(music) My Hypnosis Start LMBYTS #1348 8th May 2025

Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland, yeah, or Juicy JJ. Yeah, that's my official name.

Okay, wait a second. I just needed to get Vinnie one of his bony things he likes. Not a real bone, but like those pretend bones.

I will talk about real bone in a minute. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. So yeah, jasonnewland.com is my website loads, loads and loads of recordings on there that you can stream and you can download absolutely free.

In fact, thousands of recordings. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. What else? I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group.

If you'd like to join, I currently have 219 members. It's taken me 32 years to get there. So it's going well, quite well.

I don't know what Vinnie's trying to do over there. And what else? What else? What else? What else? Oh, yeah, I've got a YouTube channel at Jason Newland, where I also upload all of my recordings. And if you would like to support me by sending me a PayPal gift, please go to my website.

And the links on there. What else have I got to tell you? Nothing, that's everything. I've just subscribed for another month with I don't know what it's called the website app.

What's he called? Readly. Unlimited magazines. So renewed on the 8th of May.

I haven't looked at it for a while. Probably not going to go through the newspapers right now. But I thought I might go through a magazine and look at some magazines.

Yeah, magazine. So I have a couple little things. I have I deleted my my SoundCloud podcast and got a little bit of a backlash for that.

So I have reinstated it, managed to get hold of them and they've put it back on. So the SoundCloud podcast is up and healthy, with all the recordings that were on there a few days ago, when I got rid of it. And blimey, according to this, it's getting quite a few downloads, actually, I guess now it's back up.

So how many recordings are on there? There's 4769 tracks. So it's 4769 downloads available. That does include ones with music, ones without music and all that.

But still a heck of a lot, isn't it? A lot. You know how many followers I got? 29. 29 followers.

God, imagine once I've got like a million tracks on there. I might have like 100 followers. So yeah, I've done a new recording today.

It's let me boy paint away number 34 relaxing body part. And I ended up talking about my friend putting ice cream all over his face. Not quite sure how that fits into the recording, but I've been doing them and have been quite, quite scientific lately.

So I thought I'd do one which is a little bit more than a little bit more playful, perhaps. So I did that today. It's basically it's just focusing on a part of your body that feels fine.

So you choose different parts, two different parts of your body. One that feels absolutely fine. And the other part that's the where the chronic pain is.

I realised someone might have chronic in more than one part, but just focus on two different parts to start with. And that's all it is. And I just chat while going between the different parts of the body.

It's, it's not like a new, a new idea, because I've done that recording before. And well, I've not done that exactly recording before, but I have done recordings, doing that like that technique. But that would have been like a hypnosis session.

This wasn't hypnosis. So when I do the let me bore your pain away, when Let Me Bore You To Sleep. It's not hypnosis, it's just me chatting.

Yeah. And with the pain, pain, let me bore your pain away. It's I think they're quite good, actually, in a weird way.

Because they are focused. So I did one about placebo the other day. And yeah, very focused.

Oh, do you want to see this? You don't see it. I'll read it to you. I've got this text message today.

Right from the GP surgery. This was at 134 this afternoon. It was a bit weird.

Okay, so dear Mr. Newland, and in you know, you can see in the in the message section, you can just see a little bit of the of the text. There's a small risk of something you want. What the heck's going on? So I open it up.

This is genuine. I'm gonna read this out to you. Dear Mr. Newland, there is a small risk of conditions that affect how the brain functions.

So I'm reading this, I'm thinking what? Like what? In a child fathered by you? I thought that's a bit rude, isn't it? It's a little bit rude. But then I read on, while on valproate, which is the mood stabilizer I'm on. While on valproate, or within three months of stopping, it is advised that you do not donate sperm.

And do not father a child during this time. And you and your partner should use effective contraception during this period. Do not stop taking valproate, unless advised by a healthcare professional.

Wow. And you know what? Okay, fair enough. It's come to me.

I mean, I can't even remember. I'm gonna have to look up some of them words. A professional, that's one word left to look up.

Affective, I don't know what that means. Contraception. Sperm.

So yeah, there's a few words I'm gonna have to brain, that's another one. Small, I understand that. So brain functions.

Oh, yeah, brain functions. Got it. What if I was pregnant? With a kid? You know, what if I, yeah, okay, this is going out probably just around just generally, these text messages are going out to every male on these medication.

Now, it's already, I say well known, but it's, it was already a thing. It says on the box that pregnant women should not take the tablets. But what about people that are men that have got babies on the way? You know, do they think that that's something that needs a little bit of a little bit of gentleness, doesn't it? You know, or someone is going through IBF?

Or, I don't know.

Just someone that doesn't want to have to use a Johnny. No, I don't know. It just seems weird.

Just that they would, because it's quiet. Oh, this is a message here. Let's read this.

Let's listen to this. It's actually a message. That was me apparently.

So I tried to send a message back to them. I don't remember pressing anything weird. I was on the toilet just now.

Well, not just now, but about half an hour ago. So I'm just relaxing. I find that's the best way to proceed with the adventure that sometimes occurs.

So I'm just relaxing, letting everything just, you know, do its thing. And my phone goes, my phone rings. Now, I normally have my phone on mute.

But for some reason, oh, yeah, because I phoned someone and I wanted to get it ring if they call back. So I had the phone on mute. I didn't, I thought I had a phone on mute, because I normally do.

And it started ringing. Vinnie's barking. I was like, okay, here we go.

But I'm on the toilet. But it might be important. And I'm thinking, what time is it? Because if once it's after five, it's not going to be, it's not going to be the council.

It's not going to be like an official phone call. Not that I get many official phone calls, but just you know, it's not going to be something like that. It's not going to be from the doctor's surgery.

But then it rang again. I was like, what? So I'm kind of, I'm doing what I would normally do quite slowly, quite quickly. Word it like that.

And I just ruined the moment. I should just explain, I was going to the toilet, just in case. But yeah, I mean, it's, and I answer the phone.

