Ways to Relax

Here are some ways to relax mentioned as under:-
Stop ALL.

To get relaxation go some silent place and be alone. Stop doing all works, sit back in relax position, switch off all lights, radio, TV, Computer and any sounding/flickering equipment. Now stop thinking and try to empty your mind from all thoughts. And stop your physical movements.  Keep your eyes closed. Spend as much time as u can, to get relaxation and visit the place when you fell boring and exhausted.
Gardening
Gardening is very useful hobby for relaxation. Sow seeds and grow plants in your lawn. You will enjoy and feel relaxation while cutting, watering plants and to see the flowers attracting you by their fragrance.

Letter writing
In this busy society friendly letter writing has been reduced as other fastest means of communication has taken its place. But you can enjoy if you write a letter to your friend and give your friend a joy by receiving hand written letter from you. Writing some letter also increases the ability to compose your thoughts and to decide. Not only you can share your thoughts with your friend by letter writing but also it is a documentary goodwill for your dearest ones.

Yoga Exercises
Some breathing exercises can relax you during daily business if you don’t spare time for any mood changing environment. Come out, get air in your lungs, up to fullness of diaphragm and release it slowly. By doing such exercise frequently you inhale abundance of oxygen giving you relaxation physically and mentally.

Room Changes
Some ladies have to spend most of the time at home with their numerous daily routine jobs in some societies. She can change their environment by re-arranging the room, setting of furniture, placement of decoration pieces and other house hold items.

Out-door Picnic
Arrange an out door picnic with your family, friends or dearest ones. You will find great relaxation after picnic and whole day activities. Open environment with laugh and pleasure, joking and having company of your dearest ones makes you happy, fresh and energetic. If you are lacking in good relations; try to forgive your relatives and friends for their mistakes, you will win their hearts and a real joy in you life. Forgiveness gives happiness and curb depression.

Play with children
Be child with children and play to relax you. You can play so many games with children and you will feel change in your gloomy mood and great help in order to get rid of sorrows. The company of innocent children boosts up your morale. Touching and hugging the innocents gives a sense of pleasure and relaxation. As human touch have an effect to lower mental tensions and depression.


Five Techniques to Relax and Focus Your Mind 

Technique One:  Breathe Slowly.
Begin by inhaling a deep breath through your nose and as you slowly exhale through your mouth, mentally repeating the word “relax.” Repeat these three or four times. You can say the word, “relax” out loud at first, but then practice silently repeating the word, like a mantra.  Next focus your awareness on what has captured your attention.  What are you thinking or worrying about?  Is your mind in the past or the future?  Are you thinking about someone in particular?  Explore what has captured your attention and then repeat the breathing exercise above to release it with your exhale.

Tip: You can visualize that as you exhale, you are breathing out the thoughts and feelings from your mind through your mouth, like bubbles floating off into the distance

Technique Two:  Write. 
This exercise will help you gain clarity and perspective. Find some paper and write down your thoughts. This will help you slow down your thinking and release what’s “on your mind”.    As you write, remind yourself… “I have these thoughts… I am not my thoughts; I have these feelings… I am not my feelings.”  Let the words flow out of you and write them down without editing or being concerned with grammar or spelling.

To clear your consciousness fast express in writing what’s on your mind. Then take these papers and destroy them. Tear them up and throw them away, flush them down the toilet or burn them. You want to destroy the writing with gusto and intensity. Mentally tell yourself, “I am letting go of these thoughts and feelings. I am freeing my mind.”  This technique is great for insomnia, on restless nights, like I described above.

Tip: An important fact, you can not write as fast as you can think, so when you write down your thoughts you will slow down your thinking automatically. This is one of the benefits of journaling and why it is considered a meditative experience. It slows your mind down and focuses your attention quickly.

Technique Three: Hum.
Take a few moments and hum the lyrics of a favorite song.  Concentrate on remembering the lyrics and feel the vibration of humming in your throat, face and chest. This will benefit you two ways: 1. Concentration and remembering the song will focus your mind. 2. The vibration of humming will ground you into the sensation of your physical body. It is a great technique and you can do it anywhere at anytime.  After just a few minutes you’ll feel a difference.

Technique Four:  Visualize.
Follow this simple guided meditation. Close your eyes.  Breathe deeply three times and mentally (silently) say the word “relax.” Imagine a “basketball size” sphere of white light hovering about twelve inches above your head. Focus your mind to visualize the minutest detail. Imagine that you see it and feel the warmth radiating down on the top of your head. Next imagine this sphere slowly lowering and touching the crown of your head.

Take another deep breath and bring the sphere down around your head, like a helmet. Imagine that your head is filled with white light. If you were to open your eyes, the light would stream out from inside of you.  Imagine the light dissolving these scattered thoughts.

