Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland, and this is my stomach making a funny noise. So this is Let Me Bore You To Sleep — one of the world famous boring sessions. Recordings, podcasts, whatever you want to call it. My stomach might make some noises because I'm hungry. That's it really, my stomach's hungry. And I've just received my electric and gas bill for the month, and if I was going to use a word to describe my reaction when I saw the amount I need to pay them, hungry wouldn't be that word.

So only watch or listen to this when you can safely close your eyes. Because, you know, it's just something I say every time I make a session. You'd think it'd be kind of obvious, really. I can't imagine there would be anybody that would actually be driving — you know, in a car, with all the people that he loves in the back, his children, his wife or husband sitting next to him — thinking, "I know what I'll do, listen to an audio called Let Me Bore You To Sleep." You'd probably... in all fairness, I think that even if I didn't say please close your eyes — not please your eyes, please only listen or watch when you can safely close your eyes — I think because of the title, pretty much, I think I'm covered.

I suppose the only way to have a better title really would be to call it "Only listen to this when you can safely close your eyes." That could be the actual title of the audio, the recording. Which would be... I don't know, maybe it's okay, but I'm not feeling any kind of twinges of excitement. So there's an obvious point to these sessions, but there's another point to it. I'm going to talk about neuroplasticity, which you probably didn't think I was going to be discussing. Well, there's probably lots of things you didn't expect me to discuss — the breeding habits of a mongoose, that'd probably be something you'd think about. You'd be a bit surprised how many pairs of underwear you could actually wear on top of one another before you finally got kicked out of the clothes store, or got arrested.

So yeah, I don't know. There's lots of different things I could be talking about, or not talking about, or things that you might think I would talk about. "I can't believe he's talking about that." But at the same time, nothing really should surprise any of us. I had some strange dreams last night. I'm trying to figure them out. I'm not going to talk about my dreams here, but I've always had to change the title to "Let Me Bore You To Sleep" whilst talking about my dreams. Mind you, if I did that then I guess I'd have to change the title every time I did a session, which I don't want to do because it just takes energy trying to think up a title for something. Because I don't know what I'm going to say, I don't know what I'm going to do. All I know is that my neck is feeling better than it did yesterday. The back of my neck, really, really... was it yesterday or the day before?

I can't remember. My days are just so exciting that I just lose track of what's going on. Neuroplasticity is the topic of part of this thingy. It's a way to explain what I'm doing. I could put it in simple terms — in fact, that's the only way I can put it, because I don't actually understand what it is. In fact, maybe not understanding what it is means that I possibly can't put it in simple terms, because I think that's sometimes the situation. You know, when someone explains something to you and it sounds so complicated, you start to think that maybe they don't know what they're talking about.

You talk about hypnosis, for example. There are lots of details about hypnosis that can't be included in a basic description. But you can break it down. I set myself a task here, because now I'm going to make it all complicated. Hypnosis really is just a focus of attention and expectation. Or, as someone said before — not here or anywhere else, but someone... I forget his name, it's a book I read. Oh no, it's Dave. Dave something, who wrote a book called Hypnotherapy. It's: want it to happen, expect it to happen, let it happen. It's kind of those things. So want something to happen, expect it to happen, and open your mind, open your heart, allow it to happen. So there are those three. You need to want something to happen first — really want it. So it's about strengthening that want.

So if you think, if you see a stage hypnotist, they might lay a member of the audience on two chairs — just two chairs standing up. They might tell that person, "You're as strong as a board, you're as strong as metal, strong as wood." And you might be thinking, metal or wood, which one? Metal's stronger. Mind you, not all metal is strong, is it? Some metal breaks really easily. But anyway, you wouldn't think that way. It says you're as strong as the hardest wood in the world — Woody Woodward. And then the hypnotist would stand on the person's stomach, and they would be supported.

I mean, when they tell them — I should go back a little bit — when they're saying to the audience member, "You're as strong as wood," they'd get help. So that person would be lying on the floor, and then they would pick them up — a few people would pick that person up — and then place them on top of the two chairs, which shouldn't really support that person. But they're so straight and rigid. Rigid. And that's what it is. If you think of the word rigid — rigid, it's very inflexible, stuck. Rigid, inflexible, stuck. Those words, which we might think of as being negative in some ways, are also really useful, positive words when it's about change.

