“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.” IfsKnowsWayMindBodySituationLetting GoPressureYour BodyBest WayTensionWhistling Author:Fuzzy Zoeller
“When you start your meditation, picture a beautiful blue sky without any clouds in it. Feel that your body is growing lighter. Visualize that you are floating in the sky and that all tension, fatigue, worry and problems have left you.” FeelsProblemBodyBeautifulLeftWorryMeditationGrowingSkyBlueCloudsYour BodyTensionFloatingFatigueVisualizationLightersBlue Sky Author:Frederick Lenz
“Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.” BodyLightBreathsLeavingWavePassingPassingsGoldenTensionEnteringFatigueVisualizationDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathTirednessGolden Light Author:Frederick Lenz
“Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.” FeelsWholeProblemBodyJoyWorryImagineAnxietyWaveYour BodyPassingPassingsTensionVisualizationPassing Through Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.” ThinkingWellsBodyAbleGuyFightingEnergyWaterAngryYour BodyTensionMmaChemistryFlexibleTenseFluidMessed UpSteroidBody Chemistry Author:Frank Shamrock
“The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.” BodyPastOur LivesPlanetsHarmonyTraumaStoresStuckReleaseEaseTensionGravityOur RelationshipOur PlanetRigidityStuck In The Past Author:Joseph Heller
“... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of the mind is mobilized for healing the body. It's not magic; it is as scientific as the appropriate use of antibiotics, for science encompasses everything that is true in nature.” MindUseBodyPainHealingMagicInstanceTherapyTensionInjuryAppropriateTreatmentDiagnosisSyndromesPower Of The MindAntibioticsHealing The Body Author:John E. Sarno