Do you have neck and back tension caused by stress? Are your muscles tight, sore or achy? The tense and relax technique and the deep relaxation technique, will immediately relieve tension through out your body.
Tense and Relax Technique
Relieve tension and soreness in your muscles with the tense and relax technique. Preformed before the relaxation technique.
- Lie on you back with your arms at your side and your legs straight.
- Scrunch up your face, clinch you fists, tense and tighten all you muscles and hold.
- Completely relax your entire body. Become as limp as possible.
Tense and relax at least 3 or 4 times. If you are done roll over on your right side and push yourself up slowly. For optimal results I suggest you continue on and try the following relaxation technique.
Deep Relaxation Technique
- Lie on you back with your legs straight out and your feet almost touching.
- Place your hands on your abdomen.
- Close your eyes.
- Calm your mind and focus on your breath.
- Start at the top of your head and work down your neck shoulders and arms relaxing your muscles.
- Continue down your back, hips, legs, knees, ankles, feet, and toes your toes.
- Continue to calm your mind and focus on your breathing. Listening to your breath.
- As you inhale, visualize the life force in the air as a bright light passing through your nose, and into your lungs, and then continuing into your blood stream and spreading out in to every inch of your body healing it.
- As you exhale slowly and completely imagine all toxins being expelled.
- Continue force on breathing in the healing light and breathing out all the toxins
- Feel your hands raising and falling with each breath.
Continue this breathing exercise until you are completely relaxed. For total body well being do savasana pose. When done start to come back to awareness and slowly begin to wiggle, move and stretch. Roll over to your right side and then push yourself up slowly. Check out my article on alternate nostril breathing.
Enjoy and be well.
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