Relax Your Body With Meditation

You can use this simple meditation to relieve stress and tension from your entire body. Do this meditation whenever you feel that you need it – at any time during the day, or to relax and calm yourself at night.

Get into a comfortable position. The position doesn’t matter – you can be seated in a chair, laying down, or even in a traditional meditation pose as pictured, if it feels good to you. Whichever position you choose, remember that comfort is the key.

While in this position, just sit quietly for a few moments and let your body relax. Let any thoughts that enter your mind slip away. Don’t try to fight these thoughts. Acknowledge them, but do not dwell on them. Let them drift out of your mind.

Once you’re comfortable and relaxed, close your eyes and breathe in and out deeply. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Focus on and your breathing and controlling your breath as it goes in and out. Continue breathing this way for a few moments.

Now imagine your body being completely relaxed. Picture all of the tension in your body coming out as if it were steam rising off of a hot towel.

This steam is rising off of each part of your body: your legs, your arms, your torso, your face.

As the steam rises out of you, each part of your body becomes more and more relaxed.

While you are visualizing this, continue to breath in and out deeply.

With each breath that you exhale, the tension and stress in your body, in the form of this steam, continues to flow out of you and vaporize into the atmosphere.

Continue like this for a few moments, until you feel completely relaxed, and all the tension has disappeared from your body. Enjoy this feeling for as long as you’d like.

When you are ready, open your eyes to end this meditation sequence. You should have a feeling of calmness, peace, and total relaxation.