Answer To Your Fitness Questions" />Deep Relaxation
November 4, 2007
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When you enter into a state of deep relaxation, what it is like for you? And can you say more about your experience of slowing down please?
Hi Christopher!! Interesting question! I think I will need more space to answer in depth. But in short, slowing down for myself personally encompasses many aspects. One, is to prepare my body for the relaxation phase by working sensitively first. My practice. Then my body wholly welcomes it. It also comes with “training”. My mind is never blank, so rather than hooking on to a thought and creating a full-blown video in my head, I hang out under the flow of thoughts and sort of watch them flow in and out. It feels like the ebb and flow of the sea or the flow of a river moving down it’s banks. It is quite restful! While this is occurring, my body systems really do slow down to the basal metabolic rate and I find myself embracing those precious moments of just “being”. This is quite a question you have given me, but hopefully this answered it to some degree.
Namaste and “slow down”
Deni