Need Stress Help? Here's A Simple Technique To Help Your Relax...

Deep relaxation has been proven to promote natural healing and it increases the recuperation rate. Research also points to deep relaxation as a help with memory and learning.

Take a few minutes and try this simple Mini-Relaxation Technique. You will minimize the amount of pressure or stress during any given day.

--Take in three deep breaths. --With each deep breath, imagine that you are inhaling feelings of calm and peace. --With each exhale, breathe out feelings of pressure and stress. --Take time during your day to stop and focus on a pleasant thought or image (like a child laughing or your favorite vacation spot.) Do this many times a day.

Or try this simple technique:

--Allow your shoulders and jaw to completely relax. --Do not focus on any stress. --Close your eyes and feel any tension throughout your body. --Picture this tension as water in a pitcher. --Feel as the water begins to flow freely from the pitcher. --You will begin to feel light and weightless. Stay in this for as long as you can.

Deep relaxation is the ability to instantly de-stress and to stay focused on relaxing. It works best when practiced for about 20 minutes each day, although even a few minutes each day can help.

Once you have learned to hold your relaxed state for a full fifteen to twenty minutes, you are ready to progress to an even higher level of relaxation.

To know if you're ready to move on to a new level, look for the following signs:

--A feeling of heaviness in the muscles/you are unable to move. --A sensation of warmth coming from your hands or feet flowing towards the central core of your body. --A tingling vibration throughout your extremities. --A sense of detachment or void in thoughts as they flow through your stream of consciousness.

When you feel you are ready, try this higher level of relaxation exercise...

--Take two, four-count, easy breaths, slowly. --As you inhale your first breath say to yourself, "Leave my body out of this!" --As you exhale your first breath, smile inwardly to yourself. --As you inhale your second breath choose two muscles groups (jaw and shoulders) and relax them as you exhale your second breath.

Repeat this as much as twenty to thirty times daily, and you will leave behind the traces of stress that still remain in your body.

Stress help doesn't have to be expensive or involve pharmaceuticals. Just practice these methods a few minutes a day and you'll be living a stress free lifestyle in no time!