Learning to Relax.
This relaxation exercise is best done with your body fairly upright,
So just take a moment to adjust your position,
Ensuring your back is upright and comfortable.
Place your feet flat on the floor,
A little apart,
And then find where your hands are most comfortable.
Probably just resting on your thighs or cupped in your lap.
Just notice what works best for you and then when you're ready,
Let your eyes gently close.
Now take a deep breath in and gently sigh the breath out.
You will probably notice a wave of relaxation flowing down through the body,
The muscles softening,
Loosening,
Relaxing,
Releasing,
Just simply letting go.
You you do that once again another deeper breath in gently sighing the breath out and then just allowing the breath to take up whatever rhythm feels comfortable for you at the moment quite effortlessly effortlessly just feeling the ease of it all now notice the feeling of letting go a little more with each out breath just simply letting go you and now move your back a little from side to side in a gentle swaying motion just enough to feel your spine moving across its point of balance and as you do that feel the muscles along either side of the spine softening and loosening relaxing releasing and then the spine coming to rest in its point of balance another deeper breath in gently sighing the breath out just simply letting go you now move the head a little from side to side again just a gentle swaying motion just enough to feel the head moving across its point of balance and as you do that feel the muscles along either side of the neck softening and loosening relaxing releasing and the head coming to rest in its point of balance another deep breath in and gently sighing the breath out now feel it all through the shoulders perhaps just raising and lowering the shoulders a little feel the head moving from side to side and the muscles up either side of the neck softening and loosening just feeling it all through the shoulders the neck and the throat feeling the ease of it all just going with it bring your attention now to your face with your lips just lightly touching feel the jaw drop a little the tongue soft and loose feel it all through the mouth and feel it up over the nose and through the cheeks feel the eyelid smoothing out feeling it deeply all through the eyes and the temples soft and loose and feel it around the ears the back of the head up over the top of the head and now feel the forehead smoothing out feel it deeply completely feel it all through the body more and more deeper and deeper just letting go going with it feeling it through the body and the mind going with it going with it more and more deeper deeper just simply letting go letting go you you take as long as you choose to sit quietly then when you're ready you might like to take a deeper breath or two perhaps move your feet a little feel your hands move a little and then when you're ready let your eyes gently open again
