RELAXATION TECHNIQUES
October 8, 1989
RELAX.ZIP is a group of text files that will guide you to complete
relaxation, and the techniques of such. This file is an alternate
relaxation guide, designed to compliment AP_PREP.ZIP, which is
available on this BBS. Either technique can be used with the same
results, choose the one that works for best for you. I suggest trying
all of them…
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This .ZIP archive should contain the following text files:
RELAX1.TXT – Text on Relaxing The Body
RELAX2.TXT – Text on the methods of Deep Breathing
RELAX3.TXT – Text on How To Prepair For Astral Projection/Remembering
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RELAXATION TECHNIQUES I
October 8, 1989
RELAXING THE BODY
Close your eyes. Get yourself comfortable, and concentrate on your
breathing.
Pay close attention to your breathing. Recognize how slow and deep
breathing will help to induce relaxation. Exhale. Then take a deep
breath in through your nose and blow it out through your mouth.
Breathe from your abdomen, deeply and slowly.
As you concentrate on your breathing, focus your attention on an
imaginary spot in the center of your forehead. Look at the spot as if
you were trying to see it from inside your head.
You will begin to realize that your eyelids have become tense.
Get a sense of how tense the eyelids can become as you stare at the
spot that you can compare this feeling with relaxation.
When your eyelids become strained and uncomfortable, let them drop.
Notice the feeling of relaxation that radiates all through and around
your eyes. Allow that feeling of warmth and relaxation to move out to
the temples and across the forehead.
Let the relaxation then radiate to your scalp, to the back of your
head, to your ears, temples, cheeks, nose, then to your mouth and chin.
As you feel all the tension leave your face, relax your jaw muscles.
Let your jaw open slightly, so that all the tension can smoothly flow
away.
Relax the muscles in your neck. As you do, let your head tip forward
gently so your chin just about touches your chest.
Let this feeling of relaxation flow down into your shoulders and from
there into the muscles of your arms and hands, then down your back,
over to the front of the chest, on down to the abdomen, and then allow
it to reach all the way down to the base of the spine.
Let the buttocks go completely loose and limp. Allow the warmth and
relaxation to spread to the thighs, on down the legs, down to the
ankles, and down through the feet to the tips of the toes.
Now you feel completely relaxed. Take a moment, starting from the top
of your head and working down, to check to see if any part of you is
not yet fully relaxed.
If you find any part of your body not fully relaxed, simply inhale a
deep breath and send it into the area, bringing soothing, healing,
relaxing, nourishing oxygen to comfort that area. As you exhale
imagine blowing out right through your skin any tension, tightness, or
discomfort. By inhaling a breath into that area and exhaling right
through the skin, you are able to replace tension in any part of your
body with gentle relaxation.
When you find yourself quiet and fully relaxed, take a few moments to
enjoy it.
RELAXATION TECHNIQUES II
October 8, 1989
DEEP BREATHING
Close your eyes…Get yourself comfortable. Pay careful attention to
your breathing. Recognize how slow and deep breathing will help to
induce relaxation. Exhale, then take a deep breath in through your
nose and blow it out through your mouth. Breathe from your abdomen,
deeply and slowly. Allow your abdomen to rise and fall as you breathe.
With each inhale and exhale, count your breaths. count ONE on the
inhale and TWO on the exhale. Focus only on the breath and your
counting.
If a thought comes into your mind which causes you to lose track of
your counting, just return to the count.
If a thought comes into your mind, look at it as though it were someone
else’s. Neither grab hold of it nor chop it down. Neither stop it nor
pursue it. Simply watch it come into view and disappear. Then
continue your counting.
Count your breaths until you feel deeply relaxed. Breathe in and out
slowly, counting each breath, until you feel quiet, relaxed, and still
alert.
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RELAXATION TECHNIQUES III
October 8, 1989
BEGINNING THE AP EXPERIENCE / REMEMBERING
Stretch, take a good deep stretch, all through your body. Slide down
in the afterglow of that stretch, into a relaxed position.
Holding that afterglow feeling, reflect back on how it feels to be
relaxed, as if you were in bed at night on the edges of sleep (though
this time you stay AWAKE and don’t miss the fun). If you are already
trained in some form of meditation or Astral Projection, reflect back
on one of your BEST experiences of meditation or AP, and how that felt.
If you are religious, reflect back on how it feels to listen in prayer.
Whichever experience you reflect back on, remember it more and more
completely. Remember more and more clearly what it feels like, what
elements in the experience go along with that feeling.
Remembering an experience re-creates the mental and physical basis of
that experience. This is why you are already virtually back in the
quality of this experience you are remembering, this experience you are
remembering more about, more and more clearly.
While remembering the feeling and quality of this experience, now
slowly breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply…3 to 5 times, and
just let your muscles go a little more with each breath out, relaxing
more deeply.
Become more aware of what you are feeling and experiencing within you,
and become more aware of your surroundings. It’s surprising how much
of a mental picture you can build up of your surroundings, just from
what you can hear.
Taking about six seconds to do so, breathe in slowly and very deeply.
Exhale as slowly and deeply. With your lungs empty, try to blow out an
imaginary candle a foot in front of your face – that’s how deeply you
should exhale.
Go on inhaling and exhaling as deeply as you can, very slowly, six
seconds or longer each way.
May you find the joy and happiness that you deserve…and also utilize
this text to your advantage. If you know someone that could benefit
from this text, please feel free to give them a copy.
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