Thank you for attending Thursday’s session, I hope you found it helpful, insightful and enjoyable.
Fatigue and sleep are increasingly considered the most significant factors affecting our mental wellbeing. Life is often a challenge with increased stress arising from workload, technology keeping us connected at the touch of a button and also trying to balance a personal life with good physical and mental health.
When we’re stressed and under pressure, the main form of recovery we require is sleep. Paradoxically, this is the one form of recovery we cut short when our time is pressured... Consistent poor sleep quality can put you at risk of and lead to long-term health consequences.
If anyone wants signposting to more in-depth reading on any aspect of what you have listened to, please don't hesitate to ask. There isn't one book which pulls all our content together but there are great specialists out there on parts of it including:
The Circadian Code - Satchin Panda
We have compiled our own resources to try and help and these are explained further below together with links you can use to access them.
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Autogenics Relaxation Technique - audio
For your own understanding and safety please read the following carefully.
When practising any relaxation, mindfulness or meditation techniques, if you should experience any emotional or physical discomfort that feels overwhelming, then open your eyes and select objects in the room to focus on. Picking up their shape and colour. It may also help to place your feet on the floor and experience the sensation of the floor beneath your feet as a comforting solid sensation. Give yourself a few minutes to re-engage your senses with the room. These moments, which may feel overwhelming, could be a helpful release of accumulated stress/past trauma. It would be a good idea to discuss any such experiences with 7Futures or an experienced mindfulness or somatic experiencing practitioner so that they can guide you as to how to maintain your practice and work through such releases. Or you may wish to consider discussing your experience with your GP or other medical professional. The following exercises are not meant as a replacement for any medical advice and are provided for educational and general wellbeing purposes only. If you are suffering from any mental or physical health issues you should always bring these to the attention of any teacher providing instruction with such exercises.
The audio track accompanies the ‘Autogenic Relaxation’ script (click here to view), click on the play icon to play audio.
If anyone wishes for more specific signposting please do not hesitate to email jo@7futures.com and we'll get back to you asap.
best wishes
Nathan
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