Many People Unconsciously Tense Various Muscles All Day Long Do you ever get into that miserable mental slate called being Are there tines when you find yourself xin through the day's duti a lil less way? Thi be because are expending nervous energy lig holding: the bod state of tension, and there is mot the com-! plete relaxation after a muscular fort that is required for the body! Relaxation is energy served, that it may be tra ferred from one part of the body to the other, To learn what tension your hands and holding th level with your them as though holding up a 7 weight. Do thie for half-a-minute, then let them drop—you will be glad enough to do so! No weight has been carried by the muscles, yet they will feel tired because of the tension they have experienced. In the same way you may be wasting precious nervous energy in count-Tess small ways all day long. No' wonder a "slump" arrives sooner or Inter when you feel completely slack and borded before the usually pleasant duties of the begun! When writing, for instance, the knees may be held together tightly unconsciously; when reading the shoulders are stiff against the cushions of the chair against which appear to be reclining; when sewing, the fect may be pressing [thus while you count 19, and Jet them drop. They will fall to where they belong, It should not necessary to hold the shoulders back the chest is up and the bac gested in previous article Helpful Bxercises yeleass tension in an aching. alate of the body which evil Jy influences the mental proing concentration nur back in at the you can and lot go. several times until you are remove ten-A free hin with complete [tion of he muscles of the lower aided following.
Bend at the hip-faint, ith knees straight and arms hang-loose, and let the body down as far as possible, Do not try to touch the floor, but lift and drop the body several times until. the finger-tips touch it. without effort, That feeling of "becoming slower" as we get oliler ig warded off by.
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