Deep Relaxation
The mystics talk about Deep Relaxation being a form of “Redemption”, and they’d be right.
We are all overly stressed, working too hard, quietly exhausted, unnecessarily nervous, socially anxious, frightened and holding on to far too much tension deep in the very tissue and bones of our bodies.
Most people don’t even know how stressed they really are, because we’re culturally habituated to long term, low level stress as something normal and to be expected, because we’ve all got jobs and responsibilities that cause us stress on a daily basis.
Bombarded by noise, visual distractions vying for our attention, caffeine, email, messenger, comparing ourselves to who society thinks we should be, traveling to and from work in urban environments, relaxation and especially a therapeutically significant deep relaxation may seem hard to come by.
You might find it in a relaxing bath at the end of a long day, you might stumble across it the moments just before you’re falling asleep, or during a massage treatment or accidentally in a meditation session.
But more than anything else, Deep Relaxation is something that we all desperately need to include in our lives, and need to learn how to feel it, to experience it, and to allow its calming warm embrace to wash over us with the most incredible delicateness imaginable.
Deep Relaxation could become part of your daily lifestyle, and integral and foundation of your personal identity.
It could literally change your life and change your internal body chemistry, by lowering levels of cortesol, adrelinine, and increasing the release of dopamine and seretonine.
Regular experiences of Deep Relaxation in a similar way to meditation, will rewire your brain, calm your nerves, improve your mood and help you to feel much, much happier in life.
You can gradually learn to relax almost every muscle in your body (although avoid relaxing your tummy muscles fully) and discover the bliss-like joy that Deep Relaation can bring.
The idea is that the more you enjoy the experience of Deep Relxation, the more you’ll want to experience it, and the more internal relaxation drugs you’ll eventually release and become addicted to. This way, you’ll learn what it feels like to be very relaxed and notice when people or situations move you out of that feeling zone.
One day you’ll be so used to being a feeling relaxed that you just won’t understand the attraction to getting stressed and having a panic attact. Deep Relaxation will feel normal and totally lovely and who you really are.
I’d recommend two daily Deep Relaxation exercises, first thing when you wake up, sometime durring the day and just before you go to sleep :
- Progressive Muscle Tension Relaxation
- Breathing out darkness and breathing in light
