In this Video, Kirt Mallie Identifies the five key elements we need to identify and take care of to achieve wellness and a balanced life.
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The Four Elements of Life – Kirt Mallie
Kirt Mallie, Co-founder and head teacher of Modern Organic explains the characteristics of the four elements of life and how integrating them into your daily life will make you calmer and more purposeful.
Yoga, Breathing and Mindfulness – Kirt Mallie
Kirt Mallie takes you through the basic ideas and philosophy of what yoga is. He then takes the audience through a basic breathing exercise to help you relax, be calm and mindful of your presence.
Nidra Body Scan Meditation – Tom Cronin
This is a yoga nidra body scan meditation, which guides you through all points of your body. It’s best done lying on the floor, but you can do in a chair.
Boost your Mental Health with Regular Exercise
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What Role Does Meditation And Relaxation Play In Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
So as part of a multidisciplinary treatment programme, you can approach meditation or mindfulness, or other psychological therapies like that, in all sorts of different ways. And if you attend a psychologist or a chronic pain clinic, you’ll be taken through some of those. There’s various apps that you can download to help you with that, but it’s recommended that you get psychological help to pick the one that’s going to be the best for you.
What is Multidisciplinary Pain Management? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
If you’ve got chronic pain that’s gone on for longer than three months or is very complex and started to affect other parts of your life, you’ll often be referred to a multidisciplinary pain clinic. Now, what does that mean? That means that we look at all the different aspects of your life and how the pain has affected it. So, it’s partly about the physical, it’s about drug safety, making sure that the medications that you’re on are not ones that you’re going to become dependent on, they’re not going to cause other problems within your life. It’s partly about making sure that nothing’s been missed in your diagnosis.
What are some Complementary Therapies for Pain? Dr. Jennifer Stevens
We have very few quick fixes for chronic pain, not many of the medications that we use provide instantaneous relief. Many of the medications that we do have, come with really significant problems, for example, the morphine type drugs.
Video: 4 x 4 meditation
This 4 x 4 breathing meditation is a powerful meditation designed to regulate the breathing and bring calm to the body when it’s been hijacked by stress or anxiety.
Gentle Breath Meditation – Tom Cronin
Gentle breath meditation can be done in a chair or cross-legged on the floor. Tom Cronin of the Stillness Project leads us through this simple guided meditation.