(no music) (10 hours) Relax your back | Let me bore your pain away #39 | Jason Newland | 10th October 2025

Hello and welcome to Jason Newland.com My name is Jason Newland. This is going to be a relaxing session simply called Relax Your Back. It's for you if you have any kind of issues with your back.

Whether it be chronic pain or some kind of injury. Now this is not replacement for professional medical help. I'm not a doctor, not even a lifeguard.

I did once work in a chip shop which might not be useful information. All this is is maybe an opportunity for you to relax your back. So I would say only listen when you can safely close your eyes and secondly get permission from your doctor, your medical practitioner, your medical professional before listening to this recording.

Now you can just let yourself sit or lie down whichever way your back prefers. And remember you can change how you're sitting or how you're lying. This isn't a contest like musical chairs or statue contest.

You haven't got to be completely still. It's about freedom. It's about allowing yourself to have some release from those feelings that you were experiencing in your back before you started listening to me.

Talking on and on and even though you may not find this particularly interesting. It's okay because it's not really supposed to be riveting stuff. I think a relaxation session where you're sitting on the edge of your chair in anticipation of what's going to be said next might not be particularly relaxing.

If you go to work on Monday morning and everyone's saying what they did for the weekend or I went on a roller coaster. I went and swam with sharks. You're probably not going to tell them that you listened to a recording called Relax Your Back.

Possibly not the most interesting story to include in your portfolio of tales of your life. I'm just saying if he was going to write your life story this probably wouldn't be included. This kind of goes along with bowel movements I suppose as far as interesting moments.

Mind you I've had quite interesting bowel movements but that's not really relevant to the story is it. So back to your back. You won't get this with Paul McKenna.

He hardly ever talks about bowel movements apart from dinner parties. He doesn't stop. I don't know I've never met him.

I was just messing about. Now at some point it's going to seem weird if I start talking about the actual recording now isn't it. It feels like I've kind of gone off on a different direction but I haven't.

I promise you I'm very much focused on the part of the body. What is it again? Legs, ears, got Vinny in the background making noises. Now I suppose your back has its own opinions about things.

Sometimes it just wants to be left alone. Other times it enjoys attention. Then maybe times when your back feels really nice or maybe just feels normal, feels relaxed and calm and you quite enjoy focusing on it.

Focusing on how relaxed your back feels and how loose the muscles are. Now that's natural to be attracted by pleasure, by enjoyable physical sensations. It's also natural to focus on something that we don't like as well.

It's just the way the human brain tends to work. See I don't eat peanut butter but sometimes I'll just be sitting on a toilet and for some reason just start thinking about peanut butter. I don't even eat peanut butter.

There's no reason for me to think of peanut butter. Why would sitting on a toilet? Ah anyway maybe this is one of those times where your mind doesn't really mind what it listens to. Your brain may be more relaxed.

You may be thinking what's he on about? I thought this was going to be some kind of hypnosis session. Relax my back. He's talking about peanut butter.

What's that got to do with relaxing my back? Well I imagine if you smeared peanut butter all over your back, lie down and a couple of lions came along and started licking the peanut butter off your back. That'd definitely be a distraction from your pain. And you might be thinking why? What are you talking about? You wouldn't be worried about the pain in your back would you? If you had these two massive lions licking your back.

I mean admittedly it's unlikely to happen but sometimes, I don't know about you but in the past, I've got frustrated and tense, anxious even, about things that are never going to happen. If you take away, and this is not my idea, but if you, someone else's idea, but I'm not going to say the name of the person because I'd like to really take credit myself because it's quite a good idea. It's Milton Erickson.

So you've got the physical sensation in your back, take away the past, the stuff that you remember when your back wasn't in a particularly wonderful, physical, sensational feeling. And take away the worrying of the future about how your back's going to be in 10 minutes or in a day's time, a month's time, a year's time. And just focus on how it is right now.

You'll have reduced any physical discomfort by two thirds. Because it's kind of obvious, you know, the mind works in an obvious way. This happened before, therefore it's going to happen in the future.

It's like, okay, in a kind of a logical way that makes sense. But not in every situation. I fell down the stairs, rushing downstairs and I was wearing my Crocs and I fractured my back.

It's never happened before. I don't think it's ever going to happen again. It's just one of those things.

And I'm not worried about it happening again. Although I do hold on to the banisters now. And I walk really slowly.

No, but I don't, I was running down the stairs in Crocs, basically like back to front flip flops. And I'm not saying it's my fault that I fell down the stairs because I don't like to take responsibility for anything. I much prefer to blame other people.

That's just standard, isn't it? It's not helpful though, is it really? Just like maybe blame your back. It's my back's fault. What's your back done to you? Really, if you think of all the things that your back has done for you, I'm not having a go, we're not focusing just on you saying that, you know, take responsibility in that, but actually, our backs are amazing.

