[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to JasonNewland.com My name is Jason Newland Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes Hello Hello, how are you? It's quite warm in here today I had to close the window just to block out the sound from the garden
[00:00:33] because even though it's raining there's still sound in the garden people are still out there so I've got one neighbor just continuously well not continuously but every now and then I'm like ehhhhhh ehhhhhh ehhhhhh I don't know why they're yelling that out ehhhhhh ehhhhhh so this is Let Me Bore Your Pain Away and just to let you know I do have a YouTube channel at Jay
[00:01:06] Jason Newland Facebook group called Jason Newland's Boring Group Let's have a look Yeah Jason Newland's Boring Group I'm just having a look at this I got a message from Hillary A message, well it's a post A massive thank you for the Trivia Tuesday Menopause Had to listen 5 times and still not sure I got to hear it Yeah I kept falling asleep Also the Frozen Shoulder episode was great but again I was asleep 10 minutes in
[00:01:36] You rock You rock at the time You rock at what you do Thank you Thank you My eyesight's getting bad I really thought that was a different word then I need to get my eyes done Not done, tested I'm never going to get my eyes done I don't know I remember when Nan got her eyes lasered And she was She must have been in her 80s then
[00:02:09] And she said She couldn't believe how old she looked And she said She couldn't believe how old she looked And I said You should have asked me I just told you We laughed So See I just opened a window Um Oh sorry If there's a bit of sound outside It doesn't matter This isn't a sleep recording anyway Although
[00:02:40] I don't know when I do the deeps And I do the deeps And I do also have background sounds I just kind of figure I mean it took me quite a while to kind of get my head around this but I figured that it's not necessarily very useful to get in that frame of mind where you need complete silence because that's how I used to be and I got to the point where I could I had to wear earplugs
[00:03:19] Just the slightest sound just the slightest sound used to bug me and then I burst my eardrum with earplugs I just basically pushed them in too far pulled them out or pulled one of them out and um my eardrum or my eardrum was bust had to go to the doctors and I was I had um I can never think of the word that dizzy thing so
[00:03:48] yeah I had that for a while because of the balance issue with my ear so after that I had to stop wearing earplugs so I kind of had no choice but to just get used to the sounds around me and the weird thing about it I'll tell you even the place I used to live in uh the YMCA 2001 to 2004
[00:04:17] the beginning 2004 it was a like a studio apartment and I was always wearing earplugs or you know through a lot of that time and the it's kind of weird because I took a lady home with me you know someone that I'd met and she wanted to come home with me so I did um because well I did and I had a
[00:04:54] a very confused expression on my face because why do you want to come home with me but we'd obviously had a good night and stuff whatever so she came home to my flat or my studio apartment and I had to get her to just stand outside while I tried to clear away all the stuff on the floor because I didn't know because I didn't know this was going to happen I just really didn't expect it I thought it would be
[00:05:25] one of the side I thought it might be in the alleyway or in a shop in a shop doorway nothing weird like that but just I genuinely didn't just didn't think that far ahead and then we you know we spent a little bit of time together intimately yeah as adults sometimes do apparently and so it's time to go to sleep
[00:05:54] she had to get up early in the morning because she she was a nurse I didn't have to get up so early but I did have an appointment to go to about 11 o'clock so I'm laying there and I'm thinking this is long before I burst my eardrum this is a few years a few years before that
[00:06:20] and I realized I had to find a way to put my earplugs in so that she didn't see it because I'd suddenly become a little bit embarrassed about wearing earplugs at night and whenever I got them in there'd be a tap on my shoulder like are you asleep can you not hear me
[00:06:49] so I had to kind of leave one out in the end I just gave up and I just chucked them on the floor with all the other rubbish and pots and pans and dishes and that's the first time I realized that it was noisy downstairs at night because I'd never slept in that that particular place the studio apartment flat thing never slept there without earplugs
[00:07:17] and it's like oh no so I had to move out of there because it's sort of just I think it's new neighbors maybe I don't know but over time I realized that it doesn't matter I'm not saying that you know I can sleep through a drilling
