Reduce Stress, Anxiety and Fatigue

Relaxation is a skill that you can easily learn to reduce stress, anxiety, worry and fatigue. Relaxation is also an attitude that you can cultivate while you are facing the ongoing stresses and the demands of life. Learn how to relax and cultivate a relaxed, confident attitude. Prevent fatigue and tension turning into exhaustion and disease.

Stress Causes Disease and Premature Aging

Ongoing stress is extremely detrimental. It causes a hyper-vigilant anxious state that causes fatigue and weakens you. This sets the ground for physical and mental illness. It is easy to forget that simple solutions may exist.

Relaxation Leads to Health and Wellbeing

Just as stress makes any disease worse, relaxation helps to make any disease better. Relaxation sets the foundation for physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, and is the first step in all healing.

Relaxation leads to:

Deeply restful sleep
Increased energy and resilience
Accelerated recuperation from surgery and illness
Clarity of thought and better decision making
Enhanced concentration and memory
A calm, positive attitude

Science is Proving the Value of Relaxation

Research from the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA has proven that relaxation is an effective treatment for a wide range of illnesses

Relaxation slows your heart and breathing rate, lowers y our blood pressure and relaxes your muscles. When relaxation is practiced regularly, it can have lasting effects.

How to Turn on Relaxation

It is easy to turn on relaxation. There are a few essential steps that you can easily learn. Big Shakti provides some wonderful techniques you can use and these are outlined below.

Get Deep Rest and Relaxation

Big Shakti’s powerful techniques teach you how to relax, to turn off stress and turn on the relaxation response at will, any time, any place it is safe to do so. They have been the basis of Dr Swami Shankardev’s medical and yoga therapy practice for the last 35 years. Research into these methods has shown that they support all forms of healing and wellbeing.

3 Easy Steps to Deep Relaxation

3 Easy Steps to Deep Relaxation provides a set of simple, short practices for anyone who has never practiced relaxation before, or for more advanced practitioners who want to refresh their ability to relax. Each practice adds a new skill that takes you progressively deeper into relaxation.

The techniques are powerful, simple, easy, calming and restorative. After one session you will feel more relaxed and more in control. You will understand why relaxation has a dynamic influence on your personality, relationships and circumstances. These techniques can be practiced in the sitting or lying position.

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Meditation and Yoga Nidra

Introduction to Meditation combines all the elements of relaxation into a powerfully healing, restorative and enjoyable meditation practice.

Yoga Nidra is one of the most powerful methods to release tensions from the deepest layers of the body-mind. For most of us sleep is not restful, as we do not resolve our tensions effectively before we go to sleep. The rest gained from 30 minutes of Yoga Nidra can be deeper and more effective than hours of sleep.