CBT relaxation exercises
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Canadian Air Force pilots used this technique flying missions in WWII.
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in the section of taking train exercise to help you learn to relax keeping you
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this is part of your bedtime routine to help you on wind
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this exercise can also help you learn to notice the difference between tension in
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your muscles
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and relaxation
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once you begin to recognize when your muscles attendance you can learn to
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relax them in response
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this will be a tool that you can use throughout the day
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like any skill
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more often you practice the exercise guru
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louisa de landing on tues relax ation
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if you can
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practice once a day
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a for the next couple of weeks
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the exercise will involve you focusing on different parts of your party
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are asking you to tents each muscle group is tight his econ and hope
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attention for a few seconds
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you’ll then relax the muscles focusing on letting go of the tension
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i’m noticing was it feels like when your muscles are relaxed
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to begin with
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find a comfortable place way would be just abt
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take a funny i’m comfortable clothing and shoes
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neither lie down with iran’s by all sides annual exam crossed
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mad at him as a whole body should be supported when you’re in
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make sure we are not to call toll chico
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and avoiding the exercise just after you’ve eaten all when you’re hungry
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now close your eyes and follow the instructions
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as you do the exercise focus on what’s happening to your muscles
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try not to worry
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me about how relaxed you are
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or how well you’re doing
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that can relax ation happen
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and upset the changes in your party
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as you get yourself comfortable in relaxing to be exercised
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you can begin to notice your breathing
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trying to break so
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and three young men
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with each breath
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as the n_b_a_’s annie breathe out
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stink up the word relax
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try relaxing a little more
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each time as you create doubts
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start with your right hand
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site meetings with faced
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hold it right
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tight
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noticed the feeling of tension
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uh… relax
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which is the difference between tensing
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nations the sensations in your relaxed hand
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now take a left turn
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and tight-knit into a feast
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while keeping the other hand relaxed
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hold it tight
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all right
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latest attention
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max
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enjoy the tension flowing away from your hand
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allow it to completely relaxed
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bring your mind back to your breathing
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native system that briseno each entry as you create in
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and out
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then try to force anything
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just make just the etc and feel and now feel pressure
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as he played out
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fingered the word relax
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nine nobody to really into deeper relax ation
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beginning to focus on the muscles in your popup alms
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clenched his fists
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endure concert piano
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bringing you know how
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ends up to your shoulders
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squeeze you know how
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ends and up in arms tightly
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hold it
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end relax
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noticed the difference between tension
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and relax ation in your palms
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until the tensions
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away from here on c_
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antennae ostrich attention
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easily
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nine your honor is to relax
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concentrate on the lexington
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now focus on your shoulders
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tensed these muscles by shrugging his shoulders and joining them up to want to
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know is
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keeping your arms relaxed
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shrug your shoulders
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tensing
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tensing
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notice what the tension feels like
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lax
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tension-filled
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away
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nations the feeling of your palms in shelters for the relaxing
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and see that the tension ease away
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measures the difference between tension
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and relax ation
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focus on the workmen
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max
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as you breathe out
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let your shoulders become law
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focus on the back of your own etc
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tensed faced by gently taking back to hide
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tents the muscles in the back of your mail
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hold the tension
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hold it
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marriages the sensation of tensing
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and relax
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that the tension ease the way
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nations the difference between tension
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and relaxing shin
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focus on your greeting
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necktie relax ation deacon
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that you all
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harms
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neck
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and shelters
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oral and more
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relaxed
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met the relaxing shin flew right uh…
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onto your fingertips
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that the tension ease away
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now focus on your too
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tighten your teeth together to sleep tonight
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hold it tightly
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and relax
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that churchill grew up where it wants to eat
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that the tension easily
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prints between tension
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and relaxation
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well focused on your forehead
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that’s up to hand i’m so that you can feel your hols contents
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hold it
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aldrich
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end relax
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measures the time
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and smooth away
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let attention
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feeling every extension in your face
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your chill
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your shoulders
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and down your arms
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returned to me to sing you a breeding
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as he breathed out
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think of the word relaxed
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and enjoying the sensation
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uses relax ation
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just like a breath aunt inflate gently
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relaxing
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ol and more
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every time you breathe now
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now focus on your stomach ache and
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abdomen muscles
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type in your stomach by putting its been and stopped
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antonin you’re about to receive a day
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keeping your face
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shelters and arms room
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max
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whole just on that tight
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hold it
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and relax
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that’s all the tension ease
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lay seo stomach is complete email
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phony relaxed
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nature is the difference between tension
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and relax ation
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now focus on your thighs compact six
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squeeze your prize in plastics together
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keeping you up above the relaxed
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squeeze
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tight
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tight
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hold it
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and relaxed
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and threw it away
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or relaxed
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that the feeling of real extensions spread throughout the authority
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now focus on your legs
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holden street house in front of you
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pushing your ankles away from you
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with your feet text
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seo ta’s appointing outputs
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old attention
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hold it right
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end relaxed
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that tokyo’s based on the ground
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and you freaks dropped where they feel comfortable
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national attention says from your cards and you applies
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feeling of relaxing shinde cherryl party
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past u_n_
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sway you paul
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allow your whole body to enjoy the sensation and relax ation
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allow any attention to clone away
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midgets any tension in your face
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unique
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your soldiers
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your palms
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its stomach
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unix
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and yet it gentry drain away
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so that you feel
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and more
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relaxed
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just enjoy the sensation of relax ation
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notice how your body feels
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measures the feeling of your body against its own physics resting on
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c_n_n_ will begin to count from sfo
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down to one
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i reach one
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it will be time for you to open your eyes
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i’m prepared to say you can’t stop
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full
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your preparing to feel more than that
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three
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you aren’t feeling well and that
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and one
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you can open your eyes and get ready to get up slowly and in europe in time
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feeling window
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and in that
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well done
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remember to try and practices technique once a day
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it’ll take you a couple of weeks to master the exercise that it becomes
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useful for you
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some people find this exercise more helpful than others
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if you find it is difficult for you to relax using this method
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it may be that
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another week to relaxation will seat you better
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you’ll find more information on other ways to relax in some of the books
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listed in any case accompanying this dvd