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Lesson 2 Internal Physical Relaxation

Review Lesson 1, and repeat it until you master the technique. Try to do the relaxation faster each time without losing the quality of your relax. In order of importance you should first master the relaxation of the facial muscles, the neck muscles, and those of the trunk in general. The relaxation of the arms and legs is secondary. People often believe the reverse, and thus waste a great deal of time working on secondary areas such as their arms or legs. Remember that your head, neck (especially the back of your neck) and trunk in general are the most important areas to relax. Now let’s go on to the internal relaxation. First, relax externally, and then feel your head. Feel your eyes, and try to feel your eyeballs and the muscles that surround both eyes very well. Now feel the inside of both of your eyes at the same time. Experience an internal and symmetrical sensation of both your eyes, and then move your attention toward the inside of your head, relaxing your eyes completely. Continue to move toward the inside of your head, letting yourself slip toward the inside while relaxing completely. Continue as though you are slowly “falling” down your throat toward your lungs. Symmetrically feel the inside of both lungs and relax them. Then, continue to descend inside your stomach, relaxing all your internal tensions as you go. Keep moving downward, relaxing the inside of your lower abdomen until you reach the bottom of your trunk. Finish with the whole inside of your body perfectly relaxed. We have not covered the arms and legs at all in this second type of relaxation. You go from the eyes back toward the inside, and move as if falling towards the bottom of your trunk. Practice this exercise several times. When you finish, check to see whether any external muscles are still tense. All the external muscles should now be perfectly relaxed, and of course, you should also have achieved a good internal relaxation. This will allow you to advance to the next exercises, which are somewhat more complex. See Figure 2.

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