And it's just my neighbour telling me that we've got a new Pope. I said, do you realise, I'm just giving myself friction burn to hear, I thought it was an emergency. And the reason I answered it, because when I saw it was him, I answered because, you know, he might be asking for help, because he's an elderly neighbour.

He's only a few years younger than me. And I'm like, no, so I've got, now I've got a sore bum. And you just want to tell me that we've got a new Pope.

The first words were, are you watching this? I said, am I watching what? What do you mean, am I watching it? What am I supposed to be watching? I don't, I didn't understand what he was on about. We got a new Pope. And he's American.

I said, you don't need, so? What's wrong with he's American? It doesn't make any difference. We've had Popes from all over the world in the past. I should know, I did a whole hour and a half or two hours talking about Popes the other week.

Blimey, we've had Popes, we've had seven year old Popes, people that are seven years old, we've had Popes that have just, yeah, had all kinds of different Popes. There's been an English Pope in the past. There'd be German Popes, French Popes, Polish Popes, Italian Popes.

I guess that's kind of obvious, but yeah, like American Pope, good. Born in Illinois. Did a little Wikipedia search 10 minutes ago, just to just have a little look.

I was mildly interested. You know, it's not really anything to do with me, but it's useful. It's, you know, I guess it's nice to know, isn't it? Like if a Dalai Lama ever got replaced, or when he gets replaced in the future, that'll be, you know, be interesting to see who that is.

It'll probably be a kid. So yeah, I'd say Dalai Lama has been Dalai Lama for about, I wonder how long the Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, how long has he been in? He was born in 1935, and is recognized as a reincarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two. He's been a Dalai Lama since he was two.

Didn't even have an opportunity to like, question it. You're the Dalai Lama. Yeah, you're the Dalai Lama.

I mean, yeah, if he was 10, you'd be like, how do you know? I mean, good, you know, do I get a crown? You know, brilliant, but how do you know? Apparently there's another bloke who believed, and I think there's a few million people out there that believe that someone else should be the Dalai Lama as well. So in the wake of the Lhasa uprising and Chinese consolidation of power across Tibet, tens of thousands of Tibetans followed the Dalai Lama into exile.

In 1960, he established his government in exile in Dharamshala, a former British hill station in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where he continues to reside.

Oh, he's in India. I didn't know that. A former British hill station.

What's a hill station? I mean, it's 10,000 people on a hill. I genuinely don't know what a hill station is. It's just, I mean, I've heard of petrol stations.

I've heard of train stations. I've heard of bus stations. I've never heard of a hill station.

Don't tell me you have either. Come on. Don't, don't.

Is there any hill station in the UK? Indisputably, one of the UK's favourite hill walking locations. Right. What's a hill station? A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley.

The English term was originally used mostly in colonial Asia, but also in Africa, albeit rarely, for towns founded by European colonialists, colonialists, as refugees from the summer heat. And as Dow Kennedy observes about the Indian context, the hill station was seen as an exclusive British preserve. Wow, that seems a bit rude, isn't it? Like, so the English would go there to escape from the summer heat, or the Europeans.

I should let everyone do, that's just rude. I thought it would be hotter though, if you're high up, because the higher up you are, the closer to the sun you are. Seems logical to me.

Anyway, that's the Dalai Lama. He says, what is the Dalai Lama famous for? And so I'm just going to look at some other stuff on our Buddhists. Okay.

There's more to know. What is the Dalai Lama? What is the Dalai Lama's philosophy? He says that as a human being, we are all the same. We all want happiness and do not want suffering.

Even people who have no religious belief can benefit if they incorporate these human values into their lives. His wholeness refers to such human values as secular ethics or universal values. It's very hard to really argue with that, I would say, but what is the Dalai Lama famous for? For being the Dalai Lama.

It's like, what's the king famous for? For being the king. What was the queen famous for? For being the queen. What is David Beckham famous for? He's famous for being David Beckham.

He was famous for being a footballer. But now he exceeded football and became, well, he met his wife and became a double act. And it became the Beckhams.

Superstars. Worldwide. I don't know about worldwide.

I don't know if there's... If you go to Tibet, would they know him in Tibet? Or wherever the Tibetans are? All these questions. Can Buddhists drink milk? Yes, many Buddhists can consume milk. While Buddhist emphasis emphasizes compassion and avoiding harm, it doesn't explicitly prohibit the consumption of milk.

Some Buddhists follow a lacto-vegetarian diet, allowing dairy but excluding other animal products. The decision to include or exclude milk from one's diet is often a personal one, with some choosing to avoid dairy due to concerns about animal welfare or health. And what is nirvana? See, nirvana literally means blowing out or quenching.

It's the most used word, as well as the earliest term to describe the soteriological goal in Buddhism. And my more understanding is, it's a release, it says it here actually, release from the cycle of rebirth, samsara. So this is samsara and being alive.

So the main, the biggest goal of many, many Buddhists. So reaching enlightenment would be a non-returner. So if someone reaches, this is in Buddhism, someone reaches enlightenment, it means that they've basically broken all fetters, they're no longer attached to anything.

And they're not affected by the worldly winds. I'm laughing at myself the way and they will no longer be reborn. So this is the last time as a human.

So with rebirth, it's kind of like, there's a cycle, cycle, was it the, they call it the wheel of life. And depending on how you are, depending on what you've done in the past, affects how you are now. And how you are in the future is dependent upon how you act now.

So it's kind of, some of it I struggle with, if I'm honest, because the idea of me coming back and almost being punished for what I did last time, even though I have no recollection of last time, or maybe the last thousand times, just seems a little bit, a little bit rude, to be honest. And yeah, this is so complicated. There's so much in, and different types of Buddhism think different things.

And I mean, I'd sometimes occasionally dip into religion, have a little look at some of the rules, and I'm just blown away at the purposeful self-limitation that some of these belief systems put on the practitioners. But people take on these things, and they, I understand, because religion, I mean, it could, I believe, let's forget religion, belief system, a belief system can transform someone's life, and it can save their life, and it can save the lives of people around them as well.

