Deep Calm - Ep 2: Relaxing Your Body

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 15 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.

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.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast, but this is about something else you might enjoy.
0:05.4	My name's Katie Lecky and I'm an assistant commissioner for on demand music on BBC Sounds.
0:10.8	The BBC has an incredible musical heritage and culture and as a music lover, I love being part of that.
0:17.5	With music on sounds, we offer collections and mixes for everything, from workouts to helping
0:22.7	you nod off, boogie in your kitchen, or even just a moment of calm. And they're all put together
0:28.7	by people who know their stuff. So if you want some expertly curated music in your life,
0:35.0	check out BBC Sounds.
0:40.3	Music in your life, check out BBC Sounds. You're about to listen to an episode of Deep Calm with me, Michael Mosley.
0:48.0	If you're in the UK, the whole series is available now, first, on BBC Sounds.
0:56.4	Life comes at us fast.
0:59.5	Thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries,
1:02.0	it is all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind.
1:06.5	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.
1:17.7	I'm Dr Michael Mosley, and this is Deep Calm.
1:23.5	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.
1:36.1	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.
1:46.9	A world of restoration and stillness. A world of calm. So get as comfortable as you can
1:55.7	and we'll begin.
2:04.3	Relaxation isn't just a state of mind.
2:06.6	It's a whole body thing.
2:12.7	And one of the most studied and well-proven ways to activate your relaxation response and settle your mind is to focus on your muscles.
2:21.2	It's called progressive muscle relaxation.
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