Summary: Dr Joe Delaney is a Consultant Principal Lecturer in Integrative Health Practice, an Associate Lecturer in Postgraduate Medicine and also a recognised teacher of Evolutionary Psychology. He is a Specialist in Integrative Health Practice and creator of the ‘IAM Approach to Health and Wellbeing’. He shares his story as a health professional who has lots of information and has also lived through the experience of stress and anxiety building to a point where it changed his life. There is a difference between living a pretentious life and an authentic life and its vital to look within and find what brings you into balance because what goes on in the body affects the mind and what happens in the mind affects the body. KEY TAKEAWAYS How we think determines how information is sent through our nervous system to our endocrine glands, these flood the system with various biochemical substances that influence how the cells perform. What goes on in the body affects the mind and what happens in the mind affects the body. What is important is the difference between living a pretentious life and an authentic life. Stress is excessive pressure that takes us out of our wellbeing level. The nervous system kicks in with the flight or fight response, heart rate increases, blood pressure goes up and we go into hypertension. When you are in a continual state of stress you can go into a rapid mind loop as you continually try to cope with the problems. Lots of people also become physically exhausted as they try to cope and this can lead to comfort-seeking behaviours. We become toxic and out of balance. It all begins with self-awareness and being body aware. Learning to put your hand on your heart and breath is the key to achieving balance. At 6 breaths per minute the magic happens, there is a perfect balance between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems of the heart. BEST MOMENTS ‘There was a whole load of me that I wasn’t paying attention to’ ‘I’d been living everyone else’s life not my life’ ‘All the choices I had made were based on external information’ ‘I’d never made any choices based on how I felt about myself from a place of authenticity’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast Dr Joe Delaney website ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Joe Delaney PhD CSci FIBMS PhySoc Joe is a Consultant Principal Lecturer in Integrative Health Practice with Wirral Metropolitan College and an Associate Lecturer in Postgraduate Medicine with Edge Hill University and also a recognised teacher of Evolutionary Psychology with the University of Liverpool. Previously, he worked for many years as a Senior Research Fellow in Medicine at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, exploring the use of non-medical interventions alongside pharmacological methods for treating hypertension in patients suffering with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. In line with the above role, Joe was appointed as the country’s first NHS Specialist in Integrative Health Practice. His role was to help individuals reduce the stress, tension, depression and anxiety arising from living with a long-term condition and to help them find the power and enthusiasm to make healthier choices. He is the creator of the ‘IAM Approach to Health and Wellbeing’ which is a deliberately developmental, mindfulness-based stress re-education (DD-MBSR) programme that helps individuals to focus on what’s strong in them and not what’s going wrong with them. In this way, they become more empowered, emotionally flexible, mentally alert and much more able to flex and flow in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and often ambiguous world. ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work. CONTACT METHOD Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/ If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
