Tips for a Healthy Living

When you're stressed, your muscles tense.
Without even knowing it, you may spend your
days with hunched shoulders or clenched fists. With progressive muscle relaxation, you can Teach yourself to recognize muscle tension and to relieve it.
First, find a comfortable position, either sitting or lying down.
Starting with your hands and continuing on to the biceps, shoulders, head, and face, then down the back to the buttocks, thighs, and lower legs, tighten or clench each muscle group for 5 to 10 seconds, then release for 20 seconds while you breathe normally.
Repeat this exercise on the areas where you
notice the most tension.
(Be careful with the neck and back muscles--tensing and releasing should be slow and sustained. Twisting, jerking motions could result in muscle or spinal
damage.)

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Tip 2: Breathe Easily

"Breathing from your diaphragm oxygenates your blood, which helps you relax almost instantly," says Robert Cooper, Ph.D., the San Francisco coauthor of The Power of 5 (Rodale Press, 1996), a book of five-second and five-minute health tips. Shallow chest breathing, by contrast, can cause your heart to beat faster and your muscles to tense up, exacerbating feelings of stress. To breathe deeply, begin by putting your hand on your abdomen just below the navel. Inhale slowly through your nose and watch your hand move out as your belly expands. Hold the breath for a few seconds, then exhale slowly. Repeat several times.

Tip 3: Stress is a fact of life, but being stressed out is not. 

We don't always have control over what happens to us, says Allen Elkin, Ph.D., director of the Stress Management Counseling Center in New York City, and yet, that doesn't mean we have to react to a difficult, challenging situation by becoming frazzled or feeling overwhelmed or distraught. Being overly anxious is not just a mental hazard; it's a physical one too. The more stressed out we are the more vulnerable we are to colds, flu, and a host of chronic or life-threatening illnesses. And the less open we are to the beauty and pleasure of life. 

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