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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 in control instead of just feeling helpless.

By learning how to relax you can then apply what you have learned whenever you are in a situation that triggers your unwanted emotions. You usually experience unwanted emotions because you don't have any other choice, 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 can 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 oppose to when you are not relaxed or controlled by another emotion where you will only have access to a small part of these resources and so you are more likely to give an emotional decision.

There are many relaxation techniques that you can do in order to get into a relaxed state, however when you’re not at home or sitting at a desk you may not be able to do all of them. In this case just try to do at least one of them. If you can do all, then your relaxation level will be much deeper.

Relaxation Techniques

• The first thing you can do is to breath deeper. Throughout our lives we may have learned to breathe quickly which adds on to our anxiety and stress in stressful conditions. Try now to take few deep breaths with a very slow rate and see how you feel. You will probably 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 turns to being easier to handle.
• The second thing you can do is using suggestion, by repeating words or phrases in your mind like "relaaaax" or "I’m 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. It’s much more powerful but it’s only limitation is that it can't be used anywhere like for example while driving.
• If you’re 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