The document discusses relaxation therapy, outlining its physiological effects, techniques, and benefits, including reducing anxiety and improving mental health. Techniques include progressive muscle relaxation, mental imagery, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, physical exercises, and deep breathing. The role of nurses in supporting individuals through relaxation therapy is also emphasized to help manage stress and enhance well-being.

1. RELAXATION THERAPY
BY- MR. VIHANG TAYDE.
M.Sc. Nursing 1st year.

2. INTRODUCTION:
• Relaxation produces physiological effects
opposite those of anxiety: slow heart rate,
increased peripheral blood flow and neuro-
muscular stability.

3. • A relaxation technique (also known as
relaxation training) is any method, process,
procedure, or activity that helps a person to
relax; to attain a state of increased calmness; or
otherwise reduce levels of pain, anxiety, stress
or anger.

4. • Relaxation techniques are often employed as
one element of a wider stress management
program and can decrease muscle tension,
lower the blood pressure and slow heart and
breathe rates, among other health benefits.

5. • Relaxation is a technique often used by sports
performers to calm themselves-thereby
decreasing anxiety and controlling arousal. It
can increase the sense of control, reduce
anxiety, and help the performer to feel calm
and comfortable.

6. Involves a decrease in:
• Breathing rate.
• Heart rate.
• Muscle activity.
• Oxygen consumption.

7. DEFINATION
• Relaxation therapy is a broad term used to
describe a number of techniques that promote
stress reduction, the elimination of tension
throughout the body, and a calm and peaceful
state of mind.

8. • The aim of relaxation therapy is to quiet the
mind; to allow thoughts to flow in a smooth,
level rhythm, and induce the relaxation response.
This mental quiet allows for rest and
rejuvenation that does not always occur, even
during sleep.

9. PURPOSE
• The goal of relaxation therapy is to calm the
brain or brain, to permit thinking process to
stream in an even, smooth pace, and trigger the
relaxation reaction.
• To improve the circulation.
• To relive muscle fatigue
• To improve the physical and mental health.
• To improve the physiological function.

10. • This mental silence facilitates for relax and
transformation that may even cannot be
achieved during sleep, since throughout the
sleep, the mind can stay energetic, even if the
pace is slower than that of the mind when it is
conscious.

11. BENEFITS OF RELAXATION
THERAPY
• Increase in self-confidence to manage the
problems
• Suppress tension and anger.
• Increase in blood flow to primary muscles.
• Regularize the heartbeat.

12. • Lower the blood pressure.
• Increase concentration and memory.
• Reduce sleep deprivation.
• Increase in energy.
• Reduction of frequency and severity of panic attacks
. Increase in ability to focus
. Reduction of insomnia and fatigue

13. PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS:
• Respiratory rate slows 4 to 6 breath per
minute.
• Heart rate to as low as 24 beats per minute.
• Blood pressure decreases.
• Metabolic rate slows down.

14. COGNITIVE AND
BEHAVIOUR EFFECTS
. Mental alertness.
. Active thinking.
. Increases the creative and memory.
. Increases the ability to concentrate.
. Improvement in adoptive functioning

15. . It focuses on specific problems.
. It is goal oriented.
. Recognize to those whose ideas affect their
mood, behavior, and physical condition.

16. ELEMENTS OF RELAXATION
TEHRAPY:
. Quiet environment.
. Mental devices. (A word, phrase, object, or
process used to help a person relax. Two
commonly used mental devices are the mantra
and the process of taking deep breaths and
exhaling slowly.)

17. . Passive attitude. (A passive attitude means that
you aren't taking any action. For example, if you
have a passive attitude about exercising, you
aren't exercising.)
. Comfortable position.

18. METHODES OF RELAXATION
THERAPY:
A.Jacobson progressive muscle relaxation.
B.Mental imagery
C.Meditation.
D. Yoga.

19. E. Biofeedback.
F. Physical exercises.
G. Deep breathing exercise.

20. A. JACOBSON PROGRESSIVE
MUSCLE RELAXATION.
• It is the most often used relaxation training,
developed by the psychiatrist Edmund
Jacobson.
• In this the client must learn to relax through
deep muscle relaxation training.

21. • Excellent results has been observed with this
method in the treatment of muscular tension,
anxiety, insomnia, depression, fatigue,
irritable bowel, muscles spasms, neck and
back pain, high blood pressure, mild phobias,
etc.

22. PROCEDURE:
 Make the patients in a comfortable position.
 Provide light or soft music / pleasant visual
cues.
 Give a brief explanation about the progressive
muscles relaxation.

23.  Instruct the client to tense each muscles group
approximately for 10 second.
 Explain the tension of the muscles and
uncomfortable the body parts feels.
 Ask the client to relax each muscle.

24. MENTAL IMAGERY:
• It is a relaxation method in which patients are
instructed to imagine themselves in a place
associated with pleasant relaxed memories.
Such images allow patients to enter a relaxed
state or experience a feeling of calmness and
tranquility.

25. • Some might select a scene at the seashore,
some might choose a mountain atmosphere,
and some might choose floating through the
air.
• The choices are as limitless as one's
imagination.

26. • Nurses can assist patients with imagery during
a painful or stressful event. The nurse's
certificate program in Imagery is endorsed by
the American Holistic Nurse's Association
(AHNA).

