(Long Music) #10 Pain Dial Technique - Let Me Bore Your PAIN AWAY (Jason Newland) (2nd January 2025)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Bore Your Pain Away. So this, for those that don't know what this is, it's very similar to the Let Me Bore You To Sleep. And those that don't know what Let Me Bore You To Sleep is, I'm not quite sure how to describe it really.

So it's kind of chatty, chatty. I'm going to focus on a particular chronic pain relief technique, but chat throughout. And just, I'm just going to ask you to notice how you feel before you start listening to my voice.

Notice how you feel throughout. And then register how you feel at the end. And if you feel more relaxed and you feel that the physical distress has reduced, then it's a success.

That's it really. And the more you listen, the more benefit you may gain. And I've got my little pygmy in the background.

Vinnie. So that's, that's the, my little ginger friend. It's a Jack Russell.

Can't see his face at the moment because it's busy talking to other parts of his body. So please only listen or watch this when you can safely close your eyes. As I said, I've got a website called jasonnewland.com. I have a YouTube channel at Jason Newland.

So the new thing I'm doing is I'm doing, I released this video that I'm making. So it's also a podcast. I've got lots of podcasts.

You can listen to this on any of the main podcast hosts. And my website is also a podcast as well. So all the latest recordings on there.

I've also got playlists, I've got different podcasts, all the stuff's on there that you can find. I'm also will release a 10 hour version of this on YouTube, but there'll be no video, it will just be a static image for 10 seconds, and then a black screen, or a dark screen for 10 hours. And after the recording finishes, there's me talking softly about relaxation and giving positive affirmations and things like that.

Right, so they're the most popular ones that I do actually, as far as podcasts go. The YouTube channel is still, it's still growing, still growing. So I'd like to welcome Jackie, who's joined my Facebook group.

So welcome. She's the newest member. And the Facebook group is called Jason Newland's boring group.

Fourth person in a couple of days to join. So cool. Groovy.

So I don't know if there's anything else might be a few little messages that I want to read out. There's always something around. I think I had I'm going to look at YouTube because often I have YouTube messages that I forget to kind of read out.

So user dr6rt1ji31. Now that's, that's, that's one heck of a name. And reply to my video Vinnie and noodles.

Vinnie, it's a thrill to get to see this little fella. After hearing so much about him. Thank you.

There's a video of Vinnie and noodles, one of his best friends playing in the park. And the now that I've got my flat set up, very messy, by the way, just in case you're wondering, I'm in the process of tidying up. I had a bit of a tidy up yesterday.

It is a case of putting stuff in a recycle and then putting things in the cupboard and everything because all the stuff that was on top of the tables or desks got moved on to the floor. Well, they got moved on to the sofa, and then moved on to the floor because I need to use a sofa. And the TV is behind me, not behind in front of me rather on top of the tables.

So I'm using the tables for this for using the laptop working on a website, as well as having a TV on there. I've got lights there and light over there. I got I'm using the screen as a light as well, which is is not bright.

But it's a bright light on YouTube kind of a bright light screen. So I've got that. And there's a light up there as well.

So hopefully it's bright enough. I'm probably never going to be it's not going to be like super bright. But then the darker is the better I look.

That's what that's what I find. And so Vinnie will just wander around and do his own thing. You'll probably find something to chew on, which I think he has.

So you might hear him chomping around. But he's got more space now. I think he partly doesn't like it because it's I've messed with his environment a bit.

And he's never had me sitting over here. But I think he likes having space. He's just watching me listen.

So let's see if there's any other messages. For those that are wondering like why don't I just get on with the recording? It's just it's how I do things. It's been a complaint over the years.

Just get on with it. You talk too much. Well, yeah.

Probably true. Oh, well. He, if there is anyone that's watching this, and you could always like leave a comment putting down exactly when I start.

I was gonna say making sense, but that might never happen. But when I start talking about the chronic pain relief technique. By the way, just you know, this is part of the process for relaxing.

By using I use the boring technique. It's I don't think anyone else uses this for things like chronic pain and stuff. So just you know, bear with me, it might be useful.

So otherwise, so as I said, it's kind of case of noticing how you feel. And if it's if you're feeling bored, that's fine. It might not feel fine, but it is fine.

Focus on that part of your body, that part, which you came here for, which you clicked on the recording, in order to change how you feel in that specific part of your body. Okay. And just notice it changing.

So you friendly plz 1575 says, we are all getting lonely. We're all getting older. So you're definitely not alone in that.

Happy New Year to you, Jason. Thank you. I tell you what, if you want, it's up to you.

