OPEN MAT #11 - Guided Progressive Muscle Relaxation

In honor of May being Mental Health Awareness month I wanted to give you all a tool that you can use to help deal with stress and anxiety. PMR is a two-step relaxation practice to reduce stress and build awareness of sensations of tension and deep relaxation in various muscle groups. The first step in this practice is to create tension in specific muscle groups. The second step is to then release this muscle tension and begin to notice what a relaxed muscle feels like as the tension drains away. By moving through the body by alternately tensing and relaxing different muscle groups in a certain order, one builds awareness of how to recognize and differentiate between the associated feelings of a tensed muscle and a completely relaxed one. Whether before a big competition or for your daily use to wind down, PMR can help you alleviate stress and anxiety and even help with insomnia. 

Please ensure that you do this exercise in safe environment and definitely not while operating any vehicles or machinery. 

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