Muslce Tension Check

You may have released some muscle tension during the above body check but you are, most probably, quite unaware of many other muscle tensions that still exist in various parts of your body. This is because we become so used to holding ourselves in a particular way that we fail to notice the tensions anymore. We didn't start off like this; these tensions have built up over the years. We have become out of touch with our own bodies; thus, we erect barriers that prevent nature's own healing powers from helping us as effectively as they might. Through relaxation we can allow the release of many or all of these tensions and start to feel much better, even finding we have no pain at all for a while. Relaxation is cumulative, so if you add on relaxation and calmness throughout the day, you will soon notice the difference in your life.
You may notice i have been talking about "allowing" relaxation to happen. It is something we cannot make happen; trying hard to relax merely add tension. In the same way, we cannot make ourselves go to sleep; we have to let go and allow sleep to creep over us by itself. To achieve deep relaxation, we have to give ourselves permission to let go and give freedom to our inner healing.