If you leave messages on YouTube, because I know the the at mine's at Jason Newland. So but not everyone's got their name in the app, you know, as far as their tag or the name of the YouTube channel. So maybe you can just leave your name in the end.

So I know who I'm talking to. And I'll try and reply. Darby, because I know this person said Darby, there's actually at Darby did.

How is your mental health? Going through the holidays? Nice to see yourself still see you're still podcasting great work. I'd love to hear another storytime recording. I think you're the only one that likes those recordings.

Seriously. For those that don't know what we're talking about, it's I do a thing called Jason's bedtime storytime. Haven't done one for a while.

I got itchy back. Oh, that's better. And is basically me telling a story and doing the voices for the characters.

And it's very, very silly. Very silly. It goes in a weird direction every time.

And also Darby says Happy New Year to you. Thank you. Thank you, Darby.

I don't know. We'll see. I might perhaps try and do another one.

Another one of them and replying to the other people. It's good to see Vinnie. Thank you.

It's hopefully you see a bit more of him. I mean, I can't guarantee what he's going to do over there. But he's enjoying himself.

Yeah, so we're all getting older. Definitely not alone. New Year's.

Happy New Year. Yeah, that's true. This is a response to yesterday's recording.

Happy New Year number 1261. Let Me Bore You To Sleep. We are all getting older.

But we're not all looking older. Well, I see some people I get like Christmas or it wasn't Christmas, was it? Blimey. Wasn't Christmas, it was August.

August. Wow. That's gone quick.

September, October, November, December. That's four months. In August, I went to a family get together.

And my stepbrother. He looks the same as he's always looked. Just looks the same.

He's probably 44 now. 44 46 is 46. Probably 4546.

He just looks the same as he's always looked. May really. Christine says, this is on YouTube, going forward into next year, I'm happy with three a week.

So this is in regard to me, whoops, banging the microphone again. I can't I can't fidget in my face. This is in regard I was talking about how many recordings I might do a week and I do aim to do one every day of this year and it's the second of January 2025.

So Christine says going forward into next year, I'm happy with three a week sleepy boring objects, Q&A Friday and Sunday papers. Read more. Okay, let me read more.

I think there's a lot of pressure on you to do one every day. But that's just me. Thanks for another good one.

Thanks, Christine. I mean, you are right. Some I mean, sometimes as you know, those that listen to me regularly would know, I'm not always able to make recordings every day.

Even though I've set myself that target for this year. I'm not always able to do it due to you know, my bipolar and AUPD, whatever, you know, various things. So but I do the best of what I got.

I try and you know, when I've got the energy when I've got the focus, I try and do and make a recording. So yeah. I'm in a Q&A Friday, which is every Friday, funny enough, I've done 38 of them.

It was a new thing I started in I don't know when is it May, March, April, May, last year, and I really didn't expect people to keep asking questions. I thought in every week, I put out a thing. Is there any questions for this week's Q&A Friday, and eventually it dry up and people would stop asking questions, but they haven't.

So I kept going. So I've now this Friday, which is tomorrow, it'll be the 39th recording of the Q&A Friday. Sleepy boring objects, which is something I do on Mondays, generally.

It's just a subject I think of. And then I just talk about it. So it might be Christmas trees, or it might be bottled water, or carpet, the chip shop, my hair, my toes, my toenails, or it could just really just anything and I'll talk about it for about an hour.

And so I'm going to, I'm planning to continue doing that on a Monday. Sunday papers is the hardest one of all. Because I'm not even I do recording, I'm not going to talk about the stuff that's in the papers to the horrible stuff, which gives me a tiny isn't like searching is obviously like searching for pee in a shopping bag, I don't know, it's just or searching for a purse in a handbag.

It's just hard. It's I've seen what's inside some handbags, and it's amazing. They're like TARDISes.

In fact, I had one girlfriend, I emptied, because she wanted me to like look for something, I emptied the handbag. And the TARDIS actually fell out. And so I do do Trivia Tuesdays as well, which is a kind of similar thing.

I just think of a subject, think of a subject, like a magic trick in it. And then just, you know, I go, I usually use chat GPT to find to get trivia, and they just search the internet and yeah, just find trivia about a specific subject. I mean, the broader the subject is, the more I can get.

You know, if I was gonna say just give me trivia about a battery, then you know, it'd be pretty much focused on probably when the batteries were created, invented, perhaps the biggest battery that's ever been created, you know, like Guinness Book of Records, those kinds of trivia stuff. So I do that on a Tuesday, I like the Trivia Tuesday. It's just a little bit different, you know, it's a bit of fun.

