Regular moderate exercise is as close to a panacea for health and well-being as you can get. It’s essential for the health of your mind, the quality of your mood and the prevention of future health-related problems. What’s more, regular physical activity can help to release stored psychological and emotional tension, increase stress resilience, stimulate the production of new brain cells and inter-brain cell connections, increase feelings of self-worth and self-confidence, balance hormones, prevent and stabilise insulin resistance, reduce body fat, increase bone mass and reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, hip fractures and breast cancer. You get the idea.

Serenity, generosity, love and stillness are pretty good – but the one that wins hands down for me is humility. Humility is not meekness or timidity; it’s a quality of character that arises when we are being authentic, when we are being and living in the world with the quiet confidence of a person who is at peace with and accepting of who we are. Some of the most enlightened people I know are humble.

Does our mental state and mood influence our bodies ability to heal itself? That's a question I have been exploring for many years and the answer appears to be yes - to some degree. For example, a recent study carried out by Professor Kavita Vedhara a health psychologist at the University of Nottingham found that healing rates in people diabetes-related foot ulcers are influenced by their attitude and their state of mind.

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