Relaxation techniques

[Anders Lindman]

Relaxation techniques such as meditation and muscle relaxation are fine, but it's important to make sure that they produce actual results.

When experts talk about how to "learn how to relax" then one should examine what they mean by that. The default state of a person should be a relaxed state, a balance and ease in the person's mental, emotional and physical being.

So "learn to relax" should only be seen as a form of training. In everyday life, if you have to make an effort to try to relax, then you are coming from a state of tension and stress. You should turn that upside-down way of living around so that your ordinary everyday life is lived from a relaxed, high-energy state, and from that state you can concentrate and act.

So, to learn how to relax shouldn't result in you still being tense and stressed in your daily life, and then from that state by effort try to relax yourself. That's an upside-down approach. Instead, learn how to achieve a more and more relaxed DEFAULT state.

[Anders Lindman]

So, then how to learn how to relax? One technique is to learn to observe all the tensions in oneself; muscle tensions, pain and ache in the body, contractions, too limp areas, a knot in the stomach, unpleasant feeling or numbness in the chest area, sour emotions, irritability, frustration, boredom, anger, sorrow, guilt and shame, and tension in thoughts, confusion or dread about the future, clinging thoughts, subtle but very tense thoughts about money and relationships.

All those things form a tremendously tight knot in one's being. And we have become so used to live like that that we take it as something natural. But is it really natural to be extremely tense all the time?

The next step is to put some doubt into one's own tense and contracted being, and then put the spotlight and floodlight of awareness into the whole tense energy field making up the physical body, thoughts and emotions. That awareness will then begin to melt the contracted blocks in the overall personal energy field.

[stomph]

Thank you so much! Very enlightening! :)