Health Benefits of Relaxation Techniques:

• More energy.
• Lowered blood pressure.
• Reduction of stress related illnesses.
• Slower breathing.
• Better concentration.
• Better able to tackle life!

Let’s start some relaxation techniques!

Try Yoga. Buy a yoga DVD, try out a local studio, or take classes in your gym. Simple stretching is just as beneficial. Start slow so you don’t injure yourself. Stretching loosens up muscles, helps prevent injury, and improves circulation.

Check out this yoga training course you can do online. Become an expert yogi!

Meditation is a wonderful tool for relaxation. With a full-time job or a busy schedule, taking a vacation isn’t always possible. Although through journey meditation, which is a combination of visualization and meditation, you can go on a relaxing vacation anywhere you’d like!

• Sit or lie in a comfortable and quiet place and take a few deep breaths.
• Release the tension from your feet. Feel them drop and become heavy.
• Bring your attention to your calves and thighs. Feel them become heavier and relaxed.
• Feel your abdomen and back release tension. Allow your stomach to rise and fall comfortably with each breath.
• Drop your shoulders and release the tension from your neck.
• Soften your eyelids and breathe.
• Visualize yourself in a place that makes you feel relaxed. Some people prefer sitting under the warm sun at the beach while others prefer sitting under a shady tree in the mountains. When you feel your mind start to wander, bring yourself back to your relaxing destination.
• Meditate here for 10-15 minutes. If you’re at the beach, hear the crash of the waves and feel the sand beneath your body.
• If you’re visualizing yourself in the mountains, hear the rustling of the trees and the chirping of the birds.

Dedicate time for you. Make it a priority to schedule yourself at least 15 minutes out of your day to relax. Go for a walk, sit outside, read a book or take a bath. Relaxing is as necessary for your wellbeing as eating a healthy meal.

Prioritize your tasks. Pressuring yourself to complete a long list of demands within an impossible deadline is adding stress into your life that you don’t need. Don’t do it. Instead ease the pressure off yourself and prioritize. If possible, delegate tasks.

Just breathe. No matter where you are and what you’re doing, take a few breaths. Breathe from the stomach not the chest. You should see the stomach rise and fall and your shoulders should be dropped and relaxed. Inhale and exhale through the nose, pausing after each in and out breath. Breathing this way increases oxygen to every cell of the body and calms the mind.

Try journey meditation!

Through visualization techniques and meditation, you’ll be on your way to wherever you can imagine.

This meditation is used for relaxation and deeper awareness and insight. You’re able to receive an answer by posing a question and remaining open to the symbols and objects you see. You may also journey without a particular question in mind and still experience intuitive messages. If it’s simply relaxation you seek, journey to a paradise or any comfortable location you choose.

Sit in a quiet and comfortable place. Take a few deep breaths and begin to relax. Move upwards releasing tension from your feet, legs, back, neck, and soften your eyelids.

Connect yourself to the earth. Imagine white light or a rope coming from your root chakra, which is at the base of your spine, connecting to the center of the earth. Visualize it until you feel grounded.

See and feel yourself going up and through your crown chakra, which is at the top of your head. Go higher and higher until you reach a door. Open it and step inside.

Look around the room. Pay attention to the symbols, colors, or objects you come across. You may receive messages in the form of visuals, sounds, or a knowing. If you don’t know what something means, just ask and be open for the answer.

Enter through a second door. Towards the back of the first room, you’ll see a door. Walk though and meet somebody with a message for you. The person will hand you an object. It can be a letter or a box with something inside. Ask what it means if you’re not sure.

End the meditation by centering. Thank anybody or everybody you met during your journey. Walk out of the room and close the door behind you. Then walk through the first room and close that door. Come back down through the top of your head through your root chakra into the earth.

Tip: Be open and accepting of your experience even if you feel you’re making it up. If you don’t see anything, don’t be concerned. Practice and you’ll develop clarity.

Tip: Journey meditation can take you anywhere. For relaxation, journey to a beach, mountain or anywhere you consider paradise. Stay there until you feel fully relaxed then come back.

Note: You’re also able to gain deeper insight without journeying to a specific location. To get an answer to a question pertaining to your life, pose the question and be open to whatever answers you receive. Beginners may experience less visuals or symbols meditating in this manner.

Practice journey meditation anytime you’d like to get away!

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