Relaxation Response

The relaxation response is the opposite of the flight or fight response. Supposedly it works like this: If you meditate on a daily basis for only 15 minutes you can lower your blood pressure, heart rate, decrease oxygen levels (which helps live longer), decreases metabolism, and some other helpful effects. Most importantly, it keeps you calmer from doing it after so long.

I've already started meditation. Having many years of experience it didn't take me long to get back into it. There are a few methods I use depending how I feel. All of them require you to either lay down or sit down with your eyes closed of course. But the methods of focus are slightly different. For one I count from 100 to 0 with each count I breath. Another easy one is to count down from 10 to 0 then 9 to 0 until 0 is reached. One last method, is to simply just count your breath and focus on relaxing.

Enjoy!