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Do you often suffer from aches and pains and attribute it to bad posture? Or do you have a stomach upset and are quick to blame it on the spicy chaat you ate? A pain in the neck is the result of the unfriendly chairs at your workplace, while you constantly feel tired and fatigued because of work pressures. If you always have a readymade excuse for your ailments, you are way off the mark. Don’t blame your health-related problems on the office or your posture. It is stress that is slowly robbing you of good health. Today, stress has been acknowledged as the biggest killer of the millennium, dethroning deadly diseases such as heart attack to second place.

In fact, excessive stress over a long period of time can cause several physiological disorders that can drain your mental and physical resources. Prolonged stress can make you prone to major health disorders, which can be life-threatening, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes or cancer. In fact,

A commonly used technique to relax is Progressive relaxation. Developed by Edmond Jacobson, it is based on the premise that the body responds to anxiety and stress with muscle tension. This bodily tension increases the subjective experience of anxiety. It is only when the muscles relax that anxiety reduces.

Progressive relaxation has proved to be very effective in the treatment of muscular tension, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, irritable bowels, muscle spasms, neck and back pain, high blood pressure, mild phobias and stuttering.

1. Method of Progressive Muscular Relaxation

In progressive relaxation, you first tense and then relax each group of muscles. This helps focus attention on the feeling of tension in the body. The higher your awareness of the tension, the easier it is to control it. Basically, this exercise involves squeezing a particular muscle group firmly and maintaining tension for five to seven seconds. When you release the tension do it quickly so that the muscles relax immediately and you are easily able to differentiate between the feeling of relaxation and tension.

It is important to remember that only one specific muscle group at a time should be tensed – the rest of the body should remain in a relaxed position. Begin with relaxing your hands, then relax your arms and then your shoulders, and so on, until your entire body is relaxed.

Exercise is good for you. How often have you heard that? Probably,more times than you would care to remember. But did you know that regular exercising can do wonders for your mind, body and soul. Here’s how:

1. Exercise enhances physical well-being

•     Reduces high blood pressure and the chance of getting any other heart-related problems
•     Increases physical strength and stamina
•     Tones up the muscles and keeps the joints supple, encourages good posture and improves the figure
•     Delays the aging process
•     Improves breathing efficiency
•     Improves digestion