(music) #12 Let Me Bore Your PAIN AWAY (Jason Newland) (5th March 2025)

Hello, and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. And this is let me bore your pain away. Damn, damn, damn.

Yep. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. I'm here with my little boy Vinnie.

And basically, all this is. This is aimed at people with chronic pain issues. Only listen when you have had the cause of your chronic pain diagnosed by a professional medical expert.

And get permission from your medical practitioner before listening. So this is it's something you can test if you listen to these before then and you're listening again. It probably means that it was useful.

Either that or you just got nothing got nothing else to do, which I doubt is true. All I do is invite you to not just believe that by listening to some random weird man from England on a podcast recording that somehow you will physically feel different. Now, it's just a test, you can just test it.

See if it's useful, how useful it is. So all I'm going to do ask you to focus on the part of your body that is currently or was a problem. And gauge where the level of discomfort is in this very moment.

If you go from zero to 10, it's not a great graph, because you know, it could be zero to 50. You could, it could be that, you know, specific, but I'll just go for now, zero to 10, zero being absolutely nothing, and you feel fine. And you're happy about that.

Or 10 being the top level of where it could ever be. So where would you gauge it at the moment in this at this time? Maybe it's maybe it's a 10, maybe it's a seven, maybe it's a six, maybe it's just gauge where it is. And just remember that number, maybe write it down.

Just remember what number it was. And then at the end of the recording, you can, you can gauge and you can see how much it's changed and how much it's gone down. And you may be surprised.

You may also think, well, how, how, how is it reduced? When he's literally done nothing. He's just talked about kangaroos or whatever I end up talking about kangaroo knitting kangaroos. That'd be weird, wouldn't it? Mind you, they seem to have the right arms for knitting, and they definitely got somewhere to hold their wool.

So I'm quite pleased with that. So I don't know, it's just test it. If it works, it works.

That's the bottom line. And I mean, do we really need to know how everything works? I don't know how electricity works, but it doesn't stop me turning a light switch on, or using an oven or the microwave. I mean, there's technology, I don't know how the phone works, a mobile phone, but I still use it.

I don't, you know, I don't know how hardly anything works. And sometimes scientists don't even know how stuff works. They know how to use it, how to utilize it, but they don't know really what it is they're using.

Why something produces a certain effect. So I find that interesting. Oh, one thing, oh man, there was a sort of thing on YouTube today, and a woman could smell, she could smell diseases.

Like early, catch things early, so that they could have treatment. But she could smell it. And they tested it, like actually put her through tests, clinical tests and everything.

And she, phenomenal. She could actually smell. Yeah, I imagine if I met her, I said, can you smell anything? She said, yeah, you need to have a bath.

That's probably what I'd get from her. So for those who don't know who I am, I'll do an introduction. I am a man ish.

I live in England. And I realized I just summed up my whole 54 years of life in two sentences. There must be more, more must have happened.

Surely. I got I got Vinnie, vinegar. He's my little pet, Jack Russell.

He thinks he's in control. He thinks he's the boss. We all know that he is, I suppose.

He's very demanding. I've never known a dog to be so demanding. And I've lived with a lot of dogs over the years.

And I think all of them have been pretty easy going to a degree. He has to have his own way. Like all the time, all the time, not just sometimes, but all the time.

And I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why my voice is going so high either.

But I'm not sure why that is. Yeah. Hmm.

Over the years, on my back, stretching my back. Stretching my back. Oh, feels nice on a stretcher.

Oh, yeah. I'd like to have. Actually, there is an exercise I do.

Where I do, because I have arthritis in my lower back. And I had physiotherapy or I spoke to a physiotherapist. And I decided what she she told me to do squats.

But use weights. Now, what I did, I didn't use weights to start with. Because I wanted to just get used to doing the squats.

So I built up to 100 squats. And then I did I, I might be lying now. Wait a minute.

Or did I do up to 50? Anyway, I started, I did the squats. And then I started again with the weights. And now I'm up to 110 in a row.

And I've been doing this. I mean, this was 2000 and it was 20. I think it was so little while ago, that I had this physiotherapy was on the phone, which is a weird thing to do to have physiotherapy on the phone.

But the exercise she gave me actually worked really helps to strengthen that part of my body. I noticed something though, you know, I like to play around. I like to just experiment with ideas that come into my head.

And I was just thinking, because I quite like superhero movies. Don't judge me. I like what I like.

And that's okay. You like what you like, and that's okay. Unless, of course, you don't like Superman, and a superhero.

