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Your body can actually mimic a stiff feeling in the mind that may be representative of presence of harmful stress. What actually occurs is that stressful thoughts and ideas can actualy present itself throughout your body in muscle tension which is really not good for arthritic pain sufferers.
You can help relieve your body’s tension, even soothe arthritic pain and release your mind’s anxiety just with the simple relaxation methods listed here with step by step instructions.
DEEP BELLY BREATHING
When stressed, our breathing is effected detrimentally with shallow breathes. It’s affecting the way our bodies can and can not relax. When we take shallow breaths, we aren’t getting as much oxygen into our bodies and into our bloodstream as possible.
This hinders our body’s ability to release tension.In order to relearn the correct breathing , follow these steps.
• Sit in a comfortable position with your back straight and your chin up.
• Take one hand and place it on your chest.
• Take the other hand and place it on your stomach.
• Try to take breaths that allow the hand on your stomach to rise and to fall. It might feel a little weird to move your stomach in and out, but it gets easier with time.
• Continue to practice this movement until it becomes second nature.
You can practice this deeper breathing no matter where you are and what you’re doing. In time, you will begin to breathe this deeply all the time, keeping your body as loose and as limber as possible.
MEDITATION
Meditation had long been respected in past centuries but recent exposure seemed to indicate it was New Wave or even wacko. But while the New Age craze might have popularized meditation, it’s actually a practice that has been around for centuries.
Like daydreaming, you take your mind to a place where there is no pain and no stiffness. And as you practice doing so, you can teach your mind to be this still and calm all the time.
Here is a simple way to meditate:
• Find a comfortable spot to sit (laying down often leads to a nap).
• Close your eyes and think about how you are breathing.
• Simply count your inhalation and then your exhalation. Breathe in One. Breathe out Two. Continue to count to yourself in this way.
All you are doing is focusing on your breaths, in and out. Whenever another thought comes into your mind, accept that it’s there and then try to release it in order to empty your mind once more.
Just 10 minutes a day has been shown to not only help arthritis sufferers reduce pain, but meditation especially with a relaxation meditation CD also helps to strengthen the immune system and lower anxiety levels.
Found between 8-12 Hz, alpha brain waves are shown by an alert mind yet very calm. When you relax and close your eyes these brainwaves are increased. These brainwaves work to move you towards imagination, thinking that is intuitive, and deep relaxation. Other effects are being able to recover from harmful stress or emotional distress and brainwave meditation, try a Brain Entrainment CD
Brain Power MP3 can be extremely theraputic for some offering deep relaxation states and restorative sleep.
Choosing to become a bit more relaxed will help you and your body. You can choose to try all of these techniques or just some – something is better than nothing, after all.You can also improve your health and finances even with mind movies .
I have never been able to have a life which was free from anxiety and worry. I worry about almost every aspect of life and living this way has caused me a lot of problems including various bouts of ill health from time to time. I needed to find a way of coping with and reducing the amount of stress in my life and in this article I write about how I have managed to achieve this.
So what do I stress about? Well I suppose it is anything and everything. Women and my relationships with them; my financial position – having a lack of money and worrying about how I am going to be able to pay the bills etc. I also have anxiety over my career and my personal friendships. For whatever reason I also used to worry about what other people thought of me.
I am the kind of person who is classed as a thinker. I will be the first to admit that I over-think at times; some people would go as far as to call me a stress-head – others, no doubt, see me as some sort of freak. This thinking is very much in a negative manner and is a cycle which I have found hard to break.
About a year ago I was invited to appear on a national radio show to talk about my occupation which is providing an affordable DVD duplication service and offering SEO specialist advice, and also strangely enough helping an organisation to do with fostering solutions. I was due to talk live on this radio program at around 2pm. All morning as was my way of course, I was thinking and worrying about how I would come across to other people. I was afraid that I would make a fool of myself and would sound like a bit of an idiot. I also, for whatever reason, started to stress about whether I would be able to remember, under the amount of pressure that I was likely be under, the important aspects of my occupation which people would be interested in.
To say that I was becoming rather nervous would have been an understatement – there were a number of times when I picked up the phone to cancel the whole thing – before putting the telephone back down again. I then called up a good friend of mine who has always provided me with sound advice. I explained about the radio show and about my fears. He stated that I needed to relax and to even look forward to the experience. It would, he continued, be a chance to promote my own services and therefore was something to be grateful for.
He advised me that what I needed to do was to keep myself busy. If I am very busy, I would not have any time to think in my usual negative way. He stated that he believed that I needed to find things that would occupy my mind. He thought that I was spending the majority of the time stressing about this and that. If however I had a much busier life then I would not have so much time to think in this manner.
This is something I had realised a few years before but had in truth not acted on. I thought about what my friend had said and then decided to get stuck into some much needed gardening. Have a guess what? I managed to do very well on the radio; I even enjoyed it.