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Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. I'm Jason Newland and this is Stress and Pain Relief Podcast. Thanks for listening and please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Now the point of this podcast is to use basically to use the same technique for about you know so use the word technique for reducing the physical discomfort of either stress and tension in your body or chronic pain.
So whether you're listening because you're looking to reduce your stress levels or you're aiming to reduce the physical discomfort of chronic pain and this recording is for you. Now I'd like you to start by getting in touch with the part of your body that feels the most tension, the most stress or perhaps the part that has the physical discomfort of chronic pain. Just get in touch with that part of your body.
Now it might be a lot easier for someone that has pain to get in touch with it than someone that's having stress or tension because tension, feelings of tension and stress can be quite mobile, has a tendency of moving around. So what we're going to do, we're going to cage it. We're going to stick it in a cage like a wild animal.
So we're going to do that right now, put that feeling, that physical discomfort into a cage and lock the door. So we can't move around, it can't escape, it can't hide. And as we observe that cage, we observe that feeling inside that cage.
The feeling of tension or stress or any other uncomfortable or painful feelings is now in that cage, separate, divided, unattached from any other feelings that you may be experiencing elsewhere. Elsewhere. Noticing how you feel, not just the physical feeling that's inside that cage, but how do you feel emotionally when you observe, observe that feeling, not trying to change it.
Knowing that it's trapped where it is for now. And as you move your attention away from that caged sensation, the physical feelings that are in that cage, you can start to notice how you feel in other parts of your body. Noticing the different parts of your body, your eyes, your jaw, your hands, feet, legs, arms, shoulders, back, stomach, chest, neck, just being aware of maybe how the rest of your body has started to relax.
Even though we haven't focused on the rest of your body and we haven't mentioned relaxing the rest of your body. Yet the rest of your body may already be starting to relax. Starting to just let go.
And as your body continues to relax, there's a sense of distance. It's almost as if your body is moving slightly further away from you, from your mind. And how does that feel? Is there a sense of disconnect? Maybe a sense of drifting? How do you feel when you focus back on that caged physical sensation? And how do you feel emotionally as your body continues to relax? Continue to let go.
As you focus back again on that cage, maybe you've noticed that the feeling that was there before has changed. Breathing in comfort, breathing out any remaining tension or stress or any other remaining unpleasant physical sensations. You may become aware that your mind is drifting, enjoying the peacefulness, enjoying and embracing the calm energy, peaceful and slow, peaceful, letting go, peace and comfort.
As you now go back, focusing on that cage, as you take a closer look and realize that there's nothing in there, not even a feeling of any kind. Vanished, enjoying the feelings of deep, deep comfort, deep, deep comfort, peace and quiet, peace.
Paragraph spacing and recurring name or title errors have been tidied. Because this began as a voice transcription, an occasional word or piece of punctuation may still be incorrect.