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Managing unwanted emotions Through Relaxation

relaxation is one very effective method that can be used to deal with stress,anxiety or fears. when you are relaxed your mental resources become more free and you become much more balanced. relaxation can even make you feel more confident because you feel that you are in control instead of just feeling helpless.

on learning how to relax you can then apply what you have learned whenever you are in a situation that triggers your unwanted emotions. usually you experience unwanted emotions because you don't have any other choice but them, by introducing a new choice to your subconscious mind which is relaxing and controlling yourself your suffering of anxiety and fears can become much less.

relaxation make you have access to your whole mind's resources

relaxation will also make you have access to all of your mind's resources, as when you are not relaxed or controlled by another emotion you will only have access to a small part of these resources and so you are more likely to give an emotional decisions.

there are many Relaxation Techniques you can do in order to get relaxed however when you are not at home or sitting at a desk you may not be able to do them all so just try to do at least one of theem. if you can do all then your relaxation level will be much more deeper .

Relaxation Techniques

• the first thing you can do is breath deeper, through our lives we may have learned to breath in a fast way which adds to our anxiety and stress in stressful conditions. try now to take few deep breaths with a very slow rate and see how do you feel , probably you will find that you are much more relaxed. try to train yourself so that this way of deep breathing becomes your normal way of breathing. by doing so you will find that your normal life stress turned to be easier to handle.
• the second thing you can do is using suggestion, by repeating words or phrases in your mind like "relaaaax" or "am going into a deep relaxation state" your subconscious mind will get programmed. your subconscious mind can be programmed by suggestion and so this suggestion will help you in relaxing faster .
• visualization is very helpful, you can imagine that you are in a very relaxing place like for example sitting beside the sea or any imaginary place you can create than can help you to relax. note that visualization is a form of suggestion and programming to the subconscious mind but it takes the form of images rather than words , its much more powerful but its limitation is that it can't be used anywhere like for example while driving .
• if you are sitting you can start to focus on each part of your body alone and then relaxing it, like thinking first of your right hand then relaxing it, then moving to the left hand and relaxing it, then to your foot and so on until you have relaxed your whole body. it can be very helpful to first tighten each muscle before relaxing it ,this can make you experience relaxation in a deeper way

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did that help?

yeah , but what is the subconscious mind?

is visualization useful? seems to me like day dreaming