The Calm Coach

14/06/2022

Listen to the latest episodes of Pat Marsh on BBC Sounds

20/04/2021

Being able to move our bodies calmly and with purpose is hugely beneficial to overall health. In my work I am lucky enough to meet incredible people who work to promote health and wellbeing. One such person is Gail Biggins of Discover Pilates. Gail uses the innovative Franklin Method when she teaches pilates and this helps to alleviate aches pains/help promote good movement and calmness in the body. Gail delivers her classes via zoom so it doesn't matter where you are in the world, you can take part! https://www.discover-pilates.co.uk/franklin

If you have no control over your thoughts then your movement patterns will not change and you will endlessly recycle old habits. The brain is a recording device so if we focus on recording new  positive experiences and movement patterns, the body will get better at reproducing these new patterns.

13/02/2021

Such a joy to work with this young man and know he’s relaxed and happy again 💕

12/02/2021

Excited to say that my new book on sleep is out on Monday 1st March. Available now on Amazon for pre order https://amzn.to/3p6sEz2

12/02/2021

27/01/2021

by Vikki Rimmer Dip Clin Hyp NLP coach

23/01/2021

Are you getting in the way of living well?

05/01/2021

Sharing a post from my friend Frode that beautifully illustrates the words and feelings we all experience. Which side of the tree do you spend more time hanging out in?

05/01/2021

How flexible do you feel when things don’t go to plan? Learning the skills of ‘doing calm’ is one of the most powerful things we can do to influence our health and well-being. If you can spare one evening a week in January to learn, come train with me www.calmcoach.live

Learning to access calm states can be life changing.

05/01/2021

I always enjoy chatting to the fab Pat Marsh on BBC Radio Kent and today was no exception. We chatted about resilience and resolve and how to plan and keep resolutions. If you’re keen to hear more, tips and info here at 3:08pm https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_kent

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04/01/2021

04/01/2021

Would you like to learn some essential skills for calm? Motivate yourself to achieve a task? Come and train with me this month and start the year well! www.calmcoach.live or contact me via Facebook

03/01/2021

States of mind, ways of being and feeling are ‘contagious’. How do you want to feel today? How do you want to influence those around you?

02/01/2021

Can you listen yourself young??

Should we be listening to music all the time at the moment?

02/01/2021

Should we be listening to music all the time at the moment?

If you want to stay motivated, fit, or mentally healthy then listening to music is one of the best things we can do - it’s innate to our experience as a human being and something we’ve done since time immemorial.

Have you ever noticed your body moving, unconsciously to music, or find that your foot has been tapping along to something?

When we hear a rhythm it activates the auditory system which in turn provokes the motor system at a subconscious level. People often play music as they exercise - it encourages the motor system - and our bodies to move.

Healing power of music:

A few years ago I wrote an article on Tibetan Bowl Healing and a chap came to my house and placed his bowls on me and played them... Bear with me... He also placed a huge gong at my feet and hit that when the session was over!

The use of music as therapy through drumbeats and chanting dates back to ancient Greece and Egypt, and singing bowls have been used in Nepal, Tibet and India to induce relaxation for years. More recently, in 1984, sound pioneer Peter Hess started to develop sound ‘massage’, which involves placing the bowls directly on the body and harnessing vibrations.

Research has shown that the precise herts of music can produce an effect on the body for example : precisely 432Hz could provide a 33 per cent reduction in cellular stress of the liver and gallbladder, other evidence shows the right melody can also boost blood flow, reduce stress-related hormones and anxiety levels, improve post-operative recovery and even get unresponsive dementia patients moving again.

Big claims but the NHS are listening and In recent years they have been providing hospitals with music therapy services to ‘boost emotional health and wellbeing’.

Music can help to keep you young!

One of my favourite studies - The counter clockwise study by Ellen Langer. Langer, of Harvard, took 8 men in their 70s from the nursing home thy lived in to a house where she’d recreated 1959. The 8 men arrived, stooped, shuffling, using canes. As they entered the house they entered a time warp. Perry Como crooned on a vintage radio. Ed Sullivan welcomed guests on a black-and-white TV. Everything inside — including the books on the shelves and the magazines lying around — were designed to conjure 1959.They were encouraged to talk about historical events from the time as if it were today and to listen to the music and immerse themselves in the culture.
They were instructed to behave as if it were actually 1959. A week later 63% of them had better intelligence test scores at the end of the experiment.

What's the sound track to your life?
Mine has definitely got more Wham and Duran Duran in it than it should have! I want to dance every time I hear 'Fool's Gold' - I'm instantly transported to the party in 1989 where I first heard it and everyone in the room got up and danced.
How about you?

01/01/2021

Is there something you want to start today, a new goal you want to set, or something you once loved that you want to rediscover...? If you have a spare 15 minutes, why not try the Disney model x

Uncertain times. Challenging times: we keep hearing our lives described in these terms at the moment, and while it is true, it's not always HELPFUL to be constantly focusing on uncertainty - it means that decision making...

31/12/2020

31/12/2020

I’m back on The Pat Marsh Show next Tuesday talking about New Year’s resolutions. Are you making any? Do they work? Are there ones you’ve dropped within days? Or ones you still keep today?