Do You Know When To Relax?

Do you know when to relax? What a strange question.

Your daily commute may not seem like the appropriate time or place to try to relax, but this part of your day may sometimes be your only opportunity to take charge and regain your sanity. I would like to offer some helpful advice for making the most of your transit moments.

Let's start with exercise. While jumping jacks are obviously out of the question, you can however do a number of things to workout the stress that may be tensing your muscles. By doing shoulder rolls, neck rotations, and even just stretching your arms out in front of you will help loosen tight muscles.

Next, focus on breathing deeply. Yes, you may have doubts about the driving ability of every vehicle operator in your immediate vicinity, yet that is no reason for you to roll down your window and start screaming. Instead take a few deep breaths. This will help to relax you and keep others driving foible from spiking your stress level.

Another way to relax while commuting is by listening to music. Bring along your favorite CD. Some people find that even radio commercials can sometimes be aggravating. If this is true for you, why not take advantage of what could be your only opportunity in the day to enjoy a few quiet moments alone and turn the stereo completely off.

Or maybe make this time constructive by listening to recordings on a foreign language or your favorite personal development instructor. Maybe self development messages on how to take your business to another level. The goal is to feel like you are accomplishing something with this time, that way you're be less likely to get frustrated by the things you are not able to get done. There will be less stress over things you have no control over.

These are a few suggestions on when and how to relax. Maybe you never connected the word relax with your daily commute. If you take my advice and put these easy strategies to use, you will find your stress level to be at a more satisfying number. I also recommend another natural way that is sure to compliment the above suggestions to rid yourself of daily stress. Learn more about natural ways of releasing stress and relaxing now.

Rena Williams is a nutritionist of natural health with a well established wellness business. Her goal is to help many others achieve optimum health and empower them to reach healthy goals. Learn more about all natural supplements at http://MyLimuConnection.com

Meditation - More Than A Relaxation Technique

Meditation is a life transforming experience. Meditation is an ever-blossoming voyage of self-discovery and inner awakening.

Meditation is a practice. Meditation is an every day existence. Meditation is bound by minutes - that sacred slot between awaking and working. Meditation enters into and becomes inseparably one with our entire day. Meditation is static, motionless. Meditation is dynamic, active.

A student of meditation very soon discovers that meditation is not an isolated activity confined to the corner of a room within an allotted time-frame, but rather an achievement that cannot be separated from every day existence. The fruits of meditation - peace, love and joy permeate everything that we say, do and think. The skills that we develop in order to maintain our regular meditation practice - discipline, willpower and determination we can employ in our other pursuits and aspirations both earthly and heavenly. Creating a calm and still mind is essential if we wish to experience meditation or the ocean of vastness within ourselves. This same calm and still mind is essential in order to live a life of harmony with both those around us and the Self within us.

Meditation is more than a relaxation technique. Like a perfectly centered spinning top that spins so fast that it appears motionless -meditation is stillness in action. Meditation is pure crystallized energy - a one-pointed presence in the now-moment.

To know oneself one must experience oneself. Only in the now-moment can one discover truth of existence. Situated in this sacred abode of timelessness a student of meditation experiences first hand the deeper nature of his consciousness, and through this experience comes to know his Self -the greater aspect of his being that has always been but has not yet been claimed, the higher and more illumined reality - the Self which is none other than God.

By Kate Carvalho