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Q&A Friday | LMBYTS #1425 | Jason Newland | 29th August 2025 · Let me bore you to sleep (Jason Newland)

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hello, everybody. How are you doing today? Everybody?
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  Speaker 2: Are you well? Are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: It's nice?
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  Speaker 4: Hello, and welcome to Jasonnewland dot com. My name's Jason
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  Newland and please only listen when you can safely close
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  your eyes. And welcome to Q and A Friday. This
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  is Friday's version of let me bore you to sleep.
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  LMB white yes, ELM maybe yeah, LMB white yes. And
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  Vinnie was all calm and quiet and as soon as
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  I start talking, he jumps down and decides to make
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  as much sound as he can, bless his little bum.
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  So yeah, it's what is it?
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  Speaker 5: It's Friday the twenty night for August.
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  Speaker 4: Two thousand and twenty five. And by the way, I
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  try to say thank you to everyone that sent me
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  a PayPal gift, but there was I wasn't able to
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  contact everyone because I could find a way to contact
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  see on PayPal usually has like an email address or something,
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  but on this one person it didn't, or a couple
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  of people. So I do apologize. But I did post
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  thank you on my Facebook group, so I should let
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  you know. I've got a Facebook group called Jason Newland's
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  Boring Group, and as it says, as you imagine, it's
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  probably not the most exciting place to be, but it's
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  really just for people that love listening to the Jason
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  to the Let Me Buoy to Sleep podcasts.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, what we've done today.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, actually, if you, if you
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  want to help me out, and this would really really
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  help me out a lot to get more placed on
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  Google is and also help the podcast out is wherever
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  you're listening to me, could you perhaps lead a review
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  that'd be brilliant and maybe regularly as well. You know,
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  if there's a recording you particular like, maybe you can
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  just say what you like about it, Because the more
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  reviews I get on my podcasts, whether it's on Spotify,
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  if you're listening on I don't know, it's quite a
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  few different places that you could be listening. Where we
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  got what have we got? Apple podcasts, podcast Addict, Overcast, Spotify,
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  my website, Jasonnewland dot com, cast box, Deezer, my Heart Radio, Edge,
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  pocket casts, Chrome and Tenor, pod Speaker, Android app, i
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  Vook's Audible, VLC, Alexa, media Player, Roku, and many of us. Actually,
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  if you can do that, that would be really really
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  helpful because it could help me to reach more people
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  and hopefully help more people. Thank you very much. So
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  I haven't done a huge amount today. I woke up,
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  had my breakfast, took Vinoy out, and then we got
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  rained on. It was raining, and to start with, it's
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  just like a little bit, you know, spitting as I say,
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  just a little bit weird word, isn't it weird term
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  for rain and being spat on? Like yeah, lovely? But
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  that was okay, and then it started proper raining and
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  I ran back. This is about eight o'clock in the morning,
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  so I'm running back with Vinnie, and Vinnie decides he
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  wants to start. He wants to start smelling things, sniffing
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  things like why but yeah, memo, it's now warm in here.
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  What'sn't warm? Earlier it wasn't hold but it was cool.
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  I mean, I'm doing my top. Oh, it doesn't made
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  no difference. Great, Just trying to look at some messages
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  I got here, all right, So I'll get on with
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  the recording, shall I don't normally just taking them out again.
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  There's quite a lot of screaming outside, but it is
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  in a distance, so I'm guessing it's possibly a like
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  a party or something kids party, because it's very high pitched,
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  so I'm guessing that's what that is. And it's it's
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  not it's not close by unless it's in someone's flat,
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  but it sounds like it's like a distance away. You
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  might hear it, you might not hear it. I've got
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  my curtains drawn, the windows are closed, which is probably
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  why it's hot in it. They stuff it and for
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  some reason this is weird. For some reason, there's a
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  cobweb and it's moving around. So I'm wondering if the
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  heatings come on, shouldn't really have come on. It's not
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  that cold. It's not warm outside, but it's not cold either.
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  It feels it really does feel like autumn is approaching.
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  It's a very Awetomny kind of ish, you know. Yeah.
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  I took him out again a little while ago, about
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  an hour ago. And it's weird because Vinny's got into
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  this thing, like he never used to bark at dogs,
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  and he always used to love to saying lo to everyone,
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  including dogs. Now and then he changed and he started
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  to be a bit barking towards some dogs, but always
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  like really friendly to all people. And more recently over
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  the last few months. He's he knows who he likes
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  and he you know, he's not it's so, but he
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  knows who he doesn't like. And there's this particular couple
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  with a dog and he barks every time, and I
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  don't know, they seem to be annoyed by it. I
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  can't help him barking. I mean he does. That's what
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  dogs do, isn't it. I make sure he keep him away,
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  and he's it's not like he's a scary dog or anything.
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  He's a tiny little jack Russell. But I don't know
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  if it's a dog or the people that he's barking at,
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  because I'm pretty sure I saw them out without the
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  dog once and he's barking at them. So I don't know.
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  He's just got his own sense of I guess who
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  he likes and who doesn't like, and I can't figure
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  it out. So yeah, it's a shame because he barks
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  at the wrong dogs as well. He's just the dogs
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  that have got no like the nice dogs. Not always.
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  There's a few dogs that are not so good and
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  they look like they want to eat him. But a
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  few dogs he'll bark at and they're so gentle. But
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  then He's got a handful of dogs that he loves
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  that he spends time with, and you know, he doesn't
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  necessarily play with them, but he's just happy to be
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  around them. But he gives the attention to the owner,
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  to the human. And then there's three dogs that he's
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  friends with that he will play with, and he's not
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  particularly interested in the owner. He is still I mean,
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  he'll get treats. He's always around him. That's his main
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  focus in life is to get treats. But at the
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  same time, he also likes to play with the dog.
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  I just can't keep track of I don't really I
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  wish there was a way of communicating with him in
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  a way that would make sense of his behavior. I'm
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  no dog expert. And before anyone says, why don't you
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  just watch those dog those programs on dogs and the
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  dog expert TV programs, you can probably watch lots of
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  them on YouTube, And the answer is no, I can't
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  do that because as soon as a dog comes on
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  the screen, Vinnie lets me know there's a dog on
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  the screen, which is very annoying, especially when I'm watching
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  a movie and it's like early hours of the morning
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  or it's the evening time when I really don't want
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  him to be barking, you know, like nine and ten
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  at night. Well, I'm usually in bed by them, but
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  if I'm watching a movie and a dog comes on,
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  it's so yeah, rare rah rah rah rah rah rah
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  rah rah. Okay, he barks. He doesn't do the sound
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  I made, but he barks. And there's been times I
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  had to turn the movie off because he won't stop barking,
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  and it's just like, oh stop it, man, please store pats.
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  So yeah, we went out earlier, came back. Downstairs flat
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  is being refurbished. This is funny, Well it's not funny,
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  but they're putting in a brand new kitchen. Now. The
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  person lived down there for a year, because that's where
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  Lucas lived. She moved in. Two people were getting their bathroom,
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  their kitchen's done, Uncle sausages one of them, and another
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  person downstairs. I didn't. I haven't had my kitchen done.
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  She called the council. That's what she told me. This
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  is the lady that was living in that flat for
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  a year. She moved out recently to say when am
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  I getting my kitchen done about herself rather not about me?
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  And they told her, But this is what she told me.
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  She said they said to her that the kitchen had
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  already been done a couple of years back, which I
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  know is untrue because I probably would have remembered that,
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  wouldn't I don't you think it's like nothing that interesting
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  has happened in his flat when he lived there, in
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  a sense of anything. I mean, his windows were hanging
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  on by a nail. Its front windows, they would like
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  rattle when when it was windy, there'd be a breeze
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  when all the windows were closed, they literally it'll blow
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  you over. So because it was just like all loose,
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  the counsel came around and the hammered a couple of
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  nails in. That's it. It's like, wow, Okay. So when
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  she moved in and she's like she wanted a new
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  kitchen and a new barth room and all that stuff,
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  and the council said no, because I've always been done,
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  which I hadn't had been done but maybe twenty years ago.
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  And I've been in all the flats except one. Yeah,
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  I've not been to one flat. I've not been in
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  I don't think, but I've been in all the other flats,
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  not like regularly, but I've seen the kitchens in every flat.
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  I mean, downstairs is pretty much identical to my flat
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  below me. It's the same layout and Luke's old flat.
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  I'm imagining up stairs, the one that I know been in,
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  would be the same design, the same layout. However, perhaps
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  not actually because Uncle Sausages Flat. Yeah, that's weird. Uncle
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  Sausages Flat was maybe not. Maybe it wasn't different, No,
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  it probably No, it's the same layout, the same layout
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  as downstairs as well. Yeah, same layout. I'm just trying
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  to remember because I've not been in that flat very often.
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  It's been a while since i've been in there, and
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  I know Uncle Sausages Flat layout quite well. And my
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  own of course, and you know the one that my
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  friend used to live in. I went in there a
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  couple of times since the new person moved in. I
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  should have moved down now, but by winning there a
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  couple of times, it was very weird. I didn't like
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  being in there, although it looked nothing like it did.
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  It was really if you close your eyes and someone
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  took you in there and you didn't know where you was,
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  took you into one of the rooms, not the kitchen,
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  the bathroom, because it looks the same, but it took
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  you into one of the rooms and it's like you
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  wouldn't necessarily know where you was to start with. I mean,
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  the windows the same, but the deck or the furniture,
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  it's very different, very different. It was much neater, tidier. Yeah,
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  it's much more just nicer, very I would say, minimalist.
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  Not that he was a hoarder, but it's you know,
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  had less stuff in there, just different kitchen. The kitchen
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  looked different as well, but then you know it had
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  a new fridge, treeser, new cooker, new microwave, new toaster,
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  new kettle. And how do I know that because I'm
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  the one who bought it all yep, yeah, and a
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  new TV. I got that for her as well. Why
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  did you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I just wanted to help. And this
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  is last summer, but yeah, hey, not this summer, but
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  last year two thousand and twenty four. She did say
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  she was going to give me, give me money back
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  for it, but she didn't. So hm, I'm trying to think,
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  what is that noise out there? Maybe it's a birthday party.
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  Good on them, that's the thing I try, you know,
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  if there's if I was doing a recording where I
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  needed complete silence, I mean, that's the ideal situation personally,
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  But as long as I got Vinnie eating treats on
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  the floor, there ain't going to be complete silence, And
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  as long as I'm talking, it's not going to be
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  complete silence. But because I can hear it, I don't
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  know if you can hear it, it's it's not a
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  distraction for me now, although I guess it is because
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  I'm mentioning it, but not in a kind of annoying way.
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  But if I was sitting here doing and like now,
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  I'd like to foc you'd focus on your toenails. We're
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  going to relax your toenails, and moving up to your pubes.
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  It was that kind of where I would be trying
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  to be all sensible and serious and deeply relaxed. It's
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  a bit of incongruence when internally I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 5: Woll you shut up that noise, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, and every now and then getting up and shouting
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  out the window and then sitting back down and continue
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  that feeling of your knees knocking together. I don't know
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  why that would happen, So I suppose I should just
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  get on with the the point of the reason why
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  I'm doing this recording, shouldn't I Q and a Friday
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  No no jingle? Um, that's weet. Okay, there you go,
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  there we go. I'm losing laugh Oh okay, sorry, I
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  just got a message from Kara. Thanks Carra, and that
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  made me laugh. Your message made me laugh. I'm going
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  to read it out because it's not private. It is private,
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  it's not I'm my good. Oh my gracious, I'm losing
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  my marbles laughing over Luke embarrassing you by saluting magpies.
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  I love it so much. Thank you, Kara. That was
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  yesterday's recording. So, by the way, anyone who watched my
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  little I did this little like blowing and kiss thing
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  a couple of days ago, and it was Ai. I
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  did say it was Ai. I said thank you again
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  for all your birthday wishes. I created this Ai video
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  from a photo I have better teeth here and it's
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  been blowing and then this big smile and like perfect teeth.
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  I mean, my teeth ain't awful, but like they're not
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  it looks like a kind of I had my teeth done,
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  you know, they were like perfectly sparkly white and in fact,
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  I don't think if I smile my teeth that amount
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  of teeth doesn't show. If that makes sense, I'd have
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  to lift my upper lift up. Look, I was just
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  doing it and it didn't actually make sense. I can't.
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  I can't tell you what I had to do and
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  do it at the same time because you it's not understandable.
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  So I would have to lift my upper lift up
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  in order for my or staple of up. I say again,
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  it didn't work, or you know, pushing them up somehow
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  me trying to tell you that is this I have
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  a favor in order for you to see all my teeth. See,
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  it doesn't quite work. But it's quite amazing though, because
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  the rest of me looks fine. My face looks the same.
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  It's it's kind of it does look like me. Well
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  it is me, but there's part of it which is
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  quite amazing, I think because my face, because as you
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  look at it like that is how my face would
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  go generalely if I smiled. Apart from that, there wouldn't.
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  It's not as much too Fidge. Yeah, AI is getting
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  very clever, no so Q and a Friday, I posted
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  a oh yeah, any questions for Q and a Friday.
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  I posted it on Monday, I do believe. So that's
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  what I've tried to do because a couple of weeks ago,
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  I think I posted it on the Wednesday and I've
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  got one question, so and I didn't do I didn't
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  do it because one question wasn't enough for really to
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  do a whole podcast, although technically it probably was. Thinking
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  about it, I mean, I've not even started the questions
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  yet and I'm still down nearly half an hour. I
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  can't help it. I just can't stop talking. So I've
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  got a new way of doing it now. So on
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  a Monday, if I remember, I post this image which
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  is on a post it on Jason Newland's boring group
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  why Not Join, And it's just basically color thing, colored thing,
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  and it says any questions for this week's Q and
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  a Friday, Kiss Kiss Kiss, and then a couple of
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  arrows either side pointing down to a yellow part of
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  the image, and then the date when the Q and
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  A Friday will be so, in this case to twenty
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  ninth of April. And I'm going to post one of
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  those if I remember, every Monday, but just change the date,
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  you know me Next week's one will be why is
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  this not opening? There?
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  Speaker 2: It is?
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  Speaker 4: So I want all all comments, right, got it? So
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  I've got questions from Maria, Hope, Rich, Robin, Kathleen, Mary,
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  Dev and Ryl. So I'm going to ask you. I'm
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  going to answer Dev's question first because, as it says here,
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  Hello Jason. Also belated birthday greetings to you. Thank you Dev.
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  This is a sort of rollover question from last week,
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  but I probably posted it too late. Yeah, I think
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  you posted it. I'd already made the recording at that point.
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  So I'm going to answer Dev's question first because of that.
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  Because this is from last week. As you were involved
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  in the comedy scene, I wanted to know, are there
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  any books or audiobooks, podcasts, etc. That you would recommend
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  for learning about writing comedy? Thanks in advance. What I
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  would advise I didn't do this myself, which explains why
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  I wasn't very good. But there are comedy courses you
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  can do depending on where you live, of course, so
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  I'm based in England, but at the time I lived
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  in London, which is still England, and they had a
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  comedy course. I forget what it was called, but it
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  was very popular. And I would say probably sixty percent
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  of the new comedians have been on that course, maybe
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  forty percent, but quite a few comedians have been on
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  that course, and quite a few of them went on
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  to do okay. So I went on to do really
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  really well. I didn't do the course, and yeah, I didn't.
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  I don't know why. I'm not sure. I kind of
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  wish I had. I would have benefited from doing that.
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  But then also I think I did go to a
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  I did go to a Mandy Knight, who was really
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  I don't know if she's still doing comedy, but she was.
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  I used to going really well with her, and she
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  was originally in a double act where she did improv.
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  She's really good. She's a really funny, funny lady, and
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  she held this improv class. So I went along to
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  do it, to do it, and thinking about it the
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  way I've kind of turned out, I'm I reckon I
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  might have been better at doing some kind of improv,
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  you know, bouncing off other people. That might have been
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  a better way for me to go instead of sit
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  standing on stage just trying to, you know, remember something
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  that I'd written down at home. So there's lots of
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  different ways.
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  Speaker 2: To do it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's I think if I'm going to come from
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  the I mean, one answer to your question is that
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  our books out there, there are where books on how
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  to do stand up. So I'm going to do all
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  the work for you instead of you going online and
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  searching for yourself. I'll do it. Don't worry. I've got
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  plenty of time.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not busy on Amazon. There is as a chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Two books I remember rightly. Okay, this is one I
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  don't know, Old Richard Belzer. Okay, he's he's very famous
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  comedian in America. How to be a stand up Comedian.
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  So that's a hardback book. I've not read that. The
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  uh where is it? This is a book I used
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  to have called The Last Laugh The World of stand
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  Up Comics. Now I almost want to get it again,
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  but I'm kind of cutting down on my books now.
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  But if you want to know about the history of
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  stand up comedy in America, because that's pretty much where
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  it originated. Stand up comedy is an American thing. Really.
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  They were doing alternative comedy in the fifties. We started
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  doing it in the late seventies, you know, is I
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  say we? But in this country they've always been decades
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  ahead of us, not anymore, not anymore, but for a
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  long time. And the English stand up comedians we've kind of,
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  when I say the newer breed, I'm talking last few decades,
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  hugely influenced by American comedians, hugely influenced. But I would
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  say possibly Americans are now influenced by us, maybe as well,
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  because because of the Internet, everything's kind of in the
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  same time span. Now we're not really behind anymore. But
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  that book The Last Laugh won't teach you to do
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  standard comedy, but it's really I used to have it
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  in one of the first books on comedy I ever bought,
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  in about nineteen ninety one. I lent it to someone
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  and I never gave it back. Who was it? Did that? Anyway?
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  It was a really good book, talks about I give
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  you an example of the book. Out of it talks
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  about Rodney d Dangerfield. So Rodney Danefield was a comedian
• 31:47
  in the sixties and he went he basically quit comedy
• 31:57
  for about ten years, and then he came back and
• 32:03
  he became famous in the seventies. But he was like
• 32:10
  a lot older. And you know, I mean, if you
• 32:13
  think about Rodney Dangerfield. Don't know, he's no longer with us,
• 32:16
  but I can't ever remember him being young. Of course
• 32:20
  he was at one point, we all was at one point,
• 32:25
  but he always that that look he had made it
• 32:30
  kind of fitted in with his comedy. So maybe he
• 32:34
  was too young before because a lot of the stand
• 32:38
  up comedy really kind of post war, post Second World War.
• 32:43
  They would, you know, you know, the forties, late forties, fifties,
• 32:49
  there'd be lots of coffee shops around America and people
• 32:53
  were performing coffee shops. They do nothing practically, but you know,
• 32:58
  there's there'd there'd be a whole alternative kind of culture,
• 33:05
  and that's where people like Lenny Bruce came up, and
• 33:08
  George Carlin and maybe Richard Pryor as well. And then
• 33:12
  in the sixties, Lenny Bruce was a huge star in
• 33:17
  America for a while, and Richard Pryor was in the
• 33:23
  sixties to start with. It probably started in the fifties actually,
• 33:27
  but he was in the sixties. He became well known
• 33:30
  in America for a while because he'd I think he
• 33:34
  said something, what did Richard Pryor say? He earned a
• 33:39
  really good living for about five years, mimicking Bill Cosby,
• 33:46
  and by that I mean like with the jokes, with
• 33:49
  the act, nothing else. And for those that don't know
• 33:59
  Bill Cosby, don't worry. I'm not going anywhere weird with this.
• 34:03
  I think a lot of people outside of America maybe
• 34:09
  don't realize how big Bill Cosby was. And I'm not
• 34:15
  talking about TV wise, I'm talking about before television, not
• 34:19
  before television was invented, but before television. He was on television.
• 34:24
  Like anyone in the Western world is probably very well
• 34:28
  aware of the Bill Cosby Show, or maybe remembers that
• 34:32
  if they're you know, over a certain age. Maybe I
• 34:36
  don't think it's shown very often now for some reason,
• 34:40
  the reruns aren't on TV anymore. So he was. He
• 34:46
  was the biggest paid star. It was weird because in
• 34:52
  about nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty eight something like that,
• 34:58
  the three biggest paid star, according to the newspapers I
• 35:01
  was reading, were all Americans. So the biggest paid stars
• 35:09
  in America anyway entertainers. So you had Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby,
• 35:17
  and Prince and they were all making like one hundred
• 35:20
  million a year something like that. Prince was constantly on tour,
• 35:26
  selling millions of albums. Bill Cosby was on TV and
• 35:33
  his TV show was everywhere the most famous comedian in
• 35:38
  the world. Although I didn't know he was a comedian.
• 35:42
  I just knew he was Doctor Huxtable. I didn't know
• 35:46
  him as being didn't really know. I mean, I knew
• 35:49
  he was called Bill Cosby because it was the It
• 35:52
  wasn't a Huxtable show, was It was the Cosby Show.
• 35:55
  Confuse me a little bit. That doesn't take much and
• 36:03
  isn't that amazing? But before that, Bill Cosby, I'm not
• 36:10
  saying that he was more famous, but he was a
• 36:15
  huge star long before the Bill Cosby Show that you know,
• 36:19
  Cosby's in America. He filled out arenas all over America
• 36:27
  with his stand up. He had best selling albums comedy
• 36:33
  albums in the sixties, huge star sixties and seventies. He
• 36:41
  was massive, and of course he was massive in the
• 36:46
  eighties as well, for a different thing. He was huge.
• 36:49
  It's really I don't mean to gush. That's a weird word,
• 36:55
  isn't it. I don't mean to be all gushy about it,
• 36:58
  especially as you know I'm forgetting about any personal stuff
• 37:01
  to do with him. But it was on a level
• 37:06
  that I don't think anyone really reached because he reached
• 37:12
  a much wider audience than someone like Richard Pryor, who
• 37:18
  are a lot of people, because a lot of comedians
• 37:20
  they would say, they may say maybe not now, but
• 37:25
  they used to say, this is Lenny Bruce was pretty
• 37:30
  much the most influential stand up comedian ever. But the
• 37:40
  king of comedy was Richard Pryor. And that used to
• 37:46
  be kind of the pretty much the understood accepted, I'm
• 37:51
  not going to say the word narrative, also just said
• 37:54
  it of stand up comedy. Like Lenny Bruce, he broke
• 37:59
  through barriers, He got arrested constantly, and he pretty much
• 38:06
  he died for his art, you could say. And he
• 38:10
  was funny, but then he got very he got caught
• 38:13
  up in all the court cases, and that's all he
• 38:15
  did on stage was just talk about his court cases.
• 38:22
  Richard Pryor, and he broke a lot of taboos, which
• 38:26
  more than probably anyone else at the time. But then
• 38:31
  when Richard Pryor went on stage, he got away with
• 38:36
  a lot more because it was you know, it was
• 38:41
  years later. And also he could talk about being black
• 38:48
  and he couldn't get in trouble for that Lenny Bruce
• 38:52
  used to talk about the different things between the races
• 38:56
  in America, and he got in trouble for it, and
• 39:00
  people got upset. But Richard Pryor, I don't know why
• 39:03
  that's funny, but just Richard Pryor did it in a day.
• 39:06
  I'm just thinking of I'm remembering Richard Pryor. That's all
• 39:09
  I'm laughing at. Is I remembering some of the stuff
• 39:12
  that he used to talk about. John And I'll tell you
• 39:18
  one of his jokes from his albums, Richard Prior. I
• 39:21
  can't even tell you the name of the album, Okay,
• 39:26
  I mean, bearing in mind right now, you can't buy
• 39:33
  the album out. They put a sticker over the cut
• 39:37
  of the image of it, like if you watch it,
• 39:43
  if you go on Amazon or stuff like that, they
• 39:45
  will cover over the word. But in the seventies they didn't.
• 39:51
  But one of his names his albums was that N
• 39:56
  word is crazy by some by centennial N word and
• 40:05
  you know, and he used that word a lot, but
• 40:08
  the albums were named with that word on it. Now,
• 40:12
  Lenny Bruce, if he'd have done something like that, it'd
• 40:18
  still be in prison, would still be alive probably well,
• 40:24
  but Richard Pryor got away with that just shows you
• 40:27
  how different things were by the time Richard Pryor was famous.
• 40:32
  But one of his jokes on one of his albums
• 40:34
  is there's two brothers. As he said, two brothers stand
• 40:43
  because he was talking about the cliche of different body
• 40:47
  parts and sizes between races and stuff. I'm not going
• 40:50
  to it, but he said, I won't do that his voice.
• 40:53
  I used to be able to do his voice quite well.
