
This explains what to expect from this free introductory course and why it is based on Mind Body Medicine principles, it is a taster course for the Healthy Happy and Wise programme. It also introduces you to your instructor.
This explains why we can find it difficult to put a healthy lifestyle into practice and why it is important to use techniques based upon the latest scientific evidence. It also tells you how this course is structured
Explanation of the importance of the 6 keys, The Master key, Managing stress, and the other 5 keys; Happiness, Movement, Attitude, Nutrition and Sleep. It also explains how they are interconnected.
Explains how to score your current position in relation to the Six Keys, using the Six Keys Tracker Form
Understand the difference between acute and chronic stress, why stress is important from an evolutionary perspective and what our physical reaction to it is
Explains the 4 different category of stressors;physical,psychological, cognitive and life-style
5 different ways to help you manage stress
Understand what happens to your pulse and blood pressure as you breathe and learn a technique where your out breath is longer than your in breath, this technique can be used to help to reduce stress and anxiety and pain
A visual way of practising a breathing exercise
Understand why the things we think will make us happy don't always do so and what science has discovered does actually contribute to happiness. The learn 5 tips to help improve your baseline happiness.
Why movement is so important and 5 suggestions to get you moving
Learn how our attitude affects our wellbeing and learn 5 steps to help you on the way to a healthy outlook
What we eat not only affects our body but has a powerful influence on our mental health. 5 tips for the best way of eating to help you live your best life
What prevents us getting our beauty sleep and 5 tips to increase the likelihood of getting it.
Some final words of encouragement and the chance to sit back and listen to the reassuring voice of David Attenborough guiding you
This free introductory course is a taster session for The Healthy Happy and Wise programme, which is designed to help you to live the best life you can for as long as you can.
It helps you build resilience and teaches you ways to cope with the challenges that life inevitably throws upon us.
It is ‘person centred’ rather than ‘disease centred’ and is based upon the premise that the mind and body are interconnected and not separate entities. We call this Mind Body Medicine.
Your instructor is Dr Sheila Popert, a Palliative Medicine Consultant with over 30 years’ experience of helping people manage pain and other symptoms without always relying on drugs. In this free introductory course, you will find out about the Six Keys to becoming Healthy, Happy and Wise and 5 techniques to improve your handle on each one; Managing Stress, Happiness, Movement, Attitude, Nutrition and Sleep.
There is about 1 hour of video content. The 15 video lectures are all 2 to 4 minutes long, you can choose to watch them at your own pace, one or two at a time, or all in one sitting. You will derive the most benefit if you pick some of the techniques to practice daily.
The course finishes with a 12-minute guided relaxation, narrated by David Attenborough.
I hope you enjoy it.