This rapid relaxation exercise is best done with your body fairly upright.
So just take a moment to adjust your position,
Ensuring your back is as upright as is comfortable.
Place your feet flat on the floor,
A little apart,
And then find where your hands are most comfortable,
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.
Do that once again.
Take another deeper breath in,
And gently sigh the breath out.
And then just allowing the breath to take up whatever rhythm feels comfortable for you.
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.
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.
Taking another deeper breath in,
And gently sighing the breath out.
Just simply letting go.
Then 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.
Taking another deeper breath in,
And gently sighing the breath out.
And now moving the head a little from front to back.
Feel the ease of the movement.
Just like the head is a helium balloon just floating there.
And the neck like a string,
Gently holding it in place.
And then the head coming to rest in its point of balance.
Simply resting now in that point of balance,
Quite effortlessly.
Effortlessly.
Just feeling the ease of it all.
Going with it.
Simply letting go.
Again,
Sitting quietly for as long as you choose.
And then when you are ready,
Just let your eyes gently open.