• 40:56
  Two brothers standing on a bridge. Weewi's that's side by
• 41:03
  side wei in off a bridge and one of them says, oh,
• 41:09
  the war's cold, and everyone says, yeah, it's deep too,
• 41:17
  so it's yeah, it's quite a funny joy. It's funny
• 41:20
  when he says it. I just think that's some on
• 41:26
  the stard. I can't tell you this. You know, he's
• 41:28
  worth listening to if you've never I realized that's not
• 41:31
  the question. But if you want to hear something that
• 41:35
  you've perhaps never heard before, maybe check out a Richard
• 41:42
  Pryor album. Because if you've seen Richard prior just in
• 41:49
  movies and as I had up to the age of
• 41:52
  about eighteen or nineteen, I didn't know he did stand
• 41:57
  up comedy. Maybe eighteen, I knew he was in Brewster's
• 42:07
  Millions and See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Stir
• 42:13
  Crazy and all those movies that he did with What's
• 42:17
  his Name and Superman three. So you know, I loved
• 42:22
  Richard Pryor when I was a little kid or growing up.
• 42:25
  I loved him. It was hilarious, but I didn't know
• 42:29
  he did stand up comedy. And there's no way in
• 42:32
  the world that anyone was going to show me his
• 42:34
  stand up comedy because I was a little kid, because
• 42:37
  it was adults rating and my dad was never into
• 42:41
  that kind of stuff anyway, so I never got to
• 42:44
  hear it. And then when I was nine to about eighteen,
• 42:50
  I I thought, well, I was in the second hand shop,
• 42:54
  I think, like a record shop, and I was looking
• 42:57
  through the albums because I started listening to albums like
• 43:01
  Steve Martin, Emo Phillips. I started buying albums as well,
• 43:06
  so Emo Phillips, Steve Martin, Steven Wright, Bill Cosby. There
• 43:13
  was quite a few Bill Cosby albums, and it was
• 43:15
  like I was so transfixed. And I started getting videos
• 43:21
  as well, so Steve Martin, as I said, comics from here,
• 43:25
  as well, Jerry Sadovich loads loads of sort of stand
• 43:32
  up to me. I had quite a nice library actually
• 43:36
  of videos, and I discovered Richard Pryor. So the two
• 43:43
  things that I really remember discovering was well, Steve Martin.
• 43:49
  I had no idea that he was a comedian. I've
• 43:52
  seen him in movies, and some of his early movies
• 43:54
  I loved long before he was famous in this country.
• 44:00
  I watched these films like dead Men, Don't Be a
• 44:03
  Plaid and Lonely Guy and The Man with Two Brains
• 44:08
  and stuff like that. What's the other one two of Me?
• 44:13
  Or I forget it, but they were good with Lily
• 44:17
  Tomlin that was so funny. And then he did the
• 44:20
  Jerk and he became more famous worldwide. It was famous
• 44:25
  in America already. I didn't know that he was selling
• 44:28
  out arenas doing stand up comedy. Now, Dev you're probably
• 44:34
  regretting asking me that question, because you've got me onto
• 44:37
  a subject that I didn't realize that still had a
• 44:40
  bit of passion for, which is weird. But yeah, when
• 44:48
  I discovered Richard Pryor's albums, I couldn't believe what I
• 44:53
  was listening to because it was stuff that I wasn't
• 44:56
  supposed to be saying, still not allowed to say, but
• 45:01
  it was. I hadn't heard, hadn't really heard other people
• 45:04
  say it. And then I discovered George Carlin, who in
• 45:12
  a way probably made me laugh even more. Some of
• 45:17
  his earlier stand up comic albums so funny, and I
• 45:23
  really got into him probably in the early probably about
• 45:27
  nineteen ninety and then ninety one, so I was listening
• 45:30
  to him quite a lot. Then when I kind of
• 45:33
  started out doing comedy, and I had it influenced me
• 45:40
  in no way. So I was listening in regularity, regularly,
• 45:45
  I was listening a lot to some of the greatest comedians,
• 45:51
  and it did not improve my performance. And also I
• 45:56
  was seeing in person some brilliant comedians regularly, like every week,
• 46:02
  sometimes two three times a week, including those that I
• 46:07
  used to be on the same bill with, and I
• 46:09
  still didn't get any better. Well, I got a little
• 46:11
  bit better, but I didn't. I didn't improve to the
• 46:17
  point where you kind of think I would do being
• 46:20
  around such talent, which I was for a long time.
• 46:27
  I mean I was involved with the comedy scene for
• 46:30
  a long time, a long long time. But anyway, Yes,
• 46:36
  so Derek and Clyde was another one was Derek and Clive,
• 46:44
  Derek and Clive, which was what was it, Peter Cook
• 46:52
  and Dudley Moore. I discovered them in nineteen ninety or
• 46:59
  maybe it was nine, maybe nineteen ninety. I remember listening
• 47:03
  to it during my breaks at work with another colleague
• 47:06
  at work and we were just laughing because it was
• 47:11
  so funny because I'd never heard an English person talk
• 47:17
  like that say. The things that they were saying was
• 47:20
  so outrageous, so wrong on every level, but hilarious. I
• 47:29
  just found it absolutely hilarious. And there was three albums,
• 47:35
  I think, including the live ones, so there's ad Nauseum
• 47:39
  Come Again, and I think it was just a live one.
• 47:43
  I think, unless there was four albums, I think it
• 47:46
  was three. Anyway, as far as books go, yes, I've
• 47:54
  got a couple. I can't find the one I was
• 47:56
  looking for. So there are quite a few stand up
• 47:59
  books Stand Up Comic, How to Become a Stand Up
• 48:02
  Comic on Amazon, so there's a few. But what I
• 48:12
  would probably recommend if you're living in London, or if
• 48:15
  you're in a city or just check there might be
• 48:19
  something local, is if you can find a course which
• 48:24
  you can go to you like a four week course,
• 48:30
  one evening a week or one Saturday afternoon a week
• 48:33
  for six weeks or whatever, because the benefit of that
• 48:38
  is firstly you'll be it'll be an introduction to the
• 48:44
  comedy world a much probably quite a gentle way to
• 48:49
  do it in some ways, because I think quite often
• 48:53
  the way they they like format it is you go along.
• 48:59
  You're in a room with maybe five, six, ten, twelve
• 49:03
  people that you've never met before, but they're in the
• 49:06
  same they're at the same level as you. They're the
• 49:09
  same if they're just starting out, or maybe they've done
• 49:11
  a few gigs, or maybe they've never done it, but
• 49:17
  what they were have in common with you is enthusiasm
• 49:20
  and you know, the dream of doing it, and maybe
• 49:25
  most of them have never been on stage before as
• 49:29
  a comedian. And then you've got the teacher who is
• 49:36
  going to be very much likely or have many many
• 49:40
  years of being a comedian and thinking about this course.
• 49:45
  In London, they used to have headliners from the comedy
• 49:50
  circuit in London every week come along and talk to
• 49:54
  the group, which is something you're not going to get
• 49:59
  in any other city cuation. It's you know, it's I mean,
• 50:05
  you probably can go to comedy club and say hello
• 50:09
  to someone that's been on stage. You know, they'd a
• 50:11
  headliner and self, I really enjoyed your your performance, they
• 50:15
  might say thanks, But the chances of them sitting down
• 50:19
  for half an hour and actually going through what it's
• 50:22
  like to be a comedian and getting advice. Even I
• 50:28
  struggled to get that. And I was a comic and
• 50:32
  I knew these people, you know. Once I started, I
• 50:36
  got to know some people, and I didn't get hardly
• 50:38
  any advice. I think I was given up for as
• 50:43
  a lost cause first, very early on, and I just
• 50:49
  it seemed like the biggest joke of my comedy act
• 50:52
  was me. That was the biggest joke. Bless see, I'm
• 51:00
  sure I've either been either did Benivo or whatever. I
• 51:06
  used to have a book. But then another thing in
• 51:10
  the course they do is generally, as far as I know,
• 51:16
  they build up to you doing putting a nice five
• 51:21
  minutes together and you performing every week you go and
• 51:24
  performing something in front of the rest of the group,
• 51:27
  with the culmination of an actual gig at the end
• 51:32
  of it, and all of you will go on stage
• 51:34
  in front of a paid audience, or maybe a free
• 51:36
  audience at a comedy club or come a comedy night
• 51:42
  or something like that. So there'll be an audience, an
• 51:44
  audience members will be there and you get a chance
• 51:49
  to perform in front of complete strangers, an actual proper
• 51:54
  comedy audience for the first time. And the good thing
• 51:58
  about that is the audience know what come into It's
• 52:01
  not like an ordinary open night, spot night where they
• 52:05
  might be coming to heckel and stuff. They're coming to
• 52:08
  support because they know that you've just gone through a course,
• 52:12
  a six week course or whatever. So they're going to
• 52:15
  be supportive. They're not going to laugh if it's not funny,
• 52:18
  but they're still they're not going to be hard on
• 52:21
  the comedians and be open to like it's nice now.
• 52:28
  I kind of I've got a lot of information from
• 52:31
  about these courses because I know a lot of people
• 52:33
  that went on them what I did. And yeah, so
• 52:38
  that's what I would recommend. The books are good. You
• 52:42
  can learn something from books. Of course, most of my
• 52:45
  learning has really come from books, I guess, but yeah,
• 52:55
  there's a lot. There's a lot of books on a
• 52:58
  stand up comedy that you can get hold of. I
• 53:02
  don't know which one I would necessarily recommend. I'm just
• 53:07
  looking down. All right, there's a Woody Ellen, but it's
• 53:16
  it's a stand up comic, Okay, so I can't figu out.
• 53:20
  I'm going to put Richard Pryor in because I just
• 53:21
  want to see what the if it's censored rich Prior Okay,
• 53:36
  pass I spell his name right, it would be better.
• 53:43
  Here we go, right, Oh, it's all of his films
• 53:47
  from eighty to ninety one and blu Ray. Richard Pryor
• 53:52
  is also whoa. There's a book about him called Prior Convictions,
• 53:59
  another book called Becoming Richard Pryor. Okay, he did. I
• 54:09
  still it's really childish. But there's a movie that he
• 54:12
  did and he's I think it's called The Toy and
• 54:18
  he's like looking after this little kid who's rich and
• 54:23
  I think he's kind of like the kid's toy, just
• 54:25
  just to do what the kid wants him to do.
• 54:28
  And he gets introduced to this little kid and so
• 54:34
  this is mister Pryor whatever his name was in the
• 54:38
  movie and said welcome and like you to meet your
• 54:43
  new boss, Master Bates. Now I saw that when I
• 54:51
  was what probably about fourteen thirteen, and I'm still laughing
• 54:58
  because I'm so child oldish. I still find it hilarious.
• 55:02
  It's weird of it. So yeah, that's my answer to
• 55:08
  your question, dev is try if you can find a
• 55:20
  place where you can maybe do some training, go to
• 55:28
  a course, a stand up comedy course, and dell include
• 55:32
  things like writing performance, how to hold a microphone, how
• 55:36
  far to have the microphone away from your from your mouth,
• 55:40
  where to look when you're on stage. I guess just
• 55:44
  you know things, all the things that I still don't
• 55:48
  know how to do. So thanks for that's a Maria Hijason.
• 55:54
  On a recent recording, you mentioned that you might need
• 55:57
  new glasses calls soon. Yep, yep, definitely. Would you have
• 56:05
  to be bifocal? Would they have to be by vocal
• 56:08
  or very focal? Have you ever worn contact lenses or
• 56:13
  it's something you consider doing? Thank you well, thanks Maria.
• 56:20
  I'll answer the first the second question first, No, and
• 56:24
  no and no and no and no contact lenses. No.
• 56:30
  I could know, It's not something I would do. I
• 56:36
  know I understand why people do do it, especially like
• 56:39
  younger people. Not everyone likes glasses and to wearing glasses,
• 56:45
  and it can get in a way, you know, it
• 56:46
  gets steamed up at times and they get dirty and
• 56:51
  depending on what you're doing. I mean, I'm a messy eater.
• 56:59
  But contact lenses, no, I don't know. It doesn't really
• 57:03
  appeal to me. Never has. As far as bifocals or
• 57:11
  verier focals, I'm not quite sure what very a focal
• 57:15
  is by focal, I think it's I think I have
• 57:20
  been very a focal is that where like the different
• 57:22
  parts kind of you can't see, but that yeah, you
• 57:27
  can see because the glasses. But my glass at the moment,
• 57:32
  the bottom part is for reading, and the middle part
• 57:36
  is for like distance, and supposedly the you know, the
• 57:43
  highest part is for like computer work, but generally it's
• 57:47
  the bottom parts for reading. And it's not big enough
• 57:49
  because I need separate reading glasses. And maybe that's what
• 57:58
  the very focal is. I used to have trifocals where
• 58:07
  I this is years ago when I was in the
• 58:09
  call center, and was it bifocals, Yeah, but they were
• 58:16
  almost that had like a line across so the I
• 58:23
  could read again read at the bottom. The middle was
• 58:28
  for distance, and it was really weird. It's very it
• 58:33
  felt very strange because I felt like I was taller
• 58:40
  than I would normally be because instead of like the distance,
• 58:45
  you know, it brings it closer, doesn't it. But the
• 58:48
  bottom part was pushing things further away for some reason.
• 58:52
  So I felt really tall, which was nice, but I felt,
• 58:56
  you know, a bit stumbling a bit. I tripped over
• 58:59
  a couple of times, and I realized my shoelaces is
• 59:04
  what I'm done. No, I didn't. That was weird, but yeah,
• 59:06
  I think no, no contact lenses. But also no longer
• 59:12
  am I going to get any kind of bifocals. I'm
• 59:16
  going to stick to from now on. At least, I'm
• 59:20
  going to stick to glasses for read for reading, separate
• 59:25
  glasses for everyday use for distance, which I definitely need
• 59:30
  more than anything else, and maybe try and get some
• 59:33
  glasses for computer use. To three separate things. I do
• 59:40
  have anti glare. I think they're supposed to be anti glare,
• 59:48
  but I do, you know, video myself, and they do glare,
• 59:52
  so I'm not sure what that's about. They stare right
• 59:56
  at me, but the other act to light active active
• 1:00:02
  light or whatever, so they go they turn into kind
• 1:00:05
  of shades when I'm outside in the sunlight. That's something
• 1:00:10
  that I had because in my family we've got macro
• 1:00:15
  degeneration is kind of like a hereditary thing, and a
• 1:00:23
  few years back, my what's it opticians said yeah, the
• 1:00:31
  best thing to do, because he looked at the back
• 1:00:33
  of my eyes. He said, well, potentially the beginnings of that.
• 1:00:37
  You need to just protect your eyes when you're outside.
• 1:00:42
  So that's what I do. And he said, but you
• 1:00:46
  can wear sunshades. I said, yeah, but I need glasses,
• 1:00:50
  so i'd have to get the sunshades in my prescription,
• 1:00:55
  so it'd be easier just to get the them shade,
• 1:00:58
  you know, to shade on their own. Yeah, I'm going
• 1:01:04
  to get some soon, maybe not for Christmas, but I
• 1:01:07
  will eventually want to get things sorted out. I've got
• 1:01:10
  a few bits going on, so once I get everything
• 1:01:12
  sorted out, I'm going to get myself some glasses and
• 1:01:17
  that'll be it. So that'd be good. Hope asks, how
• 1:01:23
  did you end up adopting Andre? Well, I didn't want
• 1:01:33
  a ferret. That was a good way to start to
• 1:01:36
  start my story about the one of the loves of
• 1:01:40
  my life, which was still is. Actually I love that
• 1:01:46
  little boy. I will love him forever. My Luke downstairs
• 1:01:54
  had a ferret. When I moved in, he had a ferret,
• 1:01:59
  and I was like, okay. First of all, I was
• 1:02:03
  very a little bit scared, very a little bit a
• 1:02:06
  little bit very scared because I just didn't really know
• 1:02:13
  what to do with it. It moved very quick and
• 1:02:16
  very sharp teeth, and he was a bit which put
• 1:02:22
  me off. I think it's I think it might be thundering.
• 1:02:27
  So it put me off, okay, because I didn't want that.
• 1:02:30
  I didn't want something that was going to be biting
• 1:02:32
  people who came around. Not that I get a lot
• 1:02:35
  of people visiting, but I didn't want to be bitten myself.
• 1:02:39
  He found it funny it'd let l was the name
• 1:02:44
  of the ferry. He'd well, it's a pole cat, but
• 1:02:46
  he'd let him bite him and he just didn't care.
• 1:02:52
  He bit me once, like really bit me on the
• 1:02:57
  on my arm. And what it's to do is to
• 1:03:00
  do like the crocodile role. It's not good and it
• 1:03:06
  really hurt. I left the mark on there for weeks.
• 1:03:08
  This was early on my time living there, so I
• 1:03:13
  thought no because I considered because I wanted to get
• 1:03:16
  a dog, and he said, oh, you could get a ferry.
• 1:03:21
  I said, no, you're right, and I was going to
• 1:03:24
  get a dog. And then the dog that I went
• 1:03:28
  and visited didn't like me a bit like Vinny. Just
• 1:03:32
  wasn't interested at all, and as a puppy, but it
• 1:03:36
  was in a like a shelter, you know, an animal place,
• 1:03:39
  and I just like, I want my feeling, my theory,
• 1:03:49
  my idea if I ever got a dog of my own,
• 1:03:52
  would be to go and visit that dog, and maybe
• 1:03:56
  there's like six dogs and one comes up to me
• 1:04:00
  and chooses me. That's what I wanted. I wanted a
• 1:04:04
  dog to choose me. It didn't happen, so I kind
• 1:04:08
  of I visited twice, still didn't really fill any connection
• 1:04:13
  with the dog. So I decided not to get that dog.
• 1:04:18
  And they kept saying, they calling me, well, we've got
• 1:04:20
  other people that want to take it. I just do
• 1:04:22
  that then, because it just didn't feel a beautiful little dog.
• 1:04:26
  But it just just didn't seem like the dog liked
• 1:04:32
  me a bit like Finny. He doesn't seem to like me.
• 1:04:39
  I think he loves me, but he doesn't like me,
• 1:04:41
  I think sometimes. And so I didn't get an animality.
• 1:04:49
  End I didn't get a pet. And then around the
• 1:04:53
  November time, might be in October November ish, I normally
• 1:04:59
  say November. I don't know. And this is two thy fifteen,
• 1:05:04
  Luke says to me, Ah, I said yeah. He said,
• 1:05:11
  my friend who breathes ferrets has got two ferrets going
• 1:05:21
  needing new homes. And I said yeah. He said, are
• 1:05:27
  you interested in getting a ferret? Now?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: These?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Well you might not know this. Andre was related to L.
• 1:05:36
  So L was Andre's uncle, like blood blood relative, because
• 1:05:43
  he had got L from there as well, from that
• 1:05:45
  same friend, like a couple few years earlier, so they
• 1:05:51
  were related. Anyway, I thought, yeah, maybe I will. But
• 1:05:58
  then I thought, you know, they did stink a bit.
• 1:06:02
  I personally loved the smell of Andre, but I know
• 1:06:06
  not everybody is into that kind of stinky stink. I
• 1:06:11
  think he's I mean, he didn't always smell good because
• 1:06:14
  they are kind of a bit skunky at times. Anyway,
• 1:06:20
  I thought about it. I thought yes, no, yes, no,
• 1:06:25
  And then I thought no, no, I've got a brand
• 1:06:30
  new carpet. It's only been in there for a few months,
• 1:06:33
  the flats looking good. I don't want it ruined. Well.
• 1:06:41
  I got a bit interrupted then because Phinnis started barking,
• 1:06:46
  and I couldn't figure out why he was barking. And
• 1:06:49
  then I heard some thunder. Now we've had thunder before.
• 1:06:57
  I don't mean, you know, in history, but you know,
• 1:07:01
  since I've had Finny, there's been thunder. And normally he
• 1:07:08
  doesn't seem to be too bothered. But it did. I
• 1:07:13
  fit norwally. You know, maybe there'd be the TV would beyond,
• 1:07:16
  so it kind of cover it up a little bit,
• 1:07:21
  but yeah, it was. He didn't like it. The only
• 1:07:25
  other time I've seen him really disturbed by anything outside,
• 1:07:31
  you know, is fireworks. Once we was out at night
• 1:07:35
  and the fireworks were going off and he pulled me home,
• 1:07:38
  so we didn't like that. Another time he didn't like
• 1:07:42
  the aircraft going over to air display, because there was
• 1:07:46
  lots that he didn't like that. Accept's very noisy, and
• 1:07:50
  the air bloe in the other day, last week or
• 1:07:53
  whenever it was he pulled me home from that. He
• 1:07:56
  didn't didn't like that. Most things don't bother him, but
• 1:08:02
  just springs from the sky generally. I said to him,
• 1:08:06
  just don't look up, and he told me I was
• 1:08:10
  being silly. I haven't got to look up to hear
• 1:08:13
  the thunder. Have I, I said, all right, wow, so yeah, Andre.
• 1:08:21
  So at this point I'm thinking I don't want I'm
• 1:08:25
  thinking I don't want someone who's going to bite me.
• 1:08:28
  It's going to make a mess everywhere. And no, I
• 1:08:33
  really decided it was a firm negative, like no, no,
• 1:08:39
  not don't want one. I love l and I did.
• 1:08:44
  I mean, he was pretty good with me, as long
• 1:08:46
  as I remember to wear a long sleeved shirt or
• 1:08:49
  T shirt because if I kept off, God, they'd have
• 1:08:52
  a little nibble. But he was really it was a
• 1:08:55
  very loving ferrit you know, very cuddly. But at the
• 1:09:01
  same time, you know he'd like to lit'tle bite every
• 1:09:03
  now and then a little snack, treat himself to a
• 1:09:09
  bit of human So and one hundred percent Nope, don't
• 1:09:15
  want one. So I'm just like going about my life
• 1:09:18
  as I do. And I'm walking home. I don't know
• 1:09:21
  where i'd been, probably been to town or something, or
• 1:09:25
  to the garage. And I'm coming back and I see
• 1:09:29
  this bloke holding he's in looking in the back of
• 1:09:36
  a car and he's holding a cage. Then I see
• 1:09:42
  and this is outside the front of my building. And
• 1:09:45
  then I see Luke come out and he waves to
• 1:09:47
  me and he says, look, look there, these are the
• 1:09:51
  two ferrets, are two baby ferrets. I said, oh okay,
• 1:09:55
  and he said, come and have a look at them.
• 1:09:57
  He was so excited that That's one of the things
• 1:10:00
  about Luke. When he was excited, he brightened up so much.
• 1:10:05
  It was very contagious. So I kind of got very
• 1:10:10
  intrigued and I was excited as well to sort of
• 1:10:14
  have a look. With no intention I take him one on.
• 1:10:20
  I didn't want to take it. And bearing in mind
• 1:10:22
  the bloke didn't want any money. He wasn't doing it
• 1:10:25
  for money. He just loved ferrets. So there was two ferrets.
• 1:10:31
  One of them, you know, it was Andre. One of
• 1:10:33
  them was his brother, and one of them had to
• 1:10:37
  be that. He hadn't decided which one was already been
• 1:10:43
  adopted by someone else. But he was going to deliver
• 1:10:47
  that ferret I think a few days afterwards, because he
• 1:10:53
  had to get a cage and stuff for it. This
• 1:10:55
  bloke who was also a friend of Luke's. Instead of
• 1:11:03
  running around on the floor, I fell in love with Andre.
• 1:11:16
  I fell in love with him. See that that what
• 1:11:21
  I wanted to happen to me is, you know, like
• 1:11:24
  a dog wanting to I wanted a dog to fall
• 1:11:26
  in love with me and to come up to me
• 1:11:28
  and like just have that attachment. The reverse happened with Andre.
• 1:11:35
  I absolutely fell head over heels in love with that
• 1:11:41
  little boy in a way that I'm really so surprised about,
• 1:11:46
  because you know, if you just said to me a
• 1:11:49
  few years back before that, like one day, you're going
• 1:11:52
  to have a ferret running around your home, I would
• 1:11:56
  have I wouldn't have believed them, would I just laughed.
• 1:12:00
  It's like, no way. To me, a fairy was like
• 1:12:03
  a rat, you know, there was no difference. There's a
• 1:12:08
  big difference. But at the time I didn't really know.
• 1:12:10
  I just it was just some something that was very weak,
• 1:12:14
  very weakly, whibbly wobbly, moved very quickly and bit people.
• 1:12:20
  And I didn't want to I didn't want to know.
• 1:12:26
  At this time, I knew a little bit more about
• 1:12:27
  ferrets because I'd spent time with l and he used
• 1:12:30
  to come up here and it was as good as gold,
• 1:12:33
  apart from the occasional snack out of my arm. And
• 1:12:41
  so Vinny certainly, Vinnie Andre absolutely hated me. I picked
• 1:12:51
  him up and he bit me every opportunity. He bit
• 1:12:54
  me just on that occasion, he really grabbed me and
• 1:12:58
  his raisor teeth. Remember it is tiny at this point.
• 1:13:02
  You could like fit him in a pole my hand.
• 1:13:04
  And there's videos, there's probably pictures on Facebook, but there's
• 1:13:10
  loads of videos of him on my YouTube channel. Andre
• 1:13:15
  and I had to hold him. That the bloke who
• 1:13:22
  would brought the two around, he showed me how to
• 1:13:25
  handle the baby, and so did Luke. So there's a
• 1:13:30
  certain way you basically put your finger and thumb around
• 1:13:33
  the neck. Because the neck so tiny, you're not choking it.
