Sofrology. relaxation to overcome the depression

The word sofrology comes from the roots Greek sos (harmony), phren (you make aware) and logoses (studio). Your own name defines to the sofrology: the science of harmonizing the conscience. this technique was created in 1960 by Alfonso Caycedo, a Colombian neuropsyquiatry that he/she worked in the Provincial Hospital of Madrid, Spain.

This discipline was created before the evidence that for many people to relax was more actual than some medicines. The sofrology merges methods oriental and actual keys of the car hypnosis. Starting from this base, they also incorporated respiratory exercises, physiques and mental of the techniques of the yoga, of the chi kung and of the zen, and you evolved this way on the concept of dynamic relaxation, characteristic of the sofrología. this technique you can apply so much in healthy people that want to improve your quality of life, like in people that suffer diverse dysfunctions like depression, anxiety and psychosomatic illnesses.

To make an alcoholatura session of relaxation, you are to follow instructions that can be recorded and to hear through headphones. Among them, times of wait are interleaved to attend the sensations that leave experiencing.

You follow these steps and you will make your own relaxation session.

1 - sits down on a seat. You should feel comfortable. The feet have to be supported in the floor, while the hands rest on the thighs. You close your eyes gently and you begin to hear your body.

2 - you begin to feel the contact of the body with the seat (5 seconds of silence) and with the floor (5 seconds of silence). As you stick to the seat and your body weighs a lot.

3 - you relax your lids, your front, the hairy leather. You delete the pressure of the temples and cheeks... The lips and the mandible become unstuck. You rediscover your true face, absolutely relaxed.

4 - loose the interior of the throat. You relax shoulders (5 seconds of silence). You relax the neck and the nape (15 seconds of silence). Now the arms, the forearms and the hands. You abort the effort to be devoted to enjoy fully (15 seconds of silence).

5 - you loosen the shoulder following the journey of the spine, from the nape until the coxis (15 seconds of silence). You release of pressure your stomach and the thorax, the same as the form of breathing.

You 6-relax the first floor stomach, the muscles of the perineum, the gluteus, the hips, the thighs, the knees, the calves, the ankles and the feet. You pay carefulness to how you perceive your legs.

7 - you descend more and more in same tí until feeling between the vigil and the dream. In each extension it imagines that you descend even more (30 seconds of silence). You display the image of an object that don't produce any emotion: the sea, a flower, the moon, a cloud... (30 seconds of silence).

8 - you register all your body functions to be able to stay I wake up. (30 seconds of silence).

9 - you imagine a positive status of your life that take place in a next future. In this context, you will be flanked of dear beings and of projects that delight you. (between 3 and 5 seconds of silence). You are already in peace.