This awareness will help you find the appropriate relaxation technique. You must always believe that every relaxation technique requires Practice, Perseverance and Patience. One of the body s automatic reactions to stress is rapid shallow breathing. The breath is one of the most powerful physiological and spiritual tools at your disposal. Breathing is at the heart of virtually every meditation system.
Breathing is truly where the voluntary and involuntary merge and affect each other.
By taking control of the breath, we are able to affect the functioning of the whole body. Meditation adepts have been taking for millennia voluntary control of the breath in order to quiet the mind and send the spirit soaring. Provides most effective and efficient relaxation. Relieves anxiety and panic attacks. Decreases internalized anxiety and yields more harmonious functioning of the digestive, circulatory, and other systems.