[00:07:47] or you know like a marching band in the garden or marching through my bedroom that might be a little bit disruptive or the tree outside started singing to me that'd be just disruptive on different levels I guess but there's something quite nice about just lying in bed and listening to the sounds
[00:08:16] being aware of now and I know that this isn't an insomnia recording or a sleep recording but it is you know relaxation is part of this and I find I find that it always makes weird noises sometimes I'm actually probably ready for some food but
[00:08:45] it's weird I don't actually feel particularly hungry but my tummy is kind of maybe I've just got a greedy tummy because I don't actually feel like I need to eat right now but my stomach is kind of doing a little bit of a gurgle like which is a bit strange
[00:09:17] so what this recording is is I just waffle on sometimes I will talk about different pain relief techniques this is for people with chronic pain and only listen when you have permission from your doctor because you know you need to know the cause of that physical discomfort before you do anything to relinquish it to reduce it
[00:09:46] to send it away to feel better sometimes I will just talk about random stuff that has got nothing to do with physical discomfort or ways to reduce that and increase comfort and relaxation and sometimes I will be very focused
[00:10:17] very focused on maybe a particular type of chronic pain relief a technique that I've that I'm interested in or something that perhaps I've just discovered or rediscovered you know kind of a technique that I've used many many years ago and haven't really revisited it before
[00:10:50] and it's also quite nice to mix and match as well but you know sometimes just having the intention the intention in your mind to have more relief in that part of your body as well as the rest of your body as well but it's something about you know when the rest of your body relaxes so let's say your shoulders feel looser
[00:11:21] that can have a roll-on effect to your arms you know your the upper arms your elbows your forearms your wrists and it's not just because they're all connected because all that does have an effect but ultimately every part of your body is connected your hands
[00:11:51] and your fingers your fingers are connected to your toes that's a song isn't it and every part is connected to every other part so when for example let's say it was to focus on your right hand and that's all you're doing
[00:12:21] you're just focusing on your right hand so I'm going to do it myself I'm going to put my right hand on my knee I'll move it to my right knee that's more comfortable and it's palm down and all I'm going to do is just focus on my hand by the way Vinny's chewing on a bone in the background just in case you're wondering what all that clicking sound is
[00:12:48] I'm putting some dinner out well breakfast because it's 10.51 in the morning but he's he keeps going up to it and he's like oh no no thanks and it's the really good stuff I mean I wouldn't eat it but you know I say good stuff as in it's I don't know well it was just more expensive
[00:13:19] I you know I like to not give him the same thing every day hmm so now although I'm focusing on my right hand I can when I first started focusing on my right hand I was also noticing my right knee which I am again now a little bit because I'm mentioning it which just shows the power of our minds
[00:13:48] and the power of words you know if I mention your left shoulder you that's what you think about it's not there's no it's almost like it's a natural thing you know focus on your back of your neck even if I say don't focus on your left knee your left leg
[00:14:17] even if I say don't focus on it you're going to focus on it because it's been mentioned which just shows you how powerful words are how much influence just a simple sentence like that can have on your physical feelings I find that quite fascinating really I always have done
[00:14:44] and it's nothing new to me I'm not I'm not come up with something creatively genius by saying this it's just the way things are it doesn't mean I'm not a creative genius but you know one day I might find someone that believes that you never know it's possible so you've got your right hand
[00:15:16] now you can use the other hand if you want it doesn't matter it's not that important to focus on one particular hand in fact if you don't want to focus on your hand you can focus on your on your foot it's just really about focusing on one part of your body that's really the main thing but I'm going to focus on my right hand
[00:15:38] and the more I focus on it even though I'm not giving it all my attention because clearly I'm talking to you I can also hear the birds in the trees in the you know outside no trees inside that I can hear Vinnie doing his thing
