Using
Music or Relaxation Tapes*
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Easy mental relaxation
* For 'tape',
please also read CD or MP3!
The three tools we have looked
at so far in this section are active techniques.
You need to concentrate to use them - unfortunately
you may, quite legitimately, be too tired
at the end of a busy day to want to concentrate
on anything.
An alternative approach is to listen to
calming music, or to pre-prepared relaxation
or hypnosis tapes. It takes no effort on
your behalf to listen to these, and this
may be very welcome at the end of a long,
hard day's work!
Quite obviously, you can buy relaxing music
in very many places.
An up-to-date approach is to listen to
hypnosis MP3s, for example on an iPod.
Click here
to find out about Mind Tools' own relaxation
MP3s. Our "Healthy Rest",
"Instant Stress Relief" and "Island"
MP3s are proving to be very popular as a
way of getting 15 minutes of intense relaxation.
Another good source of these is Mind Tools'
partner Hypnosis
Downloads, who provide the following
relaxation and stress management programs:
These are instantly available, so you can
try them out and see their effectiveness
right away.
Similarly, there are many sources of relaxation
and self-hypnosis tapes, most of which will
be perfectly adequate. Three sources of
tapes and CDs are:
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