#122 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily - DRIFTING DOWN A SLIDE (Jason Newland)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland and this is Relax and Sleep Hypnosis Daily. Thank you for listening and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Now please get comfortable either sitting in a comfortable chair which supports your body or lie down on a flat surface such as a bed or maybe a sofa.

Now if you're listening specifically just for the relaxation I suggest you don't lie down because there's a greater chance of falling asleep. And it's not really anything to do with me, it's more to do with your body recognises, you know, the muscle memory recognises that when you lay down, especially on your bed, it's time to go to sleep. And there's even those environmental cues that are there which we're not necessarily aware of, but it all adds to the situation.

So looking at the same furniture in the room, just, you know, the physical feeling of the familiar pillow underneath your head supporting your head and your neck, the feeling of the bed supporting your body, because all, you know, beds do feel different, different beds and you get that familiarity. And the bed covers or the quilt that's on top of your body, I like to cuddle my quilt, perhaps I need to get a girlfriend, but hey.

So there's those cues of familiarity in your environment which all add up towards kind of what happens next, is your brain starts to think, that's time to sleep.

That's why it's sometimes not always easy to lie down on a bed and read, as it might be to sit in a chair. Now, it might be a little bit different if you live in a room and, you know, you've got a bed and that's what you sit on and that's what you eat on and that's where you read and everything else. And I've lived like that for many years in the past.

So, you know, watching telly, all the things you might do whilst in bed or on the bed. So there's more things. But if you have your bedroom, and that's, this is one thing that can actually help you to sleep better, is to not do anything else when you're in your bed, other than maybe some of the nicer things in life if you're, if you're lucky enough.

But maybe not to watch television in bed, maybe to not read in bed, to not sit up in bed eating, so that the bedroom is really just a place you go to, generally, to go to sleep. And then those, as I said, the environmental cues that are there, like the, I don't know if you've got wallpaper or if there's a plant in there or if there's, even just the lampshade, the set of drawers, the carpet, maybe the look at the carpet, the feel of the carpet underneath your feet.

And the, the procedure that you may have, that you do every time, maybe, you know, cleaning your teeth, going to the toilet, maybe washing, washing your face, whatever you do, whatever your routine is prior to going to sleep.

Walking in, maybe turning the lights off in your flat or in your house, making sure the television's off and maybe closing the doors if that's what you do. And then going into your bedroom and maybe sitting down on the side of the bed, taking your socks off or taking your shoes off or your slippers, whatever you've got on your feet. Maybe you take all your clothes off, maybe you change into pajamas, maybe you don't, whatever is your routine.

And that routine is almost like a slide on a playground or in a fair. You know, you, you push yourself off the top of the slide and the rest of it just happens naturally. You don't need anything other than gravity to push you down the slide to the bottom.

There's no, not really any thought goes into it. It's like when you do your shoelaces up, it's so embedded in our memory, our muscle memory and everything that we don't need to think about it. The same as when people are driving, most of the driving activities process is automatic because people do it so often, it becomes automatic.

So the process of leading from deciding to go to bed and all the different things you do between deciding to go to bed and actually lying down on your bed is automatic. Although you're doing it and you know you're doing it, it's almost automatic because generally we do things in a certain order. Maybe not because we're consciously thinking of it needs to be done in that order.

But if we do the same thing every evening or whenever you go to bed and it's the same process, it's the same activities every day, year in, year out, it becomes automatic like sliding down the slide effortlessly and really without thinking. And everything you do leads to falling asleep. It's almost like 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and the last thing perhaps you do really is you lie down on your bed.

And then there's the process of getting comfortable. Now I know for a fact that there's a few good few people listening to this that will have physical, maybe chronic pain issues or some kind of physical issue, which means, you know, I can't say to everyone, lay down on your back and go to sleep. Now I don't sleep on my back, I sleep on my side.

So some people would need to put a cushion underneath or pillow underneath their left leg or underneath their hip or whatever. Some people need to sleep sitting up in the bed. So it's about doing whatever feels right for you, preparing to sleep because the more you do that helps you feel comfortable.

The easier it is for you to relax deeply. And the process really is as simple as just being at the top of a slide and just could be, I'm thinking of a water slide now, but you do just push yourself off the top and you slide all the way down and you're supported and you're safe and you don't have to do anything. And every time you go back and walk up the steps to get to the top of that slide and you do the same thing and push yourself off down the slide, the same thing happens a thousand times out of a thousand.

