pleasantly relaxed I become. As I relax I. slip into a
deeper and deeper state of relaxation. My arms are
getting heavy and my legs are getting heavy and the
deeper I breathe the more pleasantly relaxed I become.
My facial muscles are fully relaxed and so are the
muscles around my eyes. The more I relax these
muscles the more pleasantly relaxed I become. I notice
my breathing getting heavier and my eyes getting
heavier, I am now completely and utterly relaxed. My
head is getting heavy, my arms are getting heavy and
my breathing is getting deeper and deeper. I notice that
I am very comfortable and very relaxed. My legs are
now very heavy. My eyes are now very heavy. I have
slipped into a very deep state of relaxation that covers
the whole, of my body. I feel very relaxed and very
comfortable. All the parts of my body are in a deep state
of relaxation.
This is an induction that you can experiment with.
You can read this out over and over again onto an audio
cassette tape. You may find that you need a five minute
induction to completely relax you. Others may need
fifteen or twenty minutes. Find out what works for you.
Remember you don't want to be asleep, just relaxed.
Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, used
to sit in his armchair on a regular basis and hold a bunch
of keys in his hand: He would then relax (deactivate his
RAS) then start visualizing his inventions. If the bunch
of keys fell from his hand the noise would wake him up
and he'd start again. He knew he didn't want to be
asleep, just relaxed. Edison came up with thousands of
useful patents and inventions and in doing so made.
himself a multi-millionaire.
Winston Churchill used to layout twice a day on
his hard oak office desk. He found that if he lay on the
bed he tended to fall asleep. Churchill (We are all
worms, but I'm a glow worm!) was a prolific writer and