by When you are relaxed, there is no tension in the body and mind. No pain and movement exists in the body which means you are not doing anything and lying down on a hard surface with face up and eyes closed. There are no thoughts in the mind and breathing is very shallow and slow.
In today’s world, its very hard to relax. There are various modern ways like drinking, playing a game with food and beer and chilling with friends. These are all good but cannot be done everyday and anytime. Secondly, you need a lot of resources to relax. In the contrary being relaxed means not doing anything in both body and mind. Once you are truly relaxed with no tension in body and no thoughts in mind, it would be more clear what is being relaxed.
Recipe
Simply lie down on a hard surface facing the ceiling in shavasana. Starting from your toes and going over each body part just realize which muscle has tension. Now once you have identified all the muscles which have tension, its time to relax your mind. To achieve this, just observe your breath and don’t try to change it. Keep observing until its slower and shallower as compared to when you started observing. Now keep observing the breath for some more time with eyes closed.
Explanation
Once you are done with above, you would feeling relaxed and as you keep practicing the above for a few days, you would definitely observe it. Self realization and transformation is a slow process and it takes 3 weeks to see a difference. The recipe works because once you notice the stress and tensions in the muscles the mind would optimize the usage of energies to fix these tensions. It takes 21 days because mind likes patterns which are repeated over and over.
Once the mind realizes which muscles are tensed repeatedly and daily, it would make the necessary changes to fix the same. If you see most of modern medicine works on this principal, vaccines train the body to fight the virus by actually inducing the same in small quantities. Wounds heal by themselves, all in needs is a Band-Aid to speed up the process. The above recipe is all about making your mind aware of the tensions by clearing out the noise and it would relax by itself.
