Saturday, October 17, 2009

Relaxation using Visualization



  • Sit down, close your eyes and direct your attention to your breathing

  • Be aware of every breathing in and breathing out

  • 448 breathing exercise - Breath in 4 counts, hold the breath for 4 counts, breath out 8 counts. Observe how the air slowly goes in through your nose, fills up your lungs, and goes out again. When breathe in, the stomach will expand out and imagine your stomach is like a balloon that is fill with air. Hold the breathe is for oxygen to travel to every part of our body. Breath out take longer time is because we need to expel all the toxin and carbon dioxide out from our body.

  • Now you are ready to start the visualization

  • With every breath, you start to feel the positive energy into your lungs

  • When you breathe out, imagine all negative feeling and thoughts escape from your body together with the air you breathe out.

  • When you are totally relaxed, choose a image, a situation, or an environment that means rest, peace, and calmness for you. Imagine yourself in the waterfall, or walking along the beach, or walking in the forest etc.

  • Walk around ( in your imagination) and enjoy every moment in your favourite surroundings.

  • Try to involve all your senses. Smell, taste, look, and feel that you are really in your imagination.

  • Focus on this image and hold it in your mind as firmly as possible

  • Enjoy this image in all its details and pay attention to all the emotions that accompany it.

  • Feel the tingling in your body, feel your muscles relaxing, and notice your body reacting directly to everything that you created in your mind.

  • Continue this visualization for as long as you like

  • Any time you are ready to stop, take your attention back to the rest of your body and become aware of yourself in the room.

  • Open your eyes

  • You are done.


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