So it can be an amazing thing.

There's plenty of people that have been transformed because of taking on a belief system that's already structured. And sometimes I think it's because of the structure. Someone that has no structure, someone that maybe struggles to put together any kind of normal structure in their own life, perhaps needs rules to abide by.

And some faiths, we call it faiths, some faiths are so structured, almost to the point of like, they've got rules for everything. And Buddhism is a little bit like that, actually, as well, but in a different way. It's not quite as, not hardcore in a way.

I mean, if you're a monk, it is. If you actually join a monastery, there's so many rules that you have to go by, and they're not rules that you can get away with. You know, you can't just like, oh, no one's watching.

It's you know, because you're being watched the whole time because you're in a monastery. So that there are rules that monks pretty much have to have to stick to. In the same way, I'm sorry, Buddhist monks, but other monks as well.

There's a very, nuns and stuff, they've got a lot of restrictions. But yeah, I don't know. I mean, I find it interesting, and I do class, I think I class myself as a Jasonist, you know, a Juicy JJ-ism.

That's my religion, Juicy JJ-ism. And I think, I would say most, probably every religion or faith or belief system has benefits, has useful stuff. And for just the average person, a lay person, someone that's just, now from the philosophical, philosophical way, if I could say the word, philosophical, I can't say it, I'm just messing around.

So philosophical way, it can be useful. Can Buddhists eat alcohol? What would you mean eat alcohol? That's a weird question. The fifth of five precepts Buddhist guidelines for an ethical life is to refrain from using intoxicants, which are said to cause carelessness.

Really? Yeah, you're joking, really? See, yeah, I mean, there's the precepts of a Buddhist. And there's a basic precepts, then you got the deeper you go into it, the more precepts there are, which is basically rules, rules to to live by. And which is ironic, really, because when you think about the, the main rules, the main rules, so 10 commandments.

So if you go, okay, here we go, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, for some reason, I've got interested in this. So I'm just gonna go and say, I'll have a little chat with my, my pal chat GPT. I just subscribed again with the magazine thing, and I'm not using it.

Oh, well, I'll come back to that. Let's have a look. Let's have a little look.

So what I'm going to do is ask the question. Hey, chat GPT, describe me based introducing new improved memory, chat PT, chat, chat, chat, GPT. I wish it was easier to say, like it was just called chatty or something, chat GPT, because it doesn't run.

It doesn't like roll off the tongue, does it? chat GPT, chat, or maybe it chat PGT. That'd be easier chat P, instead of chat G. So I have to have a gap between the chat and the G. But if it was P or T, chat T, I could just if it's chat TPG, it'd be easier. Anyway, it can now remember more of our past chats to better personalize its responses.

Want to chart change it so that it knows about you just ask enable. Oh, yes. So please, everything you know about me.

Let's see if it can remember anything. So please tell me everything you know. You know about me, everything, everything from memory, listed by number.

Let's see what's it going to give me? What's he going to give me? Here's a detailed list of everything I know about you. Jason Newland based on memory. I grouped this into clear categories and numbered everything from easy reference for easy reference.

Right, here we go. That wasn't what I came on it for was it I wanted. Okay, I'll come back to I'll do this.

Now I'm going to go back to the magazine, I'm going to go back to the religious stuff. But when I do do religious, I try and be careful with it, you know, because I can talk about Buddhism, because I know, I would argue I know a fair bit about Buddhism. As a whole, you know, as a subject, I can converse about the subject.

I can converse, I know a bit about Christianity. I know a bit about, because you know, I was a born in a Christian country. So learning about the New Testament about Jesus and stuff that's been part of the social fragment.

This is part of society when I grew up. And then my name was a Catholic devout Catholic. And I period lived in two Catholic children's homes run by nuns, Catholic nuns, and also went to Catholic school and was going to church twice a day because the church was in the garden.

So technically, I suppose I probably, I don't remember necessarily a lot of the details about Catholicism. But I, I've got it in, you know, it's kind of in me, some of that information. And then I spent many, many more years studying Buddhism and practicing Buddhism.

So here we go. I've grouped this into clear categories and numbered everything for easy reference, personal background. Your name is Jason Newland, born 26th of August 1970 in Enfield, London.

You live in the UK. You are currently unemployed. All right.

You got three brothers. It's given me their dates and their names and their dates of birth, blimey. I don't ever tell them anyone that.

You have a Jack Russell named Vinnie. You used to have a ferret named Andre. You are five foot eight inches tall and weigh 100 kilograms.

You were diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder. Well, that's a nice identity, isn't it? You identify as a Buddhist, although you haven't practiced actively for a few years. You earned a BA honours degree in counselling studies in 2010.

The people you are closest. Wow, this is a weird one. The people you are closest to have all died.

That's like, wow. Your Nan, Andre and your friend Luke, who died in November 2023. I don't remember.

I mean, I've mentioned these things, but now it's saying family history. It's got my dad, your paternal, like his full name, your paternal grandfather, his full name, who passed away in 91. Your paternal grandmother, Eileen Newland, Nanny Newland.

She died 28th of September, 2014. My uncle, who passed away in 2020. It's this stuff about my auntie and my cousins.

Wow. The second, my father's second wife, when they got married, and when they unmarried. Third wife.

I really, when they got, I don't remember writing any of this stuff down, unless it's going through my podcast transcripts. I wouldn't have even said that then either. I I never talk about, I don't give surnames and stuff like that of my family and that.

Wow. Okay. You've been making hypnosis and boring podcasts since 2006 to help people relax and sleep.

You are a trained hypnotherapist and make recordings available online for free. You multiple podcast series, including Let Me Bore You To Sleep, Let Me Bore Your Pain Away, Life Of A Bipolar Hypnotist. So that's a little secret one that I don't tell anyone about.

It is a podcast that I started and I did do one recording, but it's quite serious, if you know what I mean. It's quite, yes, it's not. I kind of took it offline.

The podcast is online, but I took the recording offline. So there's nothing on there. I just, I wasn't quite sure how to proceed with that one.