• 1:13:37
  It's just basically there's a lot of loose, loose skin there.
• 1:13:41
  It just means that they can't maneuver their mouth to
• 1:13:45
  bite you. Another thing is it was just something that
• 1:13:52
  parents do to ferrets, is they pick him up by
• 1:13:58
  their neck so it doesn't hurt them the back of
• 1:14:01
  the neck, the skin, but they just completely stay still.
• 1:14:07
  They stop being naughty as soon as that happens. Or
• 1:14:10
  you can drag them back like that and they just
• 1:14:12
  stay still. So if it doesn't hurt them, but it
• 1:14:17
  makes them be passive, they give up. They kind of
• 1:14:25
  you know. So that's kind of something I learned to do,
• 1:14:29
  but the rest of it was just not made up
• 1:14:31
  as I went along. But Luke come taught me quite
• 1:14:34
  a bit I suppose as well. Yeah yeah, And I
• 1:14:43
  went from no way in the world or on those
• 1:14:46
  so many things in my flat.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: Too.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: I've never wanted anything as much as I ever did
• 1:14:56
  in my life. That's probably a bit of an exaggeration.
• 1:15:00
  I really like the other one had no interest in
• 1:15:06
  and it was just as cute as I'm sure every
• 1:15:09
  baby ferret is just as cute as each other. But
• 1:15:12
  there was something about Andre I don't know what it was.
• 1:15:15
  There was something about him, something about his little face
• 1:15:18
  and his little mask that he had, like almost like
• 1:15:22
  he had an eye mask on him, like he was
• 1:15:25
  a highway dick Turpin or you know, something like that
• 1:15:31
  bank robber. Maybe maybe not, but yeah, it's just cute.
• 1:15:35
  He's facial features, and I had to have him. There
• 1:15:44
  was no option. In fact, I think the man said
• 1:15:48
  that he was going to give him to the other bloke,
• 1:15:53
  and Luke said he won't nobally, he won't know which one.
• 1:15:57
  He just knows he's going to get one. So I
• 1:16:00
  wouldn't have took the other one. However, weird that sounds Andre.
• 1:16:07
  It was him. It wasn't because Andre was a ferret
• 1:16:11
  that I wanted him. I didn't want a ferret. I
• 1:16:15
  wanted Andre.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: I just fell in love with him. He's just sung
• 1:16:18
  about him. And so for the first two weeks I
• 1:16:24
  had him, and all he did was bite me. But
• 1:16:28
  I continue to pick him up every single opportunity, cuddle him.
• 1:16:35
  And he never bit me on the face. So I
• 1:16:38
  could literally put my face right up to his. He's
• 1:16:40
  probably scared, to be fair, imagine seeing my face so
• 1:16:43
  close up, probably scared the hell out of him. But
• 1:16:47
  he never bit me on the face. It's always my
• 1:16:50
  fingers if he could. And after like a couple of weeks,
• 1:16:59
  by after old destroyed loads of times. But I was
• 1:17:01
  just sitting down on the Saturday night watching the box
• 1:17:05
  in and he climbed up my leg and I was
• 1:17:10
  went dressing gown and he climbed up my left sleeve
• 1:17:13
  of my dressing gown and went to sleep. And from
• 1:17:17
  then on he was good as gold. We got on perfect.
• 1:17:23
  It never bit me again, not on purpose. He used
• 1:17:28
  to bite me when we played, when we had play fights,
• 1:17:31
  he bite me. Sometimes you'd get very carried away, but
• 1:17:34
  all I had to say was gentle and it stopped.
• 1:17:39
  So if he bit me too hard, I say gentle,
• 1:17:42
  it just releases jaws. So his teeth were just kind
• 1:17:47
  of touching my skin. We communicated quite well, which is
• 1:17:55
  a bit weird, I think. But yeah, I think perhaps
• 1:18:02
  I should have got I should have got another ferret. Maybe.
• 1:18:06
  But you know what, Vinnie came into my life. And
• 1:18:11
  you know, I'll be honest. When I lost Andre, it
• 1:18:16
  was it was too much. I mean, I don't I
• 1:18:20
  didn't really believe that I could be so attached to
• 1:18:27
  a little thing like that, but I was. And you know,
• 1:18:35
  my vow and a lot of people do that is
• 1:18:37
  that they say I'll never get I never get another pet,
• 1:18:39
  that's it. And I definitely meant that I wasn't going
• 1:18:44
  to get anything, not a dog, not a cat, anything,
• 1:18:47
  not to have a cat anyway, but not up here
• 1:18:50
  because I'm on the first floor. The cat can't get out, however,
• 1:19:01
  you know. So this was in the summer two thousand
• 1:19:04
  and one, and then two thousand and two, November or December,
• 1:19:18
  Vinnie ran through my legs as I answered the door
• 1:19:23
  to Luke. He was laughing and this little thing ran
• 1:19:27
  through and LOGI was there like looking at me, and
• 1:19:31
  he ran in as well. It's like, what the heck
• 1:19:34
  is LOGI chasing? I thought for a second, I thought
• 1:19:39
  he'd got another Ferret, and it wasn't. It was Vinny.
• 1:19:43
  But Vinnie was ten months old, so he was He
• 1:19:46
  wasn't a hugely smaller than he is now, but he
• 1:19:49
  was smaller. And I mean I couldn't see him. He
• 1:19:54
  was moving so quick. And you know, that's how I
• 1:19:59
  ended up him. But with Andre, that's how I ended
• 1:20:02
  up with him. It was just fall in love situation
• 1:20:08
  and no matter how you know, the ending wasn't good,
• 1:20:12
  and I just it was hard. But he did bring
• 1:20:17
  a lot of pleasure into my life. He made me
• 1:20:21
  laugh a lot, and yeah, I actually adored him, adored him,
• 1:20:31
  And I know that There's a couple of people over
• 1:20:33
  the years, as I've mentioned, like saying why why does
• 1:20:37
  he not to me? But like on the maybe on
• 1:20:40
  a Facebook group or on a Facebook page, why does
• 1:20:43
  he keep talking about Andre? He's been gone for ages.
• 1:20:47
  That's why it is the same reason I talk about
• 1:20:50
  my men, and the same reason I'm probably still going
• 1:20:56
  to be talking about Uncle's sausages in ten years time.
• 1:21:00
  The reason I'm still talking about Luke because there were
• 1:21:05
  big parts of my life and that doesn't change just
• 1:21:11
  because they're no longer here is you know, they're not.
• 1:21:16
  I mean, they're no longer a big part of my
• 1:21:18
  life day to day. But I think once someone has
• 1:21:23
  that makes that impact. I mean, Uncle's sausages made his
• 1:21:30
  impact more really over the last year, even though I've
• 1:21:33
  known him for ten years, and especially more when he
• 1:21:36
  got unwell. I mean, that period that we shared together
• 1:21:39
  is something that's kind of a bit precious really, that
• 1:21:46
  whole you know, situation, and there's no way I could
• 1:21:51
  ever forget that. And yeah, so he's always going to
• 1:21:56
  be remembered by me. I hope, I hope. And even
• 1:22:04
  if he's not, the memories recorded it's onto, you know
• 1:22:10
  what I mean, it's me talking about it. So even
• 1:22:12
  if in thirty years time, perhaps for whatever reason, I
• 1:22:17
  don't have the actual memory, I can listen back and
• 1:22:22
  hear about it and think, oh, he sounds nice. Who's
• 1:22:30
  this bloke that's talking? Why has he got such a
• 1:22:34
  squeaky voice? So yeah, that's how I got Andre. Thank
• 1:22:40
  you for that. Rich asks when it's Finny's birthday. It's
• 1:22:44
  the end of February, so you would have been born
• 1:22:51
  in two thousand and yeah, end of yeah, end of
• 1:22:58
  February two thousand and twenty three, No, twenty two, So
• 1:23:05
  end of February twenty twenty two was when he was born.
• 1:23:11
  The exact date I used to have. I could probably
• 1:23:16
  get it because I used to have a picture with
• 1:23:19
  a date on where he was literally a baby, you know,
• 1:23:24
  like a it looked like a I don't know, like
• 1:23:29
  pink little turn it or something. But yeah, so end
• 1:23:35
  of February, he'll be foorn next year. Robin asks me,
• 1:23:42
  have you ever been inside Hampton Court Palace. I'd love
• 1:23:46
  to visit there. First of all, I thought I don't know,
• 1:23:53
  But now I do know. Hampton Court Palace. I'm pretty
• 1:23:58
  sure it's got a zoo. Kay. I don't know why,
• 1:24:02
  but I have feeling there's a zoo there. Hampton Court.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 8: Palace zoo, uh hampter then Hampton Court mans first, right,
• 1:24:31
  it doesn't look.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: This Hampton Court beasts. Okay, yeah, there is is there. Okay,
• 1:24:45
  does I'm going to change it to does have a zoo.
• 1:24:57
  Hampton Court Palace does not have a traditional zoo, but
• 1:25:00
  it's Magic Garden adventure playground features mythical beasts. That's what
• 1:25:05
  I visited when I was a kid. I thought they
• 1:25:07
  were real animals. Wow, no wonder I was able to
• 1:25:13
  kiss a tiger on the lips, all that bragging for
• 1:25:20
  years afterwards, thinking I was more invincible than tiles and
• 1:25:25
  when clear I wasn't. It wasn't they wasn't they wasn't. Yeah,
• 1:25:31
  I have been there, even though I clearly don't know
• 1:25:35
  where it is, but I have been there. Then he
• 1:25:39
  started barking again the thunder, and yeah, I have been there.
• 1:25:45
  It's a long, long, long long time ago, like decades ago,
• 1:25:49
  so I don't really remember it. But I've been to
• 1:25:53
  all the main tourist attractions, either when I was very
• 1:25:58
  young or when I was kind of in my twenties.
• 1:26:02
  I including all the museums, met in Two Swords, Tower
• 1:26:05
  of London, the Palace, that whole walk up to the
• 1:26:10
  palace whatever that's called, the Zoo London Zoo, the library
• 1:26:18
  at London Library or whatever.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: So I've been.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: So I'm pretty much everywhere, but not for a very
• 1:26:25
  very long time. Kathleen asks, what's the best birthday present
• 1:26:34
  you ever? Received. Well, technically I would say, I know
• 1:26:39
  it's my birthday was three days ago. But your question, Kathleen,
• 1:26:44
  that's the birth that's the best present I've ever had.
• 1:26:47
  I don't know, really best birthday present. See, when I
• 1:26:54
  was a kid, not nothing as an adult. But when
• 1:26:56
  I was a kid, I enjoyed this year because I
• 1:27:00
  got some payper gifts that was really lovely kind of
• 1:27:04
  I almost felt like I was, I don't know, just
• 1:27:09
  felt quite nice, felt very nice, I think as a kid.
• 1:27:16
  As an adult, nothing I mean not nothing, but yeah,
• 1:27:31
  nothing like particularly that I can think of off the
• 1:27:33
  top of my head as a kid. Noah, nothing really
• 1:27:45
  stands out because they're all. The thing is with my
• 1:27:49
  dad and his wife, they were very generous when it
• 1:27:53
  came to Christmas and birthdays. I'm not saying they weren't
• 1:27:56
  the rest of the time, but they were very I
• 1:27:58
  always got lots of pressing for birthdays and Christmases from
• 1:28:02
  the age of seven to fifteen.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was like every year. I mean, fifteen was
• 1:28:14
  a bit of a slow one, but all the other
• 1:28:16
  years it's you know, when the whole family was together. Yeah,
• 1:28:21
  every year was good, you know, like Christmas as well.
• 1:28:25
  I never there was never any disappointment. There was never like,
• 1:28:29
  oh I didn't get enough presents, because I always got
• 1:28:32
  more presence than I ever needed, you know. It was.
• 1:28:40
  I was very, very fortunate, and the same as with birthdays.
• 1:28:46
  I always got lots of presents and I liked all
• 1:28:52
  of them. Really. I remember one year when I was
• 1:28:56
  probably about ten, eleven, ten, I don't know, and I
• 1:29:02
  had a video game so that was cool, like a
• 1:29:07
  kind of First Space Invaders Asteroids kind of game that
• 1:29:12
  was handheld, but a big old thing batteries. The batteries
• 1:29:17
  were the size of a car. There was a big thing,
• 1:29:20
  but it was loved it.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: Do Do Do.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: Do Do Do doo? Yeah, things like that. That was
• 1:29:32
  nothing like how it sounded. But I can't think of
• 1:29:36
  any particular presence that had off the top of my head.
• 1:29:42
  That is, I'm not saying there wasn't any particular presence
• 1:29:45
  that I liked most of all, and I'm trying to
• 1:29:50
  The big presents really, I think were Christmas time, because
• 1:29:55
  I got a couple of the two biggest presents I
• 1:29:58
  remember at Christmas. Oh no, I got the best present
• 1:30:05
  I ever got for my birthday was when I was seven.
• 1:30:13
  I mean, it might have not been on my birthday.
• 1:30:15
  It was around that time because we all got bike,
• 1:30:18
  but it was a bike. I got a new my
• 1:30:20
  first ever bike when I was seven, my seventh birthday,
• 1:30:25
  and my dad taught me to ride, and he did
• 1:30:28
  that whole thing where he's like holding onto the because
• 1:30:31
  I had fallen off, and he put stabilizers on and
• 1:30:37
  he kind of he said, I'm holding on. And he
• 1:30:41
  was behind me and I was cycling, and I said,
• 1:30:46
  you're still holding on. He said, yeah, he's still holding on.
• 1:30:50
  He said, yeah, I'm still holding on. I'm thinking, why
• 1:30:54
  are you doing such a soft voice. I said, he's
• 1:30:56
  still holding what And I showed he's still holding on
• 1:31:04
  and my phone rings, and he said, yeah, I'm still
• 1:31:06
  holding on. And I'm thinking mobile phones aren't even invented
• 1:31:11
  yet since nineteen seventy seven. This is really weird. One
• 1:31:16
  if it's real and I look behind me and there's
• 1:31:20
  nowhere to be seen. I'd cycled into a different town.
• 1:31:28
  I've been gone for about six hours. Never really could
• 1:31:32
  gauge time back then, So yeah, that's when I realized
• 1:31:39
  I could cycle without him like holding on. I mean,
• 1:31:43
  but I did have stabilizers. Stabilizers are good. I think
• 1:31:47
  everyone should have stabilizers all the time. It just makes sense,
• 1:31:52
  doesn't it, Because at least then you could just stop
• 1:31:55
  your bike wherever you are and just leave it standing up.
• 1:31:59
  There's no real not to have stabilizers. I remember seeing
• 1:32:05
  someone years ago in a park having a go at
• 1:32:08
  their kid because they had stabilizers, and like almost like
• 1:32:12
  you can't have still have stabilizes, you're night now, and
• 1:32:15
  me like give their kid a break, you know, what
• 1:32:21
  does it matter?
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: Really? Right? Yeah?
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: The bike that was the best present birthday present I
• 1:32:35
  got was that bike. I did get another bike at
• 1:32:41
  Christmas quite a few years later, when I was about
• 1:32:44
  thirteen and maybe fourteen thirteen something like that, and it
• 1:32:52
  was a racer and earlier on, but probably about age ten, nine,
• 1:33:01
  ten or maybe eleven even I got a telescope for Christmas.
• 1:33:08
  I think it was Christmas. It might have been for
• 1:33:09
  my birthday, It's possible. I don't remember exactly, but yeah,
• 1:33:18
  I've got this telescope, really nice telescope. But yeah, so
• 1:33:24
  I can't really would say I would go with the bike.
• 1:33:27
  And it was a grifter I think, and it was
• 1:33:32
  the first time I'd ever had a bike, And I
• 1:33:39
  mean that was the best summer of my life. It
• 1:33:46
  was there's no other summer. It wasn't about the heat.
• 1:33:49
  It wasn't about the weather. You know, we may it
• 1:33:52
  makes such a big deal, like all wasn't as hot
• 1:33:55
  as it normally is or it's been too hot. When
• 1:33:58
  I was a kid, I couldn't care at all if
• 1:34:03
  it was raining or if it was sunny. That was
• 1:34:08
  my first time with a family, like an actual family living.
• 1:34:16
  The next year was good as well, but that was
• 1:34:18
  the first year. The first summer was just nineteen seventy
• 1:34:24
  seven when I was well, I was lee, I was
• 1:34:27
  just before I was seven, but yeah, I was seven
• 1:34:30
  in August. So that was the best summer of my
• 1:34:36
  life or in my memory anyway. And the next year
• 1:34:43
  was really good as well. So I basically seventy seven
• 1:34:48
  seventy eight were the best summers that I ever had.
• 1:34:53
  But seventy seven especially because we lived near the well,
• 1:34:58
  we're lived near the beach as well, actually lived near
• 1:35:02
  the beach in the big family house. But this was
• 1:35:06
  like just up the road from the beach, a bit
• 1:35:09
  of a walk but not too far. It was a
• 1:35:13
  straight walk. Yeah, so that's what I would say for that.
• 1:35:21
  The bike that was my favorite, the best person I
• 1:35:25
  ever got, but technically not really the best present I
• 1:35:30
  ever got was a family. If we're going to be
• 1:35:33
  if I'm going to be sentimental, So we moved out
• 1:35:35
  of the children's home and lived with my dad and
• 1:35:38
  his new wife permanently the summer of nineteen seventy seven,
• 1:35:46
  possibly June, maybe July. It was back in them days.
• 1:35:53
  A couple of weeks was like a few months to
• 1:35:55
  a little kid, and it's like a long time. So
• 1:35:57
  we probably moved there after school finished. So I went there,
• 1:36:04
  left South End and we moved there instead of visiting
• 1:36:08
  at weekends. Who moved there forever? And it was technically
• 1:36:16
  that was like the best birthday present I ever had
• 1:36:19
  because for the first time, well since I was a baby,
• 1:36:25
  I was had two parents and my brothers all together
• 1:36:31
  in one house. Yeah, so that was brilliant. Yep. And
• 1:36:39
  I was the baby for one more year, but just
• 1:36:43
  one year, move on, Joe Joe. Mary asks me, how
• 1:36:53
  do you design the episode title artwork? You use? It's
• 1:36:57
  always so creative, Well, thank you. I use different things,
• 1:37:04
  So I use a mixture of a Canva and Chatch
• 1:37:13
  EPT five and sometimes other things to put together, maybe
• 1:37:21
  some images I've got, maybe images that I've found online
• 1:37:26
  to put together what I want to kind of express.
• 1:37:30
  Usually it's something to do with the recording. It might
• 1:37:35
  be hidden in the recording, but it's quite often there's
• 1:37:37
  a little hint in the image, or sometimes I hide
• 1:37:43
  a little things in the image where you'd have to
• 1:37:46
  really have a closer look to see it what it is.
• 1:37:50
  But generally I have to think what I wanted, what
• 1:37:56
  I want the record, what I want the image to be.
• 1:38:00
  So I think that up and then I asked chat
• 1:38:01
  GP two five to maybe create that image. This is
• 1:38:07
  one way of doing it. And then I get it
• 1:38:11
  to redo it and to change things. And it takes
• 1:38:14
  quite a while, sometimes sometimes half hour an hour to
• 1:38:19
  get the image done, depends on how well it comes
• 1:38:23
  out first time. And then I go into Canva and
• 1:38:27
  I edit the image. And sometimes I do multiple images
• 1:38:33
  and put them all together, taking off the background, put
• 1:38:36
  them into Canva, editing it so it looks like one image. Yes,
• 1:38:44
  so that's kind of what I do. I used to
• 1:38:46
  sometimes again, I'd take stuff from online and i'd change
• 1:38:49
  the image edit it, or pictures of myself or pictures
• 1:38:54
  of Vinnie, you know, just or put in my picture
• 1:39:00
  and make me be in this scenario, and you know,
• 1:39:03
  things like that. So the Q and A Friday images
• 1:39:10
  just generally just Queo Friday. But like I did an
• 1:39:15
  image yesterday goodbye Uncle Sausages, and it was a nice image.
• 1:39:21
  It was a picture, not one I made up, just
• 1:39:24
  one that had been taken yesterday. So I do sometimes
• 1:39:29
  do that as well. And there's pictures of me and
• 1:39:34
  my seecret at uniform, pictures of me in my karate
• 1:39:38
  uniform when I was a kid, that is. So there's
• 1:39:42
  lots of different images. I mean, I've done what fourteen
• 1:39:48
  one thousand and four hundred, and I don't know how
• 1:39:52
  many I've done. Now let's have a look. So yesterday's
• 1:39:56
  one with number one, four hundred and twenty four. So
• 1:40:00
  this is one for I was four hundred and twenty five.
• 1:40:04
  So that's how many images I suppose I've done, although
• 1:40:08
  I think some of the earlier ones didn't have images,
• 1:40:12
  but I did. I started doing images a few years back.
• 1:40:16
  I do wonder, you know, because I listened to some
• 1:40:19
  of my old stuff from I don't know, fifteen years
• 1:40:23
  ago and I think, oh, I can't believe I did
• 1:40:27
  stuff that wasn't good at all, and I've really improved.
• 1:40:32
  What I do is I mean, the quality of the
• 1:40:35
  sound is better than it used to be. But I
• 1:40:39
  wonder if that's what it's going to be like in
• 1:40:41
  ten years time. If I look back at let's say
• 1:40:44
  today's recording, all the recordings that I've been doing in
• 1:40:48
  the last year or so, well, I look back at
• 1:40:50
  these recordings, I think, oh, my goodness, I don't believe
• 1:40:56
  that I used to make such recordings as that. I'm
• 1:41:02
  so glad that I managed to improve the quality of
• 1:41:06
  the content. I don't know. I might look back at
• 1:41:10
  this and think, God, what was I doing. It's possible.
• 1:41:21
  So what was the question again, what's the best birthday?
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: No?
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 4: No, how do you design an episode? Yeah? So that
• 1:41:29
  that's kind of how I do it is they're creative,
• 1:41:36
  but I have to say what I want, so I
• 1:41:40
  have to create it kind of in my mind roughly
• 1:41:43
  what I want, and then I have to find a
• 1:41:46
  way to put that together because I'm not an artist. Like,
• 1:41:52
  as far as creative images which you can do, you know,
• 1:41:58
  there are there are programs that you can put an
• 1:42:01
  image together and make it from scratch. That's that's not
• 1:42:04
  something that I could do or something that I even
• 1:42:07
  want to learn to do. But I know what I want.
• 1:42:13
  Does that make sense if I want? Like the other day,
• 1:42:16
  I wanted an image of a baby jump and O
• 1:42:18
  have a cake, but chatch Ebt wouldn't allow it, even
• 1:42:25
  though it's basically just my little brother ruling my eighth
• 1:42:28
  birthday party because it was just born the day before
• 1:42:31
  my birthday party, and that's what it was supposed to be,
• 1:42:33
  him jumping out of the cake ruling my party, like
• 1:42:37
  auld jokey kind of thing. But they could they wouldn't.
• 1:42:43
  It was hard to get it done because it was
• 1:42:45
  it took ages to put that image together. Let me
• 1:42:49
  ever look at it. I did that on the day
• 1:42:53
  before my birthday. I think the internet's shut down for
• 1:42:59
  some reason.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 4: That's very strange.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: Oh it is?
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: Why is it hidden? Oh? I know why? So okay,
• 1:43:11
  the image I ended up with with how my brother
• 1:43:17
  ruined my eighth birthday, there's a number one, four hundred
• 1:43:21
  and twenty two, So that was on Monday, and it's
• 1:43:25
  an image of me frowning with birthday bor my T shirt,
• 1:43:30
  there's my dad with his beard, there's my stepmm holding
• 1:43:36
  a new baby, and then there's the my oldest brother
• 1:43:42
  and my other brother. So it's all kind of you know, planned,
• 1:43:46
  and it's got number eight. So on a birthday cake,
• 1:43:50
  everyone's laughing except me, and I'm just shrowning. And then
• 1:43:54
  there's a big speech bubble aimed supposed to be aiming
• 1:43:58
  towards the baby, saying I'm the baby now. So it's
• 1:44:06
  not always easy to put it all together, but other
• 1:44:12
  times it works quite nice. So it's a very simple thing,
• 1:44:17
  like Vinnie woke me up. This is what I did
• 1:44:20
  on the twenty fourth of August, and I wanted to
• 1:44:29
  be like an image of me. It never always comes
• 1:44:33
  up right, but it's kind of an image of me
• 1:44:36
  in bed. But I wanted me to be wearing old
• 1:44:42
  Victorian type bedclothes, a bit like Scrooge Dickenson kind of thing.
