(Long Music) REWIND Let me bore your pain away #24 Jason Newland 16th April 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland and this is Let Me Boil Your Pain Away. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Just let you know that I do have a Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boiling Group.

I have a YouTube channel at Jason Newland and that's where I upload all of my podcast episodes whenever they're available really. So I kind of just share everything that I do onto YouTube now. So that includes all the different six versions of the recordings.

I've got multiple podcasts and all the latest recordings are available on my website jasonnewland.com so you can just go there and you can download them, you can stream them, you can even play them slower or faster and you can search for older recordings and what else. There's also a form you can fill in if you have a question for this upcoming Q&A Friday. I've got so far, I've got a few Q&A Friday questions now which is good.

So what have I got, what have I got, what have I, what have I, what have I got? One, two, three, four. One from Anne, Maria, Georgie and Hilary. So I will answer those questions on Friday.

So what this is really is the Let Me Boil Your Pain Away. It's kind of similar to Let Me Boil Your Pain Away, except I am focusing on helping with reducing chronic pain. Now it's important that you only listen to this with the permission of your doctor because you do need to know the cause of that physical discomfort.

Okay. So and there's a few different things I do. Ultimately it is like the title.

I'm just going to bore you. When you get bored you feel relaxed and when you feel relaxed it reduces any physical discomfort you may have been feeling before deciding to listen to me and enjoy that comfort. There's also other things that can happen.

It's like you're focusing on now. You're not, you're no longer focusing on previous feelings and you know just it just there's a few little things going on and there's also I guess there's a sense of expectancy. Especially if you listen to me regularly.

Maybe you listen to my other recordings and you know that when you listen to my voice you do you feel more relaxed just generally. You feel calmer, your mind slows down, your body starts to relax. It's just natural stuff.

So I like to try and you know pick out an idea. So it's not so much that I'm going to go through a technique, although I probably will. But I think it's fun to have an idea.

You know have an idea and play around with that. Just ponder around it. Wrap your mind around it.

Maybe test it for yourself. So I was just thinking because I'm quite into time and that might sound like a really weird sentence. It actually does now said it out loud.

Or like time I do. I mean in the sense of from a a hypnosis perspective or from a movie perspective. Like time distortion.

Rewinding time. Fast forwarding time. And there was an old technique that Milton H Erickson who was a pioneer.

Hypnotic pioneer. A long long time ago. And he used to when someone had severe physical sensations that would come on.

He would have them almost like pause what they were doing. But they automatically paused and fast forward in time. So that feeling that discomfort is over.

And then at the end of it and they just carry on. I mean this technique can only be allowed. Your unconscious mind can only allow yourself to do this if it's safe to do it.

So of course you wouldn't want to be doing something like that if you're driving a car or you need to be aware of what's going on. But if you was in bed or if you was just sitting down watching telly. You would just relax in.

And that minute or that 30 seconds or that 10 seconds of maybe sharpness that you would have normally experienced. Just fast forwards to the end. It's a bit because I do this with movies and this is going to sound weird but I don't like.

I'm not really into the love scenes in movies anymore. I say anymore. You know I watch a TV like there's a TV show called Power that I used to like.

And also another one called Donovan Ruddock or Donovan. Anyway something like that. And they both had a lot of like hanky panky scenes.

It's a very old fashioned term. And for me it got in the way. I'm not comparing someone's physical discomfort to you know a love scene on a TV show.

I'm not. I'm just saying it's something that I don't really want to watch. I don't really want to be part of.

I don't really. It's more of an irritation if anything. I want to get back to the action or get back to what's really going on.

It's just a pointless bit of stuff. Which is a complete opposite to how I used to be. That used to be the bit I wanted to watch when I was a teenager.

But you know things change. So what I do is I fast forward those bits. And I really you know with Power or The Power whatever it was called.

I was getting through an entire episode an hour episode in about 35 minutes by skipping all that stuff. I mean it wasn't so much that it was like it just got a little bit boring because it's the same people. You know like not that I wanted to watch anyone.

I'll move on. But yeah. So I'd fast forward.

So I didn't have to put myself through it. In the same way as when I'm watching. If I watch back boxing on playback.

So I've got the zone and they have adverts. Even though I pay money for the actual app. They have adverts in the middle constantly between rounds.

So what I do is when I watch it on playback. Or I watch it live but I'll go back and I'll leave it for an hour. Then I'll watch it live go to the beginning and I'll fast forward through the adverts.

So because I find the constant adverts throughout just unpleasant. You know. Because I don't know how many adverts would that be like 100 adverts in a three hour three hour three and a half hour event.

That's probably like one two three probably about 30 30 adverts probably which I don't need to be sitting through. So I'll just fast forward. I don't mind the colour of adverts at the beginning.

