Relaxation Techniques
Relaxation techniques often employ the techniques of stress management programs are linked with psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine and personal development. The relaxation of muscle tension, lower blood pressure and decreased heart rate and respiratory rate are some of its health benefits.
In physiology and psychology, voluntary relaxation of the tone of the muscles around the body or a part thereof is made possible by the control exercised by the cortex on the centers of automatic movements and tone, located at the level of gray nuclei of the brainstem and the brainstem. His study covers the entire physiology of the extrapyramidal system.
As a phenomenon purely voluntary, is interested in some therapeutic techniques, both in terms of recovery from fatigue as other lighter shade of psychiatric disorders: hypnosis practice, and so on. The methods and relaxation techniques, based on progressive training and regular, actually tend to indirectly modify the tone of psychic origin of people who undergo them. From a purely recovery, have great interest in the treatment of spastic and people with neurological injury of this type.
There are several techniques that allow individuals to improve their state of relaxation. Some of the methods can be made by the individual himself but others require the help of another person or even a professional. Not all of them need exercise; some require a state of stillness.
Certain relaxation techniques should be performed while lying down or sitting in silence, in complete serenity and concentration. These include:
- Rebirthing
- Meditation
- Yoga Nidra
- pranayama
- biofeedback
- autogenic training
- Control of breathing
- Jacobson's Progressive Muscle Relaxation
- Pleasant mental image viewing