Deep Calm - Episode 4: Using the Power of Nature

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 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.

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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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to introduce myself. My name's
0:04.0	Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport
0:07.5	podcasts. I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with leading
0:11.1	journalists, experienced pundits and the biggest
0:13.3	sports stars. Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights
0:17.4	straight from the player's mouth. But the best thing about doing this at the BBC is
0:22.0	our unique access to the sporting world.
0:25.0	What that means is that we can bring you podcasts that create a real connection to
0:28.9	dedicated sports fans across the UK.
0:31.5	So if you like this podcast, head over to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more. Life comes at us fast.
0:45.0	at us fast.
0:47.0	Thoughts and ideas, hopes and worries, it is all too easy to get caught up in the whirlwind.
0:54.9	But deep within, we do have the capacity to achieve an inner peace that does not depend
1:01.7	on the outside world or on anyone else.
1:05.0	I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is Deep Calm.
1:10.0	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. In each program I'll guide you through a
1:26.0	different scientifically proven way to activate this system and open the door
1:31.8	to that calmmer place within a world of restoration and stillness a world of calm
1:41.4	so get as comfortable as you can and we'll begin.
1:49.0	You may have noticed that when you're feeling tense, getting out into the natural world can really help.
1:57.6	Whether it's a garden, by a river, or the countryside, being in nature has the power to soothe, invigorate and inspire.
2:06.8	And it's not just psychological, New research is shedding light on the powerful physiological reactions your body has to the sights, sounds and sensations of being in nature, and how they stimulate your relaxation response.
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