Relaxation Matters Issue 5

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Learning to relax : 5 minute breathing meditation

Stress Solutions+ : Are you passionate about what you do?

Under the spotlight : A basic lesson in health and happiness

Hot news : Relaxation is proven to affect your immune system

Hot topic : 3 things you can do to plug into your network and take control

Up-coming training : Meet the "Relaxation Doctor"

Educational evening : Wednesday 28th June

Learning to relax

5 minute breathing meditation

Find somewhere to sit comfortably where you won't be disturbed. Let your hands fall into your lap and close your eyes. Shrug your shoulders up to your ears, and then let your shoulders naturally drop. Concentrate on your breathing.

With each in breath say the word "softening" to yourself

With each out breath say the word "relaxing" to yourself

Breathe like this for about 5 minutes, allowing thoughts to drift in and out, then slowly open your eyes.

Stress Solutions+

Are you passionate about what you do?

"Retirement? What's that all about? I don't ever plan to stop doing what I love!"

This was the response of a friend when we got talking about pensions over a coffee the other day. He also added that he's ne(v)er been healthier since doing something in life that he really enjoys, so he doesn't anticipate having to stop for health reasons either!

This kind of attitude comes about through doing what you love, and although it takes some courage to take the leap and follow your passion (for example some life style changes may have to be made) the reward is handsome.

When you are doing what you feel you want to do from the inside, you'll find the universe will respond in kind.

Selling your soul leaves you un-whole

Follow your heart if you're really smart

Under the spotlight

A basic lesson in health and happiness

These two words are often mentioned together in the same breath and perhaps this is because a person’s physiology and their emotions are inseparable. At a nuts and bolts level this means that how you organize your physiology impacts how you are feeling – the “mood” you are in.

Our work with clients shows us time and again that “bliss” is indeed hardwired into human beings, and further still, that it’s possible to teach a person how to access this hardwired way of being intentionally, instead of it being left to chance of “having a good day”.

Something very practical that you can start doing yourself is to “*follow your bliss” (your bliss being the emotional state that’s present when your physiology is organized in a particular way). To do this you need to:

1. Notice how you are physically when you are at your best. How is your body positioned? Are there any gestures that you notice you make? What do you notice about your breathing, shifts in your posture, minute muscular adjustments? What do you notice about where you put your attention in your minds eye?

2. Practice being this way by replicating the things you notice about yourself when you are at your best.

*Joseph Campbell, Mythologist and author of "The Hero With A Thousand Faces"

Hot news

Relaxation is proven to affect your immune system

In 1990 Howard Hall proved that the immune system could be consciously controlled by “cyber physiologic strategies”. The word cyber derives from the Greek “kybernetes” meaning “that which steers” or “the helmsman” and in this context one of the cyber physiologic strategies used was the self-regulatory practice of relaxation. Using several control groups, it was proved possible to use relaxation to consciously increase the stickiness of while blood cells, as measured by saliva and blood tests.

Hot topic

3 things you can do to "plug into your network" and take control

A network is an integrated information system with communication occurring between the various components. An example of a network is YOU. Vital organs in your body are all linked together by information carriers known as neuropeptides, and it is neuropeptides and their receptors that make up what we refer to as “emotions”.

This means your emotions are a result of the information exchange between your bodily processes, and the thing that holds the entire network together, and manages that information exchange, is your mind (which doesn't’t actually exist any where in your body as a physical or tangible thing).Information flow can be unconscious, occurring outside of your awareness, or conscious, occurring in your awareness. Here are 3 things you can do to take conscious control of yourself:

1. When you are about to do something, engage in an activity, carry out a task, ask yourself “what’s my intention?” and decide what it is.
2. When you are engaging in conversation with someone (especially if it’s getting a little “heated”) ask yourself “what’s my intention?” and decide what it is.
3. When walking, place your attention on the soles of your feet and how it feels for them to make contact with the ground. Adjust how you are walking so that you can feel your connectedness with the earth beneath you.

Find out about private lessons that will teach you how to take control of your experience instead of being at the whim of things and people on the outside.

Meet the "The Relaxation Doctor"

Charles Moore, Relaxation for Health Specialist and MythoSelf® Trainer, is running The Mythogenic Self™ Experience next month in the U. K.

Find out more about the training that forms the basis of the work that Charles does from his practice in London.

Educational Evening

If you want to be able to relax as automatically as you can read and write then come and learn how. Join Charles Moore on Wednesday 28th June in Kingston upon Thames for his monthly educational evening.

Find out more and book

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