Commanding, wishing or desiring to calm down is a mental-thought process. When you are stressed out your brain cannot just respond to your command or wish. Below Dr. Herbert Benson, the first medical doctor of his era to teach calming down and relaxing took triggering the relaxation response. In the video Dr. Benson describes the steps to triggering the relaxation response.

Have you ever found yourself unable to repeat even a single word over and over again to yourself because your words are drowned out by your thoughts, feelings and emotions? Have you been able to disregard thoughts about family members, work situations, financial issues and more? Or do you sometimes become the captive of feelings, emotions and thoughts that disturb you? This thought frenzy leads to triggering the the fight or flight response to the point of nervous tension and anxiety.

Dr.Herbert Benson MD gives us a lesson on addressing the fight or flight as the feeling of anxiety and teaches us how to trigger the relaxation technique. We cannot always do that because we are mentally exhausted , emotionally exhausted and physically exhausted.

So merely getting a mental teaching actually adds to mental ,emotional and physical exhaustion because we feel bad that we are not getting anything out of the instruction and become hopeless.

Yet, Dr. Benson’’s work is a breakthrough instruction in self care for mental stress, it may not be where you need to start. Starting by simply laying down in the Life Vessel a 20 year old relaxation method that is scientifically proven to trigger the relaxation response .The Life Vessels technique allows the brain wave to change from a fight flight state to a relaxation activity with no instruction needed. Your body simply switches it own switch by the Life Vessel rest inducing it’s own state of physiological relaxation.

In the video below, the inventor of the Life Vessel describes how the life vessel triggers the relaxation response.

Here at Thomas Ayurveda and Chiropractic we use the Life Vessel as the modality to rest, nourish and revitalize the nervous system, . In every disease or dis-ease in the body the nervous system is involved. Nothing good or bad happens in the body with out the involvement of the nervous system.

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