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!!