• 1:44:50
  But then it wouldn't allow that because that was copyright,
• 1:44:53
  and like, okay, how can I get around that? And
• 1:44:57
  I wanted Vinnie basically the same wake up and there's
• 1:45:02
  a little tag with video on it. So I just
• 1:45:06
  kind of played around and in the end managed to
• 1:45:09
  get an image that kind of worked, and then the
• 1:45:13
  day before that, I did call one called good Morning,
• 1:45:18
  and basically what I was talking about was working at
• 1:45:21
  different jobs, and I was at at one point I
• 1:45:23
  was talking about working in the bakery and how if
• 1:45:28
  the conveyor belt never stopped hardly so sometimes you'd end
• 1:45:33
  up with bread rolls all over the floor. So I
• 1:45:37
  thought I wanted an image of me with bread rolls
• 1:45:42
  kind of up to my waist and then falling off
• 1:45:48
  the conveyor belt. And it took quite a while for
• 1:45:52
  me to get it done, you know, lots of different versions,
• 1:45:56
  and then I found it. So even though the image
• 1:45:59
  is it probably looks like quite an easy image to do,
• 1:46:03
  it took a while to kind of put it together.
• 1:46:09
  And then I did one last week twenty second August
• 1:46:14
  twenty twenty five. Was it Friday? Last Friday, And I
• 1:46:23
  wanted to talk about bottles because I've got ninety six
• 1:46:25
  bottles of water delivered and I wanted a house made
• 1:46:30
  of bottles. And in the end, it didn't come out
• 1:46:35
  how I wanted it to come out as but I had,
• 1:46:38
  you know, I spent so long on it, I just
• 1:46:40
  thought it's you going to have to do. So you
• 1:46:46
  know I did that. I wasn't it wasn't crazy about
• 1:46:51
  the text, but you know it ended up okay. I
• 1:46:55
  should know. If I did any game now, i'd make
• 1:46:58
  a few changes. And I didn't run. The day before,
• 1:47:02
  I bought myself to sleep.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: So I've got a.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: Sheep in a chair asleep but dreaming or thinking or whatever,
• 1:47:15
  dreaming of Instead of sheep jumping running around, he's got humans.
• 1:47:21
  So he's got a human jumping over a fence and
• 1:47:23
  two humans like running around. It's just little things like that.
• 1:47:29
  It's another one called thin Legs that I did the
• 1:47:31
  day before, and it's basically a caricature of me with
• 1:47:38
  a big upper body and tiny little legs because I
• 1:47:44
  bought some Yeah, I bought some tracksup bonds and then
• 1:47:51
  Teddy Bears. That's Trivia Tuesday last week. So I've got
• 1:47:57
  a picture of a Teddy Bear picnic, three pre bears,
• 1:48:02
  all hats on, drinking through straws for some glasses, with
• 1:48:08
  some burgers and stuff, you know, on the on the blanket,
• 1:48:13
  checkered blanket, but in the background, because in the park
• 1:48:17
  in the background, like all these humans just running away
• 1:48:19
  around screaming and running away screaming.
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: So I like that.
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 4: And then another one, mental health review. I seem to
• 1:48:31
  be doing one every day. If I have, I've been
• 1:48:33
  quite good recently. Mental health review is there's bugs Bunny
• 1:48:40
  sitting on a like a psychiatrist's couch, and a psychiatrist
• 1:48:45
  is looks a bit like Freud, and there's that whole thing,
• 1:48:52
  you know, Christine pointing out what's up, doc, and it
• 1:48:55
  is the could. Yeah, So it was quite because I
• 1:48:58
  just had a mental health review on a Monday, and
• 1:49:02
  then I got one up. I don't know what I'm
• 1:49:03
  telling you. You might already know this. You might have
• 1:49:05
  seen them. I have to go outside, and this was
• 1:49:10
  I think this was Sunday the eighteenth. So it's me,
• 1:49:14
  Well it's kind of not really me, but it's kind
• 1:49:16
  of a me kind of picture. A middle aged man,
• 1:49:19
  more hair, and there's like I have to go outside
• 1:49:23
  at the top, but he's in a kind of a
• 1:49:25
  very gray kind of room and there's a doorway, but
• 1:49:29
  everything outside the doorway is very bright, light and colorful,
• 1:49:34
  kind of like the Wizard of Us. So that was
• 1:49:36
  what I was looking for. It took a while to
• 1:49:40
  get that together. But I was pleased. I mean, I
• 1:49:47
  had to make a lot of changes to get it
• 1:49:49
  to where it was, so, yeah, that's kind of.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: What is that.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes it's quite easy, you know, like Trivia Tuesday.
• 1:50:09
  A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about vikings,
• 1:50:13
  I think, so I just wanted to be a viking
• 1:50:17
  with green Beard with a helmet with a title Trivia Tuesday,
• 1:50:23
  and that's what it did, and it did it very quickly. Well,
• 1:50:27
  I took a few seconds, maybe ten seconds. Adam was
• 1:50:32
  pretty much perfect straightaway. So there's times like that when
• 1:50:35
  it's really good, and other times when it takes absolutely well.
• 1:50:41
  It seems to take a long time, and sometimes I
• 1:50:48
  can't be bothered. It's like, just I don't want to
• 1:50:51
  spend so long working on images. Do you want to
• 1:50:54
  get thing out. I've made the recording, just doing the editing,
• 1:51:01
  and there's been times where I've actually just put it
• 1:51:03
  out without an image because I just like, no, it's
• 1:51:06
  it's taken way too long, especially when I had to
• 1:51:09
  keep going up to the hospital, so I'd edit and
• 1:51:13
  then I'd just like post it without an image. So
• 1:51:17
  that's kind of my creative take on that. So some
• 1:51:21
  would argue maybe that it's not creative at all because
• 1:51:24
  I'm not the one really doing anything. I've given the instructions,
• 1:51:30
  but yeah, it's coming out of my head. It's coming
• 1:51:33
  out of my mind a lot of it, and I
• 1:51:36
  also have to do the editing, and I know what
• 1:51:38
  I'm looking for. So yeah, thank you for that. So
• 1:51:42
  Cheryl asks, since you seem concerned about your forehead getting larger,
• 1:51:51
  oh my goodness, would you consider getting their hair piece? No? Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, However,
• 1:52:07
  I think the only reason only time I would ever
• 1:52:11
  get a hair piece, it would be probably in the
• 1:52:16
  event of if I was in a play or if
• 1:52:20
  I was in in some kind of fancy dress situation.
• 1:52:23
  Then you know, perhaps I would wear like a wig
• 1:52:25
  or something. But and you know, I do understand why
• 1:52:32
  people do need to wear hair pieces and wigs and stuff,
• 1:52:39
  but I don't, especially as although I go on about
• 1:52:43
  my hair and stuff, I've spent many years bored. I've
• 1:52:47
  been shaving my head on purpose. It's hard to do
• 1:52:50
  it accidentally. But you know, basically, I don't care that much.
• 1:52:55
  I'm just a little bit annoyed that I don't have
• 1:52:57
  control over it anymore. Because before I shave it off,
• 1:53:00
  and I was in control. Now I don't have to
• 1:53:03
  shave it all off because it kind of does it
• 1:53:05
  doesn't grow back, so it's a little bit annoying. My
• 1:53:11
  forehead getting larger.
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 4: No, never, No, I wouldn't. I don't. I understand, you know,
• 1:53:23
  like some famous people they I don't think i'd look
• 1:53:27
  younger because that's the thing, like, Okay, I could be
• 1:53:31
  in my sixties while I'm nearly fifty five now. I
• 1:53:36
  don't think I'm going to look younger with a hair piece.
• 1:53:43
  I think the only thing that would make me perhaps
• 1:53:45
  look a bit younger if I didn't have the gray.
• 1:53:48
  But then my hair is not that gray. It's gray,
• 1:53:50
  but it's gray in at the sides at the top.
• 1:53:54
  But there's a lot of hair that's still dark dark
• 1:53:59
  brown my head, but my beard less. So I got Yeah,
• 1:54:05
  my beard's definitely gone much more grayer than my hair
• 1:54:07
  on my head. And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get
• 1:54:15
  a hair piece. And I think if I met someone
• 1:54:19
  and they kind of were really like, well, I want
• 1:54:23
  you to get a hair piece, I don't like. I
• 1:54:25
  don't like being with someone that's baled. Mate.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd probably just say well I'll see you. Then,
• 1:54:34
  you know, find someone else that's got hair or just
• 1:54:37
  willing to wear a hair piece because I don't. Don't
• 1:54:40
  date someone that's bald. If you don't want to be
• 1:54:43
  with someone that's baled. That's the way I see it is,
• 1:54:47
  if you want to date someone that's tall, don't date
• 1:54:49
  someone as short. Or if you want someone that's short,
• 1:54:52
  don't date someone that's tall, expect them to crouch all
• 1:54:56
  the time, walk on their knees.
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's like things like that are controllable, not meeting someone
• 1:55:06
  that you feel you know, you might meet someone that
• 1:55:09
  they've ticked all the other boxes, but ultimately, why walk
• 1:55:16
  up to someone and start talking to them? If it's
• 1:55:23
  a big no no. Then being seven foot tall and
• 1:55:26
  maybe you're four foot five and you know your limit
• 1:55:31
  of height is only it only go as high as
• 1:55:33
  six foot two.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 9: As for a partner, you know, or you want someone shorter,
• 1:55:43
  or if you've got to really if that's the thing,
• 1:55:47
  if you've got to really a thing, you know, whatever
• 1:55:54
  the person is, whether you're a male, female or.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 4: Whatever, if you've got a particular like so, I would
• 1:56:05
  say go with that, like, go with it. Whether you've
• 1:56:10
  really got a thing for someone with a certain color hair,
• 1:56:16
  or someone with a type of maybe from a certain
• 1:56:19
  part of the world, or someone who's really really really
• 1:56:26
  tall or whatever. If you've got something, if that really
• 1:56:33
  has a big impact on how you feel physically and emotionally,
• 1:56:37
  then it makes sense to kind of go towards that,
• 1:56:42
  you know, or body size even but then body size,
• 1:56:46
  like height is not really going to change. Is it
• 1:56:49
  going to get a bit shorter with age, It's not
• 1:56:51
  really going to change too much classes you know, you know.
• 1:57:04
  I guess if you're dating someone who doesn't have glasses
• 1:57:06
  and they start wearing glasses, maybe you've got an issue
• 1:57:09
  with people wearing glasses. Some people do. I used to
• 1:57:13
  be a bit weird towards glasses where wearers, even though
• 1:57:18
  I wore glasses myself. My attitude was, why would I
• 1:57:22
  want to date someone that's wears glasses, because it'd be
• 1:57:25
  like having a relationship through a window. Because I wear
• 1:57:31
  glasses as well, it'd be like wearing you know, or
• 1:57:33
  I didn't wear them all the time, but it'd be
• 1:57:35
  like having a relationship through a window, which is rude.
• 1:57:40
  And I shouldn't have said that out to people loud
• 1:57:42
  in public, but I thought it was kind of funny.
• 1:57:48
  But at the time, I didn't wear glasses all the time.
• 1:57:51
  I just had to wear them for reading. So I
• 1:57:56
  don't feel that way anymore. It's not like having a
• 1:57:59
  relationship through all. You know, if I date song glasses,
• 1:58:02
  it's what it's double glazing now, isn't it? Pretty much?
• 1:58:08
  And yeah, what was I gonna say? What was the question?
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 4: Hair pieces? So yeah, i'd yeah, I see a lot
• 1:58:25
  of the old movie stars, like from the old days.
• 1:58:29
  It used to wear wigs, and you could see it
• 1:58:32
  with wigs, but it kind of didn't matter. It's kind
• 1:58:43
  of one of those weird things is if I'm boarding,
• 1:58:51
  I'm not like I've got a board patch at the back.
• 1:58:54
  I'm receding. I've been receding for decades and my hair
• 1:59:01
  and I moan about it. But firstly, I can't see
• 1:59:04
  the back of my head, so I can't see the
• 1:59:05
  board patch. I forget it's there most of the time
• 1:59:08
  until people just start laughing at me when I'm walking
• 1:59:10
  down the street. But I wouldn't I mean, I wouldn't
• 1:59:16
  get you can't really get bald. You can't get the
• 1:59:18
  hair piece just for one tiny little board patch, can you,
• 1:59:22
  Or one average size, growing ever increasing bald patch.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 4: I'm at an age now where having a board patch
• 1:59:36
  there's no shame. There's no shame in never having a
• 1:59:38
  board patch. But I'm fifty five. I'm allowed to have
• 1:59:42
  a board patch without having to explain myself, you know,
• 1:59:49
  I mean everyone is. It doesn't matter what age you are.
• 1:59:51
  Some people go baled and in their teenage years. I
• 1:59:55
  know people. I know a girl that went completely gray
• 1:59:58
  when she was fourteen, and it's like she dyed her hair.
• 2:00:04
  Of course she dyed her hair. What else was she
• 2:00:07
  going to do? But nowadays having gray hair is almost
• 2:00:12
  a fashion, isn't it with young people? Or blue hair
• 2:00:15
  or green hair. So yeah, I don't. I would never
• 2:00:21
  wear it.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I do do.
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 4: Actually, sometimes there's a lot of banging around whatever that is.
• 2:00:44
  It's weird. I oh, I don't think I was talking about.
• 2:01:03
  I can't remember what I was talking about now, but yeah, no,
• 2:01:06
  I wouldn't. I wouldn't wear a hair piece. I think
• 2:01:11
  it's okay. Love me for how I am and love
• 2:01:14
  me for how I will be because you can't have
• 2:01:20
  how I used to be because that's gone. So all
• 2:01:23
  you've got is how I am now. And if you
• 2:01:26
  want to stick around, you'll be. You see how I
• 2:01:30
  will be, mind you, if you listen to the podcast,
• 2:01:35
  you'll find out how I was as well, because I
• 2:01:37
  do talk about the past. It's hard to talk about
• 2:01:40
  the future, isn't it, because it hasn't happened yet apparently,
• 2:01:46
  and I do believe or that is all the questions.
• 2:01:53
  So thank you very much for listening. Remember to be
• 2:01:56
  kind to yourself, and thank you for all the questions.
• 2:01:58
  I say you we are hope, Rich Robin, Kathleen, Mary,
• 2:02:05
  dev Sheryl, So thank you all of you for your questions,
• 2:02:10
  and remember to be kind to yourself because you do
• 2:02:12
  deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself. You
• 2:02:16
  deserve to feel safe. Lots of love.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 4: Relax in a more deep and meaningful way, maybe in
• 2:02:45
  a way that can not just allow you to feel
• 2:02:52
  calmer now and throughout the time we've and together here,
• 2:03:03
  not just relaxed at the end of the recording when
• 2:03:09
  it's finished and you can enjoy that sense of comfort
• 2:03:16
  and peace, but also I think it would be nice
• 2:03:31
  to have those feelings of relaxation continue for longer after
• 2:03:51
  the recording has ended, so that you can still benefit
• 2:04:04
  from listening to my voice, maybe in a few hours time,
• 2:04:13
  perhaps tomorrow, and then by listening regularly, especially if you
• 2:04:27
  find like some people do and myself as well. I
• 2:04:32
  sometimes I find one particular recording that really resonates with me,
• 2:04:43
  and I just listen to it over and over again
• 2:04:47
  every morning, every evening. There was this recording from We're
• 2:05:00
  going back to about nineteen ninety nine. It was it
• 2:05:05
  wasn't hypnosis, but it was a guided visualizations. It kind
• 2:05:10
  of was hypnosis really, and I managed to find it
• 2:05:17
  again and it still has the same effect on me,
• 2:05:24
  And part of it was the person's voice relaxed me,
• 2:05:38
  just felt so peaceful, and I'd look forward to listening
• 2:05:45
  to her in the morning and in the evening. And
• 2:05:57
  I knew before even pressing the play button that since
• 2:06:06
  I've done that, pressed the play button. This is in
• 2:06:11
  the days of CD players, press the play button, if
• 2:06:25
  that it might have even been a tape tape recorder.
• 2:06:29
  I'd lie down on the bed and then even without
• 2:06:38
  necessarily listening to her words, because I had to memorized. Really,
• 2:06:56
  it was as if my body knew exactly what to do,
• 2:07:07
  and the muscles just almost went into automatic relaxation, and
• 2:07:29
  I remember my mind would slow down. Now. Now, I
• 2:07:43
  was listening to this recording in the early days of
• 2:07:49
  learning hypnosis, and long before I ever made any video
• 2:08:00
  or audio recordings myself, because I didn't start doing that
• 2:08:05
  till two thousand and six. But I knew, I knew
• 2:08:19
  how helpful I found being able to just let go,
• 2:08:35
  to have that trust in the person that I'm listening to,
• 2:08:48
  knowing that it's going to be just as relaxing, if
• 2:08:56
  not more so. Each time time you hear my voice,
• 2:09:05
  you may feel the same. Some people have been listening
• 2:09:17
  to me for over a decade, maybe not solidly, obviously
• 2:09:31
  not twenty four hours a day, but maybe people come back.
• 2:09:39
  Some people may be listen every day. There's something that
• 2:09:53
  I do which you may not realize by listening, is
• 2:10:10
  when I record these recordings. Now, for example, I also
• 2:10:26
  am affected by the words that I say. So if
• 2:10:37
  I said to you, focus on your feet, notice your
• 2:10:46
  feet relaxing, I will be focusing on my feet. I
• 2:10:58
  will be noticing and my feet relaxing. If I said,
• 2:11:16
  focus on your hands and maybe notice the difference between
• 2:11:23
  each hand. Perhaps notice the the air in the room,
• 2:11:34
  the temperature of the room. On the backs of your hands.
• 2:11:47
  You may start to notice what almost feels like a
• 2:11:51
  very light breeze, even though there may not be any
• 2:11:59
  type of breeze at all where you are right now.
• 2:12:12
  And as you become aware of your hands, I'm also
• 2:12:23
  aware of how relaxed my hands our feeling now and
• 2:12:52
  when it comes to potentially drifting off to sleep, which
• 2:12:59
  may be the reason you're listening, I also feel drowsy
• 2:13:15
  when I make these recordings. I also notice my mind drifting.
• 2:13:36
  In fact, at times I've actually fallen asleep without even noticing,
• 2:13:54
  and then I carry on talking. It's only when I
• 2:14:05
  listen back to do the editing I hear snoring and
• 2:14:14
  I think, I don't remember snoring. I remember talking. Is
• 2:14:24
  this snoring was a pig turned up? That's why I
• 2:14:32
  sound like when I snare and I get really into
• 2:14:40
  the whole experience. I don't know how you feel, how
• 2:15:00
  relaxed you feel in your feet, how relaxed you feel
• 2:15:10
  in your hands. I have noticed more and more that
• 2:15:37
  the more relaxed, deeper level of comfort you feel, the
• 2:15:54
  easier your breathing becomes. It's almost like that additional muscle relaxation.
• 2:16:19
  So this allows you debree easier without necessarily focusing on
• 2:16:42
  your breath, however, being able to notice the ease.
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 2: In which.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 4: You breathe so naturally. You breathe so very easily and smoothly.
• 2:18:09
  Whenever I imagine my breathing improving when I've got my
• 2:18:27
  eyes closed, I tend to visualize a beautiful field with
• 2:18:46
  trees and flowers producing all that life giving oxygen.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 3: Mhm.
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 4: It feels nice two If nothing else, just taking some
• 2:19:36
  time away from everything I M enjoying that feeling of peace,
• 2:20:18
  serenity with a joyful heart. Time seems to just drip by,
• 2:21:07
  so very slowly, relaxed, so deeply peaceful, completely unattached to
• 2:21:58
  any thought whatsoever in this moment, completely free, noticing that
• 2:23:02
  your mind has slowed down. Slowed down because nothing really
• 2:23:49
  requires your attention. You can enjoy the physical sensations of
• 2:24:20
  allowing the stress to rip out of your body, to
• 2:24:32
  appear out of every part of your body, and being
• 2:24:56
  released from your brain ng your mind slowly but surely,
• 2:25:42
  the muscle sing lax remas rs ly, so very deeply,
• 2:26:29
  rs so deeply, and the feeings, the pleasant feeling things
• 2:27:00
  in your arms and shoulders, deepening each part of your
• 2:27:24
  body further and deeper and deeper. Noticin the feelings in
• 2:28:06
  the back of your neck, feelings in your wrists, muscles,
• 2:29:08
  in front of your body, I all say, feeling peaceful deeply,
• 2:30:03
  there's a sense of peace spreads through your very core.
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 10: Even when you focus on your mind, the mind becomes
• 2:31:11
  eve and slower, even deeper, relaxing, so very slow. Your stomach,
• 2:32:48
  it's Forllin's stomach.
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 4: Your back. Notice Notice how relaxed you'd never fear in
• 2:33:46
  the hole of your back. You spy from your brain
• 2:34:19
  all the way down the middle of your back, sending
• 2:34:28
  and receiving millions of messages every day, deecomfort increasing deep
• 2:35:02
  playing rix.
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 11: You mes.
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 4: Reles, spreading those signals down your spine or cord into air,
• 2:36:14
  every part of your body, your shins and your calf muscles,
• 2:37:00
  your elbows, Feelings of peace and tranquility spreading through your body,
• 2:37:35
  tips of your toes, to your eyes, your fingers, all
• 2:37:51
  the way to your lower back. On the thinker retinker
• 2:38:36
  peace drifting mind just wandering away, happy to let go,
• 2:39:23
  let go completely, let go, so tranquil, the whole body
• 2:40:28
  enjoying a sensor listing go, no peace, fur enjoy the space,
• 2:42:53
  this space.
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 2: Of peace.
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 4: And safety, so fery, relaxed, yay, letting go. Maybe we
• 2:45:25
  can just focus on the different parts of your body,
• 2:45:36
  just to notice a forehead in your eyes.
• 2:46:39
  Speaker 2: You two.
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 4: So lose, noticing the sense of complete freedom, absolute freedom,
• 2:48:12
  pri trit he's fall energy peace, to breathe much easier.
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 2: Loose.
• 2:50:25
  Speaker 4: You may have or may not have noticed your mind drifting.
• 2:51:15
  Speaker 2: Peace for.
• 2:51:30
  Speaker 4: Me any even more deeply in the direction of total
• 2:51:49
  blissful pace, blissful peace est total peace. Come, soap, calm,
• 2:53:58
  letting go, peace with mind rexed foty, sir vexed. So relaxed.
• 2:55:35
  Your body feels almost invisible, so very relaxed. I'm peaceful,
• 2:56:08
  so peaceful, real liquor, so peaceful. And you could start
• 2:57:17
  to notice that you are feeling more relaxed, even though
• 2:57:27
  I've not purposely focused your mind upon that sense of
• 2:57:38
  physical comfort that is growing within you throughout your body,
• 2:57:47
  and your mind starts to slow down, and that could
• 2:57:57
  be almost in recognission of I guess my speech not
• 2:58:05
  being particularly fast, and things just generally feel calmer. Just
• 2:58:23
  by listening to my voice, you give yourself an opportunity
• 2:58:33
  to take a break from the day, take a break
• 2:58:39
  from your life as it is, and to give yourself
• 2:58:47
  a rest, giving yourself permission to take some time off,
• 2:58:57
  and to allow your body to relax and allow your
• 2:59:02
  mind to slow down, which in turn releases the tension
• 2:59:14
  and he stresses that you had in your body. It's
• 2:59:23
  almost as if the parts of your body just open up,
• 2:59:29
  allowing the negativity out and at the same time replacing
• 2:59:41
  that negativity with positive heathing energy, which then fills your
• 2:59:51
  body up and your mind to also starts to appreciate
• 3:00:04
  those feelings of increasing confidence, an almost uplifting feeling, positive healing,
• 3:00:25
  an energy that spreads through your body like a wave
• 3:00:36
  of comfort. And all this comes from just allowing yourself
• 3:00:51
  a few minutes, maybe half an hour, however long you
• 3:00:56
  want it to be, just rest and allow your mind
• 3:01:10
  and your body to almost reset itself to the settings
• 3:01:21
  of comfort and relaxation, calmness, which allows more room for
• 3:01:38
  feelings of pleasure and happiness to move around your body
• 3:01:51
  and into your mind, almost as if your mind and
• 3:01:58
  your body are sinking together, almost mirroring each other with
• 3:02:10
  that growing positivity and calmness, and it feels nice. It
• 3:02:24
  really does feel nice to know that you are the
• 3:02:30
  one that has allowed yourself to feel more comfort and
• 3:02:44
  to experience.
• 3:02:48
  Speaker 2: More of this.
• 3:02:51
  Speaker 4: Deep relaxation spreading throughout your body. And as I focus
• 3:03:08
  on each part of your body, you can notice that
• 3:03:14
  that part becomes even more relaxed just by focusing on it.
• 3:03:31
  It becomes even more calm and comfortable just by focusing.
