Relaxation techniques are a kind of mental and physical training whose practice helps you cope with the tension that stress causes. This booklet and tape make up a programme to teach you about the relaxation response and how to start building it into your life. Introducing Meditation - Dr Sarah Eagger For many people, distressing thoughts and feelings are a major source of unhappiness, espeically during times of emotional upheaval. Practised regularly, meditation can counteract bodily and mental stresses of everyday living and has become an important part of the latest treatment programmes for problems like high blood pressure and heart conditions. Yet more than this, it can help you get in touch with a still, peaceful centre inside yourself, even in the midst of life's turmoil.
Many people sense they get physically stressed.
Our reactions to stress influence our breathing, making it irregular, rapid or uncomfortable and this may also affect the way we feel. With training and practice, calm, regular breathing can help you to stay in control when under pressure and with practice to improve your sense of well-being, and decrease your level of stress. The techniques used in this pack can help people with anxiety problems and panic disorder. Imagery for Relaxation - Dr Duncan Johnson Working with imagery is a very old and established way of harnessing the body's own natural healing processes. It produces physical and emotional changes through the use of our imagination.