Your hypnosis recordings are known for your gentle voice and style that help people fall asleep and deeply relax. So you upload files of your recordings and are working on a book combining your life story and hypnosis work. Yeah, I was trying to do that a while back.

You focus on relaxation, pain relief and sleep and use NLP, neuroscience and hypnosis techniques. It's not doing too bad, is it? So far, you created a two hour pain controlled hypnosis session for chemotherapy patients designed to trigger trance in response to discomfort. Did I? And you've been planning a podcast called Let Me.

Okay. I'll leave that one out because I'm not sure if I'm going to do that. Right.

I'm not going to read that one out. So you also have explored placido belief and neuroplasticity in chronic pain relief content. I have.

I really have. Yeah. Your daily themes for Let Me Bore You To Sleep are Monday's boring objects, Tuesday, choose trivia Tuesday, Friday, Q&A Friday, Sunday, Sunday's papers or Sunday papers.

So although I've tried to do the whisper Wednesday as well. You've asked to help filling in themes for the other days of the week. Yeah, I always ask.

Yeah, I have. You recently made a menopause themed episode for a listener combining humor, facts and relaxation. Did I? I don't remember doing that.

You've created Let Me Boy pain away episodes using science-based, science-backed topics. Example, body scan, pain, reprocessing, placebo. That's why I feel a little bit.

I wouldn't use the word proud. I don't really, really have any pride, I don't think. And especially not in my appearance.

But I'm kind of pleased with them. I'm pleased that some people watch them or listen to them rather. I don't get a huge amount of feedback.

But um, they're the ones are probably it. It's a subject and a topic that I'm really interested in. And I have been for decades.

And we're all the way through the 2000s 2010s. And now through 2020s. You know, Lily, I mean, in two years, what's it now 2025.

So yeah, in four years, in four years time, or three years time, it'll be 30 years that I've been interested in chronic pain relief. I just didn't start really, I mean, I tried to launch a pain release service in 2004. But nothing happened.

And then I did it again in 2006. And actually got takers and it kicked it sort of started off and went quite well. So the free free pain relief service for chronic pain people in my local town.

And I did some pain relief for people before that as well. But yes, I've been interested in that subject. Because that's the first when I when I first learned about NLP.

So I did, I learned, I started reading hypnosis books, January 2000, January 1998. And then before that, I was listening to a couple of tapes on NLP. And NLP and hypnosis, it's neuro linguistic programming.

And a big part of that is hypnosis was taken from hypnosis. And then I did an NLP course at college in 1998. And that really kind of got my juices going for with my whistle as it were, for helping people with chronic pain, because I think at the time, I didn't have chronic pain.

I've got, I do have arthritis now. So I kind of have a bit of a bit of an understanding of what it's about, but a little bit. At the time, I've seen people in the past that I wanted to help.

Well, I wish I could help, you know, you know, you meet something, you think, I wish I could do something. But you can't. So when I saw my granddad, when he was ill, I wish I could just, I wish I could take it away, take his illness away, but I couldn't.

I didn't, you know, so I was a little bit like that with people with chronic pain. And I suppose in a way, once I discovered hypnosis, and it was very, very magical to me. It wasn't, it seemed like magic, it didn't seem like something that was psychological.

It seemed really did seem like magic, like proper wizardry stuff. Yeah. And the idea of the idea that words can have an impact, a positive impact, and can help to change how somebody feels just from words.

Now, my my issues back then, among a few issues, but my not my mental health issues, but my issues with helping people with confidence. I wanted to help people right from the start, right from like 98, when I first started reading the books, during 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. I had no confidence to help people, even though I'd been on hypnosis courses, done hypnosis with our students.

I didn't feel confident. And then I did a hit. And then I tried to do my 2004 thing and nothing happened there.

Then in 2005, I went on a training course, another hypnosis training course. And the one thing I got from that was confidence. I don't know why.

But I felt more confident. And I came back from that course. So that was 2005.

And my friend, Teresa, she'd heard me going on about being a hypnotherapist or being a hypnotist and all this stuff since I met her in 2002. So she'd be hearing me going on about this. She'd even been in my head, she'd been in my room, when I was in the Buddhist Center in the the community, Buddhist community.

So she'd seen all my books, and I was all super excited to show her my book collection, because I had a big book collection back then. And she did something that I never, that I just didn't think anyone would actually do. She called me out on it.

She, she called my bluff. Which I'm grateful for now, at the time I wasn't, because I was petrified. And here's what happened.

This is totally like, everyone, it's like everyone around me got fed up with me talking about it, and decided, okay, is it show up or shut up, or whatever it is, you know, just like, come on, let's, let's see you do something. And I, it's like going around something, oh, I can, I'm a great break dancer or something, and someone turned up with one of those bits of lino.

So go on then, spin on your head.

No, I don't want to. I was making it up all these years. So what happened is, Teresa phoned me up.

I think I just got home from work or something, she phoned me up, she said, or she, no, she might have, we might be out for coffee or something. And she said to me, oh, my friend wants to see you. And I thought, oh, good, which one is it? She said, no, because I met a few of her friends, and no, she doesn't want to see you like that.

She's, you keep away from my friends. I said, all right. She said, my friend is, she wants you to come and do some hypnosis.

And my heart sank. I was like, really? Because at this point, I got to the, I think I got to the point in my life where in 2005, I was happy just to talk about it. I was happy to read hypnosis books for pleasure.

And I probably was never going to do anything with it. That's where I was in 2005. And I was more interested, I suppose, I was sort of in the Buddhism and, you know, I'd rather, I didn't really want to be in a room with someone else and do hypnosis.

And I didn't feel, I felt confident that I could do it. But at the same time, I kind of just, I did go on the course, it made me feel more confident. But at the same time, I just don't know if I really wanted to do it.

In reality, I thought I was just happy just studying it and enjoying it. Anyway, she put me on the spot. And she said, I told my friend, you're going to do it.

