Preksha Dhyana Self Awareness by Relaxation

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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magnets-the muscles contratct, the arm bends or the fist clenches. The number of minute motors set in motion is proportional to the intensity of the effort.
All the three states, described above, normally occur many times a day. The fourth state, abnormal yet frequent, is the state of hypertension. Perpetually tightened jaws, clenched teeth, frowning brows and hardened stomach-muscles are some of the visible signs of this state. In this state, the electro-magnets are over-magnetized by a strong current, leaving muscle-groups in a state of permanent contraction, quite often unnecessarily. This results in a colossal waste of nervous and muscular energy, because there is a constant leakage of current. The amount of energy thus wasted will depend upon the number of motor muscles activated, rather than on their size or strength, because the nervous impulse needed to contract a small facial muscle is practically the same as a large leg muscle. Thus the total loss of energy will be proportional to both the number of motor nerves and the strength of current, flowing in each of the conductor wires. Every day millions of old, useless and dead cells are replaced by young, healthy ones in all our tissues except nerves. Nerve cells are never renewed or replaced. Their number keeps on decreasing as we get older. If we injure them by, for example, overwork in the form of mental stress, they are lost for ever, leaving behind irreparable gaps. Now, by conscious and voluntary action, it is possible to switch off the current to the muscles, more efficiently than in sleep. Actually our sleep is seldom refreshing because the unresolved problems of the daytime intrude at night and we tend to work them out at a deeper level. Thus our sleep hardly serves its function of relaxing us. In total relaxation, on the other hand, the flow of current may be reduced to almost nil and the output of to the minimum.
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Eradication of Tension by Relaxation
Relaxation, if properly done, can relieve tension and fatigue more effectively in half an hour than many hours of
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