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Finally, now you want to cause your mind to go completely blank. The design will flow more gracefully along with the outside and the overall appearance of your home will be far more harmonious and appealing. Just how serious can life be, after all? As you inhale your second breath choose two muscles groups (jaw and shoulders) and relax them as you exhale your second breath.

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Imagine you are a part of that beautiful picture now and imagine that as you work on your problems you will become that beautiful picture. Picked up kids from school and nearly bit their heads off . Imagine a time when your body felt a healthy tired, like how you felt after a good tennis match, or just stepping out of a hot tub or sauna.

Practice Progressive Relaxation

In the early 1920s, Edmund Jacobson developed Progressive Relaxation. Jacobson was one of the first to measure the electrical activity of the muscles. He believed that anxiety showed itself through tension in the muscles, and he believed that if we could reduce the muscular response, then we would also reduce the amount of stress in our bodies, as well.


This is a relatively straightforward relaxation technique and is widely used today. It requires very little imagination or even willpower. Practicing this technique will quiet a racing mind or heart and will help you to focus better and concentrate better.


This technique teaches the difference between tension and relaxation as many have come to associate the tension of every day life to be entirely normal. Many have forgotten what it is to truly relax.


This relaxation approach involves tightening and then relaxing various muscle groups throughout the body, a little bit at a time. One group of muscles is worked on and then, slowly, the next.


It does work best when you can coordinate inhalation of breath with the tightening of the muscle phase and then controlled exhalation with the relaxation phase.


For example:

-Tighten your left fist, slowly, inhaling as you do.
-Hold the tension now, about 5 seconds, continuing to inhale and focus on the feelings of tension.
-Really focus on what the tension feels like.
-Feel the burn, the lightness, the tightness and the restriction.
-Label how the tension feels in your mind.
-Now just let go, slowly, and relax, exhaling all of the stale tension and air.
-Notice any of the relaxation sensations, label those.
-Slowly exhale as you name those sensations of relaxation, utter relaxation.
Whatever terms you can think of to label the feeling, and then relax, slowly, exhaling as you do.

Repeat the same technique for the right fist.


As you feel the change and are totally relaxed, move on to the next muscle group.


Go with about 15- 30 seconds per contraction/relaxation cycle.

If relaxation imagery appeals to you during this technique, go ahead and imagine what you can to the feelings of both tension and to extreme relaxation.

It is important to compare and contrast the differences you feel from tension to relaxation.


Try doing one entire side of your body and then the other.