Reactive and Proactive

When someone says the word "RELAX" do you find yourself relaxing or becoming more tense?

If you find yourself becoming tenser than you are being REACTIVE. You are reacting to a word in the opposite way that you should be for whatever reason. The reason does not matter. The only thing that matters is for you to change your "RE-ACTION" to "PRO-ACTION" meaning, YOU TAKE CHARGE!

Think about what the word relax means, not the fact that someone is telling you to do it. The word means to let the body re-lax (to return to being lax once again). To let the muscles become soft and supple. To let the muscles become extended, elongated without pressure or tension pulling them back together. To let the joints expand and release pressure on the ends of the bones where they meet at the joint or at the vertebrae. Do this part by part over the entire body starting with the head and working your way down. Try to visualize the muscles in your body actually releasing all tension. You do not need to know how the body works you need to know that "now I am working on my facial muscles", "now I am working on my neck muscles" and so on until all tension and stress are pushed out through the hands and feet into the air and earth where they dissipate and the only thing left is soft supple muscle and relieved joints. You may feel a light feeling in those parts of the body or a tingling or a pulsating sensation or just an overall balanced feeling in the whole body.

The main thing is, don't RE-ACT rather PRO-ACT. You are in charge of your body, your thoughts and your emotions. Take charge and be PRO-ACTIVE!