Focus on the light, feel its warmth and sense it filling your mind with peace and comfort. Breathe naturally for a few minutes.  When you are ready, simply open your eyes and go back to your activities. This is great for a quick focus before an important meeting.  You can do this in a parked car, at your desk or in a bathroom stall.

Technique Five: Be Sensual.
Focus your attention on your five senses. This provides a mental boundary to contain your scattered mind. Being sensual simply means to be aware of your five senses. Smell the air, feel the temperature on your skin, listen to the sounds around you and taste the food that you eat.  Being sensual brings you into the present fast and effectively.

You now have five easy ways to focus your mind and harness its power. Your mind will help you make more trustworthy decisions throughout your day and you’ll experience overall greater inner peace.

Are you finding it difficult to ease life’s chaotic pressures on your mind? Take a deep breath and just follow these six steps to a soothing mental symphony.

We live in a noisy, chaotic world. Many might argue that it’s always been like this. Maybe. Perhaps we had the same basic notions of cacophony eons ago. But the prism of modern development has magnified the human noises to an unbearable extent.

The result: even when we shut ourselves indoors, far away from the madding crowd, we can still hear the echoes of that clamor in our mind. Echoes that refuse to go away. Echoes that cling to a mind desperately wanting to relax. Echoes that impede or interfere with the body’s natural tendency to remain in an easy, happy existence.

The dictum “A healthy mind in a healthy body” holds true in its inverse form as well. If you keep your mind in a poised, relaxed state, you are more likely to have a physically fit body. As modern research in psychosomatic medicine suggests, the condition of the mind directly or indirectly affects the body’s wellbeing.

So, how can you detox your mind? How can you drive out stress, commotion, conflicts and other detritus from the daily life and invite in a gentle sense of calmness and poise? Can you do it without retreating to a remote, secluded (and often, expensive) resort or spa? Hell, can you do it in your existing routine?

Don’t try and raise hell. Try, instead, these six simple tips for giving your mind the peace it’s been asking for.

1. Finish what you start: The mind is like a non-stop factory in which our words and thoughts are either woven into new fabric to clothe our personas or taken apart to be deposited on a growing pile of rags and tatters. Often, there are many unfinished strands that just lie about frayed in our mind, without finding their perfect-knit. A growing list of incomplete things can make you feel miserable and wanting. So go back to your to-do lists and keep them to a manageable minimum. If you know you can only do ten things rather than twenty-three, leave the unwanted thirteen out.

2. Make only the commitments you can keep: A businessman once gave this advice when starting up his son: “My son, never break a promise; but then, never make a promise!” Well, you’ll have to make commitments in your daily life: just be sure to make only those that you can keep. If you are firm in accepting only what you can do now, it will save you from the gnawing feelings of failed commitments later.

3. Exercise focused concentration: According to mind-training experts, one must pursue what one wants to achieve with “focused concentration.” Through constant practice, one can indeed train one’s mind to think about one thing at a time. This is what most meditative techniques also suggest: focusing the mind on one shape, sound, color, or any other object. The idea is to constantly train the mind on the job at hand. After sufficient practice, this ‘training’ should cease to be an effort and become second nature to you.

4. Forsake your regrets: We often don’t realize it, but we routinely carry a scary load of regrets at the back of our minds. If only we could do this! If only we had seen that coming! Our laundry list of regrets keeps getting longer and longer – without ever getting ample washing. Unbuckle your past lamentations and let them rinse down your memory drain one by one – and you’ll feel the same lightness and crispness that you do when you put on a freshly washed and sunned piece of garment.

5. Practice doing nothing: It is usually said that “an empty mind is the Devil’s workshop.” However, there’s an art to emptying the mind that yogis, rishis and monks have been practicing and preaching over the ages. An art that, instead of making your mind a playground for Satan, can make it a blessed abode of the gods.

Think about it: we are infused with a lifestyle that requires us to be always doing something or the other. If we were really programmed that way, there would be no need for sleep, isn’t it? By doing nothing, however, I don’t mean sitting idle or staring at the idiot box. What I mean is being free of your troubling, trivial and compulsive thoughts.

Choose a moment and place when you are just by yourself. Take a posture in which you are comfortable and let the whole world pass by you as if you were a spectator serenely yet effortlessly watching life’s little episodes. In such a state of nothingness, you can often feel the goddess of peace whispering gently in your mind.

6. Curb your craves: This one is not easy, especially because most people live to have more, get more or possess more. But if you can reduce the number of things you depend on or cut down your list of must-haves, you’ll also reduce the burden of relentlessly going after them. Pursue your ambitions or follow your dreams by all means, but don’t let them become your daily pester points. Set out to achieve big things that matter to you, but try and shun mere objects of desire that you constantly crave.