If meditation or herbal tea isn’t your cup of tea to help you relax and calm down when you’re tightly wound, then perhaps self-hypnosis is for you. You can go to a hypnotherapist, but many people prefer self-hypnosis because it’s flexible, cheap and you are assured of privacy. There is no one right way for everybody when it comes to relaxation.
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Loading ...If you think that you’re so stressed that you can never relax again, take a deep breath. Okay — try to take a deep breath. Then consider ear acupuncture, also called auricular acupuncture, to help your body tell itself to relax. (The needles go into your ear lobe).
Now, when you think of stress management, sticking pins in your head is probably not the first thought that pops up into your mind. But acupuncture has been used to successfully treat stress for many centuries. A 2003 study at the Yale University School of Medicine showed that moms who had children going into surgery (a very stressful time) relaxed when given ear acupuncture a half hour before the scheduled surgery. Their calmness helped their children relax before going into surgery.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I ran across Progressive Muscular Relaxation, a technique for reducing muscle tension, a big side effect of stress. I’ve used it a bit — it helps with my hands, where I get a lot of tension, just from all the work I do with them. It’s not such a great option for the other place that I tense up (my shoulders and upper back), but it can help a little.
How does PMR work?
It’s pretty simple, actually: all you have to do is tense up a group of muscles as much as you can. Your muscles should be as tightly contracted as possible. Hold them that way for a few seconds, and then allow your muscles to relax normally. If you can, make the effort to relax your muscles even further — from what I’ve read, plenty of people can consciously relax their muscles to an extensive point, but I can only relax so far before I run the risk of flat out falling asleep.
The general idea behind PMR is that, if you start with tense muscles, it can be hard to relax them on your own. By tensing them up even more, you can actually relax your muscles more. It’s like taking a rubber band and stretching it. When you let go of the rubber band, it actually contracts (momentarily) to an even smaller size than it started out at.
This is a good exercise that you can do at your desk for quick stress relief, especially if you can only take a short break.
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ... It starts in the back of your head and slowly begins to move forward. It feels like an enormous pressure, like a rubber band wrapped around your head. Your neck, shoulders and upper back ache. If you have experienced this feeling, you have experienced a tension headache.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over 40 million Americans suffer from chronic headaches. A headache is considered chronic when it occurs two or more times weekly for several months or longer. Most chronic headaches are tension headaches.
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...I’m a massage therapist and a freelance writer. Both professions are hands intensive. So I occasionally suffer from symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. This is characterized by some weakness in grip, numbness and tingling across the palm of my hands and in my fingers. Besides avoiding repetitive motions while massaging and making sure I maintain good body mechanics while typing—straight wrists and relaxed shoulders—I’ve found that self-massage helps relieve that symptoms of carpal tunnel.
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