In my first session, I was told to hold one hand on my chest and one on my stomach to show how I breath. This shows whether you're breathing more with your chest or belly. If the hand resting on your chest moves more, you're breathing more with your chest. The breathing you want is the kind that is very deep in your stomach, with very little chest movement.
We practised the belly breathing and I was told to go away and practise doing 15 of those deep belly breaths every hour a day. (See CD track 1)
I knew I'd forget to most the time, but I'd try as much as I could.
But that was the end of it!
Then I went on to the Psychologist who told me he'd be supplying me with a CD with some relaxation techniques on, and that I should listen to the first 3 tracks, and pick one out of 2 and 3 to use regularly after that. Then I should listen to that chosen track once every day; they're approximately 15 minutes long each.
I've been given permission to share the contents of the CD! But, unfortunately, would need to upgrade to share files of some of their size so could only share two.
Hopefully, it gives you guys a taster.
There are also some other relaxation resources I found on my resources pages such as relaxation for stress, and PDFs on relaxation by a Tinnitus group.
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So by regularly practising the deep breathing, you will in part relax your body, although, not to a massive extent.
For maximum benefit, you want to pair it with some mental memory of relaxation, and this can be done by picking a relaxation method that works for you (thus by picking one in the CD that your prefer) and by practising it daily. When you breath deeply each hour your body will begin to mentally connect it with those same relaxation techniques and automatically respond in the way the relaxation designs it to, eventually.
This is the eventual idea, and would be a long term effect, which would take a lot of practise and hard work!
But the idea certainly sounds promising.