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My original, easy and effective relaxation program developed from my many years researching, practicing and teaching relaxation and stress relief exercises to students and clients. Featured online for more than a decade with excellent feedback from its users.

Learn to Relax Blog

This book features my 10 self-developed lessons each with an easy to follow guided exercise in relaxation and self-discovery. See my Learn to Relax blog at http://relax.lightreport.org for audio and video formats of these exercises and more which I've created since the book was written.

Excerpt
Many studies now show conclusively that stress and tension are major contributing factors in most illnesses. You can learn to let your body relax and ease debilitating pain, tension, and any number of other sensations and harmful conditions. It seems evident that learning to relax is one of the best things you can do for your body. When you let go of negative emotions and stress, you begin to feel places where you've blocked energy for a long time; you learn to sense your body more. When you sense your body, you get in touch with chronic conditions which may have been blocking the flow of natural energy for years. Gradually, you may learn to give up things that have been keeping you from being more healthy. You may learn that it's not okay to ignore your body. You may learn that our bodies need our attention in some ways, and that they need to be left alone to do their work in other ways.

Relaxation is an important key to the entire healing process. If one isn’t relaxed, the body isn't able to sense itself enough to be healthy. When you relax, the body is more free to achieve a higher level of health. Whatever healthy things you may be doing for your body now, it will be quite beneficial if you can learn to relax more fully. You can combine this program with whatever program or techniques you're presently doing and see how they may work together. You don't need to give up your present fitness or treatment program to learn to relax. I present suggestions for how you may incorporate these exercises into a simple daily routine. Ultimately, it’s for you to decide how you may apply this program in your life.

Throughout this program, you may find your body changing considerably. You may notice places where your body is letting go of stress or sensation. You
may find that you can move more fluidly, or with more of a sense of self-control or centeredness. These are all indicators that your body is freeing up and gaining more of a sense of itself, and they’re ways to know that the exercises are working for you. Even the most subtle, seemingly ‘inactive’ exercise can bring about great changes within the body. Visualization processes such as I use in this book will assist you in gaining control of the most subtle body processes at a level where you’re free to accept beneficial changes.

The kind of relaxation proposed in this book can help us learn to release many harmful energies from our bodies, such as fear, tension, stress, anger, grief, and all emotions. You may at some point notice a sensation of feeling “trapped in your body” and that now you can become free. This is how it is when we learn to release negative sensations and blocked energies. We can become more free of pain, or fear, or any number of other sensations. We can begin to release these feelings and sensations, by wanting it to happen and by practicing powerful techniques such as these. This program integrates many techniques into an easy-to-follow and easy-to-do format. I hope it will serve you in discovering what you’ve been carrying in your body and how you may release it to be more fully centered and balanced in your present form.