And William, I don't know if that's little, little poos. It might be hands. But I think it's it looks like little poos clapping.

So thank you. And that's for my Your Song Elton John cover. I apologize in advance.

Hmm. So that's everything now. I've now got 1422 subscribers on my YouTube channel.

And it's growing. It's growing. It's very slow.

Just like me. Very, very slow. So let me have a look.

So any questions? I've got six questions already for tomorrow. Tomorrow's Q&A Friday. And one of them made me laugh.

So I will answer that later. Oh, wow. So our newest person, Jackie, Molly, who's the boss of the Jason Newlands Boring Group, always posts like congratulations, welcome to the group.

And Jackie has answered, she says, Thanks, Molly. I know and love Jason from listening to him, but haven't come across you before. Unless.

Thanks, Molly. I know and love Jason from listening to him, but haven't come across you before. Unless it's when I sleep, while I was asleep.

Hi, Jason and hypnotist, my sleep buddy. I'm so grateful to you, my insomnia antidote. I very much hope it's a decent new year for you both.

Thank you. Molly is. Yeah, she is the admin for the Jason in a boring group on Facebook.

She's the boss. She's she kind of runs it. I just do the easy part.

I just make the recordings and talk rubbish and she she's behind the scenes looking after everything. So thank you, Molly. She's she's groovy.

Molly is groovy. Let's see if there's any other messages. I got a few messages.

Happy New Year messages on here. So Maria says wishing you all a very happy new year and how happy and Heather says Happy New Year. Kara says Happy New Year from even standard time.

Blessings to you all. I don't know what that means. Eastern Standard Time.

Is that America or is that England? I don't know. Christine O'Donnell says Happy New Year. Tammy says very happy new year.

Now where's the snacks? In my belly. Thank you very much. And thank you.

And to you best okay so far. And Mary Happy New Year and Dimitri. So wish you a happy new year as well.

Groovy. Okay, Jackie is now put another message. HNY friend.

So that's hoops, knobs and yo-yos. I don't know what that means. And hey, Jay, could you take a listen? Could you? Could you take a listen at from 1.07 into recording? I feel very cheeky and hate to seem ungrateful.

But it's just that the sound level time sometimes changes dramatically when one is asleep. And boying asleep no more. I hate to inhibit but maybe you could use something that keeps the volume even.

Not sure if that would keep help with the time though. Forgive me. I hope you don't mind me saying from 1.07 into the recording.

All right, I'll have a listen. I'll have a listen. I don't know what I'm not just been using the same equipment for quite a while.

It's normally all right. I think I don't know. I don't know.

I had anyone really mentioned it for a while. And I'll have a listen though. So see her is it's never going to be perfect to be honest with you.

I mean, I've got a buzzing light over there, which is annoying. I can't unfortunately halogen lights or something. So they just buzz, which is just I don't know why that is.

And there's always going to be sound from Vinnie in the background doing stuff. Cleaning himself, having a bath. There's always I don't know, it's hard because compared to I mean, he shouldn't.

I wouldn't have I didn't realize that the sound would be affecting people sleep, you know, like if he goes, it should kind of be on the same level. But sometimes I do speak louder. Sometimes I laugh.

Occasionally, I laugh. And I guess that could be a bit disruptive to the recording. And maybe sometimes it might be due to editing.

So I'll if he starts barking, I'll edit that out. But there's an inconsistency, I guess with the recording a little bit, not by a huge amount, but it might be like absolutely completely silent. And then and now it might be Yeah, so that could be a bit jarring.

I try not to do that. But I do. I listen to it.

I have a little listen. And Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'll be honest, I'm not very good with the whole audio things. And I've got some equipment, I've got a good microphone.

There's a there's a certain limit to my ability when it comes to that stuff. And so I'm doing my best. I just don't know if it's going to be I can't see any.

I mean, the only thing is maybe something got nudged when we moved all the stuff around on Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday. So that's possible.

So don't think I made did I make a recording Tuesday? I don't remember. Yeah, I don't know. So I'll have a look anyway, or have a listen.

Right? There's a thing, there's a technique. So just notice how you're feeling. Because this is about, you know, reducing and increasing relaxation and reducing discomfort.

How do you feel in that part of your body? Even though we haven't really focused on it, and as yet, not focused on any kind of technique. But that that is the kind of benefit of doing a pain relief, boring technique session thing. That makes sense.

Just notice how you feel different, how things change, because it's always going to change anyway. Nothing stays the same all the time. There's always a change.

