This is an ABC podcast.

Hi, Lynne Malcolm here with a podcast extra.

It's related to our recent All In The Mind episode, Arts on Prescription.

This is the second session of Culture Dose, Art for Wellbeing,

which is a collaboration between the Black Dog Institute and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

This one is called Joy in Everyday Life.

Head to the All In The Mind website,

where you can find an image of the painting you'll be guided through.

You can watch it while you're listening.

Professor Catherine Boydell from the Black Dog Institute

begins with a brief meditative exercise,

and then Danielle Golotta, who is the Access Programme's producer

at the Art Gallery of New South Wales,

will explore this beautiful still life with you.

So we'd like you to begin by bringing attention into your body.

You can close your eyes if that's comfortable for you.

You can notice your body seated wherever you're seated, feeling the weight of your body on the chair, on the floor.

Take a few deep breaths.

And as you take a deep breath,

bring in more oxygen, enlivening the body.

And as you exhale, have a sense of relaxing more more deeply you can notice your feet on the floor

notice the sensations of your feet touching the floor the weight and pressure vibration heat

...