We’re dedicated to helping you improve your mental health and wellbeing.

Here you can find simple exercises to help you feel better straight away – follow our video on breathing on the right, (just 4 minutes of breathing calmly can have an immediate effect on how we feel) or listen to (or download for free) the audio tracks, in Relax Now - these are the first two tracks of the Positive Mental Training programme.

You can also find informaiton on how the self help programme, Positive Mental Training, works, and how you can train to use it with your patients if you are a health professional.

If you’ve been given a code by your doctor please go to downloads

Positive mental training has been shown by research in 2004/5 to be safe and effective in depression. Since it was introduced into the NHS doctors have also found it effective in anxiety and panic; also other illnesses related to the effect stress has on our body, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and others. See the research papers here.

Positive Mental Training is safe and easy to use and over 50,000 people have been given it by NHS staff.

Positive Mental Training has been validated by research as an occupational health programme to treat burnout, depression and stress at work. It is widely used by NHS staff who have undergone training for their own benefit.

For a useful summary of mental training in primary care go to the RCGP News feature feb 2011