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Disconnect your limbs!

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TECHNIQUE AND INSTRUCTIONS

When your whole body is aching at the end of a long day at work, just try this. It works at least as well as a body massage – and you can do it anywhere! Just lie back in a chair or on a couch, if one is available. Hang your neck, head and your limbs really loose. Throw your head over the back of the chair and hang your jaw loose. Now, just visualize that your legs have simply broken free of the body! At the thigh joints, they have simply got disconnected. Like an assembled doll, your legs can also be disconnected. Visualize this very clearly. The instant you visualize the disconnection, you will be surprised, you will feel no more pain in that part anymore. After all, pain is only a creation of our mind! When a powerful signal goes to your brain that your legs are no longer connected to your body, naturally your brain will stop receiving any pain signals from that area. Your legs will relax on their own and the blood circulation through them will be normalized. In the same way, visualize that your hands have got disconnected at the shoulders. You don’t have hands anymore. Next, remove your head from your field of consciousness. Your head and neck have been quietly disconnected from your body. Along with your head, all your tensions are also dissolved. You feel instantly relieved of your tensions. Understand, you are holding the body with your mind. All your tension is because you are holding yourself too tightly. The moment you release your body, your energies are balanced naturally. If you have more time, stay with this deep relaxation for a while.

Portrait of Paramahamsa Nithyananda

Funny faces

TECHNIQUE AND INSTRUCTIONS

This is a wonderful technique to relax your face muscles. All you have to do is make the most comical faces that you can! Have you seen children making faces? Just do the same thing. Roll your eyes, twist your lips, puff your cheeks and blow out the air, crinkle your forehead, wiggle your eyebrows, stick out your tongue, make your face as mobile as possible – just enjoy yourself! If you have a private space and a mirror is available, do it in front of the mirror. Just watching your own face, you can have a good laugh – that will relax the whole body as well!