I said, what? I said, yeah, it's someone she worked with. And this person was a trainee driving instructor, had failed her driving instructor exam twice. And this was the apparently the last time she could take it.

And she had to pass. And it was like in three days time or four days time. She said, so what we do is, she doesn't want to be in a room with you on her own, which is it might sound weird, but actually, that's quite can be quite normal.

She didn't really know me, she'd met me a couple of times. And I said, well, you come and sit in the room with us, sit next to her. And I'll, you come to my house, you can sit in the, sit next to each other on a settee.

You can just ignore what I'm saying. And I'll just talk to her. So that's what we did.

I had no idea what I was going to do. Bear in mind, this was not chronic pain. This was not this was a completely different thing.

This is the very first, I'm not gonna say professional because I didn't get paid. It wasn't professional. But it was a very first actual therapy or the first hypnosis session I'd ever done with someone that I either didn't know, personally, or wasn't, you know, wasn't on a training course with them.

So and on a training course, you're limited to what you can do, because you've got to read the script and stuff. So this was very different. Anyway, it went well, I did not gone well, but it seemed to go well in the night.

We spent about an hour and a half together. And she passed her driving test, her driving exam test, driving instructor test, whatever. So she became a driving instructor, and started her own business and everything.

For a while, she was sending me clients who had driving tests coming up. I even did a group once, I did a group of a few of her students. But that forced me, it was annoying at the time, because I just didn't know what I was going to do.

It's like I knew it, I knew, but I didn't have the experience. It's, you know, I know about hypnosis, I probably know it quite well. I couldn't necessarily explain it in any kind of a way that would be learnable from the listener.

I don't know if the person listening would, would learn anything from what I was saying. But I kind of feel that I understand it in quite a deep way. Kind of, I might not, but I think I do.

And she, so my friend, like Teresa, she got her friend and that was good. So that was a nice little buzz. The next thing I know, the manager of the shop, who I got on really well with, I used to go into, she worked in a card shop.

So Teresa worked in a card shop. So the person she was working with was the future driving instructor. The owner of the card shop, I used to have a laugh with because he was, I'd go in there probably once a week, over a period of time, go out for lunch with Teresa or go, you know, on my lunch break.

So I got to know him a little bit, not, not well, but enough to sort of say hello and stuff and have a laugh. Well, probably two weeks later, three weeks later, she calls me and says, Oh, I'm going to say his name, but I remember his name. And he wants you to do some hypnosis.

I said, what now? Oh, come on. Stop telling people. Cause he was basically trying to sell me, not sell me, but just get me.

Will you stop barking please Vinnie? Don't stare at me. We've been out for a walk. I've given you treats.

I've given you a bone. You got food. You got water.

You've had attention with a little play fight. Try to make a recording baby. I think it's weird.

He's just, he's, this is Thursday. So this is chip, chip van day. As soon as the chip van goes past, it goes like that.

It's not him, but the chip van. It's really weird. It's all grinding sound.

Then he'll be, uh, getting excited anyway. So it turned out that her boss asked if I could go, he was willing to pay me. I said, I'm taking money.

It was just, you know, I'm happy to help when I found out what it was. So basically his wife who I'd never met was having a very serious operation about six days or five days later. Everything's right at the last minute, but she was having an operation and having reconstruction surgery as well.

So it was a big, a big thing. And her issue, other than the pain side of things, she was, uh, it was, uh, she worried it was just like standard, standard thing is really, really, um, she was petrified. So I went along to her house to, I've now, I think he picked me up and took me back to his house.

This time I was in a room just with her. He was a different part of the house. So this was strange in a way because I'd never met her before.

And I was sitting in a room with a complete stranger, kind of for the first time ever doing what I was doing, doing hypnosis stuff. And that went really well and it was a success. The whole thing was really, really good.

And she, it was the whole, that event and then everything that happened afterwards for her was, um, as far as I'm aware, was a success. And even recovery, the recovery time was quicker than the doctor expected. So it was, it was a good, good thing.

So I was chucked into the deep end twice. I mean, that's a deeper end than the driving test, um, than the driving instructor test, but I was out of my depth. I really was.

And then, right, Teresa brings me a game and I'm at work. She's really on it, this girl. Well, she's a woman, but you know, she's back then she was younger.

She was about, that's, I think she might be a little bit older than me, actually. She rings me again saying, oh, uh, my, what's the names? Like a mutual friend we had, her husband needed, he wouldn't, yeah, it's a long story, but basically he, I, he wanted me to go into the hospital and help him to relax before having a medical procedure, a serious medical procedure. So I've met the man once at his wedding and I didn't really know him, but he refused, he refused to have the procedure done.

He'd had it done before and he didn't like it. And he wouldn't have it done unless I went and helped him. So I don't know what Teresa was telling people that I was really good or something, but this was getting silly.

It's like, it, I mean, I was happy to do it because ironically, this is where I had the little bee in my bonnet about people, you know, so why is it free? Why is it free? That was going to be the name of my book for about 20 years. It's going to be called, why is it free? Because that's why I was asked so many times by people in real life.

And so I went and saw this, this man in the hospital ward and again, it was a success.

And he went for the procedure and it was like way, way easier than it had been before. And I also went and saw him as well during the final period. I went to his house and did some pain relief and stuff and that was also successful.

So it was quite life changing really for me. Those three things, two super serious, I say super serious, two very serious things, both the same kind of same category of illness. And the day after being in that hospital ward, I was at lunch with one of my Buddhist friends.

We were sitting outside, I think we were sitting in a graveyard or something, you know, having a nice little picnic. And he said to me, I guess I talked a bit about my hypnosis stuff. And everyone knew what I did, what I was into, what I was interested in, and maybe I talked a bit too much about it.

But he almost decided to give me a lecture. And he said, and people don't appreciate things if they're free. If you give something away free, it's not valued.

It's people don't value it. And I stood up, because at this point, I was sitting down. And I was fine, if you're going to stand up, make sure you start from a seated position.