27. MEDITATION:
• Meditation involves focusing the mind upon a
sound, phrase, prayer, object, visualized
image, the breath, or consciousness in order to
increase awareness of the present moments,
promote relaxation, reduce stress, and also
enhance the spiritual growth.

28. PURPOSE:
1.Promote well-being n healthy people.
2.Meditate regularly experience less anxiety and
depression.
3.Gives more enjoyment and appreciation of the
life.

29. 4. Facilitates a greater sense of calmness,
empathy, and acceptance to self and others.
• Based on the clinical evidence, meditation is
seen as an appropriate therapy for panic
disorder, anxiety disorder, substance abuse. It
may improve function or reduce symptoms of
patients with neurotic disorder that is
Parkinson’s diseases, epilepsy, etc.

30. TYPES OF METITATION:
I. CONCENTRATION MEDITATION:
• It involves focusing once attention on the
breath, an imagined or real image, sound, or
word, or phrase that is repeated silently.

31. II. MINDFUL MEDITATION:
• It involves becoming aware of the entire filed
of attention. There is an awareness of all
thought, feelings, perceptions or sensation as
they arise from moment to moment.

32. YOGA:
• Yoga is an ancient system of breathing
practice, physical exercise, and postures and
meditation intended to integrate the
practitioner’s body, mind, and spirit.

33. • Yoga uses combination of physical postures
(asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas)
and meditation to promote relaxation and
enhance the flow of vital energy called prana.
• It is essential for a nurse to have baseline
information and awareness of yoga which is
purely Indian in origin

34. This is brought about by the following
eight steps:
1.Self-control (Yama), obtained by such devices
as chastity, non-stealing, non-violence,
truthfulness, and avoidance of greed.
2.Religious observance (Niyama), through
chanting of the Vedic hymns, austerity, purity
and contentment.

35. 3.ssumption of certain positions (Aasana).
4. Regulation of the breath (Pranayama), with
controlled rhythmic exhalation, inhalation, and
temporary suspension of breathing.
5. Restraint of the senses (Pratyahara).

36. 6.Studying of the mind (Dharana), through
fixation on some part of the body, such as the
nose or navel. »
7.Meditation (Dhyana), on the true object of
knowledge, the supreme spirit, to the exclusion
of other things in life.

37. 8. Profound contemplation (Samadhi), with such
complete absorption and detachment that there is
insensitivity to heat and cold, pain and pleasure.

38. BIO-FEEDBACK:
• It is the technique that is used monitoring
instrument to measure and feedback
information about the muscle tension, heart
rate, Sweat responses, and skin temperature or
brain activity.

39. • The term associated with biofeedback include
applied psychophysiology or behavioral
physiology.
• It is also viewed as a mind-body therapy use as
an alternative medicine.

40. • Biofeedback is an important part of
understanding the relationship between
physical state and thought, feeling and
behavior.

41. PURPOSES:
• The purpose of the biofeedback is to enhance
an individual awareness of the physical reaction
to physical, emotional or psychological stress
and their ability to influence their own
physiological response.

42. INDICATIONS:
• High blood pressure.
• Eating disorder.
• Anxiety disorder.
• Substance abuse.
• Attention deficit disorder.
• Depression.
• Sleep disorder.
• Migraine headache.

43. EQUIPMENTS USE IN
BIOFEEDBACK:
 Electronic instruments used to obtain
immediate feedback to the patients regarding
his physiological activities.
 (ECG, EEG, Pulse, BP, GSP(Galvanic Skin
Response)

44. PHYSICAL EXERCISES:
 Regular exercise is the most effective method
of reliving stress.
 Physical exertion provides a natural outlet for
the tension produced by the body in its state of
aerosol for “fight or flight”.

45. • Aerobic exercise strengthens the cardio
vascular system.
• Following exercise physiological equilibrium
is restored, resulting in a feeling of relaxation.

46. DEEP BREATHING
EXERCISES:
• Tension is released when the lungs are allowed
to breath in as much oxygen as possible.
• Breathing exercise has been found to be
effective in reducing anxiety, depression,
irritability, fatigue and muscular
tension.

47. TECHNIQUES:
1.Sit or lie down in a comfortably, inhale slowly
through the nose and exhale through the
mouth.
2.While inhaling place one hand below the ribs,
allow the hand to expand outward when
inhaled.

48. 3. Let hand fall back to its original position when
exhaled.
4. Exhalation should take twice as long as
inhalation.

49. ROLE OF NURSE
1.Help the individual to recognize the source of
stress.
2.Help to identify the method of coping.
3.To identify the individual adaptation to stress.

50. 3.To assess the individual to achieve their
highest potential for wellbeing.
4.To evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy.
5.To plan alternative / modification.
6.And main is documentation.
7.Supportive role while the therapy.

51. CONCLUSION:
• Relaxation produces physiological effects
opposite those of anxiety: slow heart rate,
increased peripheral blood flow and neuro-
muscular stability.

52. • A relaxation technique (also known as
relaxation training) is any method, process,
procedure, or activity that helps a person to
relax; to attain a state of increased calmness;

53. There are many types of relaxation
therapy, such as;
• Jacobson progressive muscle relaxation.
• Mental imagery
• Meditation.
• Yoga.
• Biofeedback.
• Physical exercises.
• Deep breathing exercise.

54. THANK
YOU….