Breathing Exercise
First, sit comfortably with one hand on your abdomen and the other on your chest and breathe regularly. After about 30 seconds to a minute, note which hand moves. It should be the one on your abdomen.
Good breathing or the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide is diaphragmatic breathing -- in other words, as you inhale, the diaphragm moves downward and your abdomen will...
Steps to take to fix your mood
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Step One: DO the things on the Health ChecklistStep Two: Relaxation Training is part of the Health Checklist. It is described in more detail in this blog called: Progressive
Deep Muscle Relaxation. If you have your own meditation or relaxation
technique, do that once a day, preferably before going to sleep at
night.Step Three: Breathing Exercise - once a day as described in the Health ChecklistOne...
Raise Your Child Within
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Each of you is the star of a movie. Your movie was written by your little girl or little boy. Usually the decisions that created the movie you're now living were made at 5 or 6 years old.Sure, 5 year olds are creative, cute, & nice but the decisions and the movie script that resulted are not consistently useful to grownups. Little kids don't have the experience base to write a rich & meaningful...
Progressive or Deep Muscle Relaxation Training
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Progressive Relaxation training is a method used to teach deep muscle relaxation in order to:
1. help you recognize the difference between tension and relaxation,
2. make your level of relaxation deeper.
3. teach you a method that is refreshing to increase your energy level.
Many people are much too tense. When you learn to relax, you save energy and enhance your quality of life. You will also find...