Otherwise, it's quite hard. If you're already standing up, it's hard to stand up, isn't it? Otherwise, I just said I sat down. But sitting down isn't quite as formidable, is it? I'm going to sit down and tell you what I think.

It's like a little bit different. And I went in on one, but I just had a little bit of a go. And saying, you know what, I'll just, you know what I did yesterday? Or last night, because I think it was after work, maybe, or in the late afternoon, because I was working part time at the time, at the time at the time.

And just the idea, that man in that hospital ward, I'd say, well, I'd argue, very much appreciated what I did. And I was doing it as a gift. I wasn't doing it for money.

I wasn't asking for money. Money was, I mean, it's just, I don't want to say the words, but in that kind of ward, money is not handed over, you know, with for treatment. Just this is, it'd be wrong.

But morally, I would, for me, it was morally wrong. So the idea that what I did, because at that time, this was like 2006. I was doing the recordings online.

I just started everything after that. Wait a minute, I think. Yeah, that's when I, that's when I decided to, was it 2000? I lose track of the time scale of this timeline.

Because that might have been 2005. 2006, I think it might have been 2005. Blimey.

But anyway, that's kind of what led me to start doing the online stuff, to go down this road that I'm in, that I've been doing for 19 years. And just those words, people don't value stuff that's free. They don't value something that's free.

And I just, that's bugged me for 19 years, or 20 years. Because I've heard it so many times on self help books, audio books, Reddit, because you know, I've read hundreds of, yeah, hundreds of books on motivation, self help, change your life, all that stuff, in the hope of maybe becoming a decent person. And I still hear it sometimes, or hearing an audio book.

You know, it's not, if it's free, people don't, don't appreciate it. And that's going to be the case. There's also going to be a lot of people that don't appreciate if it costs money as well.

So when it doesn't appreciate something, they're just not going to appreciate it either way. They can appreciate it because it costs money. I think the one, there's one real thing, the only benefit of charging a lot of money is it raises the expectation for the person who is paying.

So let's say if it's a stop smoking session, you know, one on one stop smoking session, the more you charge, the better results you're going to get. Because if someone's willing to pay, if someone's only willing to pay like 30 pound, or 40 pound, then they may not be as motivated as someone is willing to pay 500 pound, I say may not be. But someone that's willing to pay a large amount of money is either super, super dedicated to completing their side of the deal, which is to not smoke anymore.

Or they just have money to throw away. So you know, there's two sides to that, I guess. But outside of like stop smoking, things like that.

I don't think the more you pay, I suppose this expectations, expectations is powerful, isn't it? So I imagine, yeah, for celebrities, they wouldn't go to an average charging hypnotherapist or psychotherapist that maybe charges 50 pound an hour. You know, a movie star is going to go to someone that maybe charges $5,000 an hour. But with that comes discretion, and the sense that they're, you know, they've got the best.

And even though they might not have the best, the best, you know, there might be a psychotherapist around the corner that's charging $100 an hour. And they might be way better, way more skilled, way more perfect for that particular client. $100 an hour, that'd be nice, wouldn't it? So hmm.

What else is say you structured your your I got a personal website, jasonnewland.com. And I've got an index of podcasts on my website as well. I've uploaded podcasts to the website from my RSS feeds from my Spreaker podcasts. I've also got a YouTube channel.

So just telling me stuff like this. I so this is, this was Teresa's thing. So she got three people, she kind of put me into a position where I didn't have to, but I kind of couldn't really say no to these three people.

All three of them who didn't really know. And then someone from the Buddhist Center, who I think was also possibly just fed up with hearing me talking about the hypnosis told me and told me that to phone someone who was a friend of hers. And she wanted me to see basically, she had to have double lung transplants.

And she couldn't get into you wouldn't go into the hospital because she was had a phobia of hospitals. Understandable, really in that situation, I think. And the doctors, the specialist said if you didn't, she kept turning up and then not being able to go inside.

And they said, if we make an appointment, because like a two day stay for all the tests they had to do to whether or not she was viable to have the operation. So they said to her, if you don't, I think it was on a Tuesday morning, this was a Saturday evening, they said that I was seeing her on a Saturday afternoon. If you didn't go inside the hospital on Tuesday morning, she would be basically just signed off.

They wouldn't deal with her anymore. Which is a bit harsh, but I think she'd kind of done it a few times. And they just said, no, we can't.

We'll just I don't know if it was like put you in the back of the queue or just, you know, because she'd been waiting for years to get to this point. So and it got to the point where it was really, really, really important to get it done if at all possible. So I've told her this recently, so I won't go into great detail, but she did not like me.

She did not like me. I got there and there was this dark room and she just, it was almost like I'm thinking, did I change my underpants before I came out? Because there was, you know, it's always just like, oh, she doesn't like me for a reason, for something, I don't know why. But after two and a half hours, because I don't give up, after two and a half hours of her, well, it wasn't two and a half hours of her, but it was at least an hour of her being very cagey, very dismissive, even rude to the point of being rude, like, what do you want?

Why are you even here? Stuff like that.

Two and a half hours later, we were laughing. And I've even, I've got the letter somewhere that she sent me. Went inside the hospital easy and had a good time, had two days of laughter, which is, yeah, maybe I opened up her, I tickled her funny bone maybe, got her feeling a bit lighter.

But that was very strange that I had those four in that period of time. And yeah, I don't know. And then when I started doing the free pain relief service, I was going around people's houses and then I was seeing people, I rented this therapy room on a Saturday morning for about four hours every Saturday for a while.

And it was just really strange how it all took off. And then, before I know it, I'm volunteering, doing group relaxation sessions at two different charities, one drug rehab centre and another one for alcohol. It's like, how did this come about? And then, a year later, I'm signing up for starting a degree in counselling.

So yeah, it was kind of weird how it all happened. And what's weird is how I got onto, it's not really weird, I was going to say, how I got onto talking about myself, but that's pretty much what I do, isn't it, on these recordings. You're building a podcast-based autobiography to eventually turn into a book.

Yeah, this is one of the things I am, this is motivations and personal philosophy. Okay, what does it say here? So you feel a strong connection to your audience, often tailoring content for their needs. Okay, do I do I take content? I suppose I tried, people ask me for stuff and I try.

It's very hard to, I know it's impossible to meet everyone's needs. As Buddy Holly once said, the best way to fail is to try to please everyone. So yeah, it's hard, but I do my best.

Luckily, I've only got seven people listen to me, so it's you know, not too bad. You respond to listeners requests with new recordings or episodes. So yeah, I do have done that.

You are compassionate, especially towards dealing with pain, serious medical conditions or emotional hardship. Well, thank you. I don't know if I'm compassionate.

I just, I think everyone's compassionate. I think you believe in the power of expectation, belief, and repetition, and flapping ears from Vinnie in healing. So the power of expectation, belief, and repetition.

Yeah, I do. Very much. There's nothing more powerful than belief.

It's the most powerful thing. There's nothing touches it. No medication, no drug, nothing is as powerful as belief.

And I don't mean necessarily from a healing perspective, just belief. Look how it structures someone's whole life, and what they do, how they act, what they believe, obviously believe. And yeah, it's huge.

Yeah. You are building a podcast. Okay, so that's that's the life of a bipolar hypnotist, which I started and that was going to be, I was going to turn that into my book.

So I was going to do episodes, and I might still do it, but just not release them. Have them, and then just turn them into a book. So I had to transcribe them, put them into chat GPT, and then let it just sort out the different bits.

And the bits where I talk about my childhood, things where I talk about working in the bakery, or the chip shop, or working in security, or I don't know, doing karate, karate, all the different things, and just trying to figure out how I can put it together. And helping me with structure, because that's something I'm, yeah, I'm not necessarily cohesive with is the structure of things. Because I don't think I'm particularly structured with the recordings.

I'm fairly structured with making the recordings. But the let, let me bore your pain away, recordings are a lot more structured than the Let Me Bore You To Sleep ones. But then I like both.

I do like unstructured stuff. But the let me bore your pain away, it's, it's a mixture between the two, to be fair. Vinnie's just staring at me.

I was going to talk about from the magazine. Let's have a quick look for a magazine, shall we? Women's Weekly. Let's look at Women's Weekly.

Women's Weekly. So this is from this week. It's a magazine.

I don't know if it's available in other countries. Oh, I lost six stone with hypnotherapy. Let's click on that.

No can't click on it. I've actually got to go through what page it doesn't say what page it's on. Damn.

Right. Hello. Hello.

Good to share. Let's have a quick look. Are you sitting comfortably? What are you wearing gardeners hotels in history? Oh, that's an old fashioned hotel.

I don't know. I mean, I think about sometimes, you know, what kind of would I live would I like to live in a stately home? Maybe not one that's open to the public, though. I think it's nice to have a bit of privacy.

You know, if you get you know, you got your breakfast, you're having your breakfast or having your dinner. You don't have to get dressed to in case like members of the public start walking through and looking at the paintings. Not something I've had to, you know, really be concerned with so far.

Oh, so this is the power of thought. I didn't know there's going to be an article about hypnosis, but I'm sorry, but I can't. And is this? Wait a minute.

That's not even the article. Is that the article? Because I couldn't see anything about hypnosis in it. Right, I think it is the article, the article.

Oh, would you like to live in a stately home? I don't know. I think I think I quite like would like to. I'm not sure about all the paintings, though.

Because I kind of think that with with a stately home, I mean, it's like anything, really any building is you're only borrowing it and yeah, you know, even if you decide to live in it for life, it's borrowed, it's someone else eventually is going to live there. And with a stately home, because they're maybe five, six, 700 years old, they've had whole generations of families living there, perhaps.

And it would feel like I was living in someone else's house, really, because you can't, you're limited to what I'm guessing.

But I think you'd be limited to what you can do. You can't tarmac the drive, you can't get, you know, decide to dig up the grass and put a big bouncy castle in there. And you know, there's probably certain things you can't do.

You can't change some kind of building restrictions, I'm pretty sure. You can't put a little extension on or put a shed in the garden, maybe you can. Satellite dish on there.

I mean, no one has satellite dishes anymore. Apart from everyone that has satellite dishes, but they're not satellite dishes, they're just leftover from the past. They're relics.

Because Sky doesn't use satellite dishes anymore. It's all now just done through the internet. But I've got two on my wall, not inside.

I can't find the hypnosis thing. It must have been that one about the losing weight thing. All my stars, let's have a look.

Virgo, new possibilities surround you now. You may be tempted to stick to what you know, but taking a leap into the unknown will be far more enjoyable. I'll be up for that.

Something a bit different. Come on, someone show me something a bit different. Give me a new lease of life.

Show me a new doorway. Let's go back. I think that I've gone through the bit that I was reading.

That was about the weight loss. Let's go back. The power of thought.

All Sam wanted was to feel normal, to not stand out, or need to hide at the back of group photographers. For most of her life, she had battled with weight and eventually reaching 22 stone. Okay, by December 2023, Sam's health had reached breaking point.

So she wasn't well. She decided enough was enough. And a chance post on Facebook showed her a program to manage what she ate and dramatically improve her health.

This wasn't diet, but a lifestyle change which transformed transformed her. So I'm just where it's not even mentioned in hypnosis. Where's the hypnosis part? Really? Look, I'm just reading through this.

So it gave her weight loss. It helped her weight loss and she's happy and brilliant. But I can't see.

I mean, she had a lot of problems with chronic pain and stuff. She started following a new program which involved downloading an online course for 12 weeks of hypnotherapy. Right, okay, now I found it.

They've mentioned hypnotherapy once in the whole article, which is weird, considering the front cover was saying hypnosis. So she and weekly coaching sessions to completely change her relationship with food. The idea is to listen in a quiet place where deep relaxation assists with absorbing positive messaging about your regular diet.

