Paul Hood : Healthy Lifestyle

Why relax ?

It is essential that you learn to relax because the state of relaxation, relaxation is the natural state.

The state of tension, stress in which we all live more or less is not natural or normal … Yes, we must admit, it is not our normal state when it is stretched and contracted.

In the state of tension, your mind and your body are attacked, contracted, tight (never felt this tightness, contraction or tension?). We now know that stress is the cause of many problems we face and that we classify under the term “psychosomatic”.

It follows from these perpetual tension – fatigue, malaise, negative image of life dissatisfaction, depression … and sometimes more.

You must then do something to not stay in that negative state and return to a state of wellness, a state of relaxation. For one of the most effective solutions to manage and mitigate the negative effects of stress is getting to you relaxer. Here 3 techniques (pro) to help you relax.

I propose here to discover 3 ways to relax, accessible to all, even if you’ve never done relaxation or relaxation therapy.

The 3 relaxation techniques mentioned here are simple but effective. However, they will be useless if you do not put them into practice in your daily life. To get results, it must be used (when used, the only risk we take is that it works).

1st technique to relax – feel your points of contact

Close your eyes for a few moments and feel (feel, not think) the contact of your feet with the ground, with shoes … for a few seconds … not making any effort … just feel …. and feel the Contact your thighs and buttocks with the seat of the chair … (do not go to the next item before the feel) … then feel the contact with the seat back … then the contact your hands on your thighs or on the arms … and stay as long as you like to feel the contact points of your body … if a thought occurs, let pass without you to linger and come back to the sensations Contact …. let them relax for a few moments and then reopen your eyes, stretch you.

This is an excellent exercise to refocus and rest his brain.

If you train you’ll see then you can do at any time of day even talking to someone … yes, it is possible, but you will need a few regular to get there.

Remember one fundamental thing: IT FEEL TO BE ALIVE

2nd technique to relax – relax on the expiry

This is the basic way Sophrology used to deepen the relaxation.

Close your eyes ahead … let a sigh … then whenever the air out of your nose, let you relax a little more … each ends a little more … as if the expiration gentle and quiet allowing you to install an interior calmer … more peaceful … calmer … After 10aine expired, stay to enjoy the well-being and relaxation that are available to you … as if you were allowed to bathe in this property be and the relaxation … (stay 30 seconds in many feel that) … then stretch and open your eyes.

3rd technique to relax – evoke a relaxing formula

Sit comfortably, close your eyes and begin to be felt by the points of contact, or your breath for a moment … let it fall gently pressure (like something that deflates) … then repeat yourself mentally and SLOWLY WITHOUT EFFORT 5 to 6 times in a row the formula “I am quite calm” … and then leave to watch WITHOUT WAITING SPECIAL what happens to you … then you can do the same thing with the phrase “my body relaxes “well … Enjoy the relaxation and calm that you live without trial, let the relaxation move quietly … and then reopen your eyes and stretch you.

This is for you to practice now.

Another tip to get all your exercise, it should never be forced or willing to meet any cost relaxation. It is better to have the intention to let fresh relax.

Remember EFFORT = NO = TENSION RELAXATION

I wish you well relax and build your body and your mind a pleasant feeling of relaxation.

We will “bypass” your conscious in the same way as the fakirs, the media and film: by telling you a story. The stories are a way to absorb all your mental faculties, to captivate.

Moreover, we will use visualization, or the art of creating mental images for us to do our own films which will play our history.

Each will create a story whose details are personal to him. However, the scenario will remain roughly the same:

You will discover an old doctor who will be your “inner doctor”. To do this, “soak up” the following scenario to be able to live relaxed, eyes closed and your pace.

Here’s the scenario:

You can imagine on a promenade in the country. Then you pass through a deep forest, where there is a mountain. You will climb this mountain, and on top of this mountain, you find a house.

In this house you will find an old man who is your inner physician. You will know her in silence. You guess in his eyes the kindness and wisdom.

Then your “inner doctor” you speak. Listen carefully to his words. Answer their questions, and explain that you will return to ask questions yourself.

Thank you for the receipt, shake his hand, then retrace your steps and later open my eyes to slowly return to reality …

You will feel invigorated, calm, sure to know everything about you through this medical procedure.

