You can find useful self-help information, resources and support from the NHS website, but also from charitable organisations.
We have selected some pages we find particularly interesting.
To find out more click on one of the following buttons.
Sleep / Rest
The sleepstation website provides a range of useful articles and resources designed to aid sleep.
The sleep council website offers advice and tools to help sleep.
Advice from the NHS website:
Playing gentle natural sounds on the background can help fall sleep. Here are some examples:
Follow this link to a list of audio files with meditations, guided imagery and breathing exercises.
The Yoga Nidra Network website has guided meditations to help you sleep, in more than 20 languages.
Mental health / stress / anxiety / depression
- to help yourself cope with low mood and depression
- to take control of anxiety
- to give yourself the best chance of a good night’s sleep.
- to help build your confidence.
- to replace negative thoughts with more positive thinking.
Breathing exercises for stress
8 relaxation tips is a good video from Mind, a charity providing information and support for mental health problems. Check their advice for Anxiety.
Rethink Mental Illness has a website offering general information on living with mental illness, medication and care. It also offers practical help on a wide range of topics such as The Mental Health Act, community care, welfare benefits and carers’ rights. Moreover, you can search for support groups and services in your area. Anxiety disorders.
Follow this link to a list of audio files with meditations, guided imagery and breathing exercises.
The Yoga Nidra Network website has guided meditations that can help you relax, in more than 20 languages.
Breathlessness
Relaxation videos
Breathlessness Tips – Colour Relaxation – YouTube
Breathlessness Tips – Hammock Relaxation – YouTube
Breathlessness Tips – Progressive Muscle Relaxation – YouTube
From Asthma and Lung UK: read about your Lung condition, find out advice on how to manage breathlessness and check their list of support groups.
From MacMillan Cancer Support a booklet with advice on how breathlessness can be managed.
Follow this link to a list of audio files with meditations, guided imagery and breathing exercises.
Pain
Support and advice for people affected by chronic pain
For people living with pain and those who care for them: Pain Concern
Self help tips from The Pain Toolkit
Guided meditation for pain
Online pain management program (ask your GP or pain specialist how to access the course)
From the NHS website: 10 ways to reduce pain
Follow this link to a list of audio files with meditations, guided imagery and breathing exercises.
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