Relaxation therapy

Certain negative thought patterns play a key role in the onset of depression, anxiety or nervousness, which often burden our psyche and cause us very unpleasant mental states. These thoughts are characteristically accelerated, obsessive, often repetitive and impossible to interrupt or completely forbid. We call these self-destructive thought chains automatic negative thoughts.

What are the contents of such ideas?

Most often it is exaggerated self-criticism, questioning of one's own abilities, internal dialogues with persons we are unable to defend ourselves directly, various intrusive fears and sometimes catastrophic scenarios for the future.

Automatic negative thoughts seem to break free from the chain, making us sad and causing stress. Often we are aware of their irrationality and yet we cannot stop them. While psychotherapy addresses and treats the causes of negative thought patterns, relaxation strategies focus more on working with our attention and body. Relaxation strategies can include various breathing and muscle exercises, mindfulness and more.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a method that gradually enables us to triumph over negative thought contents. During this therapy we learn to work with our body and psyche. It is mainly an intensive work with attention or rather with its controlling component, which we call mindfulness. Mindfulness is a cognitive ability that we can train to effectively stop hurtful chains of thought before they cause us negative emotions.

Breathing exercised against anxiety

We also learn effective breathing techniques to help us in an emergency when anxiety or depression suddenly overwhelms us. But we will also learn together breathing exercises that we will use regularly in the future to avoid unpleasant psychological states in advance. This targeted work with the body is a great prevention and, if we master it together, we can avoid the need for medication in many cases.

Schultz Autogenic Training and Jakobson Relaxation

These are two proven methods that have the effect of relaxing the whole organism and unifying the flow of attention so that we are able to stop negative thought chains. Through repetition this ability is strengthened. Participants in relaxation therapy will therefore receive recordings of these two most commonly used methods so that they can continue the exercises at home, without the guidance of a psychologist.

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