He can't say the words. Nevermind. I had this idea about what it would be like to be indestructible.

And then I started thinking, well, how could I make part of myself indestructible? I was thinking about my fists. How could I make my hands so that I could literally, I wouldn't be able to hurt them no matter what I did. And I was also watching some boxing as well.

So I think my mind, my mind flow, probably went through different scenarios, thinking about, I think I was thinking about Prince Nassim Hamid, who was a world champion when I was in my early 20s. Well, and late 20s. And thinking about him, and he had a bad hand.

So I think that's part of the reason he quit in the end. And, and I was just thinking of that. And then I was thinking, how could you make your hands stronger? How could you protect your hand? And it'd be the same as protecting any part of your body, I guess, wouldn't it? And I was thinking, well, if you had concrete, of course, you can't have concrete setting on your skin because of the toxins.

So that would be very harmful, but like a harmless version of concrete or plaster or something like that, which would cover the whole of the hand that's made into a fist, and just cover it, just a small layer to start with. And then another bigger layer, making it more and more thicker and tougher. And I thought, oh, I felt like my hand was getting heavier, which is a bit weird.

And I noticed that my mouth on the right hand side of my mouth was a little bit achy. Just achy, no, no particular reason. I mean, hopefully, hopefully, no particular reason.

But I have to keep an eye on my teeth. I had a bit of problems with my teeth last couple of years ago. So I got one tooth that's on its own.

There's nothing either side of it. And I don't really want to go into too much details about my teeth. They're pretty much okay, most of it, but just it's at the back.

So I had to have a tooth out. And previously, I had to have two teeth out the other side. So that side of my mouth definitely has been a little bit, you know, a bit, a bit.

Because it's on its own, I think I don't know sometimes if it's, if it's aching, because there's something wrong with it, or it's just lonely. I don't know. So what I imagined that same material safe, of course, on the skin, but not starting to cover my jaw on the outside of my face, which would make my the right hand side of my face tough, tougher, and indestructible.

I say indestructible, but you know, like an extra really thick layer of skin that's hard. And as I was imagining that, and this was weird, because I wasn't this wasn't the reason I was doing it. But as I imagined that, the, and I do it now as well, there's a numbness happens in the tooth.

And in that in that part of the mouth. It's strange, because it's not not a numbness in the same way as a dentist, when they do the you know, when they numb the mouth and stuff. Not that kind of numbness more, just a disappearing of feeling that was there.

The rest of the mouth feels absolutely fine. I can feel but it just seems to take. I don't know.

Maybe, maybe that layer on my face, that imagined layer is actually sucking, or drawing out the toxins from the tooth like I don't know in in an imaginative way. Or it might be just the focus on the outside of my cheek is a distraction and it's possible could be that. It's really strange.

I did it again just now because that tooth is a little bit temperamental. I maybe I need to fill in or something but I do you know, try and look after my teeth. But I do talk to it, you know, I don't want it to be lonely.

I try and tell the other teeth like come on, interact, include it in the parties that you have. You know, just try and don't leave it on its own. It's not, don't neglect it.

And some of the teeth are fine like okay, okay Jay. Others like we don't care. We never liked it to start with and now we've got this gap, we're going to keep away.

I said why? Just lies a lot. Constantly lying, making stuff up, boasting and bragging. And you don't, you don't have your sandwiches, because it's still still something from your sandwich box.

Took a Mars bar out of there once while we were waiting for a train. What are you talking about? This is a teeth in my mouth. This doesn't make sense.

And he said you don't make sense. Okay. So I found that interesting work by how the imagination can actually change how you feel by doing very little and not even really doing it for any particular reason.

There is a little bit of a reason but it was more just a little bit of fun. Thinking, I wonder what happened if I do it on my face, because I was focusing on that part because of the tooth. And it changed how I felt.

I had a similar thing, actually. This is back in because I've been I've been fascinated with ways to reduce physical discomfort, like chronic pain and stuff like that. Since Yeah, before the before the turn before late 90s, late 1990s.

That's when I started becoming interested in it. So it's been an interest that I've had for a long time. And I didn't even have any of my own issues back then.

I mean, the arthritis was coming on gradually over the last 25 years. And it Yes, it was very slow process, which I'm surprised I didn't really know what it was. I didn't.

But eventually just I guess just wear and tear really, perhaps. And the over once this is about 2005, maybe 2006, something like that 2005 2006. I'm walking to work.

And it's a long walk. So I walk out of there was no buses going down that road. And it was it was you know, one of those roads that leads to and from a motorway.

