How to Tap Into a Higher Power Through Relaxation

“We are victims of a mounting tension; we have difficulty in relaxing.  Our high-strung nervous systems are on a perpetual binge. Caught up as we are in a rush all day, every day, and far into the night, we are not living fully.  We must remember what Carlyle called ‘the calm supremacy of the spirit over its circumstances.”  

Can you imagine seeing this paragraph in your workplace’s monthly newsletter?!  This was written by The Royal Bank of Canada to their employees some years ago. I think they were on to something, not only in their statement but also in their name! 

We are failing to get out of life the very things we so badly desire from it because of being victims to tension. One definition of a victim is a person who has been tricked or duped.  Do you feel tricked? Tricked into thinking you just had to try harder, work more, push further and you could start to enjoy life?

Over-pressing will cause you to miss your mark altogether.  It happens in every sport. The person who masters throwing the basketball, swinging the golf club or riding in the saddle with relaxed ease is the one who rises to the top.  It’s said that Ty Cobb was beautiful to watch because he flowed and was one with the bat. His relaxed ease could hit the ball further than someone that overpressed and gave it all they got. An "easy does it" attitude does everything more slowly, less hectic, and without pressure and the results release maximum power.

So here are 5 things you could start immediately to tap into a higher power through relaxation:

1. Spending 15 minutes a day to focus your thoughts on God in a period of quietness will fill you with strength and quiet energy.  Just sit and relax each day without any distractions, media or agenda. Some people feel that just sitting is lazy, but if you use that time to get in the flow of God and His power then it is not being lazy  It is renewing your power.
   
   
2. Several times a day imagine your body as a burlap bag filled with potatoes.  Imagine the bag is cut open and all the potatoes roll out. Allow your body to become totally limp, relaxing every muscle.  It doesn’t get must more relaxed than an empty burlap bag!
   
   
3. Drain your mind throughout the day.  Irritation, resentment, jealousy, disappointment and frustration quickly clog our “rivers of living water” inside of us. (John 7:38)  Sit back and close your eyes and picture those emotions swirling down the drain and away from you.
   
   
4. Train your mind to go to God often.  Practice His presence. To get you started in this habit, choose to create times in your life to regularly think of Him.  Prayers at meals, gratitude at every red light you sit through or praying for those around you every time you are in a line will keep you in tune with Him and will refill you with peace. 
   
   
5. When you notice that you are feeling tense or jittery, just stop.  Acknowledge to God that you are pushing yourself too hard and that you need Him.  Ask Him to fill you with His healing peace. Ask for composure, quietness, strength and to calm your nervous energy.  Thank Him for it and move on with easy but maximum power. 

Create these moments of relaxation where you deliberately draw on God’s power.  It’s not the length of the time that produces the power but the quality of the experience. 

You are meant to be attached to a continual flow of force that proceeds from God through the individual and back to God for renewal.  It reminds me of the flow of blood in our bodies. The heart pumps blood containing new oxygen to every part of your body. At the same time, it pumps the old blood without oxygen back through the lungs where it picks up new oxygen to repeat this cycle.  It’s a continual cycle that keeps us alive. The spiritual cycle of spending time with God also filters out our tension, creates an easy does it attitude and sends us back out to the world with maximum power.  

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