Relaxation Practices

• Anxiety: Treatment Options

  Learn about different treatment options for anxiety and how they can help.

• Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing

  Learn a deep-breathing exercise to reduce your stress.

• Jaw Problems: Exercise and Relaxation

  To help prevent or treat a temporomandibular disorder (TMD), you can try gentle jaw exercises. You can also try techniques that help you relax your jaw muscles. Try a gentle exercise to restore normal range of motion, improve flexibility, and...

• Stress Management: Doing Guided Imagery to Relax

  Looks at how guided imagery can help to manage stress. Explains what guided imagery is and its uses in healing, creativity, and reducing stress. Lists step-by-step instructions for guided imagery.

• Belly-Breathing (Diaphragmatic Breathing)

  Belly-breathing fills your lungs fully, slows your breathing rate, and helps you relax. Place one hand on your belly just below the ribs and the other hand on your chest. You can do this while standing, but it may be more comfortable while you are...

• Stress Relief and Relaxation

  Guides you through ways to relieve stress. Covers tips to relax your muscle groups such as hands, arms, head, neck, and upper and lower body. Looks at roll breathing to relieve stress. Includes slideshow of roll breathing.

• Relaxation Exercise: Deep Breathing

  Learn a deep-breathing exercise to reduce your stress.

• Stress Management: Roll Breathing

  Learn to relax by using a deep-breathing exercise called roll breathing.

• Stress Management: Breathing Exercises

  The way you breathe affects your whole body. Full, deep breathing is a good way to reduce tension, feel relaxed, and reduce stress. Roll breathing (also called abdominal breathing) The object of roll breathing is to develop full use of your lungs and get in touch with the rhythm of your breathing. It can be...

• Stress Management: Breathing Exercises for Relaxation

  Looks at how breathing exercises can help with stress relief. Includes step-by-step instructions for exercises like belly breathing, 4-7-8 breathing, and morning breathing. Offers links to more info on managing stress with guided imagery and meditation.

• Stress Management: Progressive Muscle Relaxation

  Learn how to reduce stress by tensing and relaxing your muscles.

• Stress Relief and Relaxation

  Guides you through ways to relieve stress. Covers tips to relax your muscle groups such as hands, arms, head, neck, and upper and lower body. Looks at roll breathing to relieve stress. Includes slideshow of roll breathing.

• Stress Management: Relaxing Your Muscles

  Follow along to learn progressive muscle relaxation to reduce stress.

• Progressive Muscle Relaxation

  The body responds to stress with muscle tension, which can cause pain or discomfort. In turn, tense muscles relay to the body that it's stressed, which keeps the stress–muscle-tension cycle going. Progressive muscle relaxation helps break this cycle by reducing muscle tension and general mental anxiety. Progressive...

• Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation

  Explains what progressive muscle relaxation is and how it can help reduce stress and anxiety. Walks you through doing relaxation exercises on various muscle groups. Links to info on other relaxation methods, including meditation, guided imagery, and yoga.