By Jack Brodus

Relaxation learning stems from needing to free the body of our mental and emotional trigger points. You are the only person who can identify your trigger points. Keep a written record of the situations that may you tense. Notice yourself getting tense sometimes before anything has happened.

By learning simple physical exercises, you can combine these with mental and emotional techniques to begin calming yourself during your tense times. Stress is directly proportional to your letting go of all the experiences over which you have no control.

If you know the God of your understanding, letting go is much easier than holding on to resentments or control issues. But, even if you haven’t made the commitment about God, you can practice the following exercises.

My physical tension center is my neck and upper shoulders.

If I ignore my discomfort, the tension only gets worse. I practice these:

• Sit on a chair and slowly allow your upper body to lean toward the floor and then slowly sit upright again. This can be practice anywhere you have a chair.
• Always do neck exercises slowly and gently. Slowly rotate your neck to the left and right. Ease yourself into the discomfort you find there. After rotating your neck, you may choose to bend your neck from left to right and then reverse it.
• A third exercise to roll your neck slowly in a circular motion being very careful to do it slowly. I do a few rotations clockwise and then do a few counterclockwise.
• To help strengthen and relax your back, sit on a chair and slowly clasp your hands behind the chair. You will feel tension in your upper arms also.
• Also for the back, you may practice the shoulder shrug by lifting your shoulders up and then slowly lowering them.

Often times, poor posture can aid the tension that you feel. To evaluate your posture, stand with your body facing away from the wall. Ease yourself gently toward the wall to see which part of your body touches the wall first. Then practice bringing your body aligned better without arching your back.

The upper back needs to be strengthened daily in order to help the neck and back. One exercise to help the upper back is to lie face down on the floor. Gently raise your upper body from the floor. Be careful to be gentle with yourself and repeat this stretching exercise several times.

8 Minutes in the Morning

Jorge Cruise

ISBN 0-06-050538-9

Amazon link

Jorge Cruise tells how his weight loss plan works:

“Follow my 8 minutes in the Morning program and you will see amazing weight-loss results in just 28 days. But it doesn’t stop there. I will also give you the tools you need to stay lean for the rest of your life. You will be working on three things every day:”

“Your emotional fitness. Before 8 minutes in the morning routine, I will help you build your own motivation with my daily Wake-Up Talk. It will give you the emotional advantage you need to move beyond self-sabotaging thinking and motivate yourself to love your new fit lifestyle.”

“Your physical fitness. My proven”two superquick moves” are the center of the program. They take 8 minutes a day, but the results are tremendous. Each day, I will give you two new strength-training moves specifically designed to help you speed up your metabolism, get firm, and burn fat as effeciently as possible.”

“Your eating habits. My Eat Fat to Get Fit nutrition program is simple to follow and will never leave you feeling deprived. You won’t have to count calories or cut out your favorite foods.”

“Finally, 8 minutes in the Morning connects you to a community of your peers. I invite you to visit my web site at www.jorgecruise.com

to get more advice from me and to chat with the millions of others who, like me, are well on their way to achieving new health and happiness.”

I visited the above site on July 28, 2007 and found ads for Jorge and contact for him. He started a blog in June, 2007, but I found no efidence of a community online. There are several really good weight loss communities which we have listed on a separate post.

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