LIMB RELAXATION🔗

INSTRUCTIONS AND MEDITATION

This is among the fastest and most popular techniques for instant relaxation. If a private space is available, practise this technique lying down.

Close your eyes.

Take a really deep breath right from your stomach. You are going to be holding your breath, so breathe in as deeply as possible.

Holding the breath inside you, start clenching your limbs one by one.

Start with the toes.

Tense your toes as much as possible. Do not relax them. Move on to your feet and ankles, then upwards to your calves, your knees, your buttocks. Move upwards quickly, because you won't be able to hold your breath for longer than a minute at most.

Now move up to your waist, to your stomach. Tense your stomach muscles as tightly as possible. Automatically, your groin muscles will also get tensed.

Move upwards to your chest and back. Tense all the vertebrae along your back. Tense your arms - starting from your fingers and moving up to your biceps. Tense your shoulder blades, your neck and throat muscles. Try and hold the tension in your neck muscles especially.

Move to your face.

Your face has more muscles than you are aware of.

Tense the muscles in your mouth, nostrils, eyes, eyebrows, forehead and cheeks. Squeeze your eyelids shut. Clench your teeth.

Screw your face into a tight ball. Remember not to relax the rest of your body during this time.

Stay in this state of tension for as long as you can. When you can't hold your breath any more, expel it in one big gush, simultaneously relaxing your limbs and face utterly. Stay in this state of physical and mental relaxation for a minute.

This technique relaxes both body and mind, and refreshes you in just two minutes. If you have the time, repeat the process thrice.