Deep Calm - Ep 1: Using Your Breath

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

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.

By deliberately slowing your breath you can help bring peace and calm to your body and mind. We discover a sweet spot (it’s around six breaths per minute but varies from individual to individual) where bodily rhythms align to enhance this relaxation response, and encounter the wandering Vagus Nerve with its central, critical role in all of this.

Guest: Mara Mather, professor at the University of Southern California.

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) A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

Transcript

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0:00.0	In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.
0:08.0	But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA
0:12.0	was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.
0:18.0	Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family? When lies are still being told to this
0:23.2	day, who do you believe? I wouldn't even know where to start and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:43.0	You're about to listen to an episode of Deep Calm with me, Michael Mosley.
0:49.0	If you're in the UK, the whole series is available now, first, on BBC Sounds.
1:01.2	Life comes at us fast. Thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries, it is all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind.
1:12.6	But deep within, we do have the capacity to achieve an inner peace that does not depend on the outside world or on anyone else.
1:18.0	I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Deep Calm.
1:30.7	This immersive BBC Radio 4 podcast series has been designed to help you tap into a hidden system within each one of us, your relaxation response.
1:37.6	In each program, I'll guide you through a different scientifically proven way to activate this system and open the door to that calmer place within.
1:42.6	A world of restoration and stillness.
1:46.3	A world of calm.
1:49.3	So get as comfortable as you can,
1:51.9	and we'll begin.
1:57.4	Breathing is largely automatic.
2:14.6	But research shows it is also a simple and powerful way to activate one of our most useful and important physiological systems, our relaxation response. In other series, we've looked at how deliberately slowing your breath can help you sleep better and settle your mind.
2:23.3	Check out the Breathe episode of Sleep Well on BBC Sounds.
2:29.3	But now, I want to look more closely at how you can use the breath to engage your relaxation
2:37.0	response, which has the power to renew, recharge and reset your entire body.
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