15 Highly Effective Ways To Relax in 5 Minutes

15 Claritique Ways To Relax In 5 Minutes

These 15 techniques are for you, so that you can gradually learn how to improve the quality of your life, through relaxing when time is at a premium. Most have been devised by me, others have derived from elsewhere. Feel free to choose the exercises you like and practice them regularly. Practicing how to relax is better than money in the bank; you can take £2000 and travel somewhere fabulous but if you still can’t relax there, your time and money would have been better spent learning how to relax. With a little bit of practice on a day-to-day basis you will become good at it.

                                                

1.Sixty to Zero

Close your eyes, take deep breaths in and out, breathe slowly. Say to yourself I will count from 60 to zero, when I reach zero I will have a refreshed yet relaxed state of mind. Slowly count backwards from 60 to 0. Try to count more and more slowly the closer you get to zero.

2. Laugh and Smile

It is amazing how relaxing a good old laugh and a smile can be. Try for 5 minutes at different points in the day having a good laugh about something positive with friends and colleagues, maybe tell a joke or two. It is proven that a simple smile releases feel good chemicals, endorphins and serotonin from the brain.

3. Your Happiest Times

Take a deep breath, slowly inhale and exhale saying to yourself: “With each breathe I take I become increasingly relaxed.” Allow your mind to recall 3 situations that were the most relaxing and happiest times in your life so far. Intensify the feelings you felt, the sounds that you heard, the various colours, shapes, pictures and sensations that you experienced. Step into each mental picture and clench your fists as the feelings intensify. With practice each time you clench your fist it will trigger these memories of happiness and relaxation.

4. Six Points of Attention

Place your attention on 6 parts of your body; for example, the warmth, shape and weight of your feet on the ground. Place your attention on The Hara which is the point in the centre of your body between your belly button and pelvic region. Place your attention on your Solar Plexus. Place your attention on your heart. Place your attention on your Brain Stem at the base of your skull. Place your attention on the area between your eyes at the base of your forehead. Place your attention on the crown of your head. Eventually you will have a point of attention on all 5 places at once. Tell yourself: “As I focus my mind in this way, my body becomes more relaxed, at peace and I move into a space of deep happiness.

5. Your Very Special Place

Create a place of peace you can go to at your will. It might be a spot under your favourite tree where you go to relax in the cool shade or a secluded beach on a paradise island, where you walk on warm sand, as the sea laps gently to and fro on the shore. You may wish to share this space with your most favourite person in the world. And the really good thing is, you can visit and explore this place as often as you like.

6. Healing Light

Take a few deep breaths and relax. Tell yourself, “With each breath I take my relaxation deepens.” Imagine a warm healing light about 20 centimetres above your head just in front of you. This light embodies all the positive, healing and harmonious feelings that you would like to experience. It slowly descends through you, totally immersing your body and mind with powerful healing energies, filling every cell in your body, relaxing every pore of your skin. You become refreshed, renewed and revitalized completely, overwhelming negative forces, and anxiety, pushing them out, leaving you feeling relaxed and invigorated.

7. Sohum Meditation

Sit in a quiet place take a deep breath and relax. Use the primordial Sanskrit sound Sohum. Inhale silently with Soooo… and exhale silently with Hummm… do this for a minimum of 5 minutes at a time. The Sohum meditation is a simple but powerful technique that uses breath and repetition of a mantra to quiet the mind and relax the body. The Sohum sound increases the effect of relaxation by releasing the autonomic nervous system.

8. Outward Attention

Sit in a quiet place and bring your attention outwards to the room you are sitting in. Hear what you hear, see what you see, feel what you feel. Attempt to do this for 5 minutes at a time.

9. Let It All Out

Visualize a person you are upset with. In your mind’s eye meet with them, and let that person know how you feel about them. Feel free to shout and scream at them in your mind, or (which is even better!!!) out aloud if you can. Go on let it all out, say whatever it is you want to say to that person. Now notice how much better you feel.

10. Hit the Pillow 

Beat a pillow or another object that is not going to hit back or hurt you as hard as possible for five minutes.

11. Walk of Awareness Take a 5 minute walk with open awareness in consciousness. As you walk feel the contact your feet make with the ground, and the weight of your body on the earth. Feel the gentle weight of your clothes on your skin. Feel the soft caress of the wind and air on your face. Listen to the sound of your footsteps. Listen to the sounds and voices around you. Listen to distant sounds. Notice the quality of light you are walking in. Notice the various colours and shapes of the landscape, buildings around you. Become aware of a movement of people, animals or things around you.

12. Simple Qigong

Learn a simple exercise from Qigong…Qigong is a Chinese philosophy and practice of aligning breath, physical activity and awareness for mental, spiritual and bodily health as well as the development of human potential.

13. Holding a Positive Thought

Practice holding a positive thought for 15 seconds at a time. According to mind set expert Andy Shaw with practice you become the master of your thoughts.

14. Smash the Mirror

In your mind’s eye see a reflection of yourself on a life size mirror in the state of mind you desire to move away from. See the picture life size in front of you. Notice how bringing the mirror closer towards you makes these sad feelings stronger. Now smash the sad mirror to pieces and notice how good it feels as the sadness leaves. The really good thing is, you can do it as often as you like. Each time your mental connection to this sorry state of mind releases.

15. The Leaf

Imagine you are walking in a forest, and as you walk you find a small creek. You stop to pick up a leaf from the ground. You hold up this leaf, gently place a problem or a negative thought onto it, and then let it float away down the creek. Then you take another leaf and put another problem / thought onto it. You continue doing this for some minutes and watch your problems disappear

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