He gave us many exercises for gradually RELAXING the muscles always beginning with the muscles of the face, as well as exercises for “feeling” Fragments: Seventeen

the hands, the feet, the fingers, and so on at will. The idea of the necessity of RELAXING the muscles was not actually a new one, but G.’s explanation that RELAXING the muscles of the body should begin with the muscles of the face was quite new to me; I had never come across this in books on “Yoga” or in literature on physiology. Fragments: Seventeen

Exercises in RELAXING the muscles which we began to perform gave very interesting results to some of our company. Thus one of us was suddenly able to stop a bad neuralgic pain in his arm by RELAXING his muscles. Then relaxation of the muscles had an immense significance in proper sleep and whoever did exercises in relaxation seriously very quickly noticed that his sleep became sounder and that he needed fewer hours of sleep. Fragments: Seventeen