Inner Peace and Joy Tip # 83: Relax Your Muscles

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I work with high-risked adolescent boys and today we worked on teaching the boys how to maintain their Inner Peace through muscle relaxation. The exercise that we used is called "Progressive Relaxation" and was developed by the renowned physician Edmund Jabobson.

I wanted to share this exercise with you because it is a great technique that you can use to help you can calm down and refocus when you are stressed

Muscle Relaxation Exercise To Help You To Maintain Your Inner Peace

Part I.
The first part of this exercise will help you to with maintaining your Inner Peace because you are going to learn how to relax.

1. Sit in a chair and breathe in and out slowly
2. While you are breathing in and out, count slowly from 1 to 10
3. As you breath in and out slowly pay attention to your hands
4. Clench your fists as tight as you can
5. Let go and relax your hands


Part II.
The second part of this exercise will help you to maintain your Inner Peace because you are going to pay attention to the tension that you have stored up in your body and then you are going to learn how you can release it.

1. Imagine all of the tension leaving your hands down to your finger tips
2. Notice the difference between the tension in your hands and when you are totally relaxed
3, Now bring your awareness to your arms
4. Curl your arms like you are doing a bicep curl
5. Tense your fists, forearms and biceps
6. Hold the tension and release
7. Let your arms unfold and your hands float back to your thighs
8. Feel your tension drain out of your arms

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Inner Peace and Joy Tip # 39: Admit Your Mistakes

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Have you ever heard the saying "If I had it to do it over again, I would not change a thing."

Although you are not able to change the past, you can change your future. In fact, maintaining your Inner Peace and living a life full of joy depends on it.

Your Inner Peace and Joy begins when you can recognize your mistakes, repent and do things differently.

When you recognize that things are going wrong in your life, you have the choice to make changes. Inner Peace and Right living are intertwined.

Your Rights:
You have the Right to Change: Change For the Benefit of Maintaining Inner Peace and living a joyful life

Change Your Mind-If you made a decision and later on you find that the decision was made in haste or in error, change your mind

Change Your Attitude-It's never too late to change your attitude and be more positive, more kind to others and to have more compassion towards others

Change Your Relationships-If the company you keep is negative, you can change. Remove them from your life

Change Your Career- You are not obligated to spend your life in the same career, if you do not like your circumstance change it

Admitting that you have made a mistake is a crucial part in maintaining your inner peace because it lets you know that you are not stuck in a situation or condemned to your past. You can ask God, yourself and others for forgiveness for past mistakes and move on


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