppose like a pleasant feeling, nothing excessive you know. It's not giving me blissful feelings and I want to start giggling but I feel nice and then when I focus on my back again it feels a little bit different to how it did a few minutes ago.

So what I'm going to do while I talk to you and I'm going to ask you to do exactly the same thing is focus on that part of your body where the tension is, the stress, the tension, the discomfort and as I said at the beginning of the recording I'm going to ask you to do something that is the complete opposite to what you would naturally do or want to do.

I'm going to ask you to hold on to that feeling, to not let go of it and I'm going to do the same with my back and with my back I will need to move it around a bit to get in touch with it because as I've been talking to you my back has started to relax so I'm trying, I'm going to have to move it a little bit to get in touch with those feelings I had before of tension and stress and physical discomfort.

So I'd like you to focus on that part of you just focusing on that part alone and doing your best to make sure that that feeling stays, focusing just on that part.

It may even try to move because feelings, sensations have a tendency of not staying in just one place but let's keep the focus, the spotlight just on that part, just on that feeling, keeping it there, almost demanding it to stay where it is, just trying to keep it there, noticing what happens. I'm moving my, I'm moving my back around I can hardly feel anything anymore. Notice what happens to that part of your body as you keep focusing on it, trying to keep it there, trying to keep that tension and that stress in there.

Notice how it changes on its own. In the past I've commented on physical discomfort such as stress, tension and compared it to a crying baby. Sometimes all it needs is a little bit of tension and it stops crying.

That seems to be what happens with your body even though you're trying to hold the feeling there, the fact that you are actually holding that feeling like you would a baby, you're calming that part of your body and that part of your body naturally relaxes and although it may not make sense, it's very strange the way it happens.

I mean as I focus on my back and I think that I've slept a bit weirdly which is why it's kind of is how it is and although there's some feeling still there, a little bit of feeling which was yeah mildly unpleasant before, it's almost like I don't care, I really don't care about it. Once you stop caring or fussing or worrying, relaxation has access to that part of your body and even though you're trying to keep the feeling of tension and stress going, you're trying not to relax, your body just seems to do the opposite.

So continue to focus on that part of your body with the spotlight on it. Remember you're trying not to relax that part of your body. In the process, if we take a little break from focusing on that part of your body, it's a little scan through the rest of your body and you may notice that other parts of your body are now feeling more relaxed, naturally and in their own way and in their own time, they've just let go of everything.

It's as if your body wants to feel comfortable and calm, comfortable and calm. And as I focus on my body, I notice that my hands are just as relaxed as my feet, my eyes, my jaw relaxed, relaxed, my neck, my legs especially, really calm. It's as if the feeling from my feet, feeling of comfort and relaxation has spread up my legs, through my ankles, my calves and shins, knees and into my thighs and also into my hips and my lower back where I have regular issues.

It's almost like it's invisible. As I focus now again on my, on the part of me that was tense before and you can do the same, noticing what's happened to that part and how that part feels different to how it did before. And I don't even need to focus on my mind to know that my mind has slowed down, feels very quiet.

How does your mind feel right now? And now I'll go through another body scan, just scanning the whole of your body and see if there's any tension left, any stress left that needs or wants to just leave. I'm noticing that even my breathing is just calmed down, very fluid and easy. It feels really nice to have this much comfort spreading through your body and your mind.

I'd like you to count from 10 down to one in your mind, in your own time. And as you count down your body and your mind will relax twice as deeply, and you'll really feel it twice as deeply, relaxed with every number you say to yourself in your mind. As you count down from 10 down to one.

Now.