Importance of continued practice

The Long Relaxation Exercise serves as a basic reference for your bodily relaxation in every part of your body. You set the points of reference at that time.

However, the first time we did it at the beginning of the coursework, so many of us were so insecure when we first started - we weren't too sure whether we belonged in the class or whether we should be taking the coursework - and our mind was wandering -- in other words, we were not wholly and totally committed to cooperating.

So before we realized it, half of the Long Relax went by without our totally getting into it. Consequently, the points of reference that should have been established during the first half of the exercise were not established firmly, so it would do us the most good.

When we did decide to actually join the instructor in relaxing, it was our first effort, and we didn't have any knowledge of how to relax our body and mind, of course.

As a result, people who have only gone through the Long Relaxation Exercise one time, do not know how to relax completely. They must practice.

Since we deal with dynamic meditation, when we close our eyes, we do everything but go to sleep. We do not depend on a lethargic state to relax and lower our brain wave frequency in order to benefit from bodily relaxation on to eliminate stress.

It must be dynamically done...mentally...it must be mentally dynamically done. What I mean is, we close our eyes and go to work. We go to work using our imagination, our visualization. We can use one or use the other.

We have to do this because we must achieve these lower levels with conscious awareness. We cannot just go to the lower levels and allow our mental state to be altered. Do you know why? Because, that's what we attribute our success to: Converting the sub-conscious into an innerconscious level.

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