Relaxation techniques

Relaxation techniques for well being.

You will find 2 totally different relaxation techniques on this page.

The first one is the basic technique that will help us create new reflexes in our body. When you practice it, you're taking a pause from the outer world for at least thirty minutes!

The second relaxation technique is for use in everyday life, each time you have a few minutes, during a pause from work for example, for general maintenance. I call it the monkey's dance.

Basic relaxation technique.

My master used to say "comfort first!!!!!!!". Before you start this relaxation technique bring all that you need to feel comfortable, pillars, blanket, wear comfortable cloths, shut down the phone, and then lay down on your back. Organize yourself, you might want a small pillow under your head, one under your knees or cover yourself.

With a big exhale we let our body sink slowly to the ground, make small movements to check if whole the back side of your body is well in touch with the ground. Shoulders, head, back, spine and muscles, pelvis. Now we're ready!

In the basic relaxation technique we are going to use our mind and inner voice to relax our body. Therefore we will send intentions - using simple, precise key words and short phrases, pronounced with a calm and monochord voice - to our body. The rhythm of the work will be given by your breath. Send the keywords while you exhale.

1. HEAVY

The first key word is HEAVY, think HEAVY, While you scan your body, part after part, taking your time. Inhale slowly and gently (=with no effort), while you exhale think "HEAVY", Bring your attention to your feet, think "HEAVY", and feel how your feet become heavy and sink into the ground, move with your attention through your feet, skin, muscles, bones, from the toes to the heels, and think HEAVY. When your feet become so heavy that you feel there's no way to lift them up,

Move to the calves. Inhale slowly and gently (=with no effort), while you exhale think "HEAVY", Bring your attention to your calves, think "HEAVY", and feel how your calves become heavy and sink into the ground, walk with your attention through them, skin, muscles, bones, think "HEAVY". When your calves become so heavy that you feel there's no way to lift them up,

Move to the thighs. Inhale slowly and gently, while you exhale think HEAVY,....

Move your attention to your pelvis,....HEAVY

To the back, ......don't forget move allover your back: spine, ribs, muscles and skin, ............HEAVY..............

Shoulders.................HEAVY

Arms...................HEAVY

Hands.............HEAVY

Head,............very HEAVY.....brain also HEAVY....

One more long exhale, think "MY BODY IS HEAVY", watch it sinking even more.

2. WARM

Now think "WARM". Look for a place in the body that feels the warmest, intent this local sensation to spread as far as

possible and fill the whole body. Imagine the sun warming you up.

Feet ...WARM.

Calves....WARM.

Thighs....WARM.

Pelvis...WARM.

Back and shoulders....WARM.

Arms and hands....WARM.

Neck.......WARM.

Head.......WARM.

3. HEART

Listen to your heartbeat. Think "MY HEARTBEAT IS STRONG". It might take some time until you perceive it. Be patient and calm. Keep saying the key phrase until you hear and feel you heart.

4.BREATH

Think "MY BREATH IS CALM AND SPONTANIOUS", and observe your breath as long as you feel like. Stay focused on your key phrase.

5.TANTIEN

Think "TANTIEN" (hara, whatever, from now on we will call it TANTIEN), move your attention to your lower belly, about 2 cm under your navel, inside, wright in the middle, the center of your body.

Try to feel the place, look for small sensations, look for a presence. You might not feel anything the first time. If so, imagine a ball, the size of a golf ball but much heavier. Imagine this ball going up with your inhales and down with your exhales.

If you still don't feel it, laugh and you will feel it vibrate.

6.FACE

Think "MY FACE IS RELAXED", and slowly relax all the small face muscles, starting with the forehead becoming smooth, moving to the eyes, eyebrows and eye corners, the temples, the nose, cheeks falling down to the sides and pull the lips, who touch each other slightly with no effort, the jaws, the tongue is relaxed and touches the back of the upper teeth, relax the throat also, go inside to the vocal chords, relax it deeply. Listen carefully, notice that each time a thought comes up to your mind, something happens with your vocal chords, small micro movements or contractions, as if the body says your thought. Now intent relaxing the vocal chords totally, .....and,no more thought will come to your mind, no noise, silence......

Now be conscious of all your body, deeply relaxed. Enjoy this sensation of well being. Stay as long as you want, when you decide to come back, do it slowly, first stretch your arms and legs, your back, start breathing more deeply, only then turn on your side before you get up.

Hi, how do you feel now?

This was a basic relaxation technique, all the more advanced chi techniques we will learn in the future, will start with this relaxation.

