Sleep Well - Ep 1: Breathe
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Get comfortable, let go of the cares of the day and take a sonic journey with Dr Michael Mosley. In this new sound-filled podcast series, designed to help you drift off, each episode focuses on a scientifically-proven sleep technique and takes a deep dive through some incredible sleep-related bodily mechanisms.
It’s something that the great teachers of meditation and yoga have known about and used for millennia, but science has only really just caught up with: slowing the breath. Via a tiny cluster of cells in the brain, this simple act can send you into a more relaxing, peaceful state and towards sleep.
Guest: Ian Roberston, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin.
Producer, sound design and mixing: Richard Ward Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Editor: Zoe Heron Specially composed music by Richard Atkinson (Mcasso) A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. |
| 0:23.1 | We're on a quest to find out where in the world women are living their best lives. |
| 0:27.6 | Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. Sleep is an ellixia. A good night's rest can reset and boost your mood, your energy. |
| 0:48.0 | It can in the long term transform your health. |
| 0:52.0 | But sleep can also be elusive. A third of us struggle with it, myself included. |
| 1:00.6 | So for all of you who crave better sleep help is at hand. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is sleep well. |
| 1:12.0 | This is a podcast series with a difference. We've designed it to help you get more rest. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm going to guide you through some simple scientifically proven ways to make it easier |
| 1:27.0 | to drift off and tools for getting a better night's sleep. |
| 1:32.0 | So please get yourself comfortable and let's begin. We all do it every day in, out. |
| 1:45.0 | We all do it every day, in, out, most of the time it's automatic. |
| 1:59.6 | Along with our heartbeat, |
| 2:01.6 | it's a rhythmic backdrop to all of our lives. |
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