Deep Calm - Ep 3: Using Your Imagination

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 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.

If you imagine yourself somewhere safe and relaxing, using something called Guided Imagery, you can activate the body’s relaxation response. Plus brainwaves, pupils and thought-birds.

Guest: Katarzyna Zemla, PhD candidate SWPS / PJATK universities in Warsaw.

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.

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?
0:21.3	When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?
0:25.1	I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.
0:28.5	Steakknife.
0:29.7	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:43.8	You're about to listen to an episode of Deep Calm with me, Michael Mosley.
0:49.7	If you're in the UK, the whole series is available now, first, on BBC Sounds.
1:01.5	Life comes at us fast. Thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries, it is all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind.
1:12.8	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.
1:18.2	I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Deep Calm.
1:30.9	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.
1:38.1	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. A world of restoration and stillness.
1:46.5	A world of calm.
1:49.5	So get as comfortable as you can,
1:52.1	and we'll begin.
1:58.6	Imagination is a powerful thing.
2:02.2	Think of when you were last immersed in a book or a narrative podcast.
2:07.2	These are so potent because of what they provoke inside us.
2:13.3	In this episode, we're going to harness this power.
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