So if you want to change something about how you feel, or you want to feel a certain way — confident on stage, for example, confident on a bus (not in the same way, obviously, I don't think you should start tap dancing on a bus) — or you want to sleep at night, for example. I guess that's a good example for this session. You want to sleep at night, or you want to sleep. It might be during the day, whatever time you decide to sleep. So it could be a case of: whenever you lay down, put your head on your pillow, that is the trigger, the cue, the permission for you to just go to sleep.

So you must — ideally you would — desire that, want it. And some people do say, "Oh yeah, I want it." But it's not just, "Yeah, I want to watch the telly, I want to watch a movie." This has got to be at the same level as somebody who is absolutely obsessed with Star Wars, or absolutely obsessed with the new iPhone and will queue for days outside an iPhone shop — an iStore, whatever they're called — to get the iPhone. Or a fan... I'm trying to think of any singer. You know, it could be a fan of Little Mix, or it could be a fan of One Direction, although they're split up now. A fan of Michael Bublé. Or a fan of... what's that, All The Single Ladies? All The Single Ladies, what's her name? But you get the idea — a fan who is such a big fan that they will travel across the world to see that person's concerts. But not just that, they will travel and see as many of the concerts as they can.

So Little Mix might be on a world tour, and this person may travel to all of the countries of the European part of the world tour — Hungary, France, Germany, Russia (I'm not sure about Russia, I'm not sure if Russia has concerts, but) — you know, just all the different various countries through Europe: Greece, England, Ireland. That's somebody who really wants to see Little Mix. That's the level, that type of level, that is what you need, really, with hypnosis. I know it's an ask, I realise that. If you had that level, I think the things you could achieve would be endless.

Do you see the point? I don't necessarily think that many people would have that level — that would be a need. There's more... there's potentially some psychological issues going on there, I don't know. That's a super fan. I'm good on them. My philosophy in life is: do what makes you happy, as long as it's not hurting other people or yourself. Do what makes you happy, enjoy your life, enjoy stuff. I don't think it's about making happy memories. For me personally, it's about making happy presents. It's about experiencing it. It's about being kind to yourself.

So you've got that level of want, need. In fact, when it comes to sleeping, nothing can hold you back from sleeping now, because you've got that. And the expect — you need to expect yourself to just drift to sleep easily and naturally whenever your head touches the pillow. And the expect, in the same way as the person that wants to go to all sixteen concerts in Europe for Little Mix, which is a girl band, a girl group who are very big in the world. The expect to go, in some ways, is quite easy, because that person would have bought the tickets. But once you've bought the tickets to go to those concerts, you expect to go.

Also, that person may have gone to see Little Mix before, in their last world tour, their last European tour, UK tour. They've bought tickets before, and when they bought the tickets, they knew then that they were going to go to the concert. So they know that it's going to happen. So that "expect it to happen" is not based on hope — it's based on fact, it's based on previous experience. It's going to happen. It doesn't get questioned. There are no question marks anywhere near the "expect it to happen." Expect to sleep whenever you put your head on the pillow.

So the want, the need — the want and the need — is actually the most important part, because that's what leads to the expect. And that expect is the post, the big post that holds up the ceiling. Immovable, static, fixed, rigid, stuck, unmovable. Which then leads to: allow it to happen, let it happen. And in a way, you don't even need to do that — it just happens. The "allow it to happen" is like a loop test, maybe. I don't mean a hula hoop. It's like a tester to make sure that all the other parts are in place. When you think about allowing it to happen, or letting it happen, you can feel a comfort within you, a self-assurance, a confidence that actually a change has been made. And that's what hypnosis is.

There's the testing of it, but the testing happens when you're ready to fall asleep. And there's the additional bit, which is something that you do — the more you do it, the easier and more natural it becomes. It's a behaviour that you're learning. And it's not just that. Going back to neuroplasticity — I can't believe how well organised this session is, considering I'm just making it all up. Well, not making it up, just ad-libbing as it were.

Neuroplasticity — the study of the brain, the study of the activity in the brain. So when you focus, when you keep doing something, it changes your brain. It changes how you think, it changes how you see the world, how you experience yourself. Which is pretty cool. Which means we can pretty much make these changes we want with our behaviour, by focusing on a specific thing. Our brain creates neurons, or whatever things they're called in the brain. It creates more of those things. So the more you focus on, for example, the things that you've done in the past which have helped other people — the idea that there are going to be things that you're never going to know about, how you've helped someone — it could be as simple as helping someone onto the bus, it could be as simple as a smile, a hello. And that could have made a difference to that person's day, which then made a difference to their week, which then made a difference to their year. So we're not ever going to be aware of all that stuff.