• 3:03:44
  And as I move down your body, starting at your head,
• 3:03:53
  the parts that you've already focused on will continue to
• 3:04:00
  relax deeply, and those parts that we've not yet focused
• 3:04:07
  on or just automatically release any remain intension in anticipation
• 3:04:21
  of even more comfort about to come. Now, I'm going
• 3:04:34
  to start by focusing on your forehead. Just being aware
• 3:04:41
  of the feelings of your forehead and any background sounds
• 3:04:52
  like mister Herbert the pigeon can just allow you to
• 3:04:57
  feel even more relaxed. Just means you're in the moment.
• 3:05:07
  This isn't this isn't a sterile environment. This is the world.
• 3:05:16
  I live in the countryside, so there's lots of nature
• 3:05:23
  sounds around, so as you focus on your forehead, just
• 3:05:33
  notice how it becomes even more relaxed as you focus
• 3:05:43
  only on my voice and that part of your body.
• 3:05:53
  Moving down to your eyes, focusing on your eyes, noticing
• 3:06:04
  how your eyelids feel so heavy yet so light at
• 3:06:14
  the same time, and all the muscles around your eyes
• 3:06:20
  relaxing completely. Moving your focus down to your mouth, your lips,
• 3:06:35
  your tongue, your teeth, and your gumbs, the whole of
• 3:06:42
  your mouth relaxing, calm and loose, as you focus now
• 3:06:58
  on your jaw, not just the part of your jaw
• 3:07:05
  near your mouth and your chin, but all the way
• 3:07:09
  up the size of your face to your ears, the
• 3:07:16
  hole of your jaw, feeding more relaxed and calm. Focusing
• 3:07:44
  on your neck, the front of your neck and your
• 3:07:49
  throat relaxing and loose and calm. The side of your neck,
• 3:08:04
  the right and left side of your neck, relax and
• 3:08:13
  loose and calm.
• 3:08:24
  Speaker 2: And now the back of your neck.
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 4: Focusing on the back of your neck, letting go of
• 3:08:40
  any tension that may have been there before, and enjoying
• 3:08:47
  that sense of increasing comfort and release that you can
• 3:09:00
  experience in the back of your neck. Moving down your
• 3:09:12
  back and moving either side of your spine right from
• 3:09:19
  the top of your back all the way down to
• 3:09:24
  the bottom of your back, down to your lower back.
• 3:09:42
  And as you move up and down your spine, you
• 3:09:49
  can feel the muscles either side of your spine relaxing
• 3:09:57
  even more. And as those muscles relax, that sense of
• 3:10:10
  comfort starts to spread outwards from your spine into both
• 3:10:21
  sides of your back, the top of your back, the middle,
• 3:10:29
  and your lower back. And as you scan gently and
• 3:10:38
  slowly up and down your back, there's the muscles in
• 3:10:45
  the top of your back relax and become looser. The
• 3:10:55
  muscles in the middle of your back also seem to
• 3:11:01
  just almost divide from each other, separating and almost melting,
• 3:11:16
  And in your lower back there seems to be an
• 3:11:22
  extra special feeling of comfort. The spreads into your hips,
• 3:11:38
  so down your lower back, into your hips, into the
• 3:11:46
  area where your cosis are, and into your buttocks, and
• 3:11:55
  all those muscles that spread bring your lower back into
• 3:12:04
  your hip area start to melt, start to really let go,
• 3:12:25
  and even nowhere about to focus on your shoulders, your
• 3:12:32
  back and your spine will continue to let go, continue
• 3:12:43
  to relax so calmly and As you focus on your shoulders,
• 3:13:00
  you may notice that they're already feeling really loose, They're
• 3:13:15
  already feeding, calm and feeling. Those muscles then move from
• 3:13:42
  your neck into your shoulders feel so soft and gentle,
• 3:14:01
  so smooth and calm, and the feeding in your shoulders
• 3:14:30
  seens to spread deep into your shoulders, that sense of relaxation,
• 3:14:40
  not just traveling deeply into your muscles, but also relaxing
• 3:14:54
  the bones and moving all the way to underneath your arms,
• 3:15:07
  relaxing that whole area between the tops of your shoulders
• 3:15:14
  and underneath your arms healing.
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 2: You feel so.
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 4: Relaxed and comfortable in your shoulders, which sends that deep
• 3:15:44
  healing message into your arms. You may feel almost as
• 3:16:05
  if your arms are not even there, because they're so relaxed,
• 3:16:15
  so deeply relaxed, so so calm, so loose, not feeling
• 3:17:01
  spreading all the way down your arms, two elbows, including
• 3:17:18
  your elbows circumforts spreads.
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 2: Or away.
• 3:17:39
  Speaker 4: Into your wrists, your forearments and your wrists feeling so heavy.
• 3:17:58
  Yet at the same time, sunlight and gentle frey. See
• 3:18:41
  now on your hands, my hands, so peaceful in your hands,
• 3:19:39
  there's sense of real peace. It just seems to I
• 3:20:02
  feel so familiar when your hands relax deeply ees your things,
• 3:21:13
  A thing is said, les you thinger tips, moving your
• 3:22:18
  attention to the front of your body, so comfortable, Moving
• 3:22:48
  your focus to your legs, love muscles in your thighs,
• 3:24:32
  your knees, so relaxed, A carve muscles and just shins
• 3:25:13
  co pusy four the feathing and your feet so peaceful,
• 3:27:28
  so calm, so peaceful, so calm, so peaceful, so calm, so.
• 3:28:26
  Speaker 2: Peace f RelA sin.
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 4: Peace fall so cam loving that deep relaxation. Just spread
• 3:29:02
  your chest and your stomach, letting go everything. So I'm
• 3:29:35
  gonna start counting down now, from twenty down to one.
• 3:29:47
  You can imagine in a way it's like just walking
• 3:29:50
  down some steps and each step or twenty steps, and
• 3:29:56
  each step represents eleven of comfort. Each step represents a
• 3:30:09
  deepening of that comfort, and the fervies you walk down
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  those steps that the deeper and more relaxed you feel.
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  So starting with number twenty twenty, nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen
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  eight fourt fourteen too well five ey nine eight seven
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  y five four two one, And now as you focus
• 3:51:20
  on your eyes, We're gonna count down from ten tout one,
• 3:51:40
  focusing just on your eyes, your eyelids, the muscles around
• 3:51:50
  your eyes, your eye walls themselves, our whole area that
• 3:52:01
  makes up your eye. And as we count down from
• 3:52:15
  ten down to one, whilst focusing on your eyes, you
• 3:52:30
  will become twice is relaxed with each number counting down
• 3:52:45
  that you may find the all you want to do
• 3:52:52
  is just drift off to sleep. And if that's what
• 3:53:01
  you want, then just allow yourself to do that. Now,
• 3:53:17
  focus in on your eyes. I'm going to begin counting
• 3:53:23
  down from ten down to one right now, ten nine
• 3:54:41
  eight seven ye five four f three two one. So
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  count and down from ten to one ten nine eight
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  seven six five four three two one. And maybe that
• 4:03:29
  was a bit too quick in order to relax. Maybe
• 4:03:33
  it's a bit too fast for you to notice the
• 4:03:39
  calming of your body, maybe even a little bit of
• 4:03:46
  pressure there, Like you're counting down from ten to one.
• 4:03:50
  Would you expect me to do? Man, expect me to
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  stick old floppy just because you're counting down. We could
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  try it again, but this time I go this lower.
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  This time, as you focus on the whole of your body,
• 4:04:15
  before we focus on your legs, just notice how your
• 4:04:22
  body does start to feel more relaxed with every number
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  that I count down ten nine, eight, seven, six, five
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  four three two one, And just notice how how you feel, generally,
• 4:06:28
  how your body feels. It's not necessarily even about counting
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  down from ten to one. It's that space that you have,
• 4:06:51
  that space between being active physically or mentally to just
• 4:07:14
  sitting or lying down and just being there, not doing anything,
• 4:07:20
  not saying anything, or needing to think about anything. So
• 4:07:27
  it opens up a space, you know, a bit of
• 4:07:30
  a space, a gap. And the more I comed down
• 4:07:41
  from ten to one, the bigger that gap becomes. So
• 4:07:49
  there's that gap of calmness, of comfort, relaxation. It's a
• 4:08:01
  nice feeling, and it moves those stresses or discomforts physically
• 4:08:15
  or emotionally, moves them away. Allows you to just slow down,
• 4:08:38
  someone to count again from ten down to one, and
• 4:08:41
  notice that gap widening the gap. And as it widens,
• 4:08:51
  it's almost like the stress and attention falls into the
• 4:08:57
  gap and gives you that distance, that space. Now ten nine, eight, seven, six,
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  five four three.
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  Speaker 2: Two one.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how does your body feel.
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Can you notice that? Do you feeling calmer, the feeling
• 4:11:58
  more relaxed as we now focus on your legs, just
• 4:12:26
  your legs. We're just gonna start with focusing on your thighs.
• 4:13:02
  Of course, it's not the most exciting thing to be doing,
• 4:13:07
  because I'm sure, like most of your body is not
• 4:13:13
  a lot going on right now. Just focusing on the
• 4:13:26
  whole of your thighs, the tops of your thighs, the
• 4:13:32
  sides of your thighs, the bottoms of your thighs, your
• 4:13:39
  outer thighs, and your inner thighs. Basically the whole of
• 4:13:44
  your thigh that leads into your hip and it goes
• 4:13:53
  down to your knee joints. Now, this is a big area.
• 4:14:08
  It's a very heavy area. It's very strong, probably the
• 4:14:13
  strongest muscles in your body or in your thighs. But
• 4:14:28
  I don't think we perhaps give enough attention to our thighs.
• 4:14:42
  Perhaps we don't acknowledge how important our thighs are to
• 4:14:53
  our lives, how much they actually do for us all
• 4:15:13
  through our lives. And it may seem to sound really weird,
• 4:15:24
  but I think that all of our body parts, especially
• 4:15:33
  our thighs, need some TLC, a bit of love shown,
• 4:15:41
  a bit of acknowledgement. I thank you gratitude for our
• 4:16:00
  guys do for us. And I know this may sound
• 4:16:09
  a bit strange. Maybe you think, why am I sure?
• 4:16:15
  How I should be out in the garden hugging a
• 4:16:18
  tree or something. Well, it's hard to set a microphone
• 4:16:26
  up on a tree. That's why I'm doing this indoors.
• 4:16:29
  Otherwise I would be outside hugging a tree. Now I
• 4:16:33
  can't see the television from the tree. If you move
• 4:16:42
  down to your knees gaining such an important part, and
• 4:16:52
  I think we don't necessarily I'll speak for myself here,
• 4:16:59
  I don't necessary I really appreciate all that my knees
• 4:17:04
  do for me until I have a problem with my knee.
• 4:17:10
  It's occasionally, if I ever maybe i'll pash it, or
• 4:17:15
  it's aching for some reason. It's then that I realize
• 4:17:21
  how much it does. You know, the benefit of being
• 4:17:25
  able to use my legs without any kind of physical
• 4:17:34
  discomfort is a beautiful thing that's possibly not appreciated until
• 4:17:43
  it's temporarily removed. You know that's comfort. But as you
• 4:17:53
  focus on your knees, regardless of how your knees feel,
• 4:18:01
  you can have that sense of gratitude and love to
• 4:18:07
  your knees for all that they do for you, and
• 4:18:20
  you can still have that attention on your thighs and
• 4:18:23
  maybe notice how your thighs feel. Maybe you've noticed that
• 4:18:30
  they are relaxing more deeply as you focus now on
• 4:18:49
  the bottoms of your legs, your shins, and your calf muscles,
• 4:18:54
  and the bones between your knees and your feet, incorporating
• 4:19:01
  of course, your ankles. So important. You know, anyone that's
• 4:19:12
  had even like the slightest sprain of an ankle knows
• 4:19:19
  how how much we take our ankles for granted. And
• 4:19:31
  it's kind of strange in a way when you think that.
• 4:19:36
  You know, logically, our wrists are a lot thinner than
• 4:19:40
  the rest of our arms, which is okay, it doesn't
• 4:19:44
  can't see any problem with that because we're just picking
• 4:19:48
  stuff up. But our ankles so much thinner than the
• 4:19:55
  rest of our legs, and from a physics perspective or
• 4:20:06
  logical even it doesn't really make sense that all this
• 4:20:10
  weight would ultimately be resting on your ankles then leading
• 4:20:19
  to your feet. That thin area, thin bone. Yeah, it
• 4:20:32
  does so much great work. Supports us, supports our body
• 4:20:39
  for a lifetime, helps us to balance, helps you to
• 4:20:54
  get around and be mobile. And there's the calf muscles.
• 4:21:03
  Of course, when I was younger, I couldn't see the
• 4:21:11
  point in calf muscles. It didn't seem to do anything. Okay,
• 4:21:17
  if I walked around on tiptoes, then my calf muscles
• 4:21:21
  get some work. But of course that's not true. The
• 4:21:24
  calf muscles are being used whenever we use our legs
• 4:21:34
  and your shins there to protect your lower legs, shaped
• 4:21:47
  in a way, almost as a protector for the bone,
• 4:21:59
  leading of course to your ankles and your feet. But
• 4:22:11
  we're not going to focus on your feet. We're just
• 4:22:13
  going to focus on the legs. I realize that now
• 4:22:20
  that I've mentioned your feet, it probably focuses on them anyway,
• 4:22:25
  So maybe I should focus on your feet a little bit.
• 4:22:31
  You can have them in your awareness the same as
• 4:22:36
  you have your thighs in your awareness. Even though we
• 4:22:40
  haven't been focusing on your thighs a few minutes, we've
• 4:22:46
  been focusing on your ankles, there's still that sensation of
• 4:23:00
  comfort in your thighs in this that movement of energy,
• 4:23:15
  because the thighs hold lots of different sensations. Of course,
• 4:23:22
  there's the muscles, the big straw muscles, that we have
• 4:23:27
  in our thighs. But the skin on the outside of
• 4:23:41
  the thighs, as in the outside of all of our body,
• 4:23:47
  can be very sensitive, sensitive to the touch, sensitive to temperature.
• 4:24:05
  And inside your thighs the bones, there's the muscle, there's
• 4:24:13
  the blood, vessels, the arch trees, it's all this stuff
• 4:24:18
  that's inside your thighs. And I guess sometimes it'd be
• 4:24:26
  nice if you could actually put your fingers inside your
• 4:24:31
  thighs and a message, so you can message on the outside,
• 4:24:37
  of course, but to be able to get deep into
• 4:24:40
  the muscles and to be able to just message inside
• 4:24:45
  your thighs, message in the bones of your leg, message
• 4:24:52
  in all the veins, and just gently healing your thighs,
• 4:25:05
  and you could move down messaging inside your knees, message
• 4:25:13
  in those bones, but with healing fingertips spreading that healing
• 4:25:20
  energy deep into the joints of your knees. Of course,
• 4:25:30
  there's the back of your your knee, you know, the
• 4:25:34
  inside crease where your knee is. It's a very sensitive area.
• 4:25:43
  Very it feels very nice when you stroke it. That
• 4:25:47
  might be because it's an area that's not really touched
• 4:25:51
  very often. It's almost like a hidden part that crease
• 4:26:00
  in your legs. It's almost it's like a part that
• 4:26:06
  has a sensitivity, which is a little bit different. Of course,
• 4:26:18
  it's protected by your legs. So you can imagine putting
• 4:26:29
  your fingers into that crease in your legs. Folding between
• 4:26:39
  your legs, you can just massage with your fingertips. Imagine
• 4:26:44
  your fingertips going inside, massage in the muscle tissue. You
• 4:26:56
  can of course feel the bones of your knee is
• 4:27:01
  healing through your fingertips. And then as you go down
• 4:27:15
  to your calf muscles. Now that's the part I'd like
• 4:27:17
  to be able to really put my fingertips deep inside
• 4:27:23
  my calf muscles, massage in every single tissue of that muscle,
• 4:27:33
  healing every part. And then doing the same for my shins,
• 4:27:47
  massage in and gently stroking the bones, gently stroking them,
• 4:27:54
  healing in a loving way, because they deserve to be
• 4:27:59
  treated as the precious bones that they are, because our
• 4:28:06
  legs are so precious as in all the other parts
• 4:28:10
  of our body, and more precious of any jure on
• 4:28:17
  the planet. When you start to think about your legs
• 4:28:34
  in this way, it can change your perspective. It might
• 4:28:45
  sound a bit a bit silly to start with the
• 4:28:52
  idea of having love for your legs, showing appreciation for
• 4:29:00
  your thighs, wanting to be able to put your hands
• 4:29:07
  in your thighs, massage the muscles and the bones, and
• 4:29:16
  to get your fingers deep in there, releasing all tension.
• 4:29:24
  Just to show how much you care about your legs,
• 4:29:34
  how much you care for what your legs do for
• 4:29:38
  you regularly, your knees, your calves, your ankles, the strength
• 4:29:52
  of your ankles, considering how thin they are compared to
• 4:30:00
  the rest of your legs, especially your thighs. Yeah, they're
• 4:30:07
  so strong, so flexible, absolutely amazing things. Your ankles are
• 4:30:23
  truly a gift because of what they do for you,
• 4:30:33
  supporting all that weight, regardless of how what weight you are,
• 4:30:41
  even if you only ate stone, there's still a lot
• 4:30:46
  of weight for these little ankles. Now, I'm a lot
• 4:30:53
  heavier than eight stone double down, yet my ankles support
• 4:31:03
  my body all the time, or they do give off
• 4:31:11
  a sigh of relief when I sit down, I have
• 4:31:16
  my whole legs do my feet feet also go and
• 4:31:25
  my toes clap. We're so happy. Your legs really are amazing,
• 4:31:56
  and I know.
• 4:31:56
  Speaker 5: That about talking about your legs is probably.
• 4:32:02
  Speaker 4: Possibly among the most most boring things I've ever heard
• 4:32:07
  anyone say. Possibly or boring or not, everything I said
• 4:32:16
  is true. Your legs are amazing. Your legs deserve not
• 4:32:33
  just respect, they deserve to relax deeply. They deserve to
• 4:32:51
  take some time out of the day to just let
• 4:32:57
  go completely. Your legs really can relax. And because the
• 4:33:33
  legs are so such a most, you know, very important
• 4:33:38
  part of your body. When you relax your legs, the
• 4:33:43
  rest of your body also naturally follows in that journey
• 4:33:54
  of comfort. I can feel it in my hips. My
• 4:34:06
  hips feel really loose, and also my lwer back as well.
• 4:34:15
  My lower back really feels it feels stretched, even though
• 4:34:21
  I'm just sitting in a chair and there's no stretching
• 4:34:27
  as far as I'm aware that I'm doing. It's almost
• 4:34:30
  as if the muscles are just relaxed so much that
• 4:34:34
  there is a natural stretch as the tension has reduced
• 4:34:43
  a lot. And I'm now going to count down from
• 4:35:02
  ten down to one, and you can continue to fill
• 4:35:13
  wonderfully relaxed ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four three
• 4:35:50
  two one relax. So I'm just going to count down
• 4:36:12
  from five down to one, and as I countdown, if
• 4:36:17
  you just focus on the numbers, just the numbers counting down,
• 4:36:25
  and notice how you feel in this moment as you
• 4:36:34
  hear the numbers counting down, knowing that those numbers counting
• 4:36:42
  down represent you feeling calmer, not just in your body,
• 4:36:52
  but also relaxing your mind. Just notice how you phil
• 4:37:01
  there's nothing to do, there's nothing to say, there's nothing
• 4:37:07
  to think about, starting with number five, four, three, two.
• 4:37:50
  Speaker 2: One.
• 4:38:00
  Speaker 4: And as you notice the gradual letting go that the
• 4:38:12
  tension in your body, you may also begin to notice
• 4:38:19
  and be aware of how your mind is starting to
• 4:38:28
  slow down. This is just a natural thing that happens.
• 4:38:37
  It's not really a special procedure. It's just natural because
• 4:38:42
  as your body relaxes, your mind also starts to relax.
• 4:38:50
  And the more your mind relaxes, the more your body relaxes.
• 4:38:54
  It's just a continuous circle of relaxation. And there's that
• 4:39:05
  calmness that comes from relative quietness. You know, even even
• 4:39:13
  if there's background sounds either your side, online, it's still
• 4:39:21
  going to be quite calm. You know, you haven't got
• 4:39:26
  the television on, there's no music in the background unless
• 4:39:31
  you're listening to the recording with music. Of course, you're
• 4:39:39
  very likely not going to be sitting in a room
• 4:39:41
  with other people. Of course you might be, but generally
• 4:39:46
  it's more ideal if you can do this on your own,
• 4:39:51
  so no distractions, and when you stop thinking about stuff,
• 4:40:07
  relaxation automatically rises, a sense of comfort starts to grow,
• 4:40:22
  and without trying to build it up into something fantastical
• 4:40:29
  or something magical, this is just a natural process, something
• 4:40:41
  that's easy to accomplish. In fact, it's almost you know,
• 4:40:51
  the sense of relaxing completely happens really when you put
• 4:40:58
  no effort in to it. It's not something that you
• 4:41:02
  can really force. It's something that happens naturally. And part
• 4:41:14
  of the process of this recording and others is simply
• 4:41:24
  two allow you to take advantage of this space this time.
• 4:41:40
  It's just let go to just be here, to be
• 4:41:51
  in tune with how you feel, yet with the intention
• 4:42:07
  of wanting to relax deeply and maybe even to fall asleep,
• 4:42:19
  depending on what it is that you wish for yourself
• 4:42:26
  in this moment. As we know, relaxing is the majority
• 4:42:43
  of the process of falling asleep. The actual falling asleep
• 4:42:47
  part is the tiny bit at the end, the deeper
• 4:42:55
  relaxed do you become, the easier you find yourself drifting.
• 4:43:18
  You can also, if you choose, stay focused on my
• 4:43:25
  voice and really enjoy the process, gradually relaxing each muscle
• 4:43:58
  in your body effortlessly and just observing the sensation of
• 4:44:25
  letting go completely. This time, I'm going to count from
• 4:44:41
  six down to one, and you can notice your mind
• 4:44:54
  calming down more with each number, do you hear me say,
• 4:45:07
  naturally feeling calm and slow and peaceful, six, five, four,
• 4:46:43
  three two one, being aware of how your mind has
• 4:48:17
  slowed right down, sinking deeply into relaxation. And as you
• 4:48:46
  focus on your mind, you may notice that there are
• 4:48:55
  some thoughts still there, maybe some stubborn thoughts that for
• 4:49:05
  some reason perhaps need your attention. That's what you can
• 4:49:18
  do is send love to those thoughts. Sprinkle those thoughts
• 4:49:36
  with love like all petals from a flower. Just sprinkle
• 4:49:42
  it over them, petals filled with love towards those thoughts,
• 4:49:50
  to let those thoughts know that you're not abandoned in them.
• 4:49:57
  You just need them. You require them to just calm down,
• 4:50:08
  slow down, quiet down for now. So as you focus
• 4:50:25
  on those remaining thoughts. As we count down this time
• 4:50:30
  from seven down to one. With each number, just imagine
• 4:50:39
  sprinkling those flower petals of love, kindness, gratitude over those thoughts,
• 4:51:00
  which will allow them to just melt away and relax deeply.
• 4:51:11
  With every number, those thoughts will become more and more relaxed,
• 4:51:31
  starting with number seven, six, five, four, three, one. And
• 4:54:02
  as you now notice how relaxed your feeling in your body,
• 4:54:28
  we're going to focus on your hands, because the more
• 4:54:41
  relaxed your hands are, the more relaxed your body and
• 4:54:49
  mind are. And you focus on your hands and your fingers,
• 4:55:16
  there's nothing needed to be done. There's no clenching of
• 4:55:21
  fists or tents in the fingers or anything like that.
• 4:55:32
  It's just noticing and focusing on your hands, noticing how
• 4:55:47
  they feel. Because the more relaxed your hands feel, the
• 4:56:12
  calmer your mind feels, and the more comfort you feel
• 4:56:23
  throughout your body. And you may have already noticed your
• 4:56:53
  mind is darting to dress like since just on your
• 4:57:24
  hands and fingers allowing them to experience are real deepening
• 4:57:44
  of that relaxation in your hands and fingers more and
• 4:57:59
  more lax with each number from eight down to one,
• 4:58:23
  you can almost feel that healing and relaxing energy spreading
• 4:58:34
  into your hands and fingers, becoming year more relaxing with
• 4:58:53
  each number you hear, going down eight, down to one,
• 4:59:11
  to drift in, to drifting again starting with number eight, seven, six.
• 5:01:17
  Speaker 2: Five, four.
• 5:02:02
  Speaker 4: Three, Just being here now, nothing to think about, nothing
• 5:03:31
  to do, nothing to say, and everything just feels calmer.
