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🎧 Episode Summary Title: Relax Your Back – Let Me Bore Your Pain Away #39

Host: Jason Newland

Date: 10th October 202

Duration: ~1 hour

🧠 Overview Jason Newland presents a humorous and gently hypnotic relaxation session designed to ease back pain and tension. While openly acknowledging that he’s “not a doctor, not even a lifeguard,” Jason combines calming guidance with his trademark stream-of-consciousness storytelling, offering both comfort and distraction from physical discomfort. The tone is classic Let Me Bore Your Pain Away — warm, funny, and self-effacing, drifting between playful digressions and genuine relaxation suggestions.

🪑 Main Themes & Flow

1. Setting the Scene Jason welcomes listeners, explaining that the recording is not medical advice but an opportunity to “just relax your back.” He reminds listeners to only listen when safe to close their eyes and gives permission to move freely — “this isn’t a statue contest.”

2. Humour & Distraction In typical Jason style, he digresses into comical comparisons — bowel movements, peanut butter, Paul McKenna, and lions licking peanut butter off your back — all to underline how distraction can relieve tension and reframe pain through humour.

3. The Mind–Body Link He references Milton Erickson, discussing how releasing focus on the past and future sensations of pain can reduce discomfort. Staying present, he suggests, can lessen pain “by two thirds.”

4. Personal Anecdotes Jason recounts falling down the stairs while wearing Crocs, joking about his weight and arthritis in his lower back. His relatable honesty invites laughter and empathy while maintaining a calming tone.

5. Metaphors for Relief He vividly describes the layered relief of returning home from a tiring walk — putting shopping bags down, removing a coat, taking off shoes — as metaphors for releasing tension from the back and body.

6. Relaxation & Healing He guides listeners to notice sensations of pleasure and ease, describing how the back can feel “itchy inside” as it heals — comparing it to a wound recovering. This serves as a subtle hypnotic suggestion of regeneration and comfort.

7. Reflections on Change Jason humorously muses on metamorphosis, aging, and regeneration — comparing humans to caterpillars and joking about celebrities who never seem to age. Beneath the humour lies a reflection on the body’s capacity to renew itself.

8. The Back as a Support System He highlights gratitude for the back as “an invisible hero,” punning that “your back has your back.” This transitions into a gentle reminder to allow the body to function naturally and rest when needed.

9. Hypnotic Reinforcement Repeated phrases like “Every time you hear my voice, your back will feel relaxed, calm, and loose” deepen the hypnotic tone. Jason contrasts literal vs. metaphorical meaning playfully to maintain lightness.

10. Closure & Kindness He ends with a reflective outro, noting how both he and the listener may feel calmer, and signs off with his signature message: “Remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy. You deserve to feel safe. Lots of love. Bye.” 😴 Tone & Style

Conversational and humorous

Stream-of-consciousness flow

Gentle reframing of pain

Relaxation through distraction

Emotional warmth and self-compassion

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