What does progressive muscle relaxation mean?

Although white-collar workers living in first-tier cities have relatively high salaries and incomes, the work and life pressure they feel on a daily basis is constantly increasing. At the same time, many methods to relieve stress are being developed, and progressive muscle relaxation training is gradually coming into people's view. But many people don’t understand this, so now let me tell you what this relaxation method means.

Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) was first created by American physiologist Edmund Jackerson in the 1930s. It was later gradually improved and widely used. It is currently a good relaxation method.

Progressive muscle relaxation training is based on the theoretical basis that an individual's mood consists of both "emotional" and "physical" aspects. If you can change the body's reaction, your emotions will also change. The somatic reactions of the internal organs are mainly affected by the subcortical centers and the autonomic nervous system, which are not easy to manipulate and control at will; while the central and somatic nervous systems can control the activities of the "voluntary muscles" and indirectly relax the emotions by consciously controlling the activities of the voluntary muscles, thereby establishing and maintaining a relaxed and happy emotional state.

In daily life, when people are nervous, they are not only emotionally tense, fearful and scared, but the muscles all over the body also become heavy and stiff; but when the tension relaxes, the heavy and stiff muscles can also relax in various other forms. Based on the above principles, the progressive muscle relaxation training method is to train individuals to relax the muscles of the whole body at will, so as to achieve the purpose of arbitrarily controlling the tension of the muscles of the whole body, maintaining a calm mood, and relieving tension, fear, anxiety and other negative emotions.

The editor believes that based on the above description, everyone has a preliminary understanding of the progressive muscle training method. This training method should be persisted when practicing and not abandoned halfway, otherwise it will be ineffective. At the same time, if you want to relax and release various pressures, the most important thing is to maintain a good attitude towards life and work.