Relaxation Techniques for Different People

[SKA]

Because people are dfferent it is so that what works for one might not work for another.
I know and made up a couple of Different kinds of relaxation techniques.

Maybe some relaxation Techniques or Lucid Dream Induction Methods don't work for us because they don't appeal to us while other such techniques for the same purposes, explained in a different style closer to our mentality & likings, may be able to work for us. With this I want to experiment.

So a little experiment requires some of your help.

Relaxation tech 1: Yogic Relaxation
Start by lying down with your eyes closed. Relax as much as you can and breath slowly and deeply.
As your lying there very calmled down breath in through your Nose and Breath out again through your Neck.
Yes through your Neck. Imagine your head & neck being loose, like servered, but still in place on your torso. When you
Imagine breathing out of your neck you breathe out of this open bottom of your Neck. What you can do is imagine
Feeling the wind of your passing exhaled breath leaving your neck. Also visualising a sort of Glowing energetic myst(Tention)
that gets blown out of your open neck into your bedroom as you exhale might help. As you do this feel how all present Tention
in your head, face and neck are Exhaled through the open Neck and totally relaxes. Now after doing this a couple of times, as much
as it takes to achieve a significant degree of relaxation, move on to your shoulders and do the same thing with them: Inhale through
your Nose and Exhale through both your Shoulders: As if they too are cut loose from your body but still in place. Imagine all Tention
from your Uppertorso/Chest being blown out through your "shoulderholes". Continue this untill here too significant relaxation is achieved.
Move on and do this with your Wrists, your Hips, your Knees and your Ankles. It worked great for me. When I had first and just done this
I was totally in SP while wide awake at a Yoga workshop.


RelaxationTech 2:
Close your eyes lying in bed and breathe slowly. To your ankles, knees, hips, wrists, shoulders and neck ropes are tied which
hang down below you holding sandbags. These sandbags draw you down and make you feel heavy. Imagine that with every
breath out that your Ankle's weights are getting 2ce as heavy. Do this for a while. Then do the same for your knees, hips, wrists,
shoulders and neck.


RelaxationTech3:
Lay down with closed eyes and imagine your body being filled with 10000nds of tiny humanoid creatures. Soldiers.
Tiny as the head of a nail. Imagine that they are an army stationed in and patrolling through every part of your body. Suddenly you give them the order all to
gather in the great dome of your head. Feel how they prepare to move out and feel how they slowly, gradually leave your feet.
Feel how they split up in 1 groups and slowly march through both your lower legs leaving behind them a desserted, Soldierless Body. Quiet abandonned army quarters.
They are gradually reaching your Knees where they come into another Army post and meet up with more Soldiers stationed in the Knee. They join up and
gradually, disciplinedly leave the Kneestation, travelling through your thighs and leaving behind them a desserted, silent empty body.
They keep travelling, meeting up with more micro-soldiers and taking them all with them to the Great dome of your Head untill all your body is desserted and all
soldiers have migrated into your head's Great dome.

Post more Relaxationtechs if you know good ones. Please not the 61 point relaxation tech. Something new. Made up by yourselves possibly.

[Tornado Joe]

Body Scan, Energy Purge,... thinggy.

I don't know what it would be called, but you start by:
1) lying comfortably in bed (of course)
2) Imagine being scanned by one of those flat laser lights. Starting from your feet, working upwards.
3) As it works it's way up your body, think of it as a beam pushing or raking energy (you can think of it as negative energy if you're trying to relieve stress) in your body upwards. Try to feel some kind of sensation in the area as it passes (heat, cold, pricking...).
4) By the time you reach your head you should feel like there's a lumped up ball that needs to be released. The only exit is through the third eye on your forehead. Wait until you physically feel a sensation there (to me it feels like a combo between tickling and numbness).
5) Visualize the 'energy' being shot out of you like a cannon. Then, repeat the process.

The point is to give you the impression that you're draining yourself of something - energy, pressure, tension, weight, whatever. After releasing the ball, take a second to notice a difference (are you a bit more relaxed? Less filled up?). Then repeat the process. It's like your shedding off layers each time.

5 Count Pyramid Breath Counting
This is simply a variation on popular meditation technique of counting breaths. The difference is that you use the following pattern when counting:

Count every breath you take. But instead of going "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10..." you group them as such:

1

1 2

1 2 3

1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4 5


and repeat the process. So, if you were to count the total number of breaths per set, you get 15.
Below you'll find your count in bold, and the actual breath in breaths in italics:

11

12 23

14 25 36

17 28 39 410

111 212 313 414 515

[pj]

Reading through these, I just realized there is an incredibly simple one I use all the time.  This isn't a path to total relaxation, but it IS a way to be aware of your state of tenseness/relaxation and begin to maintain continuous awareness of it.

If you are able to observe yourself when you are tense, you will likely find places in your body where the tension manifests more than others.  In some it may be the jaw, neck, fists, etc.  For me, it is in my shoulders.  Any time I am tense or upset, my shoulders get tight and bunched up.

I just made it a point to try to continuously be aware of my shoulders for a while.  It took effort and reminders, and every time I found my shoulders tight and bunched up I would quiet my mind and consciously release the tension in my shoulders. 

I've been doing this for a few years now and no longer need to even be conscious of my shoulders other than an occasional double-check, because my shoulders trigger an immediate alarm in my brain now.  It has become a warning bell that I'm getting tense, uncomfortable or whatever, and it lets me know it is time to address it.  It amazes me how the act of consciously releasing that tension also releases my mind.