It's not really a big issue. But just like all the way through. So and also the jibber jabber when they're talking about a fight coming up and they're talking about something else and I can just fast forward it.

And if I know both the people that are fighting the boxing. I can just skip it through to the point where they're entering squaring off against each other and just you know I can miss all that bunk out. Bunk if that's a word.

Sometimes I like to see the introductions and that but you know occasionally with the big fights they'll have like a band playing or someone's singing national anthems like I don't I don't need to listen to all that stuff. So I'll just skip forward. It's wonderful.

I suppose it takes a little bit of the event out of it. A little bit of the shabazz shabazz the entertainment maybe but I'm okay with that. If it's live I just watch it all.

So I like the idea of being able to just fast forward. Imagine you got a physical feeling. So I'm just going to use the physical feeling okay that you don't want or that you didn't want.

I'm not going to use the P A I N word anymore during this recording. And that's the kind of the marker you know that you want to just skip through. So what you could do is if you remembered last time you had a feeling and just imagine just skipping through it.

Fast forwarding through it rather to the end where you don't need it anymore and it can change the way you feel. Another thing you could do you could rewind. The rewind technique or maybe you call it the rewind machine.

So it could be a machine that you literally just sit down in or you could just attach it to your bed or your chair and you could turn it on and just relax. And you can think of a time when you went through that physical discomfort and just rewind it to the beginning before. Rewind it.

Keep rewinding it. Keep rewinding it to a point where that part of your body felt fine. Keep rewinding until that part of your body felt relaxed.

Felt loose. Whether it's a minute, whether it's an hour, rewinding it a day, a week, a month, a year. Even if you rewind it fast, really fastly.

Rewind it five years or ten years to a time when that part of your body felt fine. And that's the only part of your body you're rewinding. Everything else is just staying the same.

But you're rewinding that part of your body. The physical feeling in that part of your body. Rewinding it.

And just keep going. And while you're rewinding it, there's not really any feeling occurring anyway because it's busy. You just notice how it feels as you get to that time when it felt absolutely fine.

Absolutely relaxed. Peaceful. Calm.

And you can notice how that feels. Maybe imagine moving that part of your body and your mind the way you used to. Perhaps imagine doing some of the things that perhaps you haven't done for a while.

And how free and easy it feels. That part of your body. Just in case you're wondering, it's Vinny in the background chomping on a bony thing, just so you know.

It's not me fidgeting with, I don't know what would sound like that if I was fidgeting. Knitting needles maybe. What do you think came first? Knitting needles or chopsticks.

It's kind of similar, isn't it? Or is it just me? Makes you wonder if someone was eating, using chopsticks one day and they got distracted and they were just talking. So both the chopsticks in their one hand and they got talking to someone and maybe a kitten was like playing around and had a ball of wool and the ball of wool kind of got stuck in with the chopsticks. And they realized at the end of the conversation it knitted a little jumper by accident.

Maybe that's how knitting was created. Maybe not. I think we need a time machine for that, wouldn't we, to find out.

So notice how that part of your body feels. I nearly said notice how your back feels because that's the part I'm focusing on. Because whenever I do these recordings, I always focus on my lower back because that's where my arthritis is.

And right now, my lower back feels really good. It's warm. It's loose.

It feels no different. In fact, arguably it feels better than the rest of my back. I suppose it's younger, isn't it? It's now younger than the rest of my back.

But it feels fine. And this is something you can repeat. So you can just skip back.

What you can do is just, when you open your eyes, you'll be back to exactly where you were before. Back here with me. Or you just move a part of your body and that will stimulate you to be back here.

Focus on that part of your body again. How it feels now, right now, in this moment. And rewind it again.

Rewind it. Go backwards. Notice how it feels as you go back in time.

All the way back to a time when it felt, that body, that part of your body felt really relaxed and comfortable. Felt free and easy and loose. What you may notice that this time, it's quicker.

Which is a weird concept because really when it comes to time, there is not really any quicker or shorter if you're moving time forward or backwards. It's all relative I suppose, isn't it? And I realised as I said that sentence, it almost sounded like I knew what I was talking about and I didn't. I didn't even understand my own words.

I understood the individual words but just put them together. I don't think I'm ever going to be a scientist. I can't even play a harpsichord.

Not that that's really anything to do. Is it a harpsichord or harpsichorn? What Stevie Wonder plays, you know the thing that he puts in his mouth. That was not that.

I just want to point this out. That was not my impression of Stevie Wonder playing the harpsichord because I'm a big, big Stevie Wonder fan. That was him singing.

No, it wasn't him singing. I'm a big fan. I love, love Stevie Wonder.