So super busy. And it's like one of those turn offs. You can stay on the motorway.

But some people come off the motorway to try and get to the other part of the motorway as a shortcut. If the motorway is busy. That's what that was.

So a lot of lorries led into town as well. So it's a really busy road. There's a little bit of a quiet period middle of the night.

But you know, first thing in the morning, you know, four or five in the morning, the lorry started, and it carried on till about 1110 11 at night. And then there was that little lull, which isn't really relevant to the story. But I did try once I tried to cycle.

And it wasn't good. I swear to I didn't realize how much sweat underpants can hold. Really? I mean, it was ridiculous.

I sweat so much. And I used to get wet as well. But I don't know why, but I get I get wetter cycling than I would walk in when it was raining.

And I got in trouble. I remember I got in trouble. I was like, can you stop putting your your socks on the radiators? That's what I was told.

In the office, apparently didn't go down very well. As some would say, well, you should know not to do that. For some reason, I didn't know.

I didn't know that it was a no no. I didn't know that was it got it went against company regulations. I didn't see any anything like that in the HR manual when I joined.

Didn't mention didn't mention socks on a radiator at all. And no underpants. So anyway, I'd walk and I remember I had problems with my knees.

I had a my knee was hurting. And because I was walking, I don't know how I hurt my knee. Must have bashed it.

I don't know. But it was hurting. So I'm walking and it's just annoying me.

So what I do is, is a technique that I tried in the past. And this is not the first time I did it. I did it first of all in 2004 for a similar thing when I was meditating.

And I was cross legged and my legs were hurting. And I decided to look for it. Look for that feeling that was not pleasant, you know, looking for it, look for it.

And the more I looked for it, the harder it was to find it. And every time I thought I'd found it, it kind of I'd go into it looking even further. And it turned out there was nothing there.

The deeper you look, keep looking inward, keep looking, keep looking, keep looking, searching for it. And it's not something you can actually hold in your hand. It's not a physical thing.

It's not an actual thing. It's a feeling. And the feeling seems to just vanish.

And I tested this for years. This technique that I mean, I don't know if it's just something I tried, whether it's been done before, it's possibly a mixture of different things. I don't know, I don't care really.

But I did it on this time when I was walking to work and I was focusing on my knee. And I did it actually whilst in action with my eyes open, because I'd never done that before. Usually I'd always have my eyes closed and pretended I was meditating.

And I did the same thing and it just vanished. The feeling vanished. And just saying the words to myself, where is it? Where is it? I keep looking, focusing on it and then just, if it moves, focusing on it again, if it moves again, focusing on it again.

And it just seemed to just disappear. And if it stayed in one place, go inside, look for it, look for it, look even further. Almost like traveling.

Like remember those old, let's see an old movie. Do you remember the Ant-Man? He's talking about superhero movies again. Yes.

If you've seen Ant-Man, he basically shrinks down to the size of a molecule. And it's almost like that, just shrinking smaller each time going inside and inside and inside. And for some reason, I'm pushing my knee while I talk to you.

I'm probably going to be sitting down later thinking, my knee, what's happened to my knee? Why is there a big dent in it? So you can, it's something you can do. And I found it very interesting, to be honest, how easy it is to change without even really putting a lot of F in, to be honest. It is, yeah, it's kind of weird.

I don't even know why I've been fascinated with this kind of stuff. Because when I first got involved in like NLP, hypnosis, all that kind of stuff, the first thing I thought was, this could help with reducing physical discomfort. That was my first thought.

Actually, my second thought was, my first thought was, I wonder what kind of biscuits they're going to have during the coffee break. That was my first thought. But my second thought, how I could help people.

And in 2006, I actually did offer a free pain relief service. And people come with all the different, lots of different ailments, physical stuff, and I'd help with, you know, all of them. A lot of it really was just relaxing.

But there's a million and one different techniques that you can use different things, play around with it. It's like a game. Really, you can just find which one works for you.

What helps? Sometimes people find that distraction techniques really are useful. Some people find that focusing directly on the issue is the best solution. It's different for everyone.

It's different for everyone. I'm gonna have a drink of water. I remember years ago, I do mean years ago, I feel like 2000 and 2012.

That's that long ago. I was 13 years ago. I was doing a recording.

I just had a chest infection. And I was kind of recovering from that. So I hadn't made a recording for absolute, well, for about a week, week and a half.

So I decided to do, I don't know what kind of session it was. But I had to keep drinking water while I was doing it. Because of my throat, you know.

