Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation: Why Try Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Introduction
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
Why try progressive muscle relaxation?
How do you do progressive muscle relaxation?
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Why try progressive muscle relaxation?

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Progressive muscle relaxation can reduce anxiety, stress, and muscle tension, and it may help if you have trouble falling asleep. As you learn how your "tense" muscles feel and how your "relaxed" muscles feel, you may be able to tell when you need to relax.

Progressive muscle relaxation is easy to do. And if you can find a place to lie down and get comfortable, you can do it anytime you need it.

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Last updated:	May 21, 2008
Author:	Merrill Hayden
Reviewed By:	Catherine D. Serio, PhD - Behavioral Health, Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry
Editors:	Katy E. Magee, MA, Michele Cronen

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