What is relaxation?
It’s a process that decreases the stress effects on your mind and body. Relaxation techniques can help you cope with everyday stress. And these techniques can help with long-term stress or stress related to various health problems, such as heart disease and pain.
Yet, for most people in modern society, it is not physical—but rather psychological—threats that activate the SNS. In reaction to work deadlines, traffic, challenging relationships, financial burdens, and burgeoning to-do lists the body shuts down self-healing, connectivity, and creativity.
When must I relax?
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Why must we relax?
When we relax amazing things happen to your body: – the blood increase around your body giving us more energy. – Help us to have a calmer and clever mind witch lead to positive thoughts, better concertation, memory and decision making. – It also slow your heart rate down, reduce blood pressure and relieve tension.
How Do You Relax?
Learning how to relax the brain isn’t hard. In fact, anything that brings you joy, calms you down, and helps you get centred will do the trick. You may want to try one of the following methods the next time you’re ready to unwind.
Breathing Exercises –
Take a deep breath. Hold it for three seconds and then exhale. Do you feel more relaxed? Slow, mindful breathing invokes the relaxation response in the body. The yoga tradition is a veritable treasure trove of breathing exercises.
Meditation –
The goal of meditation is to enter the present moment fully. By simply observing the breath or a mantra, noticing the spaces between each repetition, and witnessing the thoughts as if you were an impartial bystander, your awareness shifts into the present moment. When you leave thoughts of past and future, you find the present moment, which is the only place you can relax.
Exercise –
Meditation helps you enter the present moment via the mind while exercise invites you to enter via the body. Exercise dispels muscle tension, relieves anxiety, and burns up stress hormones. Yoga, in particular, integrates breath work with movement, simultaneously relaxing body and mind.
Other ideas –
Listen to soothing music.
Play in nature.
Walk along the beach.
Get a massage.
Read a book.
Soak in a warm bath
What Are the Benefits of Relaxation?
The benefits of stress reduction are powerful. The benefits of relaxation in mental health and physical arenas are significant.
And more in short:-
- Happier Outlook 2. Stronger Immune System 3. Reduced Risk of Heart Disease
- Improved Relationships 5. Better Sleep 6. Increased Energy
7 Enhanced Creativity 9. Decreased Pain 10. Expanded Motivation
The benefits of relaxation are clear. Each type of relaxation can help someone—play around to find the combination that feels right for you.
Food that can help to ease stress –
*Salmon, Chamomile, Turmeric,
Dark chocolate, Yogurt, Green tea,
Almonds and Blueberries.