[00:16:07] I can hear what sounds like the distant traffic or maybe a train or even a plane it's so so distant can't really make it out because you know with motorways there's that gentle hum like continuous
[00:16:37] there's a really really busy motorway it's not close it's not far away but it's you know it's a fair enough distance so I don't I don't hear the traffic much other than maybe on a really clear quiet night sometimes
[00:16:59] it's a very quiet day today it's been raining outside which means there's less people about it's just there's a almost a sense of peacefulness which I quite like our cleansliness like
[00:17:28] we haven't had any rain really for quite a while we had a little bit yesterday to be fair but just a little bit but this seems to have just washed away stuff made the air seem a little bit cleaner a little bit fresher there's the smell of the grass you know when the rain is on the grass and on the trees it's a different kind of smell isn't it
[00:18:00] the air feels a bit more fresh so I'm still noticing that stuff and if I'm on this while I was focusing on that I probably gave more attention to that than I did my hand but my hands were really relaxed and as I focus on it I'm noticing that the fingers or my fingers rather
[00:18:28] on the right hand are they're kind of relaxing on their own separately almost moving a little bit not you know in a kind of a dancey way but just I don't know how to explain it really maybe stretching a bit
[00:19:00] relaxing letting go now the thing is when you focus on just one part of your body it has an effect on the rest of your body has an effect on your mind because when you consider that maybe
[00:19:27] your mind and whatever's going on inside your mind and whatever speed the thoughts are when you relax your hand or any particular part of your body it can slow down thoughts in your mind
[00:19:59] maybe it's just because you're not giving attention to your mind you're giving your attention to your hand relaxing the rest of my body is feeling relaxed but the most relaxed part
[00:20:28] is my right hand now I've noticed that my lower back where I have arthritis there's zero feeling there there was now there's nothing going on it just feels exactly the same as the rest of my body I've got no idea why that is
[00:20:55] because ironically sitting in this chair is can be quite uncomfortable for me on my lower back and they are nothing there's nothing this is this is one of the most ridiculous things as well that I've noticed with myself and also with people that I've seen
[00:21:25] in the past helping them to relieve you know their physical discomfort is once it does actually reduce it reduces sometimes just disappearing the natural thing is to start looking for it now I'm as guilty as anyone else for doing this like where is it where's it gone and it's it's kind of a weird thing isn't it because if you
[00:21:55] you don't flush the toilet when you've done a poo and think I want to find out where that went to start looking through the drains going through the drainage system through the sewers I want to find my poo no you wouldn't do that so that's a weird visual isn't it with your little hat with a light on it sifting through the sewers how would you know it's your one
[00:22:25] I mean they don't have our names on them do they I suppose unless you put a little flag in it but then even if you did put a flag in it would like just it still might fall off you know I'm trying to move back to the hand now it's strange just a
[00:22:55] feeling of relaxation I mean when you think about it all our lives using the different parts of our body our hands our feet our mouths our eyes our jaw every part of the body really is being just being used from day one
[00:23:23] you imagine if you was working all the time for in my case quite a few I don't want to say my age anymore I'm getting to that point where no guess how old do you think I am and I hope they say something younger they say something older that's when I just walk away
[00:23:53] that's what I do someone says how old are you then I figure they're about my age and they say guess I always go like 20 years older say 83 sometimes they laugh sometimes they don't I actually messed up I can't be careful my mouth has got me in trouble a few times there was this
[00:24:19] what was it oh yeah I had this dinner party thing we were all around the table eating and the the host was just going to get the food so we were all sitting around I think we had bread rolls and there was a lady I knew I knew everyone on the table really she said
[00:24:49] oh I've got a special there's a secret I'm going to announce later to my boyfriend our boyfriend was in the kitchen bringing the food in and I just blurted out you're pregnant and she said yeah and I kind of ruined it I didn't ruin the pregnancy I'm sure she went on to have a happy birth and baby and stuff
