This audio recording is designed to
teach you how to relax, to escape from the stress of everyday life,
forget your worries and just let go. Ever thought that it would be nice
to just relax completely? Well that’s exactly what you are going to do
as you listen to this recording.
In the first part of this recording Emma
Thurston and Norman Brook take you step-by-step through a full
self directed relaxation session which will last for about 30
minutes. Self directed relaxation aims to relax each of the
body’s muscle groups while emphasising slow, easy breathing and
visualisation of the tension flowing out of the body. The
objective of this training is to gradually help to reduce the
time needed to achieve complete relaxation. While initially it
will take several minutes to go through these instructions, with
some practice greater and greater relaxation should be achieved
in less time.
In the second part of the recording you will be taken
step-by-step through a Progressive Muscular relaxation session
which will also last for about 30 minutes. To get you to relax
you are asked to perform a series of exercises. When a muscle is
contracted and then relaxed it returns to a state that is more
relaxed than before the contraction took place. To achieve a
totally relaxed state we need to perform a series of exercises
that contract and relax all the muscles in the body. Eventually
only a few seconds will be needed to achieve full body
relaxation.
