No claim is made to cure any medical condition. Complementary health assistance must be with medical doctor's permission and following the client consulting a medical doctor.

Relaxation Therapy

This is a brief guide to what relaxation therapy is and how it is used. 

No claim is made to cure any medical condition. Complementary health assistance must be with medical doctor's permission and following the client consulting a medical doctor.

What is relaxation therapy?

This is a complex question in that there are many forms of therapy that can come under the classification of relaxation therapy. Any therapy that causes you to relax fairly deeply in a psychological and or physical way is a relaxation therapy. Therefore both talk-led and physical based therapies may be included. Some examples are:

• Hypnosis
• Autogenics
  
• Hypnotherapy
• Self-Hypnosis
• Hypnotic Coaching
• NLP Relaxation and altered state
  
• Visualisation
• Meditation
• Prayer
• Aromatherapy
• Massage
• Reflexology

 

What are the benefits of relaxation therapy?

Using relaxation as a therapeutical intervention has many benefits, many of them holistic. One major benefit is that the state of relaxation is not conducive to stress, anxiety or depression. What this means in practice is that it is hard to be any of those negative things while relaxed. The regular relief also brings additional effects on such conditions. Regular relaxation (e.g. daily) interferes with the negative cycles associated with many forms of minor and major mental illness and therefore gives varying forms of relief or benefit. Many orthodox and complementary health therapists use relaxation with different mental conditions and illnesses. This is not to say that relaxation alone provides a "cure" - that would be inaccurate. However it is a useful method of self-help and treatment as part of a therapeutic response.

Physically we either cause or worsen a range of conditions by not relaxing enough. Relaxation provides a time where the muscles themselves let go and relax, permitting better circulation and healing during that period. It also helps to discharge stored stress (in the form of tension) daily, ensuring that the daily cycle of stress increasing is combated. If you do not discharge physical tension this can carry on into your sleep time and effect you the next day, building and building into serious long term issues. Regular relaxation helps to prevent this.

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Therefore pain relief, faster healing, better general health, and overall reduced stress can all be achieved through regular relaxation.

Also when dealing with deeper issues, perhaps through counselling support, relaxation assists the client to take a "step back". The client often goes to the therapist in a time of crisis - that's why the client chooses that particular time to arrive "when it has all become too much". At this time relaxation and other supportive self-help techniques give some relief to the client, enabling them to survive the period of crisis, take a step back, and begin the serious business of addressing underlying issues. Until then sometimes the client s too caught up with the pain of the situation "right now" and the myriad of issues that spring up "right now" to be able to look deeper and make lasting changes. Therefore in this way it is a very useful tool in the therapist's arsenal in order to assist crisis and stress related cases.

Relaxation for prevention or well-being

And relaxation is not just a tool for "therapy". It is also simply good for you! You do not have to wait until a problem occurs before you use it! It is a great preventative self-treatment which provides better general health, greater resistance to stress, more energy, better sleep and frequently better resistance to disease through your general well-being. One of today's other problems is that we are frequently "on the go" - filling our time with things we "must" do. This provides little or no time for quiet reflection on "why" we are doing these things or "what we really want in life". Sometimes this builds until we find ourselves in a time of crisis - suddenly aware that we are apparently acting out a script of a play - we don't want to be in! Quiet reflection and relaxation helps you to stay in touch with the voice and desires "inside" and helps you to stay a "whole" person. Make time to listen to yourself and heal your body!

Self-Development

For those people interested in bettering themselves, regular relaxation is almost a must. Relaxation in the form or meditation is virtually essential for spiritual development (whether meditative or through prayer). Sports players generate better recovery and general health as part of their fitness routines. Students find themselves able to cope with the pressure of studies easier and also take valuable "time out" which can enable better well-being and information retention.

Courses 

Paul is also the course author of a number of ASET accredited training courses available from Stonebridge Associated Colleges (an ASET accredited provider). These include ASET Level 4 Anger Management Coaching, ASET Level 4 Stress Management Coaching, ASET Level 4 Holistic Healing, ASET Level 4 Life Coaching and ASET Level 5 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

 

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Relaxation Tape

You can get many of the benefits of face to face relaxation therapy using hypnotherapy techniques with a well designed hypnotherapy tape, CD, MP3. Order one HERE

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