Can you believe he's been around since he was a kid? Before you say anything, technically we all have, I know. But he's, I've got an album, well I've got a song that he did for Christmas and he was about, he started around the same time as Michael Jackson did, like age-wise. He was about 10 or something, I think.

It's like, and he's now, what, 70? So he's been going around since 19... Okay, I'm gonna have to look this up. So just while I do this, just notice how you feel in that part of your body because I'm actually super excited to find out how long Stevie Wonder, he's got to be in his 70s now. He's 74.

Okay, his first, his first, what? His first Grammy nominated was 1967. His first, okay, discography, funny enough, was the first, 1962. He's done 23 studio albums, three soundtrack albums.

I know one of those was Lady in Red, wasn't it? Was it Lady in Red? The one where he sings, I Just Called to Say I Love You. 92 singles. Oh man.

So he's got his very first album, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, 1962. So he was born in 1950, I think. Yeah, he was born in 19, yeah, that makes sense.

So he was born in 1950. That was released in 1962, which means he must have recorded it at least a year earlier. So he was, he basically released his first album at the age of 12.

And he's now 74. I mean, that's like 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72. That's over 30 years.

Vinny, say hello to everyone. That is not what I meant, Vin. I can't believe you.

You've got no class. And so what we'll do, go back to the beginning again. Just as a flash, bang.

I don't mean, well, just, you know, yeah, just go to the beginning to now, where we are now. I mean, you probably where we are now, now, because I've been talking about Stevie Wonder, which is possibly, some may argue, is not necessarily relevant to the topic that we're talking about. But you know, yeah.

So imagine, just just actually notice how that part of your body feels. Now, in this moment, what we're going to do is going to go, we're going to go back in time again, with the old time. What did I call it a time portal, the rewind machine.

So we're going to rewind now, go back, and just keep going back until you get to that point, where it feels absolutely fine. Going back in time to that point where it feels, that part of your body feels relaxed and loose, relaxed and peaceful and calm. Now, I mean, in and of itself, technically, this is something you could do, I suppose, to just change how it feels in the moment.

Here's a little thing you could do. So we can play around with this. So I'd like to focus on is, this is going to sound weird, but try and get that that discomfort, try and increase it a bit.

Okay. Because if you can increase it, you can decrease it. But just try and focus on it, maybe try and get it back a little bit.

And that's the opposite to what you wouldn't normally want to do. But you know how to reduce it anyway, so it's fine. And what you want to do is the same kind of things, but what we're going to do is, you got the very beginning of it, and you got the end of it, it kind of, and just basically go backwards and forwards in time, just fast forward and rewinding.

And just notice, just do that a little bit. So you notice it, and that feeling of it coming on, and then going away, and coming on and going away. Because you know, there's a feeling, it's sporadic, it's rarely, is it all the time, it's like sporadic, comes, it goes, comes, it goes.

So just imagine it coming on and leaving, coming on and leaving, but then going backwards, then forwards, then backwards and forwards, and backwards and forwards, and just zipping it backwards, forward, backward, forward, to the point where you can't even see it. I mean, it's not, I mean, you might not be able to see it before, but it feels different. Feels different as it goes forward, forward, back, forward, back, like that.

And so many different things you could do with it. You know, if you could imagine that it's, it's almost like a, the rest, like a lawn. If you imagine a lawn, it's all cut lovely, like a nice, maybe a golf, a golf court, is it a golf lawn? Whatever.

But just a nice bowl or something like that. It's really short grass, but there's a tuft of grass. Looks a little bit like my hair.

It's a bit of tuft growing out. That's really in the way. It's annoying.

It doesn't need to be there. How did the, was the lawnmower person drunk when they did the lawn? How did they miss that? Were they just too busy knitting? You don't, you don't have, some people get distracted, don't they? So, I'll just bang that metal thing. I need to move that thing.

I'll tell you. Hello Vinnie. My darling.

My little baby boy. Yes, you are. Your daddy's little baby, little chocolate honeypot.

Oh, yes, you are. So, okay. He's flapping his ears.

So, no, that wasn't, no, I didn't say hello to you as a reason for you to just start hassling me. I was just being polite. I was being a good friend.

I was asking how you were, but not for you to start hassling me. He's now begging me for something. I don't have anything to give you other than my well wishes.

I don't have it. He wants food. You've got a bowl of food down there.

A whole bowl of food and you've not touched it. You know what? Well, he doesn't know what I'm saying, does he? If he knew half of what I said, he probably wouldn't talk to me, would you? No. Come on, mate.

Just calm down. Go and carry on. See, he was minding his own business, chewing on his bony thing down there.

