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Deep Relaxation Skills

One of the most beneficial skills you can learn for your own physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being is deep relaxation. This is a complete physiological response that you can readily train yourself to produce through breathing techniques, guided imagery and visualization, self-hypnosis, and progressive muscle relaxation. As you can imagine, true deep relaxation - the pure relaxation that heals your body, clears your mind, calms your emotions, and renews your spirit - is more than just unwinding with a book or in front of the television. Deep relaxation involves your full attention in systematically relaxing every part of you, so that tension and stress are discharged and released, and your whole body fully relaxes.

I have prepared these instructional audiotapes/CDs to blend the most effective elements of:

1. deep (abdominal) breathing to induce inner calm
2. guided imagery to promote peacefulness and a sense of well-being through visualizing serene scenes
3. guided self-hypnosis to allow you to effectively release stress or tension, and to deepen the positive benefits of mind/body relaxation
4. progressive muscle relaxation to systematically relax your entire body, as effectively as massage.

For more information regarding the specific benefits of learning deep relaxation skills, select:
More Information About Uses

For descriptions of the audiotapes/CDs developed for deep relaxation and stress management skills, you may choose any of the following:
 

Inviting Garden Path:
Guided Imagery for Relaxation Self-Hypnosis & Stress Management/Reduction

Complete Body & Mind Relaxation
Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Stress Management/Reduction

Songs of the Sea
Guided Imagery for Stress Reduction & Progressive Deep Relaxation

Creating a Safe Place for Relaxation, Restoration and Reducing Stress