Relaxation Is Key To Relieving Your Stressful Life
Life can be stressful now-a-days with the fast pace of our modern world, with our improved technology, advances in health care, long working days with less staff, and the limited balance of work and our personal life. This is where creating more relaxation in our life is critical to gaining our control back and having a more enhanced quality of life.
There can be many benefits of reducing our stress and creating this relaxation. It can help reduce or even eliminate tension from both the mind and the body. From the research done by the University of Victoria in BC, we have come to realize that relaxation usually results in improved quality of sleep, better breathing, and way less stress, anxiety and often pain. It may also instill a feeling of calm and improved well-being. 
There are different ways and different types of relaxation techniques each with specific guidelines and use some of the techniques are used mostly to achieve muscle relaxation, while others are aimed at reducing anxiety and emotional stress and diverting attention from some symptoms of all of these can help with the pain and symptom management.
Relaxation means different things to different people. We can all identify things we do that helps relax us. For example, you may want to walk, watch TV, play music, and go golfing, or garden. These methods, however, are different from most of the techniques discussed below because they include some form of physical activity or require a stimulus such as music that is outside of our norm for relaxation tools. We focus can focus on using the mind to help relax your body and getting into your body. After being stuck in an anxious mind for so long, it becomes critical to set relaxation as the main goal to turn off the outside world so your mind can rest. This helps also to reduce stress and pain. This also allow an individual to reduce the tensions that can increase the intensity and severity of pain symptoms.
The following relaxation can be done by picking a quiet place and time without distraction. Make sure that you find a time and place where you can do this technique undisturbed for at least 15 to 20 minutes. If this seems way too long, start with five minutes. Sometimes the only quiet place in the house is the bathroom so that maybe where you need to try to practice.
- Try the technique twice daily and not less than four times a week. It often takes quite a few times to make it an actual habit. It’s best not to expect miracles, and not to expect immediate results. A lot of these things take quite a few times to practice them. Once you have made this a new habit, you will notice a more consistent practice, and some benefits.
- Relaxation should be helpful. At the very least, you may find it boring, but if practising any technique is unpleasant are you know makes you nervous or anxious anxious just try something different.
- Relaxation can be quick and easy. You want to try and find something that’s relaxing to you. Try seeking things that are easy, natural and effective that people do not often think maybe or even relaxation techniques.
- A warm bubble bath can be a relaxation technique too. Or you curl up and read a nice book in your bed.
- Try watching funny movies.
- Make a paper airplane and sail it across the room.
- Playing with toys like child can help reduce stress or even colouring.
- Having a professional massage can be enjoyable and relaxing for some.
- Enjoy a glass of wine without it too much indulgence.
- Start a small little garden or growing a beautiful plant indoors.
- Do some crafts, crocheting, pottery or even learning how to sew. Read a poem or an inspirational saying.
- Go for a walk. Sometimes people enjoy collecting different things whether it be stamps or coins shells rocks precious stone you like to collect.
- Listen to your favourite music. Sing or dance around the house.
- Crumple a piece of paper and try and get it in the basket sort of like it’s a basketball.
- Watch a water fountain or water in an ocean, lake or even watch fish floating in a fish tank.
- Watch the clouds in the sky. Lay your head down on your desk and close your eyes for five minutes. Rub your hands together over and over cupping them over your eyes.
- Sometimes if we have excess energy, just shaking that excess energy out of your hands and arms for tens seconds can help reduce stress.
- Call up a friend or a family member to chat. Smile. Introduce yourself to someone different every day. Do something nice and unexpected for someone else.
- Play with the pet. Massage a baby. Go on a vacation.
Body Scan Script
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