Relaxation Exercise
Preparation: Find a comfortable sitting position: legs crossed or placed evenly on the floor. Spine erect, eyes closed. Step 1: Inhale slowly as you raise tension up an imaginary elevator so that it can be transformed. Visualize an imaginary elevator, located just behind your body, parallel with your spinal cord. As you breathe in raise the tension from your solar plexus up the elevator, first to be transformed by the loving heartand then by the wise head. Step 2: Retain the breath as the energies of love and wisdom blend. Imagine the energies from the heart and head fusing, filling the head with the relaxed energy of loving wisdom. Step 3: Exhale the relaxed energy into the room. Allow the energy of loving wisdom to radiate out through the space between the eyebrows, filling the room with calm and tranquility. Step 4: Affirm that you changed tension into the relaxed energy of loving wisdom, creating peace and calm. Affirm what you did. You raised the tension from your solar plexus up the imaginary elevator, first to be transformed by the loving heartand then by the wise head. You created the relaxed energy of loving wisdom, which you radiated out through the space between the eyebrows, filling the room with peace and calm. The exercise is complete when it is repeated three times. Time Required: 28 seconds per cycle x 3 cycles = 84 seconds total