This is a heartbreaking journey and I feel very sad for you (and for Graham wherever his spirit lies), he will be sadly missed, a genuinely lovely guy.
@@DanJonesHypnosis I listened to this when it went live then resumed it at 1am but it was a beautiful tribute as well as healing and relaxing, one I will recommend.
I have already said this over on podbean, but I'll say it again. I love that you shared such an important part of yourself with us, through this story. I don't tend to listen to the same stories each night. However, this has stayed on my list for a fair bit now. I really enjoy it.
As huge of a fan as I am of Dan Jones, idk who Graham was. Surely I've missed him as I have watched most of Dan's sleep stories. The others not so much but sometimes. But I CAN say this - if Dan is sad I'm sad. Please be well dear mr. Jones!
Graham used to be in many of my videos where they would be of the two of us teaching and demonstrating hypnosis and therapy. Many videos on my channel before I left RUclips in about 2011 were demonstrations with Graham or him hypnotising me and video clips from our PsyEnTech livestreams and from our livestream chats and other things like our drunken karaoke videos etc...
Some of them are here on RUclips, some which are no longer on RUclips I think I included clips from in my 10 years on RUclips videos a few years back and I have shared some I think over on Facebook. Most of the clips in my tribute video to Graham are from videos I've posted on RUclips, from me hypnotising him at the beginning, to us singing and the clips from our livestreams...
Hello Dan, hope you are well. I’ve listened to you for sometime and have one of your books. Love you! Do you have a video that is for night before surgery?
I don't think I've specifically for anything for that on RUclips. It rings a bell that I've been asked that before and have done it, either mixing it into one of the meditations, but I wouldn't know which one or I've made separate tracks about it. The best thing is probably one of the quick guided processes that you can learn and then use while learning and use often to calm yourself and focus on other things, like where I count down from 3 for you to enter a relaxed focused state and county up to 3 for you to open your eyes. That is something you can learn for yourself so that you can do it yourself. Then the evening before, you can use that if needed and on the day you can use it and tell yourself what you want to achieve in an if-then structure, like 'if I start to feel anxious, then I will ignore the anxiety' you can also try sentences like 'when I think of surgery then I'll feel comfortable' One thing that helps this be most effective is making the response part a not doing part. So the research is that trying to focus, like trying to focus on something you are studying when there are distractions is less effective than telling yourself to ignore the distractions. Ignoring means not attending to it, so putting in no effort, which makes this work better because it is saying so something effortless, whereas trying to focus on something else is putting in effort, you are trying to focus attention on something. So think about what you want and if there is an effortless option you can tell yourself. For self hypnosis for myself, this is all I do. I take a moment to think about the sentence I want to tell myself, I sit quietly, give all my attention to what I'm doing, I want it to be successful it aligns with my goals, I want to achieve that goal and I then just tell myself the simple sentence a few times and may repeat this sentence a few more times throughout the day to remind myself of it.
All of the details are in the description, including the tribute video I made to Graham. He was my best friend for over 20 years, since he was 14 and I was 19.
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Oh Dan. I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for continuing to think of us. You inspire us with your bravery and loving heart.
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Looking back at your older videos that had Graham he seemed like a good guy and a fun person to be around. I’m so sorry for your loss.❤️❤️
I’m sorry for your loss Dan. Thank you so much for your hard work and for caring about us and our sleep.
Sorry for your loss, thank you for continuing to make content for us . Make sure to take any time if you need it!
Graham is having so much fun right now and seeing the universe in all of it's incomprehensible glory ♡
Thank you very much for sharing this story💜 My sincere condolences for your very tragic loss💔😭💙
So sorry about your friend...hugs, much love and light❤
This is a heartbreaking journey and I feel very sad for you (and for Graham wherever his spirit lies), he will be sadly missed, a genuinely lovely guy.
Thank you Helen. This was made during my first livestream back after he died, I liked making this story and hopefully others like it too...
@@DanJonesHypnosis I listened to this when it went live then resumed it at 1am but it was a beautiful tribute as well as healing and relaxing, one I will recommend.
Thank you...
I have already said this over on podbean, but I'll say it again. I love that you shared such an important part of yourself with us, through this story. I don't tend to listen to the same stories each night. However, this has stayed on my list for a fair bit now. I really enjoy it.
Thank you Dan this is a great one! So sorry to hear about your loss
As huge of a fan as I am of Dan Jones, idk who Graham was. Surely I've missed him as I have watched most of Dan's sleep stories. The others not so much but sometimes. But I CAN say this - if Dan is sad I'm sad. Please be well dear mr. Jones!
Graham used to be in many of my videos where they would be of the two of us teaching and demonstrating hypnosis and therapy. Many videos on my channel before I left RUclips in about 2011 were demonstrations with Graham or him hypnotising me and video clips from our PsyEnTech livestreams and from our livestream chats and other things like our drunken karaoke videos etc...
@@DanJonesHypnosis I'm deeply sorry for your loss. Sounds like he was a great friend. I would love to see some of those drunken videos.
Some of them are here on RUclips, some which are no longer on RUclips I think I included clips from in my 10 years on RUclips videos a few years back and I have shared some I think over on Facebook. Most of the clips in my tribute video to Graham are from videos I've posted on RUclips, from me hypnotising him at the beginning, to us singing and the clips from our livestreams...
So sorry for your loss. :(
*hugs* Thanks Dan 🙂
Hello Dan, hope you are well. I’ve listened to you for sometime and have one of your books. Love you! Do you have a video that is for night before surgery?
I don't think I've specifically for anything for that on RUclips. It rings a bell that I've been asked that before and have done it, either mixing it into one of the meditations, but I wouldn't know which one or I've made separate tracks about it.
The best thing is probably one of the quick guided processes that you can learn and then use while learning and use often to calm yourself and focus on other things, like where I count down from 3 for you to enter a relaxed focused state and county up to 3 for you to open your eyes. That is something you can learn for yourself so that you can do it yourself. Then the evening before, you can use that if needed and on the day you can use it and tell yourself what you want to achieve in an if-then structure, like 'if I start to feel anxious, then I will ignore the anxiety' you can also try sentences like 'when I think of surgery then I'll feel comfortable'
One thing that helps this be most effective is making the response part a not doing part. So the research is that trying to focus, like trying to focus on something you are studying when there are distractions is less effective than telling yourself to ignore the distractions. Ignoring means not attending to it, so putting in no effort, which makes this work better because it is saying so something effortless, whereas trying to focus on something else is putting in effort, you are trying to focus attention on something. So think about what you want and if there is an effortless option you can tell yourself.
For self hypnosis for myself, this is all I do. I take a moment to think about the sentence I want to tell myself, I sit quietly, give all my attention to what I'm doing, I want it to be successful it aligns with my goals, I want to achieve that goal and I then just tell myself the simple sentence a few times and may repeat this sentence a few more times throughout the day to remind myself of it.
Who is graham
All of the details are in the description, including the tribute video I made to Graham. He was my best friend for over 20 years, since he was 14 and I was 19.