So you've got, there's lots of different techniques, so many, there's one called the pain dial technique. And it's just no different really, from like an old stereo. I know a lot of recordings like you just press the button up, up, up to make the volume go up.

But you can see on the screen though, can't you? As the volume goes up from like 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or whatever. And of course you bring it down, this says it 32, bring it down to 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, like that. And it's the same process is the dial technique, the volume almost of the physical sensation, you can turn it down.

You can also turn it up. But you can have two dials. You can have one, which is the physical sensation to turn down the discomfort.

So you can have discomfort above it, turns it down. But then you can have comfort, relaxation. You can have something like that, a different dial, you can turn that up.

So you might just want to use one, you might want to use both. So you can focus on that part of your body. And just imagine that dial in your mind.

And then just focus on maybe the relaxation button, just for that part of your body. It doesn't have to be your whole body. And I'm hoping that after half an hour of me talking rubbish, you could possibly be feeling more relaxed anyway.

Even if we have got the little monkey down there running around and causing havoc. What is it Vinnie? What do you want? What do you want? He's hassling me. He wants my attention.

That's what he wants. You know, sometimes he wakes me up in the morning, early, early hours of the morning, licking my face, punching me in the face, whatever, just to get me awake. So I wake up, I get out of bed.

I come into the living room. And when I go into the bathroom, go to do it wee wee. And I come out of the bathroom, come into the living room, there's nowhere to be seen.

He's gone back to bed. He's gone back to sleep. Fast asleep.

He just wants me out of the bed. He wants the bed to himself. That's what he wants.

I think it's my snoring just annoys him. So this dial, let's just focus on the relaxation dial. And it can go up to whatever number you want.

It doesn't have to be zero to 10. It could be, it could go up to 100. It could go up to 1000 if you want relaxing.

And just turn it up, play around with it. Or just allow it to gradually, I mean, you can just press a button and it just gradually increases as I talk. Automatically.

You might see the numbers going up, you might see a bar of relaxation, you might see it slowly climbing up. So you know that the relaxation is getting stronger. And the weird thing about it is when one part of your body becomes more relaxed, it spreads to the rest of your body.

It's one of those weird things, it's almost, and this is coming from someone who's been doing this for nearly 20 years. It's not something, I don't really understand why. I suppose I do, it's a natural thing.

Because the rest of your body wants to feel relaxed. A lot of the time. Not all the time.

Sometimes we want to be busy and, you know, I mean, you couldn't, I don't think you'd be able to necessarily, there's some things you need to not be relaxed to do. But I think if you can try and be relaxed, at least in your mind. So that was Vinnie barking, that might be a bit jarring.

But hopefully he won't do that again. The problem is, it's really difficult to, you know what I might do with a video and just not actually use this to mute the audio from the microphone for the video. It's so hard to sync it up, especially if there's noise.

So I have to clap my hands as a marker, and then edit it. It's difficult to kind of get it all in one place. Takes ages and ages and ages and ages.

But there seems to be something about when your mind slows down. So all that blah, blah, blah, you know, it slows down and listening to me just blabbering on blah, blah, blah, about random things and, you know, 33 minutes of nonsense, possibly, some might say. And that calms your mind down.

Things slow down because I'm not, I'm possibly not the quickest speaker in the world. Possibly, possibly, not the, yeah, maybe not the fastest. It's not the fastest dialogue you're ever going to hear.

And it's, there may be a calming result to listening to me. Or you may not even listen, you might just get so bored that you end up closing your eyes and drifting off. But the positive messages still enter into your mind and can affect you in a positive way and a healing way.

So although this isn't really hypnosis, this is just me talking to you. Just like in any conversation, there's suggestions and our minds absorb certain aspects of, I suppose, most conversations that go on. And I realize in a way, this isn't a conversation, it's more of just a monologue.

I'm talking at you, I guess it seems, but not really, I'm talking to you. And for your mind to just calm down, slow down, feel more relaxed, it causes your body to also calm down, slow down, and feel more relaxed. So there's a mixture of that, it's like a continuous circuit of comfort.

Your mind causes your body, which then causes your mind, you know, affects, it all affects each other and ultimately your brain is doing everything. And by hearing words of comfort and ideas that may be useful, it goes into your mind and sometimes just dissolves and change occurs without you even knowing or needing to know or even perhaps not even being interested in why. You feel more relaxed and that part of your body feels different to where it did before.

You may not be, you may not care why. You know, it's almost, I suppose, a little bit like if you take medication, this is not medication, by the way, I'm not pretending to be a doctor. And if this, you know, if you take an aspirin, for example, you probably don't care how it works, you just care that it works.