You just go down the slide and then you land at the bottom. So when you do get into bed, if that's your chosen thing to do, just you know, go to sleep, you get yourself comfortable physically. And it's not about finding a position that you're going to stay in for eight hours solid because you won't be.

I think there's very, very few people would just stay still for eight hours. I'm sure there are some out there that do, but most don't. A lot of studies have been done for this and we do move around in our sleep and it's natural.

And isn't it interesting that when we're asleep, our unconscious mind takes over our physical movement because we're not consciously moving. So we're unconsciously moving from side to side or you know, getting comfortable. And our unconscious mind can be trusted to keep us safe and to keep us comfortable.

And if required to move our body into a different position, if that's needed for us to have more comfort, which means that we don't really need to consciously be too involved and we can have trust in ourselves and in our unconscious mind. You know, that same part that's responsible for all the other parts of our body working correctly. Things that we have no, we have no conscious control over really.

So when we're asleep, everything is on automatic. And that's a good thing. I think that's quite a useful thing because then you realize that you don't actually need to do anything, even to prepare to fall asleep.

Because the only real difference between relaxing deeply and falling asleep is the actual last bit where you fall asleep. And you don't know you're falling asleep and you don't necessarily even know when you're falling asleep. Because it just happens.

And as you relax more and more, and your body, the muscles in your body, calm down, and you feel a sense of relief. It's almost, almost like the pressure of the stress that was there is now vanished. And you can just let go, but not even consciously, you've just, it's almost like it's automatically happened.

As you put trust in your own ability to do something that you were born to do. So, relaxing and falling asleep are two of the things that we can naturally do when we're born. There's not many things that we can do.

We can chew. Well actually, chewing is not really a thing that's sucking, I guess. But we can chew because babies will put toys in their mouth and chew on them.

So we're able to use our mouths for chewing and for sucking. We can hear things. We can see things.

We can feel things. But as far as actually doing anything, crying, sleeping, going to the toilet, and sleeping are the three things that we're able to do at birth. And sleeping, for a baby, sleeping is so easy.

It's the most easiest thing that there is. And in order for anyone to fall asleep, you need to be relaxed. So babies can relax so easily.

And you can tell a baby's relaxed because they're so floppy when they're relaxed and they're happy and they fall asleep. Everything's so loose and muscles are loose. They're almost bendy.

You have to kind of support them, especially when they're first born, because they are so relaxed. The neck is really relaxed when a baby's born. And all the muscles are.

Which is why for the first period of time, we have to support the head because a baby's head's always so much bigger than the body in comparison. So we're born relaxed. We're born being able to sleep easily and very deeply.

So that's a gift that we have. And it's something, even if someone's been going through a difficult time lately, you know, with sleeping issues. Most of our lives, we fall asleep.

That's fairly easy. In fact, sometimes the best way to try and fall asleep is to try not to. If you want to guarantee falling asleep, try to stay awake when you're tired.

Not when you're working because, you know, those kinds of distractions can keep you awake. But try sitting in a chair or lying down on a bed. Try and stay awake when you're tired without any kind of distraction or stimulus.

Because the next thing you'll know is you've woken up and you've been asleep. Another scientific study has shown that people who say that they don't sleep actually have slept. They're just not aware of it.

Because of the lack of stimulation, the lack of any kind of anything really going on when someone's lying in bed at night. Time is hard to gauge. And also we don't know when we're asleep.

We perhaps know when we've been asleep, but we don't even always know that. But there is a certain feeling, a certain sensation when you know that you really are relaxing. Like really, really relaxing deeply.

And you may notice that your mind is drifting. You may notice that you suddenly find yourself almost waking up and being aware of my voice. And you realize that you were drifting.

And you find yourself drifting again. And each time you drift, and it's almost like a daydream, I guess. It's almost a mixture of a daydream leading to a proper dream.

And each time it seems to last for longer. And eventually, it just continues. Just continues.

And you relax even more. So deeply relaxed. So calm and loose.

And sleeping is just becomes the easiest thing. The easiest thing. And drifting leads to that one moment where you're no longer awake.

And we're never really aware of that moment. Because when it happens, we're asleep. We can be aware of the feeling where you almost sense that your mind is slowing down so much that it becomes quite difficult to have a coherent thought.

Because you may try and think of something, but your mind just won't allow it because you're so tired. And just automatically drift again. Feeling so relaxed and calm.

So loose. And comfortable. So relaxed.

So deeply, deeply relaxed. And as I count from five to one, with each number, you can become 10 times more relaxed. Now.

Five. Four. Three.

Two.