He was happy doing that. What do I do? I'll start stroking him and start like... I distracted him from what he was doing to distract himself from me doing what I'm doing. And some would say, this is probably to distract you from how you were feeling before.

So there's a lot of distraction going on, maybe. But you've got that tuft of grass that's really in the middle. It's like no good.

They've got that in a local park, right? The council started leaving strips of grass to grow for the wildlife. Now, they left it for about nearly a whole, probably the whole of the summer, so probably a good three or four months, they left it totally overgrown for the wildlife. Okay, I'm just going to specify that.

Now, I went in there and not once did I see any giraffes or gazelles, no lions, nothing. What wildlife? I saw one butterfly. One butterfly.

I see more than that when I look in the tree. There's more butterflies flying to my flat in my window than there are in that bit of land that's for the wildlife. All it did was just annoy people because it was the dogs love it.

Dogs love long grass. I don't know why but and there was all these creepy crawlies and all these little like nits and stuff getting onto the dogs. Like just, can you just cut it? Anyway, it was a little bit like that.

But this, it ruins the rest of the grass, you know, couldn't even get through. You had to walk around it to get to the paving because the grass was too long to get over, to walk over anymore. So imagine if you cut that grass, cut it down and make it the same length as all the other grass so that that part of your body feels the same as the rest of your body.

That was what I was getting at. For a second, I actually forgot what I was talking about. Which is hard to believe when I am so focused.

Yeah, that's what I was focused on, wasn't it? To have that one part of your body, or maybe more parts, but let's say one part of your body that feels different from the others. Maybe it needs to just be evened out so it's the same as all the other parts. It's a little bit reminds me of this.

And I realised as I'm about to say it, probably there's no, no similarity whatsoever. But now started, I'm going to talk about it. There's a squeaky bathroom door in one of my places I lived.

See, I had an en-suite, it was a room £125 a week. Ridiculous, but I always needed somewhere to live, I was being evicted. So this is the only place I could find quite quickly.

And I thought, you know, so it was a nice room, it was a fair sized room. And it had an en-suite bathroom, which was the first time I'd ever shared a house with other occupants where I didn't have to share the bathroom and the toilet. So that was nice.

Unfortunately, the main bathroom was right next to my bedroom. And it had a squeaky door. And it used to really bug me, because I'd be in bed and all I'd hear was, and I thought it was a kitten trapped in a well, to start with, but it wasn't, it was just like, it's that door.

And I thought, and it was causing me a little bit of, I don't know, because I've been making recordings, because I've been doing this forever now. I've been making recordings, and if you listen to some of the recordings from 2011, you'll hear it. Like me saying, now relax your feet.

And your ankles. And relax your calf muscles. And it's weird I got that the wrong way around, because generally, I move my, move down from the body, you know, from the head downwards.

It doesn't really matter, I don't think. We've got the loud music now in the garden. They were playing that earlier, and I was going to do a recording, but I was like, oh, I can't, because they're just, you might not be able to hear it.

It's not quite as bad as the music yesterday, because that was vibrating. And that was downstairs. This is across, over the fence.

But what might happen, which often happens in these situations, is they'll annoy the neighbour downstairs with their music. So then the neighbour will start their own music going. And then another neighbour will start their music going.

It just, it gets silly. It happened last summer. And I'm sitting there, and I'm just like, I don't, I never have loud music.

Ever. I mean, if I want to, if I, this is me moaning really, this has nothing to do with the recording. If I want to listen to loud music, I've got headphones for that.

What they're playing. Sounds like Bollywood music. Cool.

I had a girlfriend once. Yeah, it's not really relevant. That's for, I just want to show off.

I once touched a girl's hand. She let, she held my hand. Yeah, I did.

35 years ago, but it did happen. Ooh. And I think if we'd stayed together long enough, she might have kissed me.

The marriage didn't work out. I'm trying to feel this, the noise downstairs is disturbing. Distracting me.

Well, the noise, it's not downstairs. It's technically it's downstairs, but it's over the fence. You probably can't even hear it hardly, because the windows close and the microphone's a long way away from it.

And I think what happens is my voice bores the microphone. Sometimes I hear the microphone snoring. Not even joking.

What do you think about the idea of the time, the rewind machine, just rewinding that physical sensation? Is it something that's useful to you? Is it something that maybe you can try out a bit more often, play around with it? So because of all the noise though, and I'm going to end this recording because I don't, it's a little bit distracting to me. I'm not moaning, I just, you know, Vinny's also hassling me to go out. So I've got no idea how long I was talking on this one.

I think it's going to be quite a short recording. Let's have a look. It's not that short, about 40 minutes.

Blimey, have I really been rabbiting on for 40 minutes? What have I said? I don't know. 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.