[00:25:19] and bearing in mind that was wow the baby probably about 13 14 years old now that's crazy the baby is probably now leaving school to get their first job or to go to university that or college that's just wild it's so yeah the hand
[00:25:51] I'm looking at it so I've not got I did have my eyes closed a little bit while I'm talking to you but I've opened the eyes just to look at my hand I don't know what I was expecting to see I mean it's a hand it looks the same as it ever does but it does look relaxed I think sometimes also you know with when it comes to
[00:26:20] discomfort physical parts of the body I'm using that word instead of the P-A-I-N and it's weird sometimes a part of the body can almost feel like it's outside of the body and I think that's the problem when it comes to the discomfort it feels like it's too inside the body maybe it can do with being a bit dislodged
[00:26:50] having a little bit of distance from it maybe moving it outside and observing it like you would something that was detached separated you may be thinking we know what the word detached means why did you have to say separated don't need both those words
[00:27:19] it's fine sometimes I use two words that mean the same thing or similar words why did you have to do it twice exactly that's what I do sometimes or often maybe occasionally so the right hand I'm looking at it and you know there's that I've now managed to connect it with the
[00:27:48] my lower back just in my mind I've managed to connect the two my right hand and my lower back because that's where my personal thing is and so what I'm going to do I'm going to increase the sensation in my lower back
[00:28:14] okay so it's more I can feel it a bit more so what I'm going to do you can do this as well if you want this is something where focus on a part of your body that you'd like to reduce the physical sensation in and what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a fist with my
[00:28:44] hand and then I'm just going to hold it for a couple of seconds I'm going to count from five down to one and then I'm going to let it just drop so I'm going to hold it above my knee put it into a fist and then five four three two one and then just drop it back on my knee open palm
[00:29:14] and then by putting it into a fist I'm focusing on that part of my body that I want to relax counting five four three two one relax open my palm let it drop to my knee just notice how that feels in that part of your body that you are connected to so I'm going to do it now
[00:29:44] maybe you want to do it with me if you want it's up to you so I'm going to do a fist focus on my lower back one no five sorry five four three two one relax this time I'm going to do it a little bit higher up because my fingers got caught on my knee so I'm going to do it a bit higher
[00:30:14] up make my hand into a fist focus on my lower back five four three two one
[00:30:49] two one I tell you what's weird is when the part of your body that used to be problematic before you started listening to me starts to feel nice now that's a strange experience I had that with my lower back a few
[00:31:19] years back I remember I was just walking I just said the word walking I shouldn't say that when Vinny's around I was in the field and my back actually felt pleasurable like really pleasurable it was weird I noticed one thing that seems to happen is the sensation
[00:31:48] of mild itchiness often replaces the feeling that was there before but not the kind of itchiness that you need to scratch just real gentle gentle itchiness I suppose similar to the feeling of healing do you know when you got a cut and you cut it starts
[00:32:18] to heal and then there's a slight bit of itchiness there underneath the skin you don't need to scratch it it's just so very mild so very mild yeah I don't know why that happens either really it's one of those things I've never really understood but I
[00:32:47] know one thing's for sure it's a heck of a nicer feeling than the previous feeling I was having it sometimes feels like I mean this isn't even me imagining it but it's like every part of your body can be replaced
[00:33:18] in your mind you know a bit like we're just made of lego like our whole body is made of lego and you can just take out a bit but it's the bits on the outside are just sliding legos so it's a new type of lego and you can just
[00:33:48] slide out that part of your body and replace it then he's eating his dinner by the way in case you're wondering what that slopping sound is it's him my right hand is still relaxed here's something else you can do when you
[00:34:18] focus on your hand completely focus on your hand as well as him slurping away at his dinner it's really weird because he only had he was playing with it and he's like he didn't want it but it's like his bone thing it seems to have cleansed his palate so that he became more interested in eating his dinner