And it can be quite nice to focus the mind on the benefit that you've had on other people's lives. And the more you focus on that, the more your brain develops, because the brain is constantly developing and changing all the time. Even during illnesses, it's developing in a different way maybe, but it's still changing and developing. When you think about it, someone that maybe has had a brain injury or a stroke and has lost the use of — maybe can't walk anymore, or half their body is not working — they manage to, with therapy, with physical therapy, activate a different part of their body, causing different networks in their brain, so that a different part of their body controls that part. So instead of the left side of the brain controlling the right side of the body, they start using a different part of the brain to control the right hand or the left hand. Which just shows that our brain is so flexible — way more flexible than we're ever going to know. But wouldn't it be interesting to find out?

So with sleeping, it's that focusing, that expecting it to happen. Expectation is powerful beyond belief. In fact, expectation — that's really quite a good term — is more powerful than belief. And let's face it, nothing is more powerful than belief. Expectation, generally, is: you expect something to happen. You don't need to do ceremonies, you don't need to read books or study scripture or live a certain way. Expectation is something that bypasses all that stuff. It's stronger than belief in some ways, because there's no question in it. You expect it. Once you expect something to happen, you're pretty much rigid to it. Which means we need to be careful what we expect to happen.

I've been talking for 35 minutes. Sorry if this wasn't as boring as usual. I want to focus on the sleep part of things as well. It's okay to bore you, and if it's relaxing, you know, but at the same time my intention is for you to sleep — maybe not during the session, but definitely whenever you lay your head onto your pillow at night, or daytime, or wherever it is that you wish to sleep, or that you expect to sleep. That's the focus, that's the repetition, that's where the energy goes. The energy expecting it to happen. That rigid, massive, rigid boulder — or some kind of big... I don't know what you want to call it — something that's holding the roof up, something that's supporting the entire roof. It's so strong it allows everything else to happen. It's a kind of strength that will last thousands of years.

And also, don't forget the power of wanting something — not just from a greed perspective. So I guess there's a greediness within that, but for me, greediness would be more wanting more than you can use. So if you're queuing for an iPhone, greed would be wanting to buy ten iPhones. You can't use ten iPhones. So someone queuing for an iPhone, someone queuing to get into a concert or to buy tickets for a concert — that's somebody that really wants that thing. Really, really wants that to happen. At the same time, they expect it. Someone queuing for an iPhone for two days — no one wants that iPhone more than them. They really want that iPhone. They expect to get it. They expect the doors to open at six o'clock in the morning, whatever time the store opens. They expect that to happen. There's no doubt in their mind that that will happen.

And they expect to be seventh in the queue, or the seventh person to buy an iPhone in London, or in Germany, or in New York, wherever you are. Because they're queuing and they see there are six people ahead of them, and they're just maybe sitting down on a deck chair, and they're allowing it to happen. They're giving themselves permission for this process to continue. And that expectation is not only based on the power of the want — they expect those doors to open, and for them to walk in and to buy, to purchase that item, the iPhone, in this example. And that expectation isn't only based on what should happen, it's based on what has happened. Because guaranteed, anyone that queues up for an iPhone for two days has probably done it before. They know that the door will open, they know that they will go in, and they know that that feeling of accomplishment, that feeling of probably ecstasy, is the reason, is the payback, to have that iPhone in their hand. That new, shiny thingy in their hand. And they know how they're going to feel, because they've rehearsed it in their mind and also in their body. They've rehearsed it over and over and over, thousands and thousands of times.

Someone could hand them a box, an iPhone box, and it could be full of rabbit poo — honestly, lots of rabbit droppings — and that person would still feel the same ecstasy and happiness and high, until they open the box of course and see that there's no phone. But if one is there, they've rehearsed it, and they're going to feel that feeling. In the same way that you can rehearse in your mind the sense of just drifting asleep when your head touches the pillow.

I remember a couple of years ago, someone was queuing up for the latest phone — I think it was an iPhone, it might have been another one — and there were all cameras and film crews. I think he was one of the first people to get it, and he opened the box up and he tripped, and it fell on the floor. Yeah, it was funny.

So that's it for me for today. I hope you're well, and I'll see you next time, which may be tomorrow, all being well. Take care. And if you like what I do, please visit jasonnewland.com and leave a testimonial. Take care of yourselves. Bye.