 To live life being profound relaxed does not require a divine intervention That happened when you were born and is simply dormant within you Charles Moore | Your 10 minute read to a happier body and mind Questions? Call +44-20-8974-8974 "If you've found this useful, please help us grow our readership by using "forward to a friend" at the bottom of the email. Thanks. " Stress Solutions+ : A major tip that could save you years of anguish Under the spotlight : Why an appreciation for mythology is good for your health Hot news : The Relaxation Doctor goes corporate Hot topic : 7 things to know about YOU Up-coming training : Introductory group lesson Educational evening : Monday 31st July Learning to relax Sit upright in your chair. Rest your hands on your thighs. Keep your legs together with your feet flat on the floor and pointed forwards. Allow yourself to relax mentally so that you can get maximum benefit from this exercise. Do this by thinking of a happy memory ... immerse yourself fully in it for a few moments. N(o)w take a couple of deep breaths and then concentrate on the feelings in your body. Begin by tensing your feet. Scrunch up your toes as tightly as you can, as if you are curling your feet into a ball. Hold them in this position for 5 seconds and then release. Next press the soles of your feet down firmly into the ground. Hold them in this position for 5 seconds and then release. Next tighten your ankles, calves and knees. You can do this by using foot pressure against the ground. Hold them in this position for 5 seconds and then release. Next tense your thighs as hard as you can. Hold them tight for 5 seconds and then release. Next clench your buttocks tightly. Hold them in this position for 5 seconds and then release. In doing this exercise you will be becoming more aware of the difference between how it feels when you are holding muscles tense, and how it feels when you are allowing your muscles to be relaxed. The idea is that you only ever use the minimal muscular effort required to perform any given task - including sitting in a chair! A major tip that could save you years of anguish If you're the kind of person that loves to set goals and plan things in infinite detail then hold on tight! Joseph Riggio, Ph.D., designer of The MythoSelf Process (the method we use to teach people how to relax) has often been heard saying "Choose the "what" or the "how". Not both". Put another way, you get to choose what you want as a well defined outcome, OR choose how i.e. the steps you are going to take. Don't get fixed on having both! Here's why. 1. You won't be a chronic procrastinator And if you're thinking "how come?" it's because if a person is fixed on their outcome/what they want and how they think they should go about achieving it, they are paving a rocky road for themselves. Life presents its own twists and turns. Twists and turns that aren't likely to fit perfectly with the rigid and intricate plans of the person who has decided up front both what they want and how it shall be achieved. Under the spotlight Mythology is about human experience and it offers valuable life lessons to the person who understands the history and nature of myth. He(r)e are some interesting points that will help you with this understanding. 1. Human beings fall easily into despair and from the very beginning we invented stories that helped us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed a purpose and pattern to life, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. 2. Mythology is meant to help us live more intensely in the world. To really live life and engage fully in it in every way. 3. Myth came about as a remedy for a person's fear of death once their awareness of their own immortality came to be. 4. A powerful myth takes a person beyond themselves and their every day experience and leads them into a "new world" that is unknown and sometimes feared. 5. Myth is not a story told for its own sake. It shows us how to behave so that we are in the correct spiritual or psychological frame of mind for action in this life...or the next. New dates were released this week for Charles Moore's next "Mythogenic Self™ Experience" training course. It's happening in the UK in November. Find out more about this amazing program. The Relaxation Doctor goes corporate It's all B.S! This is the headline that is arriving on the desks of HR Directors and Managers over the next few months. B.S. by the way stands for Business Stress, a very real and costly problem for many organisations. The 4th R will be providing a range of corporate services, including Relaxation Intelligence Training Programs and Relaxation Logistics 1-1 Coaching, as well as teaching plain english and practical learn to relax lessons through a regular column in company newsletters. More will be available about this soon, but in the mean time, if you work for an organisation in the U.K. or oversees, that you think might be interested in teaching staff how to be relaxed for perfor(m)ance and health, then please get in touch. Or if your company produces a newsletter for its employees, and you think that regular advise from The Relaxation Doctor would be a good thing, again, please get in touch with us. Hot topic 1) Imagine attempting to load the latest version of Windows onto a PC that physically doesn't have the hardware capability to run this new software. You'll find that the PC simply won't allow the software upgrade or you'll some how manage to install it, but it'll keep crashing. It's the same kind of thing with people. If a a therapist, psychologist or counselor tries to update the software of their patient, no matter how good the incoming data may be, if the hardware isn't built for it, the hardware will have trouble processing it. 2) You are a creature of habit. Patterns of thinking have become habituated in your hardware. This means your body reflects how you are fundamentally organised; the template from which you are operating. 3) While you go about your every day life you are experiencing a continual pattern of stress and release. Only some people don't do the release part very well, and end up operating from default patterns of behaviour as a result. 4) You are well organized to respond to rhythm and rhythm can radically change your mood. This is because rhythm affects your motor system. It is as if a "new you" is being built through your hardware. 5) Rhythm and bi-lateral movement forces neurological adjustments to be made. The notion of affecting the neural system through movement is not un-common to shamans and certain tribes who frequently engage in both fr(ee) form and formal tribal dance to lead themselves into a different state. In some cultures fr(ee) bi-lateral movement is encouraged (for example mexico or Jamaica!) and this is reflected in the general mood of its people. In many parts of the world though (the U.K and the U.S included) people are brought up with an emphasis on intellectualizing, with little or no encouragement for people to freely and expressively move their body. 6) The word "structure" is used to describe your physical body. Your bones, muscles and tissue. Structure is affected by your heredity and by your life experience in terms of nutrition, illness, body use and abuse. "Posture" is the way you live in your structure. The energy and attitudes which moment by moment shapes your body. 7) Self awareness and good use of self are probably the most important things you can do for your overall health and well-being. Dance of the Elements - A MythoSelf Program is next running in *Sweden on the 2nd and 3rd September, and then in the UK on the 3rd and 4th November. Book early to secure your place on the training that is proving to be a remarkable breakthrough for excessively busy minds, tired bodies and stress. * To book for the Sweden program, please call +44-208-974-8974. Up-coming training If you want to be relaxed at any time, with any one, no matter what, then come and learn how. Join Charles Moore on Monday 31st July in Kingston upon Thames for his monthly educational evening. | Back | |
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