~Journey on Relaxation exercise

Within my course material there was an exercise in relaxation called ~Journey on Relaxation.  Basically it was an audio of a soft spoken gentleman guiding the listeners in feeling the blood which, in a resting state is centrally located in the core of our bodies, move into our arms and hands using our thoughts to promote the muscles in those areas to relax. Using slow, deep breaths and quiet, inner thought suggestions, I was able to feel the blood from my core (which makes it heavy and warm feeling) move into my arms and hands which in turn made the warm and heavy feeling enter those parts, and then return to my core upon issuing a new thought to do so.

This, like many other relaxation tapes proved to be highly effective in focusing my attention (which is typically spread out in many directions) to the present moment and onto myself. I was able to stop my mind from wondering to the many things that I have to get done to this one task.

After spending time with my mom, quite a bit of time reading, designing this blog and completing other class work, as well as other day to day interruptions to my information and thought processing for both courses, this brief exercise in focusing my thoughts and energy to relax my muscles and mind, seemed to relieve me of the stress and tensions I did not even realize I was feeling at the time until, by experiencing this exercise, they were gone and I felt better.

Now I can return to my work, less stressed, less anxious, and better able to focus and process my thoughts into words.

Sandy