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Relaxation
Health Vision
|Jan 2017
You can learn the skills to make yourself relaxed. Choose any method by which after a period of relaxation, you will be mentally alert, relax your muscles and your mind would be worry-free. If we do not do exercise regularly, our muscles and the entire body will definitely deteriorate.
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Relaxation is a vital necessity to keep you healthy, fit, energetic and dynamic. Just taking a cup of tea or coffee or other addictive means like tobacco, alcohol, anti-depressant drugs, may give you some relaxation for a short period but serious adverse effects in the long run of life. In the absence of relaxation one can easily develop stress-related health hazards.
Now-a-days relaxation is universally recognized by doctors, psychiatrists and fitness experts and is the easiest way to overcome stress with no side reaction. Relaxation helps you to focus on the present being totally unaware about the past and the future. When you are relaxed, you will most probably be able to get solution for various problems and add in creative ideas.
Relaxation is as important as doing exercise and aids in relieving physical mental and emotional stress. By learning the art of relaxing, you can get control of the nervous system which controls important functions like breathing, heart beat and blood pressure.
Another vital part of relaxation techniques is to become aware when the body needs to stop and have a break. In the modern competitive environment, most of the people keep pushing themselves harder to achieve extraordinary feats or madly rush for material gains. They ignore or do not understand the warning signals of stress. Relaxation at this juncture comes into help and taking rest clears your mind from tension stress and rejuvenates with fresh energy and one is recharged with dynamic enthusiasm.
These are few simple relaxation techniques:
Meditation:
This story is from the Jan 2017 edition of Health Vision.
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