Meditation = How To Relax ?

Ok, I have another "Personal Way" to relax. We all have days when we try to sit and meditate but find we are full of tension, tight muscles and just can NOT relax. This is when I use my "Bathtub Method". To use this method you have to practise it BEFORE you sit and meditate, here is the process.

Fill a bath whatever way you like to. With your favorite oils, salts, bubbles, candles, incence......whatever. Then lay back and enjoy. Relax, even slightly meditate ( PLEASE don't go to sleep :). Now after you have spent a good amount of time in the bath, I want you to pull the plug, open the drain, whatever to let the water out but DO NOT GET UP FROM THE BATH! Lay back again soaking in the water and FEEL ever inch of water as it leaves the tub ( you may want the temperature up a little in the room ;)

As the water is leaving the tub.....imagine it is the tension, the worry, the stress in your life that is....draining away! Yes, it is ALL just going away.....leaving you.....FEEL IT! and remember that feeling.

Now the next time you are on your cushion trying to meditate and you have that tension......just imagine you are back in that bath......and FEEL the tension leaving, the worry going down the drain.......going....going......
GONE!

Now go and TRY this. Come back and tell me if it works for you? Tell others :)