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Need a break, calm and well-being? Regardless of your age and fitness, relaxation therapy is available to all. Through relaxation exercises dynamic and static, relaxation therapy is becoming more and more as a healthy and effective method to deal with stress.

An effective relaxation therapy session lasts about one fifteen ET must be supervised by a professional sophrologist.

Good conditions primarily

For efficiency, the environment in which occurs a relaxation therapy session should be quiet and pleasant. The sophrologists professionals generally recommend to dress in loose, comfortable and a place to lie down or sit (chair, sofa, mattress or mat). A small blanket or rug can also be used to keep warm because the body temperature decreases slightly when it relaxes.

Dialogue

Each session begins with a dialogue initiated by the relaxation therapist with his patient, how he feels physically and mentally, and to present the exercises he recommends for the meeting. This stage lasts about 10 minutes.

Relaxation dynamics

For 25 minutes, the relaxation therapist invites the patient to achieve dynamic relaxation exercises. These exercises are based on breathing, and to effect a movement of contraction and relaxation of the body. These relaxation exercises will be dynamic in early supervised by a relaxation therapist. Once the patient is formed, it can reproduce independently in daily life.

Static relaxation

For 25 minutes, the relaxation therapist invites the patient to move into a position most comfortable (sitting or lying). The patient closes his eyes and lulled by the sound of his voice that leads him on a path of total relaxation, to the edge of sleep (but not sleep). Then once the patient is in a state of deep relaxation, the relaxation therapist invites him to see a positive and fun (all defined at the beginning of dialogue meeting or not) to encourage and appreciate more the benefits of relaxation.

Back on the course of the meeting

A relaxation therapy session always ends with another dialog 10 minutes during which the patient can share with his sophrologist sensations felt during the session. It is also an opportunity for relaxation therapist to recommend to the patient an exercise program to achieve alone everyday. A good relaxation therapist will give it to he can practice independently until its next meeting.

A training day, even 10 minutes is recommended: it is the key to achieve results more quickly and sustainably.
Example of dynamic relaxation exercise

- Relaxation therapist invites the patient to be placed upright, feet in the width of the basin;

- He asks her to take a deep breath through the abdomen;

- Retention in lungs full of air, the patient should shrug from top to bottom and from bottom to top (more or less energetically, shrugging about a dozen);

- Then the patient should blow by releasing good shoulders, hands down to your fingertips. To help create a vacuum in his head, he can imagine, when he releases the arms and hands to lay on the ground that clutters her mind and wants to evacuate (stress, tensions, frustrations, fears , fear …)

- Finally, the relaxation therapist invited him to take a time to welcome the sensations due to the stimulation and to resume its natural breathing.

The exercise should be repeated two or three times, with small breaks between each repetition to feel the relaxation move gradually.