Advice includes eating slowly as well as drinking plenty of water. Once I downloaded the course to my phone, I could listen as many times as I needed to until things became embedded. Sam explains, hearing that nothing awful would happen if I didn't eat before work was a revelation.

Repetition is the key and hypnotherapy contradicts the bully in your brain. It's about, oh, I've just come out of it. Oh, I'm back.

I'm back. Oh, what? It's not, I don't want to go to the top. This app is not easy to navigate sometimes.

Navigate? Navigate. The program reinforces scientific, specific guidelines such as recognising when you are no longer hungry, rather than feeling full. Yeah, cool.

That's good. This magazine, to be fair, is and this is not, I don't think it's being sexist to say that it's aimed at women. Can you imagine people getting angry? What do you mean saying that women's magazine? Oh, you automatically think it's aimed at women, because it's got stuff about dieting.

And you automatically think it's about women because it's got adverts for dresses. Oh, you automatically think it's about women because it's got horoscope. Oh, you automatically think it's about women.

No, it's called Women's Weekly. That's why I think it's about for women. Thank you.

Thank you very much. It's called Women's Weekly. I think I can safely, without backlash, say that it's aimed at women.

I think it's fair enough. Is it is it is it? I mean, even if it didn't have the name Women's Weekly, every single article is is pretty much about women. And it's aimed at, it's clearly aimed.

I mean, it could be aimed at anyone. The fact I only do this is because it's called Women's Weekly. That's the only reason I know.

Not because of anything else. He lied. So managed to get through a whole magazine.

Let's get through another whole magazine. What else is there? Chat. So we look at chat.

Chat. So look at chat. Come on.

So look at chat. This chat magazine. Okay, let's see if there's any nice stories.

Find your perfect match. It's about glasses. Come on in.

Come on in. Chat to us. What have you been up to? Mind your own business.

Are you a dog or a cat person or neither? And okay. Just trying to find something that's there's just genius. Your tips are the tops.

Let's have a look at this. Just soup. I wanted to blitz the veggies I'd cooked for my soup.

I covered the pan with cling film first and put the blender through it to save cleaning my walls and me. Cup of joy. I make gifts out of basic plain white mugs.

I decorate them using dishwasher proof transfers. The recipients always love them. Should we edit that to the recipients always say they love them.

The recipients always say they pretend to love them now. I'm sure they're lovely. That's very it's a lovely gift, isn't it? And fly away.

Put little bags of dried lavender on windowsills to repel moths, flies and creepy crawlies in spring and summer. They also add a lovely scent or scent or skint to your home. Oh bag of dried lavender.

I might give that a go. Definitely had an issue with one fly anyway. Reuse toilet roll inserts by cutting them in half and planting seeds in them.

They're just the right size. But they do look like toilet rolls with dirt inside. In fact, you could argue it might not be dirt.

Yeah, so let's let's let's move on. Rolling on. I got sick of cleaning my roller between coats of paint by popping it in a plastic zip lock bag.

I found that I didn't need to clean it after every coat of paint saving time and mess. Okay, brushing up using some paint in my cupboard. I painted an old candle holder.

It now perfectly matches my bathroom color scheme and is used for storing my toothbrush and toothpaste in. What's weird though, I'm not gonna not being rude, what's weird is is that old candle holder is painted it. It's literally just it looks like it's been found.

Like someone's just accidentally fallen in the ditch and found this thing. And for I know what I'll do, I'll take that home and put my toothbrush in it. That's what it looks like.

It's not even clean. It looks dirty and scratched. Okay, let's have a little look.

I'm curious. Right. So we're gonna just have a look.

Amazon. Let's go to Amazon. I'm just curious.

I'm just curious. Amazon. Amazon.

Right, let's have a look. Toothbrush holder. Toothbrush holder.

So let's go price low to high because obviously you're looking for something low price. So one pence for delivery 769. So that's not really ideal, is it? And blimey, I didn't think they'd be selling stuff that low.

One pound. Free delivery. One pound toothbrush holder.

One pound. Or you've got a bowl which is similar to the thing they already had, which was actually that looks nice. And that is one pound eight pence with a two pound 69 delivery.

See, yeah, but you could just pay one pound with free delivery. One pound. And or 123 pound 77.

Or ultimately, let's have a look. Here's another way of looking at it. You could just get a mug.

A mug. And let's have a look mug. So we go for free delivery, show you how much it is with all prime only go for prime ones.

Two pound 15. And also, I mean, if you could just walk go to the pound shop, if you got a local pound shop, that's got to be more fun than jumping into a ditch. I'm not saying someone would do that on purpose.

I mean, we didn't mean to fall in the ditch. It's just it's just one of the benefits that I got out of it. Compromise.

Wow. Let's look at some of these. There's some very weird mugs with some very strange pictures on them.

One says Christmas. See you next Tuesday on it. Blimey.

Only 3.49 free delivery. I mean, next year's present, I guess for someone. Anyway.

How was where? How did I go on that? Oh, yeah. There was something that I was seeing on the in the magazine, wasn't it? I can't remember what it was. And what we got on is a doggy there with sunglasses.

All right. Focus on quitting smoking. Add each one right out of the elevator.

I'm just gonna see maybe see if there's a see if there is a horoscope Vinnie's hassling me. Oh, here we go. Here we go.

Let's have a look at my top my horoscope. I don't think there's a good name for it. Is it horror? You know, supposed to be like a positive thing.

You know, horror scope about weekly scope, happy scope, no horror scope. So Virgo, diligent and hardworking. You're always there to offer a hand to those who need it.

But do consider what you need to receive and what help you require. No one appreciates free stuff. I do believe that's the end of the recording, ladies and gentlemen.

So thank you for listening. Tomorrow is Q&A Friday. So I've got a few questions already.

But if you have a question, please go to my Jason Newland's boring group on Facebook. And I've posted a thing where you can just add your question. Or you can go onto my website, click on Q&A Friday, and there's a box you can fill in at the top of the page, which asks a question.

So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself because you deserve to feel safe.

Lots of love. Bye.