• 5:03:47
  And this is your natural state of being. This is
• 5:03:55
  how you just normally feel when you take off way
• 5:04:01
  all that other stuff that we add, you know, things
• 5:04:08
  like stress and worrying and overthinking and anxiety, tension, just
• 5:04:24
  generally thinking about stuff. When you take that away, which
• 5:04:31
  is what we do what we do now, you're left
• 5:04:40
  with a real sense of peacefulness which comes to you
• 5:04:51
  very quickly because ultimately it's just a feeling, a feeling
• 5:05:06
  of comfort. It's almost as if you've gone inside yourself
• 5:05:13
  and you've found a special place where everything is peaceful,
• 5:05:28
  a place where you can feel relaxed and your natural
• 5:05:35
  sense of comfort, a place where you can be you,
• 5:05:47
  where you can accept yourself for who you are, a
• 5:05:54
  place where you're not trying to please anybody else ever,
• 5:06:04
  a place where you can actually not just love yourself
• 5:06:13
  but in some ways. More importantly, you can like yourself,
• 5:06:21
  appreciate who you are. That sense of gratitude is in
• 5:06:38
  the air all around you. That's also a place where
• 5:06:49
  you can actually feel the healing energy soaking into your body.
• 5:07:06
  Healing energy soaking into your body, and that healing energy
• 5:07:18
  spreads through your veins, traveling to each and every single
• 5:07:29
  part of your body, and you start to realize that
• 5:07:40
  actually that healing energy, it's not just entered into your brain,
• 5:07:50
  it's become part of your brain, and that spinal fluid
• 5:08:02
  is now mixed with healing energy, not just allowing you
• 5:08:13
  to feel so much more relaxed and healthy in this moment,
• 5:08:25
  but also you start to realize that actually, what's happening
• 5:08:35
  now with that healing, relaxing energy spreading through your body,
• 5:08:45
  it's actually changing your life. It's actually changing the way
• 5:08:56
  you're going to feel not just now, but tomorrow and
• 5:09:03
  the next day. As your health improves, not just your
• 5:09:12
  physical health but your mental health. Things that used to
• 5:09:20
  bother you in the past, for some reason, no longer
• 5:09:28
  have the effect that they used to because something has
• 5:09:35
  changed deep within you. Maybe things that used to cause
• 5:09:48
  you to feel anger no longer have that power to
• 5:10:00
  control you the way they seem to be able to before.
• 5:10:09
  As you realize that you're the one who decides what
• 5:10:20
  affects you, You're the one who decides to feel relaxed
• 5:10:33
  and calm when you choose to enjoy noticing these natural
• 5:10:47
  developments of healing, continuing to grow and improve your life
• 5:11:01
  day by day, including of course, your ability to relax
• 5:11:14
  so much easier and sleeping. It is the most natural
• 5:11:29
  thing in the world to you, because falling asleep is
• 5:11:39
  something that you've done so many times in your life,
• 5:11:51
  and you know that you were born, as we all were,
• 5:11:55
  with the ability to fall asleep, but naturally we were
• 5:12:05
  born with that ability to just drift off into a deep,
• 5:12:18
  healing sleep. Even when we're kids, sometimes will fall asleep
• 5:12:30
  when we don't even want to try to stay awake.
• 5:12:37
  Maybe it's a birthday in the morning, or it's Christmas
• 5:12:40
  or holiday or something we look forward to. We don't
• 5:12:44
  want to go to sleep. But the more we want
• 5:12:49
  to stay awake, the more we just start to drift.
• 5:12:58
  And the more you fight drifting while we try to
• 5:13:02
  stop yourself and drift in a shape, the deeper and
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  stronger that drifting becomes because we're born not just with
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  the need to relax deeply and to naturally fall asleep,
• 5:13:29
  but it's our birthright, it's part of our DNA. And
• 5:13:42
  sometimes as we get older in life, perhaps at times
• 5:13:49
  we have forgotten that relaxing completely. It's not only a
• 5:14:02
  wonderfully pleasant experience, it's also really easy. It's very, very
• 5:14:27
  easy to let go, because that's all it is. It's
• 5:14:33
  just deciding to let go. And when you press the
• 5:14:48
  play button on my recordings, you have given permission for
• 5:14:58
  my voice to relax you. When you press that play button,
• 5:15:08
  you've given me permission for my words to affect you
• 5:15:19
  in a positive, only a positive way, opening up your
• 5:15:36
  mind too useful and healing suggestions that can have such
• 5:15:59
  an amazing in effect on how you feel right now,
• 5:16:11
  as well as those changes that continue long after the
• 5:16:21
  recording ends, those changes within you to continue to flourish
• 5:16:32
  and grow, transforming your life in a positive, beautiful way,
• 5:16:50
  allowing you to move forward in your life in the
• 5:16:57
  direction that you choose for yourself. And this feeling, this
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  feeling that you can experience of safety, comfort, calmness, this
• 5:17:30
  feels so nice. It's such a healthy place to be,
• 5:17:52
  and that positivity grows within you. Each and every day
• 5:18:09
  moving forward, you're going to find that you're more relaxed
• 5:18:21
  physically and in your mind is more relaxed. And it's
• 5:18:33
  not that you're thinking slower. It's just that your mind
• 5:18:39
  will be less clogged up with unnecessary negativity because from
• 5:18:51
  now on, your mind rejects negativity. From now on, you're
• 5:19:01
  going to start noticing when negativity arises, and you can
• 5:19:12
  just say stop, stop, and that negativity will turn around
• 5:19:27
  and leave you alone. Stop and that negativity will disappear.
• 5:19:54
  And as you notice that you feel way more relaxed
• 5:20:02
  than you probably expected, you can now congratulate yourself because
• 5:20:18
  you're the person that has done this. You are the
• 5:20:24
  one that has opened your mind up to the simple facts.
• 5:20:33
  You can feel more relaxed in your body and in
• 5:20:39
  your mind. You've opened your mind up to the birthright
• 5:20:51
  of being able to just fall asleep easily when you choose.
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  And that's a nice feeling. Don't you think it feels nice?
• 5:21:15
  Doesn't it? To feel calm? All that healing energy is
• 5:21:25
  spreading through your body and your mind to spend time
• 5:21:36
  in a special place where negativity can no longer enter.
• 5:21:53
  Negativity is banned. It's bad, it's not allowed. Intrigue doesn't
• 5:22:03
  it doesn't. This doesn't deserve to be here, doesn't belong here.
• 5:22:11
  Negativity has no place in your life. Which makes room
• 5:22:26
  feel more comfort, more healing, more relaxation, more peace. It
• 5:22:57
  feels nice, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Just the let go.
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  Speaker 4: With everything. I'm going to count down now from twenty
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  down to one. You can continue to relax. If you choose,
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  you can drift to sleep with every number you hear
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  me say, you can fill twice as relaxed, or if
• 5:24:01
  you choose, you can fill twice sleeping now. Twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six,
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  five four. This is your time to just take a break,
• 5:27:16
  your time to relax, to allow your mind to slow down,
• 5:27:36
  to give yourself permission to take a break from everything.
• 5:27:55
  And you're the only person that can make that decision.
• 5:28:02
  You're the only person that can actually tell your mind
• 5:28:10
  to just relax, to just take some time off so
• 5:28:34
  that you can focus on your body, getting in touch
• 5:28:39
  with how you feel physically, and in the process of
• 5:28:57
  this body scan where you focus on different parts of
• 5:29:02
  your body, those parts that you focus on and observe.
• 5:29:15
  Even though you're not purposely requesting for those parts of
• 5:29:24
  your body to relax, it's kind of expected. You expect
• 5:29:33
  when you listen to my voice to feel more relaxed naturally,
• 5:29:46
  because when you're listening to me, your attention is focused
• 5:29:56
  on my words, and as my words guide you to
• 5:30:07
  focus on those parts of your body, your focus increases,
• 5:30:27
  which actually calms your mind. And when your mind calms down,
• 5:30:48
  your body relaxes. And when you body calms down, your
• 5:31:10
  mind relaxes. And even though I've not really started the
• 5:31:27
  focus on your body, you can already feel that healing
• 5:31:40
  energy spreading through your body, pushing out stress and tension.
• 5:31:59
  Speaker 2: Healing.
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  Speaker 4: All the parts of your body, including your skin, your bones,
• 5:32:10
  your blood, all of your organs inside your body, all
• 5:32:16
  of the muscles, all of the fat, all of everything,
• 5:32:24
  every hair on your body is filled with that healing energy.
• 5:32:39
  And when your brain fills with that healing energy, the
• 5:32:54
  feeling of comfort and relaxation increases, deeply increases in a
• 5:33:19
  way to your mind starts to feel perhaps bit drowsy
• 5:33:39
  because it's not needed, and it may start.
• 5:33:49
  Speaker 2: To drift.
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  Speaker 4: If that's what's needed. So if you're listening to this
• 5:34:07
  and what you need is deep relaxation, that's what you'll get.
• 5:34:14
  If what you need is to fall asleep naturally and
• 5:34:21
  easily as your mind drifts, that's also what will happen.
• 5:34:35
  Because by pressing that play button on the podcast and
• 5:34:43
  listening to me, you give permission for your body and
• 5:34:50
  your mind. In fact, you give the command on to
• 5:35:01
  your body and your mind to relax deeply and to
• 5:35:13
  drift off to sleep if that's what you want or need.
• 5:35:30
  And as I focus on the different parts of your body,
• 5:35:40
  you may start to just drift. And then you come
• 5:35:49
  back again and you hear me talking, and I'm focusing
• 5:35:55
  on a different parts of your body, and you may
• 5:36:05
  find yourself drifting. You don't realize you're drifting until you
• 5:36:14
  stop drifting and you're alert again to my voice focusing
• 5:36:24
  on a different part of your body starts to relax
• 5:36:29
  even deeper, because that drifting is basically you already in
• 5:36:41
  the sleep zone. And the more you drift, the longer
• 5:36:52
  you drift, and the longer you drift, eventually that drifting
• 5:37:02
  continues into sleep, and that's the last you remember until
• 5:37:14
  you wake up in your own time when you experience
• 5:37:23
  the right amount of sleep for you, because when you
• 5:37:31
  do and if you do fall asleep, it's extremely pleasant,
• 5:37:43
  so relaxing, so deep, healing sleep. It feels so nice
• 5:38:06
  to relax into your own body and mind as you
• 5:38:16
  feel that heathing energy is spreading through it, relaxing news
• 5:38:24
  so deeply, relaxing, use so so deeply. As we start
• 5:38:46
  to focus on your eyes, moving down to you chure,
• 5:39:10
  down to your neck, your shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, your chest,
• 5:39:58
  the stomach, your back, your spine, you it's your legs,
• 5:40:40
  your feet, you chose and feeling feeting spreading and growing
• 5:41:18
  inside your body, feeling you up. Now let's focus again
• 5:41:32
  on parts of your body, focusing this time on your forehead.
• 5:41:47
  Now on your mouth, your lips, your tongue, the whole
• 5:41:56
  of your mouth. Focus in on your fingers. Maybe you
• 5:42:18
  could move your fingers a little bit so you can
• 5:42:23
  focus on each one individually, both hands, and even though
• 5:42:38
  as you focus on both of your hands now they
• 5:42:43
  almost seem to just melt into one. Where there is
• 5:42:51
  your right hand, start in your left hand and almost
• 5:42:59
  as it h just mixed together. Now focusing on your knees,
• 5:43:17
  just noticing how your knees feel. Now, focusing on your elbows,
• 5:43:42
  focusing on both of your elbows, just observing the feeling
• 5:43:57
  of your elbows. Now, focusing absurving the back of your neck,
• 5:44:39
  feeding the energy on the back of your neck, Observing
• 5:45:19
  your ankles, being aware of physical sensations in your ankles,
• 5:46:39
  not to sin now your toast. I'm going for your feet,
• 5:46:57
  being aware how you toast feel right now. Notice then
• 5:47:53
  how you entire body feels. Noticing your mind feels now,
• 5:48:42
  letting go, letting go, letting go everything, letting go, letting go,
• 5:49:32
  letting go everything, everything. Where can it start now? And
• 5:50:00
  I'd like you just, first of all, just to see
• 5:50:03
  yourself lying down on that message table, lying on your front.
• 5:50:12
  Your head is supported, your arms are supported, and you
• 5:50:20
  feel comfortable and breathing is really easy, and you feel
• 5:50:30
  you feel confident in how you look as well. So
• 5:50:34
  there's none of that issue of body problems or shyness,
• 5:50:39
  because I'm a professional and this is a therapy session,
• 5:50:48
  so none of that stuff matters whatsoever. This is about you.
• 5:50:58
  This is about how you feel and how you can
• 5:51:06
  enjoy that sense of comfort and relaxation. That comes from
• 5:51:13
  letting go and allowing my hands and my fingers to
• 5:51:18
  relax you by a message your body. So I want
• 5:51:30
  to start off just by placing my hands on the
• 5:51:35
  back of your head, just gently, just you can feel
• 5:51:40
  what my hands feel like really on you. So you
• 5:51:49
  can maybe feel the warmth of my hands on the
• 5:51:51
  back of your head. With my hands to the side
• 5:51:57
  of your head, not pressing, but just holding there very gently,
• 5:52:04
  maybe over your ears, and a little bit on your face,
• 5:52:08
  just so you can feel my hands so you can
• 5:52:14
  become accustomed to them. And now put my hands on
• 5:52:27
  the back of your head again and gently let them
• 5:52:31
  slide down onto the back of your neck. You can
• 5:52:44
  feel my hands gently stroking the back of your neck
• 5:52:54
  to start with. You can get used to the feeling
• 5:53:03
  with my hands on your skin, get accustomed to realize
• 5:53:11
  that you're safe and it's all good, it's all fine.
• 5:53:21
  And I'm going to start gently messaging the muscles in
• 5:53:26
  the back of your neck with both hands. Now, this
• 5:53:42
  is a very trusting situation really, because our necks are
• 5:53:48
  so fragile and to have someone have their hands around
• 5:53:53
  your neck in that way can sometimes be problematic for people,
• 5:54:00
  which is why massages are quite good because it allows
• 5:54:04
  you to relax and to get in touch with trust,
• 5:54:18
  to feel peaceful and calm. And there's a massage the
• 5:54:30
  sides of your neck gently moving from the bottom of
• 5:54:39
  your neck. It would be sort of near where your
• 5:54:42
  shoulders start, I guess, all the way up to your jaw,
• 5:54:50
  your ears, kind of area that side of your neck.
• 5:54:56
  Of course, it's a lot longer than the front of
• 5:54:59
  your neck. The message in the back of your neck,
• 5:55:19
  especially that area where perhaps we hold tension, and as
• 5:55:28
  that area's message, you can actually feel a sense of
• 5:55:32
  release in the back of your neck, and maybe you
• 5:55:41
  can breathe it out as well.
• 5:55:45
  Speaker 5: Notice how it feels. Notice how you feel.
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  Speaker 4: Then moving down to that area between your neck and
• 5:56:01
  your shoulders, that musty area, starting to message that area
• 5:56:11
  on both sides. I mean, this would be the area
• 5:56:16
  that a lot of people would message if they were
• 5:56:18
  going to give you like a shoulder message. Even that's
• 5:56:23
  not technically the shoulders, but it's all the muscles that
• 5:56:27
  lead to the shoulders from the neck and a game
• 5:56:33
  that can hold tension and stress. And when massaged sometimes
• 5:56:40
  a nice deep message is useful and you decide how
• 5:56:48
  deep that message is, and just allow my knuckles just
• 5:57:06
  to dig in to get to those muscles and to
• 5:57:10
  read relaxed all the time being firm yet gentle with
• 5:57:23
  you and just stroking down the area to your actual shoulders,
• 5:57:43
  moving to the muscles of your shoulders, and maybe initially
• 5:57:53
  just pulling up the shoulders a little bit of the
• 5:57:57
  table just to get you're a little bit of a stretch,
• 5:58:03
  but very gently, and you've got the muscles at the
• 5:58:12
  front of your shoulders the sides of the back. Again,
• 5:58:24
  this is a part that can really.
• 5:58:27
  Speaker 5: Take quite a bit of pressure, quite a bit of.
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  Speaker 4: Needing. If if you wish to really release the tension
• 5:58:43
  to really get into those muscles and let your fingers
• 5:58:50
  in there. They can feel really nice. Sometimes just being
• 5:58:57
  stroked gently or being massaged quite strongly, it can all
• 5:59:07
  be beneficial to the reaxation. Put the muscles in your shoulders.
• 5:59:27
  Now to move down your arms, we do one arm
• 5:59:37
  at a time, starting with your right arm. Well, ideas
• 5:59:48
  I just lift your arm up, just hold it to
• 5:59:52
  the side of you that where it still be attached,
• 6:00:00
  and not just message the tops of your arms all
• 6:00:14
  the way down to your forearms into your wrists gently
• 6:00:32
  massaging that parts, the softer part, which is the under
• 6:00:45
  part of the arm, which leads to the crease in
• 6:00:51
  your robo the inside. It's much more sensitive skin sometimes
• 6:01:07
  just having that stroked and I feel really nice, pleasurable
• 6:01:17
  and relaxing. Now moving down to your right hand, just
• 6:01:36
  holding your hand in both of my hands, just pressing
• 6:01:48
  gently on the back of your hand and stretching your
• 6:01:55
  fingers ever so lightly at the same time, pressing down
• 6:02:06
  and massaging each finger, and then starting to massage the
• 6:02:19
  palms of the hand. Just turning the hand gently, stretching
• 6:02:32
  it gently, and actually having your hand held can really
• 6:02:41
  be an emotional experience sometimes even if it is a stranger.
• 6:02:51
  So when you don't know very well, like a massage
• 6:02:55
  person or a therapist, maybe is this intimate and you
• 6:03:08
  can feel nice, you can feel safe. And as I
• 6:03:21
  put that right arm back down where it was, we
• 6:03:30
  did the same with your left arm, exactly the same,
• 6:03:41
  massage in the muscles in your arm all the way
• 6:03:46
  down to your wrist, stroking the inside of your arm,
• 6:04:00
  just being gentle or as firm as you require, and
• 6:04:13
  then massaging your left hand, stretching the fingers gently massaging
• 6:04:30
  the palm of your left hand. You feel so so relaxing,
• 6:04:58
  so comforting, and just rest your left down. Back down.
• 6:05:23
  Start to massage your back, the biggest part of your body,
• 6:05:35
  starting at the top, starting again where we already have been,
• 6:05:42
  the area at the top in between his shoulders and
• 6:05:47
  near your neck. Going back a message in that area again,
• 6:05:53
  but this time moving downwards, taking a downward stroke to
• 6:06:07
  the middle of your back, working from the outside inwards.
• 6:06:15
  It's a massage in the your back, but the the
• 6:06:21
  outsides of your back, the parts where your arms would
• 6:06:32
  maybe rest against, almost the path that connects your front
• 6:06:45
  to your back. Just massaging down but gently as firm
• 6:07:03
  as you want, moving down and moving across a little bit,
• 6:07:12
  and moving all the way down again, be very gentle
• 6:07:17
  yet firm as you choose. Eventually you get to the spine.
• 6:07:30
  We can message the muscles and either side of your
• 6:07:34
  spine from the top of your neck all the way
• 6:07:38
  down to your lower back. We can do that a
• 6:07:49
  few times. Sometimes people use the knuckle or the two
• 6:08:00
  fingers and just go your side of the spine, almost
• 6:08:07
  just push down, go all the way down to the
• 6:08:10
  bottom of the spine. Each time releasing tension and opening
• 6:08:19
  up the body, stretching your body so that you feel
• 6:08:28
  more relaxed but at the same time rejuvenated. And now
• 6:08:46
  I'm going to move to one side, to your right side,
• 6:08:54
  and from the bottom of your ribs to your pelvis,
• 6:09:00
  I'm going to massage that area of your back. I'll
• 6:09:06
  stretch over the other side and i will pull the
• 6:09:10
  muscles gently and massage and push from one end that
• 6:09:17
  side or way to my side to the middle of
• 6:09:21
  fact to where your spine is. Massaging that side of
• 6:09:27
  your spine the opposite side to where I'm standing. It's
• 6:09:34
  almost like kneading bread. There's that big area which is
• 6:09:41
  firm yet lots there to massage. Potentially one of the
• 6:09:52
  most important places to actually have a message because you
• 6:09:59
  feel there. You really feel the release and the pleasure
• 6:10:06
  of having your lower back massaged. It releases so much
• 6:10:14
  from your body that's not useful, starting a healing process
• 6:10:24
  which will continue long after this recording is over. The
• 6:10:37
  message in this part of your body not only feels
• 6:10:40
  really good for you, it's actually fun to do because
• 6:10:46
  it is, as I said, like kneading bread. It's a
• 6:10:52
  part that you can really get hold of and really
• 6:10:56
  massage deeply. If that's your choice, then I'm going to
• 6:11:09
  move over to the other side of your body and
• 6:11:12
  do the same with the opposite part of your lawer back,
• 6:11:24
  kneading and messaging from your sides all the way to
• 6:11:32
  the middle of your back where your spine is pressing
• 6:11:40
  and kneading, firm and gentle at the same time. It
• 6:11:51
  feels so releasing. This mixture of pleasure come for release, calmness,
• 6:12:03
  relaxation or mixed together. Plus there's that feeling from your
• 6:12:15
  stomach as it's being stretched. Even though you're in your
• 6:12:20
  stomach now, you can feel it being stretched because that
• 6:12:25
  whole area is connected to your stomach. Now we're going
• 6:12:36
  to move or move further up to your top of
• 6:12:41
  your body and we do the same this time, starting
• 6:12:49
  with your upper back. Put my hands forward over and
• 6:12:55
  messing massage in that area up to your spine, from
• 6:13:03
  the side of your body up to your spine. So
• 6:13:07
  some of that massage area, the muscle tissue or whatever
• 6:13:14
  fatty tissue even will be possibly from your chest. There's
• 6:13:19
  all connected. The chest and the back connect together. I'm
• 6:13:26
  going to be massaging and just pulling some of that
• 6:13:30
  skin from your side up and massaging that area of
• 6:13:41
  your upper back all the way to your spine. And
• 6:13:49
  then I'll move down a bit and I'll continue with
• 6:13:52
  the middle of your back doing exactly the same thing.
• 6:13:59
  There's gen tour is deep as you choose. Now, I'll
• 6:14:12
  move or the other side again and do the exact
• 6:14:17
  same thing with the top of your back on the
• 6:14:21
  other side, from pretty much underneath your arm area really
• 6:14:36
  to your spine, and then continuing that all the way
• 6:14:45
  down including your lower your middle of your back. I'm
• 6:15:04
  gonna go to your thighs, the backs of your thighs,
• 6:15:12
  and the sides of your thighs, starting with your right
• 6:15:19
  leg and massage in the back and the sides of
• 6:15:28
  your thighs gently and firmly. There's a lot of muscles there.
• 6:15:37
  It's an area that can be very tense at times
• 6:15:41
  and maybe needs a little bit more pressure than the
• 6:15:44
  rest of the body that's up to you. You can
• 6:15:52
  gently stroke the back of your legs where you know,
• 6:16:00
  opposite your knee joint or underneath your knee joint, very sensitive,
• 6:16:06
  gentle area. And then working down to your calf muscles.
• 6:16:22
  Massage in your calf muscles thoroughly and deeply, if you
• 6:16:28
  choose using both hands and fingers, digging deep to your ankles,
• 6:16:51
  in the back of your back of your ankles, just
• 6:16:57
  gently massage in that area, maybe lifting the leg and
• 6:17:09
  stretching a little bit. Moving to the right foot, massage
• 6:17:32
  in the bottom of your feet and the side of
• 6:17:41
  your feet gently but firm enough so they don't tickle,
• 6:17:58
  and just allow the pleasure that you get from having
• 6:18:04
  your feet massaged to just overtake you as I continue
• 6:18:13
  to message your feet, the bottoms of your feet, the sides,
• 6:18:23
  your arches, your heel. You can put a lot of
• 6:18:28
  pressure into your heel and it feels amazing, Yet the
• 6:18:34
  arches need to be a bit more gentle. Stretching your
• 6:18:43
  toes gently the message in the bottoms of your toes
• 6:18:50
  with my fingers, each one individually, moving her to the
• 6:19:05
  left leg to do exactly the same thing, starting at
• 6:19:15
  the top of the thighs, work in the back of
• 6:19:19
  the thighs and the sides, massaging deeply and gently the
• 6:19:27
  whole area, working all the way down. And this is
• 6:19:41
  an area that maybe you could like to spend more
• 6:19:47
  time relaxing and massaging. So perhaps if you wanted I
• 6:19:56
  could make a future recording. Why spend more time on
• 6:20:01
  one particular area. As you move down to your calf muscles.
• 6:20:19
  Massage in your calf muscles firmly and gently, moving down
• 6:20:35
  your aincor into your feet, Massage in the backs of
• 6:20:41
  your feet, bottoms of your feet, stretching your toes, and
• 6:20:53
  massage in each tone individually. And the feeling of pleasure
• 6:21:01
  and release that you experience when your having your feet
• 6:21:05
  massaged feels really good. Now shed turn over in your mind.
