A cure for relaxation.

[integral]

For as long as I can remember, I could not follow the basic principles of breathing deeply and relaxing. There was always a cue that I had to focus on, like focusing on your breath, or focusing on some kind of sensation in your nose, or focusing on some relaxation in your body, or focusing on whatever. And none of this got me any results at all; it, in fact, caused more tension within my body.

If I focused on the sensation of relaxation within my body and muscles, it caused me to over-focus on all of my nerves and become too aware, and my whole body just becomes physically in pain. It's the same thing with focusing on the breath; I become too conscious of it, and it causes stress overall.

But recently, I found a method that works for me, so I thought I might share it.

Instead of thinking about focusing on your breath, try this:

Inhale the relaxation substance that's in the air. There is a substance in the air that is pure relaxation, and imagine yourself inhaling it and consuming it.

This sounds like a fantasy, and it pretty much is; there's no logic to it, but for me, it works incredibly well.

It allows me to become present and feel the entire room that I'm in and the entire house that I'm in, and have a much more atmospheric presence. The concept of consuming shifts my perspective in a strange way that allows me to deeply relax, as if every time I inhale, I go deeper and deeper into a sea of relaxation and become conscious of the substance of relaxation as a product of the entire environment that I'm in.

Relaxation becomes a substance of the entire reality and not just isolated to my nose or my body, so the entire world becomes relaxed not just my physical body. The way I view everything and my perspective of everything becomes relaxed and I'm not trying to just relax my body.

I understand some of you guys are gifted, and none of this matters to you; you just naturally relax. But for people who have a hard time with meditation, this might be the perspective you need.

Shifting outside of trying to relax your body and instead trying to relax the association you're making with all of reality seems to be a better approach in my opinion.

Edited January 16 by integral

[LifeEnjoyer]

Wim Hof does this in his guided meditation, he says "In with the relaxation, out with the stress" it seems to work pretty good for me as well, didn't know why though until this post. Thank you!

[Buck Edwards]

Relaxation in. Toxicity out. 

This is actually a famous technique. It's called Breathe in Peace, Breathe out Stress. 

This video has music that can accompany your breath movements.

 

[LifeEnjoyer]

1 hour ago, Buck Edwards said:

This video has music that can accompany your breath movements.

 

Soo cute!