This relaxation technique might be too long to begin with, I suggest you to divide the technique in six parts: HEAVY, WARM, HEART, BREATH, TANTIEN, FACE.

Do one of them everyday, and take a rest on the seventh day! Then again,do that for a few weeks, then do the whole technique.

Relaxation technique 2: The monkey's dance.

Our second relaxation technique is a funny one,

Standing up, with unlocked knees, rounded back, the upper part of the body relaxed. Start to make your body shake slightly with no effort, the movement comes from the heels, try to create an inner vibration that releases tensions, from different parts of the body: back, shoulders, arms, hands, face, brain....shake and release tensions.

Move you weight from one side to the other. Try different angles, each one will help you release a different area.

You can add voice if you feel like, "aaahh, aaaaahhhhh...aaaaaaahhhhh...aahh....ahhh...the sound comes out with no effort from the deepest parts of your body.

Imagine the body is full of water and feel how the vibrations move this water and make it flow easily. Try to hear the noise of the flowing water in the body, like "ploc, ploc, ploc....". Do it with joy, like a little kid!

These two relaxations techniques are a starting point on your way to enhance energy in your life. Good luck.

How To Get Rid Of Your Bad Habits And Behaviors

If you’re looking for ways how to get rid of bad habits and behaviors, this will be the perfect article for you. I’m going to share with you how you can ‘delete’ your bad habits and behaviors today.

You know, success is all about what you do in your life. And therefore, your habits and behaviors play important roles in it.

If you’re someone who procrastinate a lot and lazy to take action, you’ll never produce the results you want in your life. Your negative habits will not bring you the results you want.

As a result, you must start by adopting positive and empowering habits that will bring you what you want in your life.

To get rid of your negative habits, you must first understand what creates them.

Your habits are created by your thoughts. When you were born into this world, you have no habits. You pick up your habits from the influence from your surrounding and your own life experiences.

Your parents, your friends, your teachers, your boss, your peers… basically anyone can affect your habits by influencing your thoughts.

Once you have a certain thought in your mind, your mind will start to send signals to your emotion and hence you will take a certain set of action, which is your habits, to produce a certain results.

And after you’ve got the results, you’ll reinforce the thoughts in your mind.

For example, what will you do if I give you $100 right now? It depends on your habit toward the extra money. Some people will use to buy something they love, some people will buy meals, and some people will save or invest it.

When you invest the money, you’ll feel satisfy. This feeling of satisfaction will reinforce your brain and that next time if you ever receive any extra money, you’ll invest it as well.

On the other hand, if you spend the money to buy something that you desire, the instant gratification will also help to reinforce the thoughts in your mind.

Unless something ‘bad’ happened, you’ll keep on cycling the same pattern over and over again.

What I mean is, if you want to change your habit, you must create a new thought and emotion in your mind to replace the existing pattern.

It is not like computer, which you can simply press on the delete button to delete away files that you don’t want. Your mind works differently in ‘deleting’ negative thoughts or habits that you don’t want.

Like what I mentioned above, if you want to get rid of your negative habits and behaviors, you’ll have to start by replacing your old patterns with new ones.

Take back the previous example. If you spend the $100 I give you into gambling, and you lose them all, will this result help you to better manage your extra money you get in the future? Of course it would.

Conversely, if you invest the $100 into something, and you earn an extra $100 from it, which now you have $200 at your hand, you’ll definitely create a strong emotion and thought pattern into your mind about investing.

You’ll most likely to invest any extra money I give you in the future. This is how you can change your habits and behaviors.

Some people procrastinate all the time. They choose to watch TV instead of investing their time into reading development books. They get instant gratification of feeling joy when watching TV. This will reinforce their thought pattern that watching TV is good and reading books is something they don’t like.

This cycle will keep on going until one day, something forces them to change. Such as if they did not change their habits, they’ll be in dept. When this happen, they’ll forces themselves to take different set of action that will lead to different results.

And if they get positive results, they’ll form a new thought pattern and new habits for themselves.

This is exactly how your mind works and how your habits can be formed and replaced with new and empowering ones.

So start by noticing your old thinking patterns that lead you to a certain habit.

After that, try to create a new thinking by asking empowering questions and focus on positive thoughts. When you do this, you’ll feel the difference. Take action that will lead you to the results you want immediately.

Once you have taken the action, you’ll get the results you want and you’ll create change in your mind, or reinforce your thought pattern.

This is the real art of how to get rid of bad habits and behaviors.