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COURSE

Getting The Best From Life

With Fred Wood

This course is presented in ten episodes, each building on the last, and is designed to offer listeners constructive, practical and insightful information to allow them different ways of seeing common issues and obstacles in life. Employing compelling research and real life examples to offer new ways to consider life is the objective of these 10 episodes.

Here we bring together real-life research on gratitude and meditation. From discovering ways to gently shift perspective to exploring inventive breathing techniques, this course guides the listener to consider practical ways to make manageable yet profound life changes.

10 Days

3.3k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

English

About this course

Earth Connection

Tree of Life Visualization

Grounding/Integration Practice

Meet your Teacher

Fred Wood

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Peterborough, ON, Canada

Fred Wood is a college and university professor in Canada. He draws on his students' experiential explorations with gratitude and meditation to offer insights into our everyday lives. Professor Wood is also a guest lecturer, offering insights into meditation and hypnotic healing, and providing strategies for enhancing our well being.

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10 Days

3.3k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Purpose and Belonging

This session is an introduction to the course material. We look at research into perspectives and explore the characteristics of purpose and belonging through a continuum of joy to despair. Examples from research and college student experiences help listeners evaluate their own values. This introduction includes a thought experiment.

Lesson 2

Perception and Stress Part 1

Understanding the foundations of perception through a brief review of nervous system functions. Following a deeper look at how we percieve our environment, we experience a practical exercise to help reduce stress immediately. One extraordinary case study is reviewed.

Lesson 3

Perception and Stress Part 2

Understanding the foundations of neurophysiology towards perception and experience through two case studies of prison inmates. Extending our review of nervous system function as it relates to perception, we look at how environment, epigenetics, and behaviour influence our experience.

Lesson 4

Placebo and suggestibility Part 1

Research from Irving Kirsch on placebo, as well as other case studies highlight the power of expectation in our lives. Further evidence is provided to show that our belief and expectation influence our lives in ways that seem beyond the scope of normal experience.

Lesson 5

Placebo and Suggestibility Part 2

Additional research from CBC, McGill University, and Dr. John Sarno highlight the potential for our systems to modulate bodily function. There is also an opportunity to participate in an experiment that tests suggestibility.

Lesson 6

Gratitude and Attitude Part 1

Here we explore the benefits of gratitude and learn of college student experiences. In additon, listeners are invited to evaluate their own feelings while listening to authentic expressions of gratitude.

Lesson 7

Gratitude and Attitude Part 2

More evidence-based research (empirical and anecdotal) on gratitude and the benefits of this experience. Introduction to breath work. For thousands of years people have understood how influential our breathing is on our physiology, and yet we often forget to use this valuable asset effectively.

Lesson 8

Approaches to breath work, Circadian rhythms and sleep

There are combined themes in this episode, including Wim Hof, Stan Grof, and the Stoics. In addition, we look more deeply into Circadian rhythms and their influence on our well being. Specifically, the incalculable value of sleep.

Lesson 9

Nature's effects on your life

This episode looks at the value of being in nature and references research that supports and recommends that we spend time in nature. Illustrations where shifting perspective can bring changes in our relationship to nature are explored.

Lesson 10

Recap and release

A brief recap of some of the issues discussed in the course, as well as a powerful, but little known, Ericksonian meditation called the Ultradian Healing Response Protocol. Listeners will know how and when to use it.