Try roller skating without a back, you can't. All these things that we think we don't really need our back for. Once you take away the back, there's not a lot you can do.

Is be on the floor like dirty laundry, just flopped there. It does so much for us, just like a neck. These are like invisible heroes.

I mean, technically, a back's not invisible because it's quite big, isn't it? But it's just there. And maybe we're walking around or we're stretching for something or someone's in a wheelchair, they're using their hands to push the wheelchair or they're whatever they do involves your back. Our backs are just involved, unless obviously paralysis.

So we've got so much to be thankful for. When it comes to the back. I tell you what I love doing when I, it's not always at the end of the day, I have arthritis in my lower back.

So if I do a lot of, if sometimes I just have to lie down, it's just one of those things. So I lie down and what I notice is, it's not my lower back that feels the most relief. It's the rest of my back.

Because I'm really, really fat. I'm kind of trying to give you what kind of size I am. Do you know those hot air balloon? I look like a big hot air balloon with legs.

And when I lie down, the relief is actually quite incredible. In the same way as when I've had to walk any kind of distance. And maybe, I've not done this for a while, but you know, when you're, you've been shopping and maybe the bus didn't turn up or you couldn't drive somewhere or the taxi, couldn't get a taxi.

So you walk in for a few miles with heavy shopping. It feels like it's gonna literally cut through your fingers. And you finally get in the house and you put them down, put the bags on the floor.

And you feel the release in your fingers as you put the bags on the floor. There's also that relief in your mind, knowing that, or just enjoying the fact that the pain stopped in your fingers. And the next bit of pleasure, physically, is perhaps you get inside and it might be a cold day, so you've got some warmth.

It's a physical feeling of being a bit warmer. And then you've got the physical pleasure of taking your coat off. So not feeling so heavy, feeling looser in your body, in your back, in your shoulders, in your arms, your hips.

No longer being weighed down. And then perhaps you take your shoes off and your feet feel so free. Your feet feel just, oh, it's so nice.

And the final bit of pleasure, not the final, it's not the only bit of pleasure you're ever gonna have, but within this little situation is you sit down. Sit down on a chair, maybe a sofa, maybe you lay down on a bed, just to rest for a few minutes. It feels so nice, so comforting to just let go, to really let go.

Your body to let go of your back. And it's a nice feeling, you know, it's just, it's quite difficult to explain. But when you focus on it and you remember feelings of pleasure, it's easier to just feel it.

To just enjoy the sensations of comfort that are happening naturally. That's nice. I like relaxing my back.

I do. It sounds a bit silly, it's like, I like eating, I enjoy breathing. Yeah, I don't mean it in a weird way.

I mean, everyone likes relaxing their back. Well, I would probably say that people whose backs are fine wouldn't probably even take any notice of their back. So in some ways, those of us that maybe have a few back issues, not only appreciate that sense of relief, that sense of letting go, release of tension, stress, irritability, discomfort, whatever you want to call it, that just going down slowly, slowly moving downwards so that you're feeling more and more peaceful.

Maybe even pleasure. Those of us that welcome relief and release and increase comfort in our backs, possibly appreciate it more. And it does feel nice.

I'll tell you something though, what I've noticed in my lower back, sometimes when it is really relaxed, it feels almost itchy inside. Not itchy enough to want to scratch, but you know that itchiness when a wound is healing? It's not like, oh, I need to scratch it. Not like that.

I'm not saying that you make that sound when you need to scratch something, when you've got an itch. I'm not mimicking you, I'm just mimicking me. I imagine you sound like, that's how I imagine you sound.

But I sound, because I'm a bit more sensible, I imagine. Maybe not. So I have this feeling of, you may have the same.

It's kind of, and it's not an irritable itch. It's just a kind of mild itchiness inside the skin. You can feel it where it is.

It's kind of replacing the, I guess it used to be physical discomfort or whatever. It replaces that. And it feels quite nice, actually.

But okay, not itchy. It feels itchy, but not in a scratchy way. Because it's inside.

So you don't need to scratch your skin or anything like that. It's just inside. There's a certain, it's almost like there's a feeling that's letting you know that it's healing.

And it's decided to do that on its own. I mean, some would argue that that's just automatic for our bodies to heal. You know, if I had a cut on my finger, it would heal.

It would hurt. And then it would start, you know, hurt less and less and less and less and less to the point where maybe it was a bit itchy inside. Maybe it has a scab over it as it's healing, keeping it clean, keeping it protected.

Our bodies are amazing, of course. And then it's done. And anyone that thinks magic doesn't exist.

That is magic. Not quite as impressive as caterpillars and moths. I mean, that's phenomenal.

What the heck's that about? Metamorphosis or whatever they call it. That is just what? What? So it's one thing turns into another thing. But that happens naturally in nature.

I mean, really, when you think about it, that happens to us during our lives. Because if you look at someone who's 80 or 90, and then you look at a little baby, they look a little bit different. I mean, they might both be bald, with just scrunchy faces, and unable to do anything for themselves.

