Relaxation Techniques
To Smooth and Harmonize Your Energy Field
and Promote Wellness on All Levels
Copyright Dane Gregory MeyerRelaxation techniques can do wonders for your health. Relaxation promotes balance, flow and harmony in your energy field. It clears your mind, balances your emotions and promotes physical wellness. In fact, de-stressing is one of the best things you can do for your overall well-being. Learning and regularly practicing some relaxation techniques is a fantastic investment in your quality of life.
How Relaxation Helps
Learn how to relax through meditation.
Learn how to use your breath to unwind.
Learn how to use essential oils (aromatherapy) to relax.
On an energetic level, stress tends to block and unbalance our energy, and make our energy field feel less smooth and fluid. A relaxed, peaceful energy field feels very different from a tense,
anxious, stressed energy field. To me, a relaxed field feels very
smooth, while the field of a tense, anxious person usually feels jagged, discordant, spiky and electrical. It may feel as if there are areas where the energy just doesn't seem to be flowing. If I touch the physical body, I might feel the impact of these
energetic disturbances manifested in clenched, compacted muscles.
Relaxing allows our energy to shift more easily to a state of healthy balance and flow, allows us to respond better to things as they arise, and helps us be more open to intuitive information. On a physical level, it feels great and allows our bodies’ natural self-healing and restoration processes to work like they’re supposed to. On a mental level it allows us to think clearly and creatively.
Most of us think of R & R as a luxury. Something for vacation, or that spa visit we’re saving for. But it’s so much more than a luxury. In fact, I believe that it’s a necessity--so good for you that I wish there were a branch of medicine devoted to it.
The Impact of Chronic Stress
It’s not that stress is all bad. A moderate, temporary amount can actually be good for you. And as we all know, at least some stress is involved in almost all good outcomes. Think of having children; getting a new job; starting something new. It seems almost necessary for growth and change.
Good stress like this is temporary and manageable.
The bad kind of stress feels overwhelming, and it doesn’t let up for days, weeks, months, even years. This ongoing, heavy tension is a contributor to many kinds of illness and disease, not to mention mental suffering.
Our bodies respond to stress by activating the sympathetic nervous system. Physiological changes accompanying this so-called “fight, flight or freeze” mode include increased heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and oxygen consumption; increased production of adrenaline and noradrenaline, which constricts blood vessels; increased blood sugar levels ; decreased blood supply to digestive organs and increased blood supply to muscles ; decrease in growth hormone from the pituitary gland; suppression of the immune system; and narrowing of mental focus.
Mentally, stress causes the primitive, "reptilian" section of the brain to dominate the more developed forebrain. Your thinking brain turns off. You may begin reacting in impulsive, unconscious, or automatic ways.
Prolonged stress, both from its physical and the energetic effects, can make you vulnerable to illness. It also accelerates aging. Over time being in a chronic state of stress response can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, autoimmune diseases, cancer, anxiety, insomnia and depression.
Stress is inevitable, and moderate, short-term stress can actually be good for us. But learning to manage stress so that it doesn't become overwhelming or go on for a long time is critical to maintaining our energetic, physical, emotional, and mental health.
The Relaxation Response: a Prescription for Health & Wellness
Relaxing, on the other hand, turns off our body’s response to stress — with remarkable benefits for our physical, mental, emotional, and energetic health. Here are some of the good things that it does for you:
- Slows your heart rate
- Normalizes blood pressure
- Slows your breathing rate
- Reduces the need for oxygen/allows oxygen to be used more efficiently
- Decreases adrenal glands production of stress hormones
- Increases production of growth and sex hormones
- Improves immune system health
- Increases blood flow to major muscles
- Reduces muscle tension
- Helps relieve aches and pains such as headaches and back pain
- Helps you handle negative emotions such as anger and frustration
- Gives you more energy
- Improves concentration and creativity
- Improves ability to handle problems
See what I mean? It sounds like the secret key to health nirvana, a veritable fountain of youth.
A Bouquet of Easy-To-Do Relaxation Techniques
Here are some tried and true ways you can learn to dial down tension and anxiety and
become calmer and more peaceful. Some of these relaxation techniques
are incredibly simple.
- Meditation is another simple way to calm yourself and keep your subtle energies healthy.
Learn how to meditate here.
- You can also use your breath as a powerful tool for managing stress.
- Aromatherapy is another effective -- and highly enjoyable--tool for relaxation.
- Other personal favorites are getting out into nature, and
swinging in a bench swing. There's something about the even, rhythmic
motion of that kind of swing that's like being rocked in a cradle. So
calming.
I bet you've got your own list of go-to techniques, too. Make a commitment to using them!
And as a side-note, if you're doing energy healing for other people, remember that, in our amped-up culture, just getting them to relax is one of the best treatments you can give them.
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