Deep Calm - Ep 2: Relaxing Your Body

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.