Protect Your Body From Daily Stress - by Linda Hall

COURSE

Protect Your Body From Daily Stress

With Linda Hall

We all need to be able to relax in order to maintain our own health and wellbeing, but sometimes we can forget how to. In this 10 day course you will learn how to re-train your mind and body to relax naturally through gentle mind/body awareness, breathing techniques, intention and attitude. You will be shown how to incorporate simple practices into your day-to-day living to improve your overall levels of mental and physical relaxation and bring about lasting change.


Meet your Teacher

Linda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the integrative health care field as a healer, personal development coach and meditation teacher. She is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Coaching and Emotional Freedom Technique and works as a psychology practitioner for The Optimum Health Clinic Foundation, leading worldwide specialists in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. Linda has extensive experience in helping patients manage their autonomic nervous system’s stress response through mind-body awareness and meditation. She helps people support their own health and well-being through learning how to relax using a combination of simple physical practice and mental attitude.

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10 Days

44.0k students

4.8 stars

14 min / day

Stress

English


Lesson 1

The Simple Here & Now

In this session we will learn about the central role of the autonomic nervous system in relaxation. We will explore the connection between the mind and body, and how thoughts and feelings have the power to either assist or block the relaxation process. We will discover how the simple, sensory sensations of the ‘here and now’ trigger the Parasympathetic relaxation response.

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Lesson 2

Lowering Your Inner Intensity

In this session we will continue to learn about the mind-body connection in relation to the relaxation process. We explore which mental attitudes are most conducive to relaxation. We will discover how to engage attention in ways that automatically signal the brain and nervous system to relax.

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Lesson 3

Letting Go of 'Doing'

In this session we will learn how the mind and body become habituated to stress and tension. We discover why it is necessary to let go of the constant need be busy in order for the relaxation process to function effectively, and explore simple ways to do this.

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Lesson 4

Allowing Everything to Just Be

n this session we will learn how an attitude of acceptance frees the mind to surrender to the relaxation process. We continue to explore how attitude and perception affects the ability to relax and we will discover simple ways to be in the moment with non-attachment.

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Lesson 5

Grounding for Relaxation

In this session we will learn how the practice of grounding is a natural and powerful way to calm the mind and release stress and tension. We now introduce physical practice through awareness and breathing to combine with mental attitude and learn that a combination of both is necessary in order to master the ability to relax.

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Lesson 6

Breathing for Relaxation

In this lesson we will learn that the way we breathe is directly connected to our current mental, emotional and physical state and determines our overall levels of relaxation. We continue to build on physical practice to support relaxation and explore how to use the breath to trigger the Parasympathetic relaxation response. We will learn how breath awareness is fundamental to maintaining healthy everyday levels of relaxation.

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Lesson 7

Giving Yourself Permission to Rest

In this session we will learn why it’s necessary to give ourselves permission to rest in the present moment in order for us to be able to surrender to the relaxation process. We explore how to relax in stages using the power of intention combined with breath awareness.

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Lesson 8

Creating More Space

In this session we will learn how our sense of personal space affects our ability to relax. We explore ways to gain an increased sense of personal space to help us feel less pressured by the everyday demands of life. We will discover how this automatically helps to relax the breath and calm the mind.

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Lesson 9

Self-Compassion

In this session we learn how self-compassion underpins the process of relaxation. We explore ways to hold ourselves with kindness and acceptance to help us surrender fully and deeply to relaxation. We discover how being kinder to ourselves supports our health and well-being generally by helping to ensure we get sufficient relaxation on a day-to-day basis.

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Lesson 10

Putting It All Together

In this session we will review how the multi-layered process of relaxation involves every aspect of our being: mental, physical and emotional. We will explore how combined simple daily mental and physical practice can bring about lasting change by retraining the mind and body to relax more easily and effectively.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 433 community questions and 298 audio replies from Linda Hall. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Philip

February 12, 2026

Very relaxing and relatable!

Lois

January 21, 2026

Loved this course

Sara

January 16, 2026

This is a thorough teaching on several different methods and thoughts about how to go about meditation that I found exceptionally helpful. Thank you so much for sharing; the course is a huge blessing to me.

Nada

January 8, 2026

Thank you Long I learn free more ways to relax 👏👏🙏🏻🎄🌈🕊️

Ilyaas

December 29, 2025

I really enjoyed this course. The tools and techniques provided helped me better understand my relaxation process. The last lesson does a great job of integrating it all together.

Michelle

September 24, 2025

Helpful information and practical exercises. I will be revisiting some of the meditations for sure.

Marie

September 21, 2025

Very accessible course, it helps that the sessions are not any longer than 15 minutes. I love Linda’s voice it is relaxing and calming just to listen to her. Thank you 🙏

Judith

August 25, 2025

Excellent course with practical tools. Especially appreciated your soothing, calm voice. Thank you

Jane

July 27, 2025

This is one of the best courses I've taken on Insight Timer. Linda has such a kind, calming voice and each class was unique in its content vs. other stress relief courses I've taken. I am already visiting the classes over and over. Thank you so much!

Andrew

July 25, 2025

Great course. I’ll probably take it again.

Wendy

July 5, 2025

Linda, your voice alone calms me. This was a wonderful course and I shall return to it, but for now I will discover more of your offerings.

Sophie

May 28, 2025

Super 🙏🏼❤️

Miggy

May 10, 2025

Love anything Linda Hall has done. This was a great course as well.

Kimberley

April 30, 2025

Wonderful course! Your voice is so calming and nurturing. I appreciated tips on how to incorporate throughout the day.

Hilary

April 27, 2025

Very helpful, informative and practical wrapped in compassion and loving kindness. Thank you.

Patty

April 25, 2025

Love it - very calming

Ron

April 24, 2025

Hands down the best course I've taken on Insight Timer. The lessons are perfectly structured, and really help you tackle the things that stand in the way of relaxation.

Claire

April 4, 2025

Absolutely loved this course , Linda is amazing

Marty

March 30, 2025

Excellent course and thank you once again Linda for sharing these most valuable life lessons.

Julia

March 11, 2025

What a perfect course! This is now one of my favorite insight timer courses of all time. It’s the perfect length, includes completely new insights and is so very relaxing. I am planning to repeat it again. Thank you!

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