Welcome/Relaxation Exercise

Welcome class, and welcome to Unit 2. I listened to audio feed on relaxation and it had an mild effect on my relaxation. Although good points were made during the audio feed, I can not reach the full scope of relaxation from the narrator of the audio feed. I tend to relax not by someone teaching me how to relax rather to self mediate or by keeping my mind occupied on hobbies I enjoy doing such as exercising or sports. The audio feed reaxed me to a certain point, I could not concentrate on the narrators voice the whole time, and often drifted away from the audio and concentrated on the images that I created. Relaxation techniques are different for everyone and so they should be because we all are uniquely different human being with very different life circumstances. For some, listening to a narrator guide you to relaxed state is the method of choice, although for others it can seem silly or non condusive to their relaxation techniques. A good run can take my mind off of many pressing issues and promote a healthy mental state and physical state at the same time. Running is what takes the edge off and lets me reduce my stress at the same time. Although this might not be the case for every individual.