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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Helps You Manage Stress |
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It is a tried and tested method and is
popularly used to manage stress. Reliving of bodily tension provides you
good mental and physical health. Here's how you have to go about it:
A) Find
a peaceful place with some time in your hand. Lie down or sit in a
comfortable posture.
B) Tighten the muscles of your face. Clench your
teeth, close your eyes tightly and harden your face. Hold this position
and inhale through nose while counting till eight.
C) Now relax your face completely as you exhale. Feel the sudden draining
of the tension from the muscles and enjoy the feeling.
D) Next, repeat
the process with your neck and shoulders.
E) Keep doing it for all your
body parts as you move downwards. Just try to feel the sudden relaxation
that all your body parts receive thereafter.
Progressive muscle
relaxation is very effective as sudden relaxation of muscles pours a
kind of liquid on your body and you enjoy the feeling in totality. It
has absolutely no ill- effects and can be learnt easily.
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