• 6:21:28
  Laying on your back, I'm just going to start again
• 6:21:41
  for your neck area in your shoulders, just to get
• 6:21:56
  back in touch with that area. And as you move up,
• 6:22:14
  I can clean my hands, make them more fresh, because
• 6:22:18
  now I'm gonna message your face gently, starting off with
• 6:22:28
  your forehead. Your eyes are closed and I can just
• 6:22:39
  stretch your eyes a little bit, pushing up on your eyebrows,
• 6:22:52
  just massaging around just scalp, massaging down your cheeks, around
• 6:23:05
  your ears, into your chaw, gently the side of your
• 6:23:17
  neck chin mhm, and just moving down shall your neck
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  down to your chest, starting by massage in the very
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  top of your chest where the collar bone is. Either
• 6:23:56
  side of the collar bone and then just message in
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  the whole of the chest, moving the chest around, because
• 6:24:29
  it's quite a large area, you can move from one
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  side to the next, moving my hands underneath pretty much
• 6:24:45
  where your arms are, stretching up, stretching some of the
• 6:24:55
  muscles of your back in the process, moving up over
• 6:25:04
  your chest and then moving down again, and then allowing
• 6:25:24
  my hands to just massage gently and slide down towards
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  your stomach, starting in the middle of your chest, and
• 6:25:39
  then gradually my hands moving apart and massage in and
• 6:25:46
  slide in at the same time, moving down to just
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  below your red cage, moving down the messaging up again,
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  giving your chest all the attention that it needs to
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  feel completely relaxed. Remembering that I'm also going to be
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  focusing on your sides as well, an area that really
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  doesn't get much attention but feels really good when it's massaged.
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  Just stroking my hands down the sides of your body,
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  just below your arms, all the way down to your hips.
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  Now move into your stomach area. We're going to stand
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  one side of you. Like I did when I did
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  your lower back. We need to do a similar process
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  of just stretching the muscles from your side gently massaging
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  from one side to the next, move in.
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  Speaker 12: A whole area from below your ribs all the way
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  down to below your belly button, and then move around
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  to the other side of you and repeat.
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  Speaker 4: That process of relaxing deeply, calmly. You feel loose, you
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  feel free. And it's something about having your stomach massage
• 6:28:35
  that's different from any other part because we do have
• 6:28:42
  a tendency of holding a different kind of stress in
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  our stomachs that we may not be aware of, as
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  in our message, your stomach in front of your stomach,
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  making circles around your belly button, and then going the
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  other way around. There's a gentleness and a freedom that
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  comes from feeling how you're feeling. As I now move
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  down the tops of your thighs the muscles, massaging them,
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  and I can do this two legs at the same time,
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  pressing down, massaging deeply those muscles in your thighs, the
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  front of your thighs, and moving down to your knees,
• 6:30:10
  gently massaging your knees, sliding down your shins, putting pressure
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  on either side of your shin gently softly but firmly,
• 6:30:35
  moving down to your ankles, stroking the tops of your
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  feet and then with each foot in each hand, just
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  gently messaging the whole of the foot, the top, the bottom,
• 6:31:05
  your heel, your ankle, your toes, message in every part
• 6:31:14
  of your feet. Feels so good, Just let go and
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  enjoy the process. Enjoy feeling so deeply relaxed, so much comfort,
• 6:31:49
  and so many feelings that come just from touching your skin.
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  And you can just lie there for as long as
• 6:32:13
  you choose, enjoying the feeling of deep comfort and being
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  massaged by me. Enjoy feeling deeply ras And all we're
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  gonna do is blow out some candles.
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  Speaker 13: In your mind, there are going to be a hundred candles,
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  and you're going to blow each one out individually, one
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  by one, starting at one hundred.
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  Speaker 4: As I count down all the way down to one,
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  and each time I say a number, you can imagine
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  that candle in front of you, and I'd like you
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  to actually physically gently blow that candle out, just so
• 6:34:27
  it's not big blows, just a gentle, and that candle
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  will extinguish. And then I'll say the next number to
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  move down, and you can just blow that one out
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  as well. And as we move down the numbers, you'll
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  find yourself feeling more and more relaxed. If you need
• 6:35:22
  to sleep, you'll also find yourself becoming incredibly tired and sleepy.
• 6:35:35
  In fact, you may struggle to blow out all one
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  hundred of these candles as you feel more and more
• 6:36:00
  deeply relaxed, more more deeply tired, and the further you
• 6:36:28
  go down, the more your mind starts to drift. You
• 6:36:44
  may find that you stop listening to me after a while.
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  And even though there may be background sounds where you are,
• 6:37:09
  you'll be aware of those sounds at the moment, be
• 6:37:20
  me start to just not even notice them at all,
• 6:37:38
  because they're unimportant. Where I am, I've got the sounds
• 6:37:52
  of the birds, there's horrors, the pigeon who likes to
• 6:37:59
  say they allow sometimes, and there's the odd plane that
• 6:38:05
  goes by, maybe traffic and trains in the distance, But
• 6:38:22
  none of that scens important whatsoever. More candles you blow
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  out less important. Anything is. More candles you blow out,
• 6:38:53
  the further you seem to move away from sounds, from
• 6:39:10
  general date days, stuff seems to just move away on
• 6:39:24
  its own. You feel more calmer with every candle you
• 6:39:41
  blow out, guiding the next number, did you hear me say?
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  And then you blow that candle out to so easy,
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  so simple. We're gonna start by introducing the first candle,
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  which is a hundred. First candle is one hundred. When
• 6:41:07
  you blow that candle out, you'll find immediately a slight
• 6:41:24
  change in how you feel, as well as a real
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  sense of positivity growing within you, relaxation and sleepiness expanding.
• 6:42:07
  Starting with one hundred flowing out by candle, now ninety nine,
• 6:42:55
  candle ninety eight can do nine seven, can ninety six
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  and ninety five and ninety four four can do ninety three,
• 6:45:54
  hand ninety two and ninety one, ten to ninety eighty two,
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  nine and fifty eight and.
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  Speaker 14: Eighties end eighty and eighty five, two four, four, eighty two.
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  Speaker 4: And two one can seventy nine, can do seventy eight,
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  candle seventy seven, candle seventy six, candle seventy five, candle
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  seventy four, candle seventy three, candle seventy two, candle seventy one,
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  candle seventy one, candle seventy and do sixty nine candle
• 6:58:28
  sixty eight, candle sixty seven, candle sixty five, candle sixty four,
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  candle sixty four can do sixty three, candle sixty and
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  sixty one and sixty and UH fifty nine, MHM handle
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  fifty eight, candle fifty seven, candle fifty six, candle fifty five,
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  candle fifty four, handle fifty three, handle fifty two fifty
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  two ten to fifty two candle fifty one, candle fifty
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  candle foty nine, candle forty eight, ten forty seven, candle
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  forty six, candle forty five candle vought it two candle
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  who do you are? And forty candle thirty nine and
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  thirty eight I can't do thirty seven, ten two, thirty five,
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  handle thirty four, handle thirty three, hand thirty one, chendle
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  thirty and two in ten nine, twenty eight and twenty
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  seven and twenty six, caen twenty five, yam t win.
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  Speaker 2: Tief f.
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  Speaker 4: Endle twenty three and to twenty two, and.
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  Speaker 2: Do it you want.
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  Speaker 4: And to wity m chendo ninety, chendle seventeen sixteen chancel
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  fourt ten woh and even.
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  Speaker 2: Ten yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Shame do nine ten y n.
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  Speaker 2: Six you.
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  Speaker 4: Can do, ooh do hey two two can let go
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  of all of those thoughts, worries, concerns about the past,
• 7:39:58
  thoughts about the future, and even things you've been thinking
• 7:40:03
  about today. Just let it all go because none of
• 7:40:10
  it is useful in this moment. This is your opportunity
• 7:40:25
  to just focus on feeling relaxed, allowing yourself to get
• 7:40:40
  in touch with that natural sense of peace that we
• 7:40:49
  all have within us. It's available for everyone. It just
• 7:40:56
  sometimes takes a little bit of effort to set up
• 7:41:01
  the right time and place in order for you to
• 7:41:08
  just let go. Because when you do decide to let
• 7:41:17
  go and relax, that's what your body starts to do
• 7:41:25
  because you've chosen. You've chosen to just allow your body
• 7:41:33
  to unwind and your mind starts to slow down. And
• 7:41:41
  it's a nice feeling. It's a nice feeling at the beginning,
• 7:41:46
  just to know that you have chosen to decide to
• 7:41:55
  relax deeply, and because you made that decision, your body
• 7:42:04
  will just follow suit. Because sometimes all the muscles in
• 7:42:10
  your body need is just permission from you to relax.
• 7:42:20
  Because so often we're busy, we're going from here to there,
• 7:42:25
  we're walking around, and we're doing stuff, and the body
• 7:42:31
  doesn't have any time or space to really relax deeply,
• 7:42:42
  so it kind of waits for you to lead the way,
• 7:42:47
  waits for your permission, and when you do give your permission,
• 7:42:59
  when you give to say so, we need say okay,
• 7:43:03
  it's time for your body to let go completely and
• 7:43:10
  relax totally. Your body just follows. It's like a breath
• 7:43:21
  of relief. Ah. Good, I can now relax. That feeling
• 7:43:32
  at the end of a day, of a very physical
• 7:43:35
  day that you may experience in the past. But you
• 7:43:39
  get home and you just sit down on a chair,
• 7:43:42
  maybe you kick your shoes off and not Ah, feels
• 7:43:47
  so nice knowing that you don't have to get up
• 7:43:51
  again for a little while at least if you choose,
• 7:43:56
  you can just sit there for maybe an hour to
• 7:44:01
  It feels blissful. And just by sitting down like that,
• 7:44:14
  your body knows that it's time to relax. Your body
• 7:44:19
  has been given permission from you. Because it's a mindset
• 7:44:27
  in your mind, you're prepared to let go of everything
• 7:44:38
  and just completely allow all the stress of your body
• 7:44:46
  to evaporate. Any tensions can just gradually vanish. It's almost
• 7:45:04
  like magic, really, because that sense of relaxation in your body,
• 7:45:18
  it's a very natural state. It's not something unusual. It
• 7:45:24
  may feel unusual when you first start to relax, if
• 7:45:27
  you if you haven't really spent a lot of time
• 7:45:32
  focusing and giving yourself this space to let go completely
• 7:45:37
  and relax, they seem more most alien, but it isn't.
• 7:45:45
  It's actually the most natural thing in the world to
• 7:45:51
  let go completely, to relax totally, the most actual thing
• 7:46:01
  in the world to allow yourself to feel really calm
• 7:46:13
  in your mind. And it is almost like a literal unwinding.
• 7:46:24
  It's like you press a button and all the tension
• 7:46:30
  just releases, and it's like a wheel, like a cog,
• 7:46:37
  like the inside of the clock, just unwinding, and it's
• 7:46:40
  almost like you could see the little wind up knob
• 7:46:45
  that's used just going the opposite way that you choose
• 7:46:51
  to wind it up, and the energy that fremetic stress
• 7:46:59
  for himygy gradually winding down, losing its power, losing its
• 7:47:08
  strength as a sense of relaxation becomes stronger and deeper,
• 7:47:21
  and you may find a the more relaxed you feel,
• 7:47:29
  that your mind starts to wonder, maybe seemed to stop
• 7:47:39
  listening to me for a while. Your mind goes somewhere else,
• 7:47:46
  and then you realize you're listening to me again, and
• 7:47:51
  that is just your mind drifting to sleep, which is
• 7:47:58
  quite natural, because sometimes when we're stressed and tense, we're
• 7:48:10
  not may I actually be aware of what we need,
• 7:48:14
  what we physically or emotionally need in this moment. But
• 7:48:23
  when you allow your body and mind to relax completely,
• 7:48:31
  and you let go of all thoughts, concerns, worries, ideas,
• 7:48:40
  all letting them go, allowing them to drop onto the floor,
• 7:48:50
  you start to get in touch with the feelings of
• 7:48:58
  such relaxation. This feels so nice to be in touch
• 7:49:08
  with the calmness of the different body parts as they
• 7:49:17
  become looser and looser. Even your breathing seems easier and
• 7:49:31
  more natural, effortless, as that cool adenters through your mouth
• 7:49:41
  or nose into your lungs, breathing in comforts and relaxation,
• 7:49:53
  and then just breathing out any excess remain intentions dress
• 7:50:02
  from every part of your body and mind, And as
• 7:50:10
  you start to focus on your mind, maybe you notice
• 7:50:16
  that things come to a standstill or maybe just much
• 7:50:25
  much lower than before, because your mind is not really
• 7:50:34
  needed when listening to my voice, which allows your mind
• 7:50:44
  to relax just as deeply as your body. And that's
• 7:50:52
  synchronicity between the relaxation of your body relaxation of your mind.
• 7:51:08
  Let you know that feeling completely calm, loose, and relaxed
• 7:51:20
  really is a great healing experience fear.
• 7:51:31
  Speaker 3: And has.
• 7:51:36
  Speaker 4: So many positive benefits for your body, mind, and your life.
• 7:51:47
  To be able to let go everything and to relax completely,
• 7:51:58
  you know, all hearts of your body and mind, even
• 7:52:06
  your bones as a rexed, All your muscles are raxed,
• 7:52:21
  even the skin that covers your body is relaxed, every
• 7:52:35
  hair that you have, it's also deeply relaxed. And your
• 7:52:52
  brain really starts to feel the beat of this healing relaxation.
• 7:53:11
  And as you focus on the inside of your scalp
• 7:53:17
  where your brain is, you can start to realize and
• 7:53:24
  notice the benefits of your brain relaxing deeply. And then
• 7:53:36
  as your brain continues to react, sends those messages to
• 7:53:49
  the rest of your body and your mind to reverax
• 7:53:59
  the even more deeply, relaxy more completely, letting go of
• 7:54:20
  any remaining for ho concens allowed them just drop onto
• 7:54:32
  the floor because they're no longer necessary in this moment,
• 7:54:43
  In this moment of deep relaxation and calmness, filling your
• 7:54:56
  grain with deep concentrated heathing, calming, relaxing every part of
• 7:55:21
  your brain feething so loose and comfortable, so relaxed and peaceful.
• 7:55:46
  Your brain feels so light, that's so healthy in that
• 7:55:57
  sense of deep deep comfort really does allow you.
• 7:56:11
  Speaker 2: To enjoy.
• 7:56:14
  Speaker 4: Those ever increase in sensations of comfort that are spreading
• 7:56:25
  throughout your body, relaxing each and every muscle of your body,
• 7:56:39
  eat deeper and deeper, much more deeper than before, my
• 7:57:00
  much small comfvent spreading true your body, your mind, be
• 7:57:16
  so peaceful and calm, so very fairy, peaceful in avery
• 7:57:34
  part of your body, letting him go mm hmm a
• 7:57:45
  everything and anything, so peaceful, calm, so relax a very
• 7:58:08
  second the passes you feel deper deper relax, dper and
• 7:58:32
  dper relax come so calm, peace fall, so very peace
• 7:58:56
  from your head down to time. Is such peace and
• 7:59:06
  comfort through in all all the time, Such peace and
• 7:59:18
  comfort spreading through your body and mind deep and deeper,
• 7:59:34
  such comforts spreading and sinking deeper into airy muscle your body.
• 7:59:52
  So you feel amazing, so relaxed, so peaceful, so peaceful,
• 8:00:20
  letting go every I'm going to do a body scan
• 8:00:33
  focusing on firstly, how you feel in your body. Not
• 8:00:40
  trying to change how you feel, not trying to relax,
• 8:00:47
  not trying to move away from any discomforts or stress
• 8:00:52
  or tension. Just accepting, observing and accepting how you feel
• 8:01:00
  in the different parts of your body, just allowing yourself
• 8:01:07
  to be exactly as you are, to notice to get
• 8:01:14
  in touch with how you actually feel in this moment.
• 8:01:26
  I'm going to start off by focusing on your hands.
• 8:01:37
  Just be aware of your hands. I'd like you to
• 8:01:45
  move your hands around, just maybe move your fingers a
• 8:01:50
  little bit. I've been enclosing your hands very gently, just
• 8:01:59
  so you can get in touch with how your hands
• 8:02:07
  and your fingers fell, very very slow movements. Focusing now
• 8:02:29
  on your feet, and if you can just do kind
• 8:02:36
  of an equivalent with your feet is you've just done
• 8:02:41
  with your hands, Maybe turn in your ankles, moving your
• 8:02:49
  feet around, moving your toes gently but only very gently
• 8:03:01
  and very slowly, noticing how your feet feel in this moment.
• 8:03:19
  Focusing now and your eyes, and I like you to
• 8:03:26
  just focus on your eyelids. Maybe you can open and
• 8:03:33
  close your eyes a couple of times to really get
• 8:03:37
  in touch with how you feel when you do close
• 8:03:41
  your eyes. The muscle changes in your eyes when you
• 8:03:49
  do close them, maybe raising your eyebrows, it stretches the
• 8:03:58
  tops of your eyes, perhaps squint in your eyes, scrunching
• 8:04:09
  up your eyes, just so you can really again touch
• 8:04:17
  with all aspects of how your eyes feel. Right now,
• 8:04:37
  now focus in on your thighs, and it just starts
• 8:04:43
  you to gently tense your thighs, just very very gently,
• 8:04:54
  just enough so you can become more atchune to the
• 8:05:06
  physical sensation of your upper legs, the front of your thighs,
• 8:05:14
  and the backs of your thigh noticing and observing how
• 8:05:28
  your thighs fear. Right now, moving your focus to the
• 8:05:43
  back of your neck, just noticing the back of your neck,
• 8:05:51
  the muscles, and of course they lead to the side
• 8:05:57
  of your neck. They also lead to the top of
• 8:06:01
  your back, which leads to your shoulders. So it's your
• 8:06:07
  focus on the back of your neck. Maybe you can
• 8:06:14
  move your head gently upwards as if you're looking up,
• 8:06:22
  Maybe moving your head down as if you're looking down.
• 8:06:30
  Perhaps moving your head side to side, right to left,
• 8:06:37
  on only very slowly and very gently. I'm not trying
• 8:06:48
  to force anything. It has to be very very gentle.
• 8:07:00
  Us so you can be more in touch with the feelings,
• 8:07:13
  with the sensations physical sensations of how the back of
• 8:07:22
  your neck fields. Right now, as we now focus on
• 8:07:41
  the tops of your arms, the parts where your biceps
• 8:07:47
  and your triceps are between your elbow and your shoulders.
• 8:07:55
  To focus on those parts, the tops of your arms,
• 8:08:02
  you may like to just tense them, but very very
• 8:08:09
  gently and slowly, so you're not straining or put in
• 8:08:19
  any pressure whatsoever on your arms.
• 8:08:28
  Speaker 3: It's just so that you can.
• 8:08:33
  Speaker 4: Gain more of a sense of how your upper arms
• 8:08:42
  are feeling in this moment and just noticing as you gently,
• 8:08:56
  very gently.
• 8:08:59
  Speaker 3: And sleep.
• 8:09:02
  Speaker 4: Tighten the muscles and then let go, notice how the
• 8:09:13
  tops of your arms feel. Right now, there's a now
• 8:09:28
  focus on your stomach, the area the lower apptomen area
• 8:09:39
  below your belly button, moving all the way down to
• 8:09:48
  your hips, just above your grind. Maybe you're able to
• 8:10:00
  hence these muscles in the area very very gently and slowly,
• 8:10:18
  if that's a difficult thing to do, and maybe you
• 8:10:23
  can just move your body, pushing your stomach up, maybe
• 8:10:33
  moving an orbit to the side using your hips, just
• 8:10:39
  so you can get more in tune with how you're
• 8:10:48
  lower auto an area is feeling in this moment, Just
• 8:11:07
  noticing the physical sensations or your lower abdomen as you
• 8:11:29
  move your attention to your mouth, notice in your lips
• 8:11:44
  and inside your mouth, the teeth, your guns, your tongue,
• 8:12:02
  just noticing how your tongue in your mouth feels. It
• 8:12:11
  may help by moving your tongue around your mouth, moving
• 8:12:20
  it to your left, maybe pressing it gently against the
• 8:12:28
  side of your mouth, and then to the right, gently
• 8:12:35
  to the side of your mouth, perhaps pressing up against
• 8:12:41
  the top of your mouth, and then down gently against
• 8:12:49
  the bottom of your mouth, always very slowly and a
• 8:13:01
  very very gentle.
• 8:13:09
  Speaker 3: So that you can.
• 8:13:14
  Speaker 4: Beware of how you feel in your mouth area now
• 8:13:42
  and to focus on your wrists. And I'll ask you
• 8:13:59
  to maybe just rotate your wrists by moving your hands
• 8:14:09
  in a circular motion very gently and slowly, just.
• 8:14:22
  Speaker 3: So that you can.
• 8:14:29
  Speaker 4: Feel the sensations that you are currently experiencing in your wrists.
• 8:14:52
  Perhaps move in your hands up and down again very
• 8:15:05
  very gently and slowly, very gentzl and slow.
• 8:15:41
  Speaker 3: As you now.
• 8:15:44
  Speaker 4: Start to observe you lower back. The bay part is
• 8:16:01
  just the bum of your hips where your coxis are
• 8:16:16
  a whole area, which also really does include the side
• 8:16:23
  of your body.
• 8:16:26
  Speaker 11: Because those muscles are very much connected. There's those muscles
• 8:16:36
  also move into your hip area connecting to your buttics.
• 8:16:45
  Speaker 4: The side of your hips, and if you're physically able
• 8:17:00
  to do so, maybe very gently just move your body
• 8:17:13
  ever so slightly, very slowly, some side to side, just
• 8:17:27
  enough ye to gauge how you feel in your lower back.
• 8:17:51
  Perhaps see could even move your hips gently up and
• 8:18:01
  down gently, slowly in order to be in touch with
• 8:18:20
  the physical sensations of your law back. As we now live.
• 8:18:49
  Your attention to your jaw, the area your chin all
• 8:19:02
  the way up so near where your ears are. Of
• 8:19:10
  your jaw, you can just yeah, it's okay to do so.
• 8:19:27
  Gently open your mouth, not wide, no stretching, just very
• 8:19:38
  gently and slowly opening your mouth in closing your mouth
• 8:19:53
  very gently and slowly, say, can be in touch with
• 8:20:19
  how you Joe feels now not to sit now the
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  chest area. You don't need to do anything to move
• 8:21:11
  your chest because it moves every time you breathe. It
• 8:21:23
  moves very gently and slowly automatically with each bread he tape.
• 8:21:45
  As you focus on how your chest feels when you pray,
• 8:22:32
  move in your focus to your forms, your elbows. Maybe
• 8:22:47
  you're able to very gently, that's slowly dance the mother
• 8:23:00
  muscles in your forearms.
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  Speaker 3: And when you do that, you can.
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  Speaker 4: Feel your elbows as well, very gently and slowly, gently
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  and softly. I'm sad your forearms until first, Yeah, focus
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  the rest of your back, your upper back in the middle,
• 8:24:41
  the middle of your back again, this part of your body. News.
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  Also every time you pray, you may not notice that
• 8:25:15
  usually makes you observe your upper back in the middle
• 8:25:27
  of your back. You can really feel that gentle and
• 8:25:46
  slow moment moving your focus.
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  Speaker 3: Into your.
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  Speaker 4: Area of butters the brain. There's muscles and those bones
• 8:26:49
  in your midsection. Just noticing how your hips.
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  Speaker 3: Feel.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, you can very very gently move your hips,
• 8:27:51
  maybe side to side, very gently and very cant softly.
• 8:28:39
  M Everything starts to slow down, including the thoughts in
• 8:29:02
  your mind and your mind itself just starts to gradually.
• 8:29:14
  It doesn't have to be instant, but just gradually starting
• 8:29:21
  to It's almost like time is storing chin. It's a
• 8:29:30
  slower pace to maybe what you're used to in your
• 8:29:39
  day to day life. It's a slower movement of energy,
• 8:30:01
  very small movements which make up the larger movements, which
• 8:30:14
  is always the case. Now, when you move your hand,
• 8:30:21
  it might seem like it's one movement, but it's lots
• 8:30:24
  of minute different muscles moving in accordance with each other.
• 8:30:33
  And what happens in this space that we're sharing is
• 8:30:50
  we move from.
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  Speaker 2: That big.
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  Speaker 4: Movement into those smaller movements. Starting to focus on how
• 8:31:18
  your body feels, not just as a whole, not just oh,
• 8:31:25
  i'm feel in this way. I'm feeling stressed or tense,
• 8:31:30
  or I'm feeling relaxed and calm, I'm feeling this way,
• 8:31:35
  I'm feeling that way. Starting to notice that your body
• 8:31:47
  begins to present to you small feelings around your body,
• 8:32:03
  small physical sensations in your legs, whether pleasurable or not.
