Finding ways to relax can help you improve your ability to focus and remember information. Try a few of these techniques to help you take a quick mental break from your studies, or ease your stress level.

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Abdominal Breathing

Put one hand on your chest and the other hand on your navel. Now, breathe so that only the hand on your navel moves as you breathe. The upper hand on your chest does not move. Inhale and exhale like this 10 times.

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Cool air in, warm air out

With your eyes closed, shift your attention to the tip of your nose. As you breathe in, become aware of the cool air coming in your nostrils. As you breathe out, be aware of the warm air passing back out. Continue to breathe slowly, focusing your awareness on cool air in, warm air out. Repeat four or five times.

Equalized Breathing

Inhale slowly for four seconds, and then exhale slowly for four seconds. Count “1 one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand”. Repeat four or five times.

Tense Release

Tense yourself all over, one part at a time. Pull your toes up as if to touch your shins and hold it. Tense your thigh muscles. Tense your fists and your arms. Take a deep breath and hold it. Clench your jaws and close your eyelids tight. Hold yourself tense all over for four or five seconds. Then let go all at once and feel the tension leave your body.

Breathing Tensions Away

Focus your attention on your feet. As you take in a slow, deep breath, imagine collecting all the tensions from your feet and legs, breathing them into your lungs and expelling them as you exhale. Then, with a second deep breath, all the tensions from your trunk, hands, and arms expel that. With a third breath, collect and expel all tension from shoulders, neck, and head.

Hand Warm

Visualize your hands as warm: relaxed and warm. You might imagine them in a bucket of warm water, near a fire, or in warm, wooly gloves. Perhaps you can even begin to feel the blood flowing down your arms into your hands. Hands are warm... relaxed and warm.

Ideal Relaxation

With your eyes closed, take a moment to visualize an ideal spot for relaxation. You can make it any place, real or imagined. See yourself in comfortable clothes. Now, once you have created it, go back there whenever you feel the need to relax.

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