Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

Every day the health price tell us we need to find more ways to relax. But where to begin?

One quick and easy way to relax that anyone But where to begin.

One quick and easy way to relax that anyone can easily learn is something called progressive muscle relaxation.

It's a simple exercise where you isolate one muscle group at a time and consciously tense it.

While holding the tension you focus on how it feels and where it travels into your body.

For example, if you tense your right hand into a fist and squeeze it really tight,

you'll soon feel the tension traveling up your arm.

The longer you hold it, the more you feel it, until it becomes really uncomfortable to hold that tension any longer.

With progressive muscle relaxation you hold the tension in an area of your body for a few seconds

and then release it suddenly, letting the area go completely limp and relaxed.

Instantly you will feel relief as your muscles relax and the tension dissolves away

until you no longer feel it.

When a muscle is tense and then suddenly released, it has to relax.

It's a natural physiological response.

The muscle will instantly return to its previous state, which means you feel the comparative

relief of tension followed by relaxation. But there's an added advantage to this physiological response.

If left to rest, the muscle will become more relaxed than it was before

you tense step. In progressive muscle relaxation, all the major muscle groups of the body are

willfully put under tension and then relaxed,

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