Relaxation Lessons-Task 2

For Task Two your will get into the same position as Task number one.

• While lying in a quiet setting begin to think about your feet.
• Tighten or tense your feet only as in Task One. Take note of how this feels.
• Now, relax your feet and note how it feels.
• Then, tighten the feet along with your legs noting how this feels.
  
• Relax the feet and the legs paying close attention to the difference in feeling between tense and relaxed.
• Continue on by adding the torso-hips, stomach, chest, back. Tense and relax.
• Add the hands-clench your fists.
  
• Add the arms and shoulders.
• Add the neck and head making the best "lizard face" you can.

After completing the task of tensing , relaxing and paying close attention to how your body feels, just lie quietly for a couple of minutes and try to bring on a sense of relaxation. Note: If you are usually tense you may feel strange sensations when you relax your body. It is normal to feel tingling or other mild sensations when a very tense area begins to relax and let blood flow normally though it. Don't be concerned about this.

Happy Relaxation

Relaxation Lessons

While the ability to relax can help prevent insomnia, headaches and muscle tension, many people tell me they have difficulty relaxing on there own. So, the next few blogs will be to help those people do just that-relax.

Relaxation Task 1

• Lie on your back on a firm but comfortable surface. Your arms should be at your side and away from your body a little in a comfortable position.
• Next, tense both feet by pulling down the toes as if you were going to touch them to the bottom of the feet.
• Hold this position for about five seconds. Pay close attention to how this makes your feet feel.
• Now, relax and let your feet go back to normal. Pay close attention to how the feeling in your feet changes.
• Repeat these steps up to five times paying close attention to the different feeling between you flexing and tensing your feet and relaxing the m.
• Do this first task once a day for three days. Then, move on to Task 2.