And someone complained, I can't stand the sound of someone drinking water. Well, that's your biggest problem. You're doing well in life, aren't you? If that's what you've got to worry about, someone, the sound of someone drinking water, if that's your biggest peeve, then well done you.

That's all I can say. That's what I said to a neighbor. Some of the neighbors were moaning about another neighbor always letting the door slam, like letting their front door slam.

So she was upset because I was moaning. I said, look, if you've got to the age of 45, and if the worst thing that people can say about you is you let your front door slam, you're very successful. You're doing pretty good.

And she didn't, she like, didn't really see that before. I remember saying to me, who are you? I said, I live upstairs. She said, I've never seen you before.

I said, it's Jason. He said, what? I said, I live upstairs. I said, you've known I've lived here for 10 years.

You should know me. She said, I've only been here for two months. I said, really? She said, no, I'm not.

What did you think I was the one who was here before? I said, yeah. She said, no. I said, oh, I'm embarrassed now.

She said, you should be. Now be gone. Couldn't believe it.

No one said, spoken to me like that. Be gone. You don't say that to someone.

Be gone. Like what's next? Change how you feel. Feel differently.

So yeah, it's, there's lots of different ways that, I mean, I like the idea of, you know, Star Trek. I'm not obsessed with TV and movies. Although I like some of the ideas and Star Trek's one of those things, the transporter.

And it's a similar thing with the fly, the movie, The Fly. And the idea, which I'm surprised they didn't use in Star Trek, to be fair, is if you transport a person, all their molecules to a different place, you know, with the fly, it was literally just to another transporter, a few feet away. But unfortunately, a fly got in, which caused a few, well, a very eventful story to unfold.

But imagine if you've got that transporter, and you could send all your molecules, all your DNA, everything to another transporter, which is like six foot away, and just come out the same. But then you realize that you have the ability to make some changes. So for example, if you wanted to remove the, the DNA, or whatever they are, the markers that affect the kind of hair you've got.

So maybe you just, I might decide, or I want to. Okay, it doesn't really, it's not really valid for me, because I'm pretty much bored now. Not, you know, not bored.

But yeah, I'm kind of bored. And I could say, well, I don't want curly hair. So I used to have curly hair.

And so you can sort of have straight hair, or I want blonde hair. So whatever, the gene that makes blue eyes, because blue eyes are actually an anomaly in the world. Most of the world has brown eyes.

Blue eyes is is a very different thing. So blue eyes, babies got blue eyes. So if you can do that, with, and in your imagination, you can do actually do anything in your imagination.

That's the thing. I mean, look at how many things that we get worried about. Things that haven't happened yet.

Things we're worried and we imagine. Yeah. So, and it feels real, doesn't it? At the time.

So maybe it would work the same way. If you imagine something that will be nice, something that's useful, that will also feel real. If it feels real, I guess it kind of is real in a way.

If it feels, and this is all about feeling as well. Anyway, imagine you got this transporter, transporter, transporter, transporter, like in Star Trek that moves you. Let's say for one, you can stand up in it one ring and move to another ring, like, you know, or just vanishes you and then brings you back.

But without a certain part of your DNA or part of your being, whatever it is. So there could be a physical feeling that you want to be taken away. So imagine you could just be on that transporter belt, like in Star Trek.

If anyone hasn't seen it, then we could do space. No, is it? Blake seven, they had little bracelets that they used for transporting as well. So Star Trek is not the only thing that's ever used transporting.

I think they were the first, I think. So you can actually decide. So from from my example, I could say, well, whatever was going on with my right knee, you know, if we go back a few years, what 20 years now, blimey, I could say, well, I want to go for the transporter, or let's say my tooth, my lonely tooth, I could decide to take away that discomfort.

So you know, be transported, and then be reported. I don't know what the opposite to transported is. I don't even want to think of what the word would be.

So, and then come back. And whatever that was, is gone. It's not there anymore.

And even though it's in your imagination, I mean, technically, like, it can still feel good, you can still feel you can feel pleased with yourself. And that's, it's quite a nice thing, isn't it? I would say, well, that's what I think. And you can play with these ideas.

And all it is, is just thinking about it. Thinking about and fantasy, I mean, you could say it's fantasy, I suppose. Different ways of changing how you feel.

Yeah. But the bottom line, really, I would say is, how do you feel now? At the beginning, you thought of a number, maybe wrote down the number zero to 10. Where are you now? How different do you feel now? And please let me know.

That brings me to the end of this recording. Thank you for listening. Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy.

Lots of love. Bye. La la la la la la.