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.

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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley: Deep Calm - with Michael Mosley: Deep Calm - Episode 4: Using the Power of Nature

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Sit back and unwind with Dr Michael Mosley as he discovers the relaxing magic of fractals.

Sit back and take a sonic journey with Dr Michael Mosley as he finds out how the repeating patterns in nature - fractals - might trigger our 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.

What is it about the natural world that has such a positive impact upon our physiology - slowing our heart rate and blood pressure, settling our thoughts and so much more? One theory is that it’s connected to the repeating patterns in nature - fractals - and Michael discovers that we live in a fractal universe.

Guest: Richard Taylor, professor at the University of Oregon.

Series Producer, sound design and mix engineer: Richard Ward
Researcher: William Hornbrook
Production Manager: Maria Simons
Editor: Zoë Heron
Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso)
Extract from "Fractal compositions No.1” composed by Severin Su in collaboration with 13&9 Design.
A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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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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