It does amaze mesometimes when i meet clients in my practice who have never reallyknown what it is like to deeply relax. I specialize in anxietycounselling and can only recall one person who came to me who performeda relaxation exercise daily. It is vitally important that anxietysufferers establish a relaxation routine because the core of anxietyand panic disorder, as well as many other emotional issues, is anover-arousal of the nervous system. I am aware that to a certain extenti am stating the obvious, however, in practice most clients don't taketime out to lower this arousal on a regular basis which wouldtremendously enhance their quality of life if done consistently.Now at most psychological out-patient departments all over the world most patients are taught the classical relaxation technique where you tense each muscle around the body and then relax itand these techniques can calm most people who do them but their onedrawback is that they don't actually go far enough and they only reacha superficial level of relaxation and many people still remain inover-arousal because they only go to this basic level of calmness. Thetraditional technique was developed by Herbert Benson, M.D. at HarvardMedical School, and written up in his book entitled, of all things,"The Relaxation Response".We must remember that stress starts in the mind so relaxing the muscles is half of the picture, stress it is a product of arousal in certain brain centers. The brain is made up of three main areas, the reptilian brain (our most ancient part), the limbic system and the frontal brain or neocortex.It is in the first two that the action takes place with regards tostress. This is the famous 'fight or flight' area that is veryprimitive in it's nature. These two areas contain the glands andstructures that react to stress and fear and fire us up and then keepus aroused. These main glands are the thalamus and the hypothalamus andthe pituitary gland all of which are located in the limbic system.In the reptilian brain, at the rear, is a small structure known as thelocus ceruleus which is also part of the brains stress responseequipment. Further into the body itself are the adrenal glands whichfire cortisol and adrenaline into your body when the afore mentionedstructures notice stress looming. So in order to really reach a deeplevel of relaxation where our stress really is 'turned off' we have to switch off these structuressomehow. How that is done is by simple visualization exercises thattake you way past the superficial level of calmness that thetraditional techniques do. You can literally learn to 'shut down' yourminds stress centers at will. To know that this is possible when one isundergoing a stressful or anxious filled period in life can beextremely comforting and empowering. It is best to do the tehcniquetwice a day, once in the morning and once at night for maximum results.Would you like to acquire this simple skill completely FREE right now!