Relaxation Therapy Tips

This episode contains a relaxation session with a gentle breathing technique which can be used before sleep or whenever you need to relax.

This episode contains a simple, back to basics meditation which is also a mindfulness practice that keeps you rooted in the present and your focus on your breath.

This episode contains a meditation to bring some of the holiday joy back into our lives.

This episode contains practical exercises to move your body freely in time with your breathing to help you release tension and give you stress relieving psychological benefits.

This episode features a meditation to give some perspective to the holiday season and the preparations leading up to it.

This episode contains a guided full moon meditation to help cleanse, soothe, bring clarity and renewal.

This episode looks at the types and quality of breathing used in this podcast series and how to best use these to help you to energise and relax.

This episode uses a mix of meditation and visualisation to help you connect to the natural world, feel more relaxed and at peace.

This tips episode includes a seven point guide to help you take care of yourself for better mental and physical well-being.

This episode contains a relaxing sleep sequence that is ideal for children (of all ages!)

This episode contains a meditation to strip away the layers of worry and negative emotions to help us to re-connect with the happiness that always exists at our core.

This episode contains a meditation which is best practised at sunset, dusk or night-time, an hour, preferably two, before you plan to go to sleep.

This episode contains a routine for looking after your feet that is caring but also relaxing.

This episode contains a relaxing visualisation of a visit to a forest on a Summer's day. WARNING: this does contain quiet birdsong in the background.

This episode contains a short meditation to centre yourself and spend some time just being instead of frantically doing. You can use this technique to access the stillness within you to calm you when you are feeling agitated or overwhelmed and you can practice for as long or as short a time as you have available.

This episode contains a meditation to build more awareness of the connection between your mind and body for better relaxation, self awareness or healing. The episode has been edited down to keep to the 10 minute format for the podcast. If you wish to hear the full episode, with no 'publicity' introduction or outro, you can access it by subscribing to the Relaxation Therapy Online page at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/relaxationtherapyonline]. There is also a meditation only version available.

As the Summer Solstice is at 11:07 today [UK time] in the Northern Hemisphere, today's episode contains a meditation to review our inner life and goals, which can be used during the high energy of the summer solstice. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you will be having your Winter Solstice so may not be feeling as happy and energised, but you can still use the practice as a '6 month review' of any goals you may have set yourself at the start of the year.

This episode uses the ideas of visualisation, combined with meditation, to encourage your brain to work on finding a solution to a problem subconsciously. This means that as you go about your daily life, your brain will be working away in the background trying to find a viable solution for you. To implement this idea, this episode builds upon the 'Safe Place' techniques that were covered way back in Relaxation Therapy Tips Episodes 20 and 21, so if you haven't listened to those, go back and practise these first, then come back to this episode...

Relaxation Therapy Online has an album out! It's called 'Natural Relaxation' and is over 70 minutes of natural sounds that are perfect for relaxation, meditation, visualisation, yoga or as gentle background noise. At the moment the album is only available as a download from cdbaby.com, where you can also listen to short samples of each of the four tracks: Waves, Coastal Rain, Summer Garden and Heavy Rain. You can use this link to take you straight there or go to cdbaby.com and search for 'Relaxation Therapy Online' to find the 'Natural Relaxation' album.

This episode looks at how you can use small moments of waiting to bring yourself positively into the present moment and enjoy it.