This includes all stimulation to the five sense from the outside world

Shallow and often irregular and rapid, often associated with stress, anxiety and emotional distress

He developed this technique in 1929 based on the premise that the body responds to anxiety with muscle tension, and that deep muscle relaxation reduces tension and is incompatible with anxiety.

The practice where the meditator repeats, either aloud or silently, a syllable, word, or group of words.

He popularized the practice of positive thinking for the treatment of physical symptoms.

Refers to any physical sensation, feeling, emotional discomfort, or comfort inside your body

Deeper and slower than shallow chest breathing where inhaled air is drawn deep into the lungs as the abdomen expands making room for diaphragm to contract downward

He developed a short form of progressive relaxation that includes verbal suggestions to relax

A type of meditation where you consciously notice food's color, shape, texture, and slowly observe all the sensations involved with consuming food.

This type of visualization involves relaxing, emptying your mind, sketching an image of a scene, asking a question and waiting for a response

This exercise teaches you to discriminate between your internal and external experiences and assists with increasing your awareness in order to identify your stress response.

A sheetlike muscle separating the lunges and abdomen that faciliates your breathing by contracting and relaxing as your breathe in and out.

This type of tensing involves tensing a particular muscle group as tightly as you can without hurting yourself and then releasing the tension and studying the sensations of relaxation in the same area.

This type of meditation involves focusing on the sensations of walking.

Type of visualization exercise where you try to block out all light without putting too much pressure on eyelids and try to see the color black

This exercise will help increase your awareness of where you carry muscle tension in your body

This exercise involves placing your index and second finger on your forehead and switching off breathing between your right and left nostril.

This is the same as active tensing except it involves tensing a particular muscle group only slightly to avoid pain or injury.

The practice where you find an object within your line of vision to fix your eyes on, including concrete objects, natural objects, vastness and moving objects

Type of visualization where you create an image, replete with sights, taste, sounds and smells and imagine a goal you want to attain or a healing you want to accelerate.

Keeping this record of stressful events, as well as symptoms that may have been a stress reaction will help identify which events are more likely to produce physical and emotional symptoms than others.

This practice uses counting your exhalations in sets of four for ten minutes

This is the same active tensing during tensing you simply notice any tension present in a particular muscle group.

When you notice but disregard your thoughts about how awful discomfort is, how you have to move, how you have to scratch, how you can't stand it and so on.

This type of visualization includes visualizing your scene in detail, but omitting crucial elements and waiting for your subconscious or inner guide to supply missing pieces in your puzzle.