The Relaxation habit

Re-Learning the Habit of Relaxation

This course is for you if you struggle to find time to routinely relax and to make it a consistent habit.

You will:

Learn how to get started with your relaxation practice

Identify a preferred relaxation zone

Work through a series of daily practice relaxations to help you create the habit of relaxation

Receive a series of 10 minute audio relaxations focusing on different modalities to encourage you to find what works for you

Receive an e-book to support the videos (see opposite to download)

Learn strategies for creating a regular relaxation practice

This is a seven-day programme.  However, if life is so full on for you ­don't try to complete it in seven days.  My advice would be to stretch it out even more.  Spend as much as a week on each 'day' and really allow the habit to embed. Or complete it in seven or fourteen days and then repeat.

Once you have completed the course  pick your favourite audio recordings or find more and commit to investing in you ­for a short period of time each and every day.

P.S. ­ You can download all the tracks as one zipped file (below) so you can add them to your player of choice.

Any questions, drop me a line at dave@stressedguru.com or add your comments in the comments sections you will find for each resource and course.

Your Downloads for full course:

Now What?

Well done for working through the Relaxation Habit course.  It does't matter how long it took you - you made it and hopefully you are on your way to establishing a more routine relaxation practise into your day.

If you have hit roadblocks along the way, don't worry, that can be normal - life has a way of, well, getting in the way of your goals.  Don't be hard on yourself and don't give up on the principles of this course (i.e.breaking a goal down into small-sprout sized chunks and applying consistent daily action).

If you have struggled, give yourself 'permission to be human' and take a little time to identify what has undermined the practise.  Is it the pace of life, the demands you have placed upon you or place upon yourself or are you resistant to the practise because of emotions like guilt or anger, 'who am I to deserve this.'

Be honest about those thoughts - that's human and maybe have a look at some of the other courses and resource in the membership area before returning to the course.  

And, you can always drop a question or comment into the comments below the course or email me at dave@stressedguru.com.

Now, if you have managed, more or less, to work through the course and have a fledgeling relaxation practice, then the next step is to gently but consistently allow yourself 5-30 minutes each day to show up and practise.  

You may not feel like it. You may not feel like you have gained any benefit from an individual session, but it's the consistency over time that will lead to a great habit and one which will stand you in good stead in improving your wellbeing, sleeping better, and coping more positively with the challenges of life and work.

Download the complete 'Relaxation Habit workbook and complete set of audio recordings (top of the page) if you haven't already. And maybe consider the 'Operation Snooze' course as your next stop...

Here are a couple of weekly radish videos in which I outline the benefits of mindfulness and provide some tips to get started: