You don't have to be lying down to relax deeply.

This is a standing meditation designed to assist you in getting inside of a relaxed physical situation.

As you practice what it feels like to be inside of a really, really relaxed

body, you will get better and better at returning year. This is the way your body needs to be when standing in

long lines or a standing room only metro rides. It's possible to allow your body to discover and experience a new deeper feeling of release, even while standing up.

As you go through this exercise with me, notice how releasing tensions in different areas of your body affects your posture, your balance, your breathing, and your emotional state.

So begin by standing and release your shoulders.

A good way to do this is to imagine actually that a magic thread is attached to the upper tip of your shoulder.

And imagine that it's lifting your right shoulder and let it lift up as high as it will go.

And we'll still letting your arm hang loosely as the shoulder goes up, kind of like a dead weight close to your body. your

and then release it and allow your shoulder to go up.

And then release it and allow your shoulder to completely drop.

Let's do that same shoulder again, allowing that magic thread,

attach to the upper tip of your shoulder

to lift the shoulder, and again, go as high up as you can all the way to your ear and then suddenly release.

Notice the releasing in the right shoulder deeply and profoundly.

Keeping that shoulder relax, let's begin with your other shoulder.

Pulling your left shoulder as high up as you can with that magic thread,

but letting your arm hang loosely like a dead weight close to your body,

and then release suddenly drop it and let it go.

Imagine again the magic thread attached the upper tip of your shoulder. Allow it to go as high as it will go all the way to your shoulder, all the way up to your ear,

letting your arm hang and then release it completely and fully, letting that shoulder drop

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