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What is muscle relaxation?
- Muscle relaxation is a technique to help learn how to relax specific groups of muscles. This process involves alternating between tensing and relaxing the individual muscle groups.

Effects of muscle relaxation
- Stabilizes and comforts the body and mind
- Makes life more efficient and productive /td>


Muscle relaxation procedure
1. Practice in a quiet room. Sit comfortably.
2. Inhale slowly and deeply until relaxed.
3. Scrunch up all the muscles in the face, hold to a count of 6, and then slowly relax them to a count of 8.
4. Next, stretch the neck muscles, hold for 6 seconds, and then relax them to a count of 8.
5. Repeat this with the shoulders, arms, belly, legs, and feet in a sequence.