So if someone has a headache, I take the pain, take the tablet, the headache goes, that's what you want. Probably don't think, sit there doing equations on a paper and studying the physics of it all to understand how that little tablet was able to change the way you feel. We're just happy that it has.

Grateful that you feel different. Grateful that you, how you feel has changed in a way that is useful. And although you may be interested in, like, oh, this is weird.

How can listening to some weird man from England actually have any kind of benefit? So it can be a surprise when you come to the conclusion that, I mean, some people, I think, oh, maybe he knows what he's doing. Maybe he's just pretending to be a bit slow and like he's just pretending to just waffle on about nothing. No, I really am just waffling on about nothing and I really am that slow.

However, maybe I do know some stuff. I don't know. Maybe.

But the intention, the intention is for you to feel and experience change. So therefore, right now, as you focus on the part of your body that you focused on before you started listening to this and during, notice how it's changed. You don't need to understand why.

Don't even need to care why. It's all about results. It's about listening to me regularly, only if it helps.

Only if it helps. That's the only point to listening to me, is if by listening, you feel more relaxed. If you're listening because you want to go to sleep or you just want to feel more relaxed, as long as it does that, as long as that is the result.

Or if you're listening because you want the physical discomfort that you used to have to reduce and for the relaxation in that part of your body to continue to increase, so you feel more comfort, you feel calmer, more positive. Then that's a reason to continue to listen in the future or to re-listen to this recording or watch this video. Because it's about results.

Is it useful? I mean, it might take a few listens for it to be the most useful. But I would argue that after listening for 40 or 50 minutes or an hour, there should be a sense of it being useful straight away. And if you feel that it is useful, that your relaxation has increased and deepened.

If you feel that the parts of your body that you needed some relief from, now has some relief. Then that means that this has been worthwhile. It also means that next time you listen to me, there's a really good chance that you become even more relaxed.

As I said, whether it's because you want to fall asleep, you want relaxation, you want to reduce anxiety, or you want to, you know, reduce physical discomfort. Whatever the reason, or if it's just so a bit of company, someone to listen to. Whatever the reason, only listen if it's beneficial.

And if it's beneficial now, imagine what it's going to be like in a few weeks time after listening regularly. Just the idea, just the thought of hearing my voice or seeing my funny face might actually be enough. So when you press the play button, you might not even remember much of the recording.

And also one of the benefits is, okay, it's one thing feeling more relaxed instantly, feeling more comfort straight away as soon as you start listening. There's another thing, you know, it's one thing just feeling calm throughout the recording. And there's one thing listening, like when you finish listening, just thinking, oh, that was good, I feel so much better than I did before.

There's an extra added benefit is that feeling can continue. So you can still feel more relaxed and have a more comfortable sensation. Even after the recording is finished.

And the more often you listen, the longer that that feeling of comfort will last. You can think it's almost like chipping away at an iceberg, till eventually you've got an ice cube, a nice manageable ice cube, which is a weird visual thinking about it. So that brings me to the end of this, this pain dial technique, you can play around with it at your own leisure, or you can just set it on automatic.

And you can decide which number, because you know, you can do that with volume, can't you? Like, max volume doesn't go above that. Doesn't go below, doesn't go above and you know, things like that. So you could say to yourself, well, as far as the discomfort part, I won't allow it to go past a certain number.

It's a little bit like, you know, the overflow in a bath or a sink, so the water won't overflow. Literally, it depends on how hard, you know, how bad the taps are, but how fast the water's coming out. But generally, the water will just be drained away.

So it doesn't end up on the floor of your bathroom, or your kitchen. I realise not everyone's got a bath in the kitchen. So this is kind of the overflow that we can all have.

It's just remembering it's there. Knowing that whenever the discomfort feeling gets to a certain part, a certain level, certain number, whatever you want, the overflow will just be taken away. And the relaxation button next to it will be activated, which eventually just pulls the plug out.

But gradually, gently. And then what you find happens is that overflow button starts to move further down the sink, or further down the bath. So the bath can't get, or the sink can't get as full as it used to get, to the point where it can't get as full as it used to get.

So it's a gradual process. It can happen quickly, it can happen slowly, but it does happen. So that's the end of this recording.

Just notice how you're feeling. Notice how you feel different. So take care.

Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy. And also remember that this recording, I'm not a doctor, if you've got, just find out the cause of the physical discomfort before you use any kind of self-help stuff like this. But do seek medical attention, professional medical attention, just to make sure you're okay, if required.

So take care. Remember to be kind to yourself, because you do deserve to be happy. Be gentle with yourself.

Lots of love. Bye.