Any other positive scenario of revelation can be agreed. If you prefer another, adopt it and try it. The important thing is to make the acquaintance of old men – or old women – and sympathize.

Sophrology was created by the Neuro-psychiatrist Alfonso Caycedo from the 1960s.

The etymology of the word comes from Greek Sophrology: Sos – phren – Logos

Sos – peace, harmony, serenity

Phren – mind, brain, consciousness

Logos – study science

We can therefore say that the Sophrology is a science of harmony and serenity of conscience (to go toward balance and happiness).

Originally, Dr. Caycedo, humanist and scientist, discovered by his profession, how human consciousness is fragile experiencing mental illness in his patients. It then looks for methods that are less aggressive and more effective than conventional therapy (ECT, insulin coma …).

He turned first to hypnosis. Indeed, at the time, he considered softer and more responsive to respect the conscience of his patients. Therefore, at the very beginning of its creation, Sophrology was established for a large part of hypnosis. This is no longer the case today.

In effect, then A. Caycedo left 2 years (from 1965 to 1968) in India, Tibet and Japan. He met Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen (Zen meditation – Zazen, although basically zazen is not a “meditation”). He reported his trip to the Orient, knowledge and experience to develop its Sophrology otherwise.

He stripped his discoveries of any religious content. He associated it with his knowledge of consciousness he had acquired in the West, to make a method accessible to all, a development methodology and personal development very effectively.

Today, very often, Sophrology is regarded as a relaxation method. However, although it uses as a relaxation tool, it is much more than simple relaxation method. Indeed, the ultimate goal is to reach Sophrology that Caycedo called Consciousness Sophronia, ie the serene consciousness.

Obviously, this goal can be achieved through training. Regular training using various tools such as:

* Physical relaxation and mental
* Breathing
* Visualization and mental imagery,
* Positive thinking,
* Body awareness,
* Meditation …

The big advantage of Sophrology is that it is a method suited to our modern Western lives and that there are tools that help us daily to:

Living our life more positively

The first five issues are the basics of hatha yoga, a discipline in itself which is the health and concentration by lifestyle and posture.

Discipline “sport”, hatha yoga
The vast majority of yoga classes are mainly the physical dimension, that is to say hatha yoga. In the traditional way, it aims to keep the body in a state of optimal health and disciplining the mind. It has three main tools:
- Postures. From the boat to plow through the half moon, there are over 1 000. Static or dynamic (sequences as the famous sun salutation), they are still without force, in respect of the body, paying special attention to body positioning and alignment of the spine.
- Breathing exercises. Inseparable from the practice of postures, they revolve around four main phases of respiration: inspiration, the lungs filled retention, expiration and retention lungs empty. During a yoga class, and there are different ways to breathe in focusing on one or other of these phases, adopting a slow or fast breathing through only one nostril, both nostrils, or alternating nostrils, producing or not sound inspiring or expiring more or less long.
- Relaxation. This phase, which usually concludes the meeting takes place while sitting or lying. It is accompanied by breathing slowly and deeply, suggestions, or sounds very sweet.

Benefits
- The first advantage of (hatha) yoga is that it is practicable for all men and women, young or old, healthy or not. Lacking competition, it does not require special skills and mainly depends on the commitment, concentration and perseverance that each brings to achieving the postures and sequences. Furthermore, although it fits at the base into a spiritual practice, it requires absolutely no knowledge of philosophical or religious orientation.
- He then has many benefits for the body: muscle toning, flexibility, balance, strengthen the abdominal area, decrease body fat …
- It also improves the overall health: elimination of toxins, stimulate vital organs (digestive, respiratory, sex …), improving cardiac function and stamina …
- Thanks to the concentration and commitment it requires, he finally plays a key role on the mind. Stress and anxiety gradually fade, we feel after a few sessions a deep well-being that affects the actions of everyday life and relationships with others.

