Deep Calm - with Michael Mosley

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In his last interview, How to Live a Good Life, Michael Mosley talks to Prof Paul Bloom.

If time is tight, what's the one thing that you should be doing to improve your health and wellbeing? Michael Mosley reveals surprisingly simple top tips that are scientifically proven to change your life.

Deep Calm - Episode 2: Relaxing Your Body

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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley: Deep Calm - with Michael Mosley: Deep Calm - Episode 2: Relaxing Your Body

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Sit back, unwind and discover how focusing on your muscles can help relax body and mind.

Sit back, unwind and take a sonic journey with Dr Michael Mosley as he reveals the power of tensing and then relaxing your muscles to activate your body’s relaxation response.

Sit back, leave behind the cares of the day and take a sonic journey with Dr Michael Mosley. In this new podcast series, designed to help you let go and unwind, each episode focuses on a scientifically proven technique for activating the body’s built-in relaxation response, and takes a deep dive to explore what’s happening inside as we find stillness and calm.

Deliberately tensing and then relaxing groups of muscles all through the body is a potent technique for engaging your body’s relaxation response. We also encounter the magnificently named Golgi tendon organ afferent nerve cells, and the interconnected nodes of the brain.

Guest: Ian Robertson, professor at Trinity College Dublin.

Series Producer, sound design and mix engineer: Richard Ward
Researcher: William Hornbrook
Editor: Zoë Heron
Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso)
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley: Deep Calm - with Michael Mosley

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Sit back, let go and unwind with Dr Michael Mosley's immersive new series, Deep Calm.

Sit back and unwind with Dr Michael Mosley's Deep Calm series as he reveals scientifically-proven techniques for activating your body's relaxation response.

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