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The best ways to relax. Most of us are jacked up and stressed out and ah! And it manifests itself as a physical experience in a lot of contraction. Again, I’m going to just start out with breathing. Again, I’m going to relate to that as most of us are taught an idea, relax. Just relax, man. Nobody’s telling us, well, how do I relax? Right? How? So two little things that I can give you. One is when we’re looking at our breathing, notice and pay attention to the outbreath. Okay? Our breath is mirroring or life. Everything in life. As you, as you notice, there’s a day and a night, there’s a heartbeat, and on and off, There’re many different states of high levels, low levels, all of this kind of relationship. Breath does the same thing. If you think about it, when we breathe in, it is an expansion outward. When we breathe out, we’re relaxing down inward. Okay? At the bottom of our breath, there is a little moment of pause, now in that pause, it’s like the night. Yeah. You could think about I’m breathing in and it’s like the sun expanding into the day. There’s a pause and then we breathe out and there’s also a pause when you’re trying to relax. One of the best ways to do that is definitely, breathe in, but notice, and then stop. And in that pause at the bottom of your breath, relax your muscles, tune actively into your body and let go of muscles. And then you will notice it’s easier to take a breath in. Now, most of us can’t take a nice rich breath because we don’t actually breathe out. We don’t relax. Very simple tool is to notice your out-breath. And at the bottom of that out-breath, stop, relax your muscles. Tune in. Oh my belly. Ah, my butt, for women, ah, my vagina, ah, my face, ah, my chest. Relax, wait. And then you get a nice rich breath because technically, physically we cannot breathe when those muscles are still contracted. All right? Second, very, very, very, very, very easy way about relaxation is to do passive movements, right? Passive movements literally just mean without pushing anything. You ever watch a cat or an animal, they do it all the time. They roll around, they stretch and it’s passive, right? And what they’re doing is they’re tuning into their body and feeling the places that their body wants to move. It’s not yoga, it’s rolling around on the floor and just — Why? Because it feels good. Okay. That relaxes us.
