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The Keys To Stress Reduction

By Kimberlee Cusumano

Easy ways to find inner peace.One of man's current troubles is to come up of ways on how to lessen the stress in their lives without having to spend too much money or too much time in the process. In our busy lives, we often encounter a lot bumps that create greater tension and hinder us from doing our best. A way of finding the secrets to relaxation is trying the reiki technique.

This is a Japanese technique which incorporates the way we treat our body in terms of the energy flow inside. A low "life force energy" may suggest that the person is vulnerable to stress and different kinds of body pain while a high "life force energy" may depict a person's good health and capability of being happy. The reiki technique is about creating a good energy flow that would reduce stress and promote healing from fatigue. It concentrates on creating wholeness in a person, so that it is able to work effectively and properly. A successful practice will lead to happier healthier stress-free life - which is what all of us aim for.

A person is often even more stressed on how to do this but it is really just a basic practice of treating our body well. For example, the act of meditation. One form of meditation is expressed in Zazen and Vipassana where it centers on formal sitting, the aim is to practice proper breathing while keeping the body immobile and the attention of the person controlled. It is an easy way to keep peace inside yourself while working outwards on how the tension on your body is removed. Meditation also concentrates on how the person thinks; it could be an expressive practice where the body is free to do anything while the mind aims to have positive perspective with the things happening around.

The most common form of getting rid of stress maybe known through massage, in this form a person starts to heal on the outside and moves deeper inside until all the stress is completely gone. A massage slowly terminates the tension in the body be applying pressure to it, the muscles are relax and the person starts to unwind. This leads to the person feeling better and thus thinking better as well, because stress is often related to fatigue, a good massage will find ways to eliminate fatigue and create a better, healthier feel.

As said earlier, massage is about making the body loose and less tense by applying pressure. The hands, feet, fingers, forearms and elbows of the person can be used to apply pressure, but the person should preferably be a massage therapist. Since a massage therapist is already well oriented on what areas of the body need pressure, it will have a better effect and prevent the individual from feeling more tension caused by wrong methods of massage.

There are countless ways on how to feel, look and think healthy, either by focusing on your muscle pains and start there which may lead to more relaxed mind, or starting on an optimistic view progressing to a better body and better comfort. - 26706

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