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Title: Progressive Muscle Relaxation PMR


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Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR)
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Did You Know?
  • You cannot have the feeling of warm well-being in
    your body and at the same time experience
    psychological stress
  • Progressive relaxation of your muscles reduces
    pulse rate and blood pressure as well as
    decreasing perspiration and respiration rates
  • When used effectively, can be used as an
    anti-anxiety pill

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Progressive Relaxation (1929)
  • Jacobson felt it required no imagination,
    willpower, or suggestion
  • Based on the premise that the body responds to
    anxiety-provoking thoughts and events with muscle
    tension
  • Physiological tension in turn increases the
    subjective experience of anxiety

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Symptom Effectiveness
  • Excellent results have been found in the
    treatment of
  • Muscular tension
  • Anxiety
  • Insomnia
  • Depression
  • Fatigue
  • Muscle spasms
  • Neck and back pain
  • High blood pressure

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So why dont more people utilize it?
  • It takes time to master
  • One to two weeks, employing two fifteen minute
    sessions per day
  • Most people dont realize which of their muscles
    are chronically tense
  • No awareness No release of tension!!
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