#145 Relax & Sleep Hypnosis Daily - GENTLY & SOFTLY (Jason Newland)

Hello and 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. We're going to do a body scan focusing on firstly how you feel in your body.

Not trying to change how you feel, not trying to relax, not trying to move away from any discomfort or stress or tension, just accepting, observing and accepting how you feel in the different parts of your body. Just allowing yourself to be exactly as you are, to notice, to get in touch with how you actually feel in this moment. So we're going to start off by focusing on your hands, just be aware of your hands.

I'd like you to move your hands around, just maybe move your fingers a little bit, opening and closing your hands very gently. Just so that you can get in touch with how your hands and your fingers feel. Very, very slow movements, focusing now on your feet.

And if you can, just do kind of an equivalent with your feet as you've just done with your hands. Maybe turning your ankles, moving your feet around, moving your toes gently. But only very gently and very slowly.

Noticing how your feet feel in this moment, focusing now on your eyes. I'd like you to just focus on your eyelids, maybe you can open and close your eyes a couple of times to really get in touch with how you feel when you do close your eyes. The muscle changes in your eyes when you do close them.

Maybe raising your eyebrows, which stretches the tops of your eyes. Perhaps squinting your eyes, scrunching up your eyes, just so you can really get in touch with all aspects of how your eyes feel right now. Now focusing on your thighs, and I'm just going to ask you to gently tense your thighs, just very, very gently.

Just enough so you can become more attuned to the physical sensation of your upper legs, the front of your thighs and the backs of your thighs. Noticing and observing how your thighs feel right now, moving your focus to the back of your neck. Just noticing the back of your neck, the muscles, of course they lead to the side of your neck, they also lead to the top of your back, which lead to your shoulders.

So as you focus on the back of your neck, maybe you can move your head gently upwards, as if you were looking up. Maybe moving your head down, as if you were looking down. Perhaps moving your head side to side, right to left.

But only very slowly and very gently, not trying to force anything. It has to be very, very gentle, just so that you can be more in touch with the feelings, with the sensations, the physical sensations of how the back of your neck feels right now, as we now focus on the tops of your arms. The parts where your biceps and your triceps are, between your elbow and your shoulders.

As you focus on those parts, the tops of your arms, you may like to just tense them, but very, very gently and slowly. So you are not straining or putting any pressure whatsoever on your arms. It's just so that you can gain more of a sense of how your upper arms are feeling in this moment.

And just noticing as you gently, very gently and slowly tighten the muscles and then let go. Notice how the tops of your arms feel right now, as we now focus on your stomach. The area, the lower abdomen area below your belly button.

Moving all the way down to your hips, just above your groin. Maybe you are able to tense these muscles in that area very, very gently and slowly. If that is a difficult thing to do, then maybe you can just move your body.

Pushing your stomach up, maybe moving a little bit to the side using your hips. Just so you can get more in tune with how your lower abdomen area is feeling in this moment. Just noticing the physical sensations of your lower abdomen as we move your attention to your mouth.

Noticing your lips and inside your mouth. Your teeth, your gums, your tongue. Just noticing how your tongue and your mouth feels.

And it may help by moving your tongue around your mouth. Moving it to your left, maybe pressing it gently against the side of your mouth. And then to the right, gently to the side of your mouth.

Perhaps pressing up against the top of your mouth and then down gently against the bottom of your mouth. Always very slowly and very, very gentle. So that you can be aware of how you feel in your mouth area.

Now we are going to focus on your wrists. And I'm going to ask you to maybe just rotate your wrists by moving your hands in a circular motion. Very gently and slowly just so that you can feel the sensations that you are currently experiencing in your wrists.

Perhaps moving your hands again very, very gently and slowly. Very gentle and slow. As we now start to observe your lower back.

That back part is just above your hips where your coccyx are. And the whole area which also really does include the sides of your body. Because those muscles are very much connected.

As those muscles also move into your hip area connecting to your buttocks. The sides of your hips. And if you are physically able to do so.

Maybe you can very gently just move your body ever so slightly. Very slowly. From side to side.

Just enough for you to gauge how you feel in your lower back. Perhaps you could even move your hips gently. Up and down gently and slowly.

In order to really be in touch. With the physical sensations of your lower back. As we now move your attention to your jaw.

That area from your chin all the way up to near where your ears are. Your jaw. And you can just, if it's okay to do so.

Gently open your mouth. Not wide, no stretching. Just very gently and slowly opening your mouth.

And enclosing your mouth. Very gently and slowly. So you can be in touch with how your jaw feels now.

Noticing now your chest area. And you don't need to do anything to move your chest. Because it moves every time you breathe.

It moves very gently and slowly. Automatically. With each breath you take.

As you focus on how your chest feels. When you breathe. Moving your focus to your forearms.

And your elbows. Maybe you are able to very gently and slowly. Tense the muscles in your forearms.

And when you do that you can feel your elbows as well. Very gently. And slowly.

Gently. And softly. Observing your forearm and elbows.

Now you can focus on the rest of your back. Your upper back. And the middle of your back.

Again this part of your body moves. Also every time you breathe. You may not notice it.

Usually. But as you observe. Your upper back and the middle of your back.

You can really feel that gentle and slow movement. Moving your focus into your hip area. Your buttocks.

Your groin. Those muscles and those bones. In your midsection.

Just noticing how your hips feel. Right now. And you can very very gently move your hips.

Maybe side to side. Very gently and slowly. Very very gently.

Softly. And slowly.