You were born
with the capacity to use your energies
in a free and flowing way,
so you could develop your full potential
for enjoying your life
and making the most of it.

Through the years,
little by little
you lost or blocked this primal capacity.
Why you did doesn’t matter now.
But as you did,
the part of you that could flow and be free
and sing and laugh and enjoy its personhood
stiffened,
gave up its harmony with the universe,
and became tense.

The tension came
in obvious ways you may be well aware of
and subtle ways you may still need to discover.
This book will help you explore your tension
and release it.
Through complete relaxation.

It is a book that is written
for all of you:
your breath, your body, your emotions,
your thoughts, your spirit,
and your interplay with people around you.

It’s a book for all of you,
all linked together
in a way that will reopen your innate capacity
to live your life
as you were meant to live it.
More joyfully, more exuberantly,
and more completely relaxed than ever before.

It is not a book like other books,
and not a book on yoga and exercise.
In fact, you don’t have to lift a finger
for this book to do its work.

It is not a book that’s only for your brain
or your emotions, either.
It is for everything you are,
all together,
written in a style that your inner self
will understand and respond to,
almost automatically.

This book is complete.
And it will help you to relax completely,
which you will find to be the first step
toward opening up, growing, developing yourself,
and expanding your power and your life.

The format of this book
is a soothing series of explorations
that activate natural internalized solutions
for releasing tension.

Remember what it feels like
to be so totally pleased with yourself
that the glow of your vitality
illuminates the space all around you.
With this book
you can begin to feel much more like that
much more of the time.
Completely naturally.

Many people think they are relaxing
when they have a couple of drinks
or use drugs.
They’re mistaken.
External agents can never relax you
as well as internal connections and changes.

Drinking, drugs and all forms of escapism
dull your awareness
and lull you into believing you feel better
because your awareness has dropped
below a level
where you can perceive your tension.
The long range effect is
to build and create more tension.
After all,
you can’t possibly relax
with a splitting headache, a hung over stomach,
or a craving for pills, powders, or whatever.

The format of this book
also throws a lot of material at you
in a relatively little space.
So keep in mind
that trying too hard and not trying hard enough
both produce tension.

Find your own level and your own tolerance
for working with yourself.
Or for joining with a friend,
reading aloud softly to each other,
and working with yourselves
together.

Enjoy your explorations
and learn to sense when you’ve done enough
for one session.
Overdoing anything,
even relaxation,
is not relaxing.

Other than that,
just expect the unexpected.
You will feel different.
And you will feel better.
You’ll feel the changes ever so slowly
at first.
But one day they will add up for you
in dramatic and astonishing ways.

You’ll find you have become
more sensitive and more receptive,
more calm, more sensuous, more connected,
more in control.

Your walk and posture will evolve.
Your voice will soften and deepen.
Your skin and muscle tone will feel better
to your own touch and to your lover’s touch.
Your mind will become stronger, more searching,
more positive.

Your emotions will flow more smoothly
and they’ll stabilize
so that your highs and lows will be less extreme.
You will feel more satisfied with yourself
and like yourself more that you ever have
before.

You will be
what you may never have been before.
Yourself.
Beginning now.

Schiffer Books
$19.95+S&H