[00:34:49] oh he's a good boy hasn't had all of it though still a bit on a plate that he's kind of left because that food's got vegetables in it and it's really a lot better than the stuff well I think it's better than the other stuff he gets but I think he prefers the other stuff even though you know I think there's carrots there's peas and all kinds of stuff in there which is
[00:35:17] good for animals I think I don't think humans need vegetables but animals do I'm sticking to that vegetables I don't eat anything I can't spell so when you focus imagine being able to take parts out of your body and just replace them with a new part or even you could
[00:35:46] just take that part out of your body you know just the small section of your body just take that off and you could put one replace it with a colder version or a warmer version whatever you think would suit you so you could put a warmer version in and notice how that feels when that part of your body now feels warmer
[00:36:24] then he flapping his ears sends that cool breeze relaxing you even more I think that's what they call integration integrating your background sounds so I'm just testing it myself that warmness does seem to help I wonder if you do with some cold something that feels like
[00:36:54] maybe not icy cold maybe icy cold if you want it so imagine that body being cool being replaced by a cool part that's
[00:37:35] alright I think I prefer the warmth though to be honest yeah I'm going back to the warmth to take the output back in yeah that's nicer just a bit of warmth being radiated I wonder why they call them
[00:38:05] radiators because warmth radiates from them yeah focusing on my lower back definitely the warmth is doing it if anything it's actually feels quite nice yeah
[00:38:39] I think that warmth is more useful to me and the sound of in the background really it's nice
[00:39:10] it feels nice it feels actually I mean the rest of my body notice if the rest of your body is feeling more relaxed after relaxing your hand and listening to my boring voice for the last 45 50 minutes whatever it's been
[00:39:28] and there's not a lot going on inside my brain like in my mind and people that know me might argue that maybe that's always the case but you know right now it feels like everything's going fairly slow
[00:39:57] my right hand still relaxed but then so is my left hand so are my feet legs arms shoulders chest stomach and back yeah okay that's nice wasn't really aiming for any particular type of relaxation but maybe
[00:40:29] my body just got bored listening to my voice after all that is what this is I think all the birds have got together with Vinny like how can we disturb his recording he's done everything he can and now the birds I mean how many pigeons can I literally fit on one branch
[00:40:57] so this is just something you can it's a case of like how do you feel now how do you feel different from how you did before and the background sounds will always be around this isn't one of
[00:41:27] those recordings I'm just aware I'm a bit more aware of it today than recently because birds seem to be a lot more active and Vinny seems to be well sometimes he just falls asleep but he's definitely got a lot of energy in him right now
[00:42:03] so it's a case of how do you feel different to how you felt before you started listening to this recording word with Herbert that's the pigeon he used to he hasn't done it lately but he used to come onto the
[00:42:32] windowsill and like wave to me doesn't do that so much I mean he used to do it more before I got Vinny I don't know if he's maybe he's just a bit jealous when I got Vinny because I've had Vinny for two and two years and what five two years and four months so maybe yeah maybe Herbert is a little bit you know
[00:43:02] he wanted me all for himself but I keep saying I say to all the birds that you know there's plenty of me to go around plenty of love love bless them all so
[00:43:32] and I realize I'm quite conscious that these sessions are very probably very very different from what is normal I say normal but what is but I don't think there's anyone else possibly in the world doing this
[00:44:01] what I do like relief of pain by boring you like the let me bore your pain away I don't think there's no one else doing anything like this and there's probably a good reason for it it's probably a very good reason like yeah because it's ridiculous idea
[00:44:30] but some people seem to like it so we're just going I want to continue I mean this let me know because if it's useful even if it relaxes you because the relaxation in itself reduces the physical discomfort it just naturally does that because stress increases it so
[00:45:00] reducing the stress decreases it so hopefully by listening to me boring you you will feel more relaxed in your body your mind slows down and you have more comfort and maybe maybe some of the few little techniques and ideas that I have may also be useful as well so
[00:45:30] thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you