But they still look different. They're still very different people, still very different creatures, almost like they're not even, I say creatures, but you know, I mean, they're humans, technically. But I know they're humans.

I'm just joking. They're humans. But very different.

So we metamorphorize, which I don't know if that's a word, over our lives, we don't have to wait and then just shut down and come back a different thing. I think in some ways, it's happening all the time. I mean, you think that our bodies regenerate, every seven years, we do not have the same, nothing is the same, in our bodies, that was there 10 years ago.

Which, I look at myself and I think, it looks similar. But our bodies, I say regenerate, but change, continuously changing. Why it doesn't just regenerate and become young again.

Maybe there's a secret to that. You have to find someone, I think Matt Dillon, ask him, because he's, he's about 90 and he looks like in his 40s. Jason Bateman is another one.

How do they stay looking so young? Makeup? Maybe. They might not look like that at all in real life. But you'd think, you know, bearing in mind, they're on the big screen, you'd think that it'd be easier to figure if they did look old or older than Nick or, you know, just because it's a big screen, especially with high definition 4k or whatever movies are done in.

The good thing about the back is it does what it does best, which is being your back. You could even be clever with your words and say, your back has your back. It's there to support you.

Again, like another little pun, I guess. Your back is there to support you. Your back is there to support your front.

And you don't have to ask anything of your back. Just like the rest of our bodies, we don't have to ask our bodies to function. But I think sometimes it's useful to get out of the way and allow our bodies to function in a way that they need to.

And I do wonder sometimes when it comes to things like stress or anxiety, it's the body's way of saying, time for a break, time for some rest. See, a car will just stop working once it runs out of petrol. But with a human body, it runs without petrol for quite a while until illness sets in.

Sometimes irreversible. Now you may argue, but yeah, but humans don't need petrol, it's food they need. I was using it as an analogous way, but it meant literally that humans don't need petrol.

Or that humans' petrol runs out. Because I know that humans don't drink petrol, but they shouldn't. I mean, it's very harmful.

I mean, if you're going to take everything I say literally, then all I'll say is relax your back. And every time you hear my voice, your back will feel relaxed. Every time you hear my voice, your back will feel calm.

Every time you hear my voice, your back will feel loose and comfortable. How's that for literal? Now part of these whole let me bore your pain away recordings is a mixture of me just chatting, saying stuff, some stuff that's not necessary, some stuff that may be useful. Some things are just ridiculous.

But all the time, something that can be distracting and all you need to do really, we don't need to, but you can notice how you feel different. From how you were before you decided to listen to my squeaky voice. How do you feel different in your back and maybe your whole body actually? How do you feel at the end of the recording as well? And maybe, you know, you was listening, thinking he's talking a lot of, he's saying some silly things.

Does he really look like a hot air balloon with legs? I don't know. I don't know what to make of him. He's, he's, this isn't hypnosis.

It's not really hypnosis. This is just me talking. It's a, let me bore your pain away.

It's like my, let me bore you to sleep, but a bit more focused, a lot more focused in fact. And on this occasion, I'm focused on your back, focused on your back, relaxing, focused on your back, feeling more calm, feeling looser. And, you know, maybe, maybe you start to become surprised at how your back's feeling now.

How things have changed. You may question it. There may be part of you that's even looking, almost trying to find that feeling you had before you listened to me.

And that could be a natural reaction. I mean, why would you want to? But as you notice, the feelings of comfort spreading even deeper. Now the weird thing, well, it's not weird, but something that I've noticed is when I make these, let me bore your pain away, recordings, recordings, no matter what part of the body I focus on, sometimes I don't focus on any, on any particular part of the body.

But I find that my lower back feels absolutely fine. My lower back is relaxed. My lower back feels calm.

My lower back's very quiet. It's almost like it's fallen asleep. Or it's just very peaceful.

Maybe it's meditating. I don't know. I mean, listening to my voice all the time, I wouldn't be surprised if every part of my body had earplugs in their ears.

So you didn't have to listen to me. So maybe, maybe my lower back's just got some headphones. It's listening, listening to the best of ABBA.

You never know. It's a bit rude though, isn't it? Maybe you can notice how the rest of you feels. How does the rest of your body feel? How does your mind feel? And how do you feel emotionally? How much calmer are you now? It's kind of weird.

Even though I'm still chatting, I've noticed that my mind is pretty much still. Which means I've no idea where these words are coming from. Because it's all from the top of my head.

Which I think is kind of obvious. When you listen, I'm clearly not, I'm not reading off some professionally written script. I suppose I put my trust in my intention to try and be of use.

To help, to relieve those physical sensations that were there before. So that you can experience more comfort. More relief.

And more relaxation. So I hope this has been useful. And on that note, I'm going to go.

I need to take Vinny out for a walk. So thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

And be gentle with yourself. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.

Bye.