• 8:32:20
  Maybe resisting the temptation to label them or to judge them,
• 8:32:31
  those feelings, just thinking them, thinking about them as just
• 8:32:37
  being neutral, just feelings, not being particularly concerned, but just
• 8:32:55
  noticing what your body is telling you. The feelings in
• 8:33:09
  your arms. Instead of feeling the hole of the arm,
• 8:33:17
  maybe notice those individual feelings, all those different muscles and
• 8:33:30
  the skin, the hairs of your arms, all the internal
• 8:33:40
  parts of your arms, the veins, the bones, just being
• 8:33:56
  aware of maybe your elbow on your right arm has
• 8:34:05
  a certain feeling. Maybe your left wrist also has its
• 8:34:16
  own individual physical sensation. What about your forearm on your
• 8:34:37
  right arm, your right forearm, there may not be any
• 8:34:50
  particular feeling that you could even give a name to,
• 8:35:01
  may not feel like anything other than just a feeling.
• 8:35:06
  You know, it's there. The feelings in your shoulders, perhaps
• 8:35:18
  your shoulders when you think about them, kind of almost
• 8:35:22
  like they're the same, you know, the same feeling, almost
• 8:35:29
  like you both of your shoulders are just one thing.
• 8:35:34
  Of course they're not. And when you focus on your
• 8:35:45
  left shoulder and then on your right shoulder, maybe find
• 8:35:53
  that you move the muscles a little bit, maybe tense
• 8:35:59
  the muscles gently, noticing the difference in each shoulder. Your
• 8:36:24
  lower back, the left side of your lower back and
• 8:36:41
  the right side of your lower back of course that
• 8:36:52
  connection to your buttocks and to your hips, and also
• 8:37:05
  moving up into the middle of your back. And sometimes
• 8:37:19
  like right now, actually when I focus on their part,
• 8:37:24
  when I focused on my buttocks and then I focused
• 8:37:28
  on the middle of my back, it almost felt like
• 8:37:32
  the muscles in my lower back were being stretched very gently,
• 8:37:42
  just stretched a little bit. Even though I wasn't doing
• 8:37:47
  anything to try to stretch your lower back, it just
• 8:37:56
  seemed to happen. The feeling of very gently stretching your
• 8:38:09
  lower back comes along. I have feeling in your chest,
• 8:38:35
  just noticing what sensations you are experiencing in your chest
• 8:38:49
  right now. And there's so much of the chest. Obviously,
• 8:39:05
  there's the collar bone leading to the chest. You've got
• 8:39:09
  the chest bone, You've got the muscles in your chest.
• 8:39:20
  Of course, if you're female, there's possibly the breasts your
• 8:39:27
  male you've got the different well might not make different
• 8:39:35
  these days, but there may be more muscles at the
• 8:39:42
  top of the chest, but at the side underneath, it's
• 8:39:50
  pretty much the same. Whether you're a man or a woman.
• 8:39:54
  There's muscles there, muscles that stretch out to your back
• 8:40:01
  as well as breast tissue stretches and moves.
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  Speaker 15: Into your back. To just being aware of your chest,
• 8:40:20
  being with whatever feeling there is.
• 8:40:31
  Speaker 4: In your chest. When I noticed that, I'll focus on
• 8:40:50
  my chest. I feel it in my back and my
• 8:40:58
  upper back. I mean, I guess the obvious reason would
• 8:41:02
  be because you know, I'll breathe in in then it
• 8:41:12
  stretches my chest and my back at the same time.
• 8:41:23
  It feels it feels okay, it doesn't feel I got
• 8:41:39
  a little bit of pain in my right.
• 8:41:42
  Speaker 5: Chest, a little bit not pain, but a little discomfort, maybe.
• 8:41:50
  Speaker 4: Stiffness possibly, I don't know. I notice my shoulders also
• 8:42:00
  wanting to flex for some reason. I think that's probably
• 8:42:07
  part of my upper back, that connection between my shoulders
• 8:42:16
  and my opper back, because I can move my shoulders
• 8:42:20
  and stretch the muscles in my back, moving the shoulders
• 8:42:28
  backwards or up, which then moves I think it's the
• 8:42:34
  scapulous in your back. It feels quite nice. Actually, A
• 8:42:55
  good thing about this is you can, if you want to,
• 8:42:59
  you can and just flex or stimulate the various muscles
• 8:43:14
  in your body gently in order to get more of
• 8:43:20
  a sense of how they feel. And when you're relaxing,
• 8:43:35
  when you detense and muscle and you let it go
• 8:43:39
  and you let it relax, it relaxes way more than
• 8:43:48
  it would normally. You have to feel that you're able
• 8:43:59
  to do that. There's no point doing it if there's
• 8:44:04
  an issue with the per part of your body. You
• 8:44:12
  need to be gentle with yourself at all times. When
• 8:44:21
  we're relaxing deeply It's important to be kind to yourself
• 8:44:40
  as you notice your mind. How much has your mind
• 8:44:49
  slowed down since we started this recording, How came and
• 8:45:16
  peaceful is your mind right now? We have nothing to
• 8:45:28
  think about and just my voice to listen to. Because
• 8:45:38
  you know the intention behind this recording, this relaxation. At
• 8:45:48
  the very least, for you to feel more relaxed at
• 8:45:55
  the end of recording than you did at the beginning,
• 8:46:03
  at the very least, your mind to slow down because
• 8:46:15
  your body continues to relax, because that's what you want
• 8:46:31
  to happen. That's what you expect to happen. For relaxation
• 8:46:54
  to fill.
• 8:46:57
  Speaker 5: Your body, maybe calm your mind.
• 8:47:09
  Speaker 4: To the point of boredom when you start, maybe to
• 8:47:22
  drift away. It's must as if you're moving further away
• 8:48:05
  from a body in your mind, just leaving that there,
• 8:48:20
  kind of liking it an escape pod and the spaceship
• 8:48:25
  a movie, a space movie, you know, and against that
• 8:48:29
  little pard in it since the man far away from
• 8:48:36
  the spaceship. Save to dream and continue to relax, terrifting
• 8:49:43
  so slow.
• 8:49:58
  Speaker 3: And be so.
• 8:50:15
  Speaker 4: Oh ho me so, and focusing on the feving of
• 8:51:01
  those individual parts of your body that relaxing one by one.
• 8:51:22
  You may find that every now and then you realize
• 8:51:34
  that you are listening to my voice because your mind
• 8:51:46
  started to imagine something different, maybe started to almost move
• 8:52:01
  into some kind of a dreamy state, and then you
• 8:52:10
  become aware of my voice again. And even though you
• 8:52:18
  may want to focus on my voice, you may also
• 8:52:25
  wish to allow your mind to just drift naturally into
• 8:52:38
  that space of comfort and safety. As you feel warm
• 8:53:01
  comfort spreading through your body like a warm blanket covering
• 8:53:14
  you gently, keeping your body at just the perfect temperature,
• 8:53:38
  and even if you can hear background sounds, they just
• 8:53:50
  don't seem to matter anymore. That's that sense peace spreads
• 8:54:08
  through your mind like a gentle greeze, yet strong enough
• 8:54:22
  to blow away all negativity, strong enough to remove from
• 8:54:38
  your mind any anxiety or stress that was there before,
• 8:54:56
  and blow away any other thoughts for feelings that just
• 8:55:07
  don't fit with the sense relaxation that is feeling your
• 8:55:31
  body and your mind. Unless you focus on your mind
• 8:55:56
  and countdown from ten down to one, and with each
• 8:56:03
  number you hear, your mind will become slightly more relaxed,
• 8:56:31
  just just slightly, from ten down to nine, just a
• 8:56:39
  slight movement nine down to eight, just another small change
• 8:56:55
  in how you feel. Eight down to seven. That feeling
• 8:57:07
  is a gap, almost like a gap that starts to
• 8:57:13
  get the wider, the gap between those feelings that you
• 8:57:22
  used to have in your mind compared to the feelings
• 8:57:29
  you have the growing now feelings of comfort and security
• 8:57:37
  and confidence, and the gap becomes wider. Eight down to seven,
• 8:57:49
  seven down to six. When you get to five, the
• 8:57:58
  mind will start to have a certain physical sensation, most
• 8:58:12
  like there's a magnet outside of your head sucking pretension
• 8:58:19
  and stress and any remaining feelings that you don't want,
• 8:58:27
  sucking them out through your skull. And in down to
• 8:58:36
  four you can start to really experience that sense of
• 8:58:45
  not just emptiness, but space, place full of fresh air,
• 8:59:01
  place where you can stretch. It's almost as if as
• 8:59:08
  you go down to four and three, your.
• 8:59:11
  Speaker 5: Mind is expanding with this sense.
• 8:59:19
  Speaker 3: Of peace.
• 8:59:21
  Speaker 4: And tranquility growing and moves down to.
• 8:59:31
  Speaker 3: When you get to one, your mind.
• 8:59:38
  Speaker 4: Just feels exactly how you want to feel, almost perfect feeling,
• 8:59:57
  maybe the sensation that.
• 9:00:03
  Speaker 3: You'd like to keep.
• 9:00:08
  Speaker 4: The place that's say, where nothing can affect you at
• 9:00:18
  all and you can stay in that a space of
• 9:00:34
  conform confidence, confident in your own ability to create this
• 9:00:46
  space and this feeling of comfort within your own mind
• 9:00:53
  just by accounting ten.
• 9:00:57
  Speaker 3: Down to one.
• 9:01:03
  Speaker 4: And this is something that you can do yourself when
• 9:01:07
  you're on your own, the time when you can maybe
• 9:01:15
  sit down, maybe just for a few minutes, close your eyes,
• 9:01:27
  just count slowly from ten down to one and re
• 9:01:39
  experience these feelings in your mind.
• 9:01:51
  Speaker 3: And when you.
• 9:01:52
  Speaker 4: Feel that way in your mind, your body copies your mind,
• 9:02:07
  and the feeling is spread through your spine and your
• 9:02:13
  nervous system into every part of your body, travels through
• 9:02:21
  your blood stream, heathing and relaxing every particle of your existence.
• 9:02:48
  And we can we can practice this a few times
• 9:02:57
  before the end of the recording.
• 9:02:59
  Speaker 3: And then you can.
• 9:03:01
  Speaker 4: Practice on your own. And each time you countfort ten
• 9:03:09
  about one, the feelings of comforts, calmness, deep deep relaxation
• 9:03:25
  becomes stronger and deeper feeling mind and brain. With these
• 9:03:43
  positive chemicals, the spread throughout your body, relaxing you so quickly,
• 9:03:56
  relaxing your whole body and mind so very.
• 9:04:05
  Speaker 3: Very easily.
• 9:04:09
  Speaker 4: Just by counting.
• 9:04:15
  Speaker 3: Down to one.
• 9:04:21
  Speaker 4: So we can do Now, I'm going to count from
• 9:04:24
  ten down to one. I'd like you to repeat the
• 9:04:29
  number after me.
• 9:04:31
  Speaker 3: So when I say ten, you can.
• 9:04:36
  Speaker 4: Just repeat to yourself.
• 9:04:40
  Speaker 3: Ten.
• 9:04:46
  Speaker 4: Just notice, be aware of how you feel in your
• 9:04:55
  mind and your body. Then when I say nine, you
• 9:05:05
  can repeat to yourself nine a game, noticing the increase
• 9:05:21
  in comfort calms in your mind and in your body,
• 9:05:35
  the same when I say eight, when I say seven, six,
• 9:05:47
  when I say five, four, when I say three, two,
• 9:06:06
  and lastly you want to say one, be that number. Now.
• 9:06:20
  Of course, when you do this on your own without
• 9:06:25
  listening to me, you can say the numbers or whatever
• 9:06:32
  speed that you feel is necessary for you, so you
• 9:06:40
  can adapt. So if you feel you want to say
• 9:06:46
  the numbers.
• 9:06:47
  Speaker 3: Ten down to one.
• 9:06:51
  Speaker 4: Faster than I do, then you go ahead and do that.
• 9:06:56
  Or if you feel when you do it yourself, you'd
• 9:07:00
  like to have more more space between the numbers, maybe
• 9:07:09
  take a lot longer.
• 9:07:11
  Speaker 3: To get from ten.
• 9:07:15
  Speaker 4: All the way down to one, that's your choice also
• 9:07:23
  to do. So I'm going to count and.
• 9:07:35
  Speaker 3: Ten down to one, then I get to one.
• 9:07:44
  Speaker 4: That will be the end of this recording, unless, of course,
• 9:07:50
  you're listening with music and the music will continue.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 16: Fo Us.
• 9:12:34
  Speaker 4: Twenty ninety eighteen, seventeen, sixty, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,
• 9:14:00
  three two one. Now open your eyes. Noticin how you
• 9:14:28
  physically feel having counted down from twenty to one, allowing
• 9:14:37
  stress attention to leave through your fingertips and your toes.
• 9:14:43
  And as you focus on your fingertips.
• 9:14:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe they feel a little bit tingly, which is.
• 9:14:53
  Speaker 4: I suppose quite an understanding considering attention has been exiting
• 9:14:58
  your body.
• 9:14:59
  Speaker 3: Through your finger.
• 9:15:06
  Speaker 4: So now I'm going to count from twenty down to
• 9:15:08
  one again. This time you need to feel relief of
• 9:15:16
  tension and stress and the anxiety that.
• 9:15:21
  Speaker 3: You may have.
• 9:15:26
  Speaker 4: Leaving through your stomach. Just leaving through your stomach, almost
• 9:15:35
  as if it's just releasing to hold your stomach and
• 9:15:41
  enable to just above your chest or below your chest,
• 9:15:46
  rather to surrounding your belly by an area the whole area.
• 9:15:53
  You can feel the tension of your body wherever's left,
• 9:15:58
  just releasing from the area, and you may notice that
• 9:16:03
  your stomach will become very relaxed as I countdown from
• 9:16:09
  twenty down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve,
• 9:17:02
  eleven damn nine eight seven six, five.
• 9:17:33
  Speaker 3: Four three.
• 9:17:42
  Speaker 2: Two what.
• 9:17:53
  Speaker 3: You can open your eyes again, if you choose, just
• 9:17:56
  keep them closed because it feels relaxing. Just notice saying your.
• 9:18:03
  Speaker 4: Stomach, girl's notice as your focus. Just do a little
• 9:18:08
  scan of your body.
• 9:18:12
  Speaker 3: Just notice, say your body of.
• 9:18:13
  Speaker 4: Girls, focusing on upper body, back, chest, stomach, legs, arms, hands, feet,
• 9:18:28
  Just noticing, and you know, you may start to a
• 9:18:38
  more a sense of tiredness, which may be the reason
• 9:18:43
  listening to this according because you like to.
• 9:18:50
  Speaker 3: Let go completely of everything and dread or into a nice, yeah, true, calm,
• 9:19:02
  relaxing sleep.
• 9:19:12
  Speaker 4: So now we're going to focus. I'm a forehead, and
• 9:19:21
  if you choose, you can incorporate your eyes in this
• 9:19:24
  focus as well. Your forehead and your eyes.
• 9:19:31
  Speaker 3: It's that whole area basically.
• 9:19:33
  Speaker 4: Almost as if you were wearing a mask, you know,
• 9:19:37
  like a.
• 9:19:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know, a Batman mask or something or zorro
• 9:19:46
  or something, you know, the kind of mask.
• 9:19:47
  Speaker 4: That covers your eyes but also covers quite a lot
• 9:19:50
  of the forehead. Focusing on that area because that's the
• 9:19:57
  area that we're now going to release tension, stress from
• 9:20:02
  your mind and your brain, from your mind and any
• 9:20:08
  tension you may have remaining your face, in your neck
• 9:20:13
  and your jewel, your eyes, your forehead, or your scalp.
• 9:20:20
  So basically any tension.
• 9:20:22
  Speaker 3: Within your head area, including your mind and your brain
• 9:20:31
  that's going to be released.
• 9:20:34
  Speaker 4: Through your forehead and your eyes.
• 9:20:40
  Speaker 3: As I count down the game.
• 9:20:41
  Speaker 4: From twenty down to one now twenty nineteen, eighteen, seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight,
• 9:21:57
  seven six, Why.
• 9:22:17
  Speaker 3: Three, Why.
• 9:22:38
  Speaker 4: She scanned her face, the jure your eyes, the cheapens
• 9:22:46
  your hands, you boyhead, your scalp, the back, your neck,
• 9:22:56
  in the front of your name.
• 9:22:58
  Speaker 3: The signs of the man can not great m hm.
• 9:23:07
  Speaker 4: Letice beware the comfort.
• 9:23:13
  Speaker 3: Increased relaxation, not just in my head and neck and mind,
• 9:23:24
  also the rest of your body. Just let is how loose.
• 9:23:35
  Speaker 4: And calm you them, and how easily.
• 9:23:41
  Speaker 3: It is to just let go completely, let go.
• 9:23:51
  Speaker 4: Completely easily, So two bounds. I want to focus on
• 9:24:12
  the top of your head. I'm allowed.
• 9:24:22
  Speaker 3: Every last peace of tension or stress of mind.
• 9:24:30
  Speaker 4: And lingering or hiding your body mind.
• 9:24:35
  Speaker 3: Hed to just be sucked down on top of your
• 9:24:42
  head released. Yeah, I wanna sat down into the clouds.
• 9:24:56
  Let you be aloud of God, your head almost like
• 9:25:01
  a whirlpool. This is can suck at tension now at
• 9:25:07
  the top of your head. I'll just take you away,
• 9:25:17
  said this. Imagine an opening on top of your head
• 9:25:23
  with a tension, stress and in remaining issues maybe ways
• 9:25:29
  of consandst no ease to you now can all be
• 9:25:34
  sucked down at the top of your head, taken away
• 9:25:41
  As I count down again from twenty down to work.
• 9:25:49
  Speaker 4: Now twenty nineteen, nineteen, seventeen, sixty fifty fourteen thirteen, wow,
• 9:26:58
  two nine eight, seven, six, five four one.
• 9:28:03
  Speaker 3: Noticing how you feel.
• 9:28:12
  Speaker 4: How relax and calm.
• 9:28:16
  Speaker 3: You physically and mentally feel right now, how be peace
• 9:28:30
  your mind feels.
• 9:28:34
  Speaker 4: It feels so nice to just let go, to give
• 9:28:40
  yourself some space to breathe easily, to think calmly, just
• 9:28:54
  to take a break from all that pointless worry concerns
• 9:29:01
  about things that you don't need to think about.
• 9:29:08
  Speaker 3: Right now, because this is your time to let go.
• 9:29:17
  Speaker 4: This is your space to enjoy.
• 9:29:21
  Speaker 3: Feeling deeply relaxed, peaceful in your mind, relaxed in your body.
• 9:29:33
  I can feel so good, so nice to just not
• 9:29:42
  have to do anything, to be able to really.
• 9:29:51
  Speaker 4: Enjoy that serenity becomes.
• 9:29:57
  Speaker 3: And letting go completely.
• 9:30:01
  Speaker 4: And peacefulness that comes with in this.
• 9:30:13
  Speaker 3: Peaceful space. And you can keep this sense.
• 9:30:22
  Speaker 4: Of calmness for as long.
• 9:30:25
  Speaker 3: As you choose, if you choose to drift off into
• 9:30:38
  deep healing natural sleep, and you can do that, it's
• 9:30:47
  completely up to you, and you can keep this.
• 9:30:55
  Speaker 4: Feeling of calmness physically mean in your mind as long as.
• 9:31:02
  Speaker 3: You choose to filmniquely anex completely relax. I'd like you
• 9:31:19
  to make up your mind, are you're going to relax?
• 9:31:34
  Speaker 4: And what explore that with you? What it feels like
• 9:31:38
  when you actually decide that you're going to relax, not
• 9:31:46
  forcing yourself, but giving yourself that. Yes, it is a commander,
• 9:31:53
  isn't it When you're telling yourself relates in a gentle
• 9:32:00
  but firm way that only.
• 9:32:04
  Speaker 3: You can really tell you something in that way. You
• 9:32:09
  can't really have someone else saying.
• 9:32:11
  Speaker 4: To you, now it relax, relax, you know, and it
• 9:32:17
  needs to be gentle, but you can't.
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  Speaker 3: Someone else can't really have the same the same kind
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  of influence or power that you have over your own
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  physicality over how you feel, because when you say to yourself,
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  it means more.
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  Speaker 4: It's personal, and your brain and your unconscious mind and
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  your body listens to what you say. So for example,
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  we'll test it out. You'll do a little tests, do
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  little tests.
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  Speaker 3: Along the way, and you can get more an idea of.
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  Speaker 4: The force, the positive force that you can have in
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  creating a sense of comfort and relaxation in your body.
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  Speaker 3: And your mind quite quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Just buy you telling yourself to relax. So I'm going
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  to start by let's focus on your hands. The focus
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  on your hands, and just tell your hands to relax.
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  Just say relax. As you focus on your hands, you
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  could my hands are relaxed, or.
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  Speaker 3: I want my hands to relax.
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  Speaker 4: I think if you actually do it directly, quite focusing
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  and imagining that your hands, can.
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  Speaker 3: You hear what they're saying, you know, like they've got
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  little ears, which is a little weird.
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  Speaker 4: Like talking to your hands and just say relaxing.
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  Speaker 3: And your hands start to relax.
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  Speaker 4: Don't focus on your eyes and tell your eyes to relax.
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  You're saying this same word relax and find the right
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  to who be you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I might say.
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  Speaker 4: Relax, but you you might say relax or relax. You know,
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  you might say it differently to yourself, and that's important
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  for you to gauge what it was right for you.
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  Just tell your eyes to relax whilst focusing on your eyes,
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  your eyelids, the muscles around your eyes, your eyebrowns, and
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  just tell your eyes boring.
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  Speaker 3: Relax now. And I just did that myself.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes you may feel that.
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  Speaker 3: You need a bit more time or the different parts
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  to relax, you know, because I start talking again and
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  maybe that part hasn't relaxed fully. But what happens that
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  will just continue to relax even though I'm talking. And
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  that's happened with my eyes. Something else I've noticed is
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  when I start focused on my eyes that actually I
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  just became they got worse before they got better in
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  a way.
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  Speaker 4: So I felt a degree of tension growing in my
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  eyes and then disappearing. So I think what that was
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  really is just me becoming more aware.
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  Speaker 3: Of the tension that was already there.
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't I wasn't focused on it before. I wasn't
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  really acknowledging it or really conscious to those feelings.
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  Speaker 3: And my eyes still continuing to relax, as well as
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  my hands. Actually, my hands had got a certain kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Energy like not buzzing that I kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Do word degree with energy in my hands. Maybe that's
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  where the tension is being released. Maybe that's calls and that,
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  and it's part I think we should focus on the
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  back of the neck. That's a part of which quite
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  often and oft for me, hold tension. I don't know
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  about it. For yourself, I think it's quite a standard
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  place where tension is sometimes held.
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  Speaker 4: So and I'm doing exactly what.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing as you do it as well, so I'm
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  telling my body parts to relax as well. So if
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  you tell your neck the back of the neck, focus
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  on the back of the neck, and just say relax
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  in your own in your own tone, in your own voice,
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  you can say out loud and you can just say
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  it to yourself internally.
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  Speaker 4: But you're focusing and you're seen literally to back the
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  is it back.
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  Speaker 3: Year? What you see.
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  Speaker 4: You do that now to say that the.
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  Speaker 3: Bag unique and I didn't seem and what I noticed
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  and you made that similar thing is even though I
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  was focusing on the back of the neck, other parts
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  started to I don't know if you showed themselves to
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  me or maybe because they want to be reaped as well.
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  But I started noticing the feelings in the shoulders tension
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  and the shoulders and.
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  Speaker 4: In the upper back.
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  Speaker 3: Whether that was because my back of my neck was saying,
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  I'm pretty much okay. It's the other parts than the attention,
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  but my load, my back and my name is still relaxing.
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  I just became aware of other parts that needed attention,
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  that this might happen. It's not. It doesn't mean that
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  it's going wrong. It just means you're being notified more
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  places but also wants to relax. So I'm going to
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  focus on my alpha bank. So you can do the same.
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  Speaker 4: Even if you don't have any.
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  Speaker 3: Feelings attention obvious in the upper bank. You're just focus
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  in the bank the whole area and shoulder blades down
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  to the people bang the spine and needs to shoulder
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  the blades and it's the plaster me giving me what
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  don't need to let themselves the past and the same
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  now the last back, something strange happened there and this
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  what mappens doing this time sixteen years or something once twice.
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  Amaze being that it can be a feeling. When I
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  was focusing on the back of the upper backs started
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  to stress and need attention. Soon as have started to
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  talk to you about my apple band and talking about
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  getting ready to ask the other the back ways. When
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  the backboard is started to its as much as if
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  it doesn't need to feel the words, it just means
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  it tells its needs to be mas. That is something
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  that back happens. Mm hmm. It's way of situation. It's
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  a storm at people do I and now what they
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  decided staying away starts. I'm a part of the stops
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  spaz everyone. So it's bout be body you think as
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