Discipline, lessons
With its success, hatha yoga continues to evolve. Although the postures and sequences remain unchanged, there are more and more different teachings of yoga that combines all postures, breathing exercises and meditation in a more or less energetic or gentle, lively or quiet. The most common are the ashtanga yoga (synchronization of breath with rapid sequences of postures more demanding), the integral yoga (balancing postures, breathing, meditation and relaxation), the Viniyoga (integration movement Breathing ) prenatal yoga (suitable for pregnant women), the bikhram Yoga (practiced in a room heated to 40 degrees) …

Learn
There is not really French federation of yoga, just as a French federation of tennis or volleyball. As for the training of teachers, it is still unclear, poorly regulated: it is not, for example, state diploma.
The ideal is to take courses in a gym, within a municipality or a framed structure, which often sort their teachers on the strand.

Moreover, nothing like word-of-mouth and experience to get an idea before making any entry, the ideal is to learn about oneself and, if possible, test or one – Many-free sessions to get an idea.

Discover the amazing secret that has everything you need to improve your fitness, your health, your well-being and inner peace.

Learn how yoga, the ancient wisdom can help you better manage your stress and reduce your anxiety level and help you sleep a restful sleep and the opportunity to help you live a happier life in the world today, full of stress.

Yes, yoga is a discipline really complete, and whose benefits range from physical to spiritual and moral mind. Yes, yoga will help you do exercises for relaxation, you relax and thus help cure many diseases of our modern world.

In addition to this, Yoga helps you reduce your stress, be more calm, more serene, and reduce or even eliminate insomnia. So with yoga, learn as you go exploring your true personality.

And know that even being alone, you’re never really alone, for you are with yourself.

If we were in an ideal world, every day, everyone would have access to a great master of yoga called for in the private cause them to circulate their vital energy or yoga classes in small groups.

Born in India, yoga is a discipline that aims, through physical exercises, meditation and ascetic morality, to unify body and spirit. Relatively recent in the West, there has for some years an unprecedented success, thanks to the plebiscite of many stars.

Its origin and philosophy
Yoga did not start yesterday: it is already practiced in India around the 3rd millennium BC. Yoga also means “union” in Sanskrit (literary language of ancient India).

However, it is in the 4th century BC that Patanjali, considered the father of the discipline, wrote the Yoga Sutra text reference discipline. It describes among other aspects the 8 – and compares the branches of a tree – forming yoga:

• Yama, the ability to communicate with non-violence
• Niyama, adherence to self
• Asana, the practice of postures
• Pranayama-control of respiration
• Pratyahara, in sensory inner
• Dharana, concentration
• Dhyana, meditation
• Samadhi, liberation, the ultimate stage of personal achievement

Meditation is to focus attention on one thing, whether it’s a mental thing – thinking – or physical – the task we are doing.

Often, we’re stressed because our mind is busy with a multitude of thoughts which are strung together one after the other and which do not directly affect what we’re doing: we focus on the past or the future, not the present. So, we are less effective on the task we are currently conducting, and thoughts that we are rarely constructive as we can not immediately act. We “store” then the result of these thoughts, thinking reuse later, and often they turn in our minds so confusing, cumbersome mind eventually be forgotten.

This is a great source of stress. We have each time printing something to miss, both because we do not live fully the present moment, but also because our brains firing on all cylinders, but empty, unless the output of either the height of the energy we’ve spent – like a car engine which we would not have engaged the clutch …

Meditation practice allows precisely to focus our attention on the present moment. At first it may seem difficult, but with practice it becomes a habit easier to implement, allowing us to finally live more fully and more peacefully, our lives.

There are many ways to meditate. We can meditate while sitting, or legged, eyes closed, fully focused on our inner self, or performing a task, like walking, playing sports, eating, and even work. The most important is to focus on what we do.

However, to begin, it is best to begin to meditate sitting cross-legged or kneeling or to close their eyes and concentrate on breathing. That’s all. Concentrate on your breathing and do nothing else. When you realize that your mind began to drift, gently return to your breathing, without blame. It is normal that your thoughts drift. Focus only on your breath. Contemplate the air entering your nostrils, fresh, and the air coming out of your nostrils, warmer. Be aware then of the continuous flow of thoughts that beset our mind, which sometimes takes in all other places than where we are.

And fully enjoy the present moment.

This mediation so simple if you practice the ten to fifteen minutes a day, in a quiet, can change your life. You’re more relaxed, more fully aware of the moment, and happier.