Listen To This If . . . You're So Tense You Need a Massage

Meditation Station by Stin Hansen

Stin Hansen

Education, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This progressive muscle relaxation technique is remarkably effective. By focusing your attention on the act of tightening and then relaxing your muscles, you become more aware of physical sensations and differences between tension and relaxation. This heightened awareness can help break the cycle of chronic muscle tension and all kinds of stress. That, and you could sleep like a baby afterwards. Or get right back in it with a way more relaxed body.

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0:00.0	Get in a position that is comfortable for you.
0:04.0	Either lie down or sit in a chair with your eyes closed.
0:10.0	It's important to be physically comfortable, but not so much so that you are likely to fall asleep,
0:17.0	which could be a problem with lying down, particularly in a bed.
0:21.0	This exercise is to help you learn the skill of full and complete
0:26.8	physical relaxation so that you can return to this place often, especially under otherwise stressful circumstances.
0:37.0	For this reason, stay mentally awake while your body masters this skill.
0:44.0	Start by closing your eyes.
0:47.0	First, clench your left fist.
0:52.0	Clench it tighter and tighter and keep it clenched.
0:57.0	Notice the tension in your fingers, hand and lower arm. And now relax. When you relax, do so all at once like turning off a light switch.
1:11.6	Feel the looseness in your fingers, in your hand and lower arm.
1:19.2	Notice the difference between the looseness and the tension.
1:24.0	Now, clench the fist again, then relax it suddenly.
1:30.0	Feel the difference.
1:34.0	Move over to your right fist,
1:36.0	clenching as tight as you can.
1:39.0	Tighter and tighter and
1:40.0	keep it clenched.
1:42.0	Notice the tension. and
1:45.0	now relax.
1:48.0	feel the loosenness.
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