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Welcome to my journey of flourishing into a life of health, happiness, and wholeness. Creating my own wellness is something that I have very little previous knowledge about, but I have always been interested in. I will use this blog to discuss my journey into consciousness and integral health. Today I experienced a relaxation exercise in the form of an audio clip. The clip reminded me a bit of some of the yoga I have done. Usually at the end of a yoga session you lay in a "corpse pose", which is a relaxation pose where you lay on your back and are instructed to relax as much as possible, this includes relaxing the muscles of the body as well as the mind. I have used this technique when laying down in bed at night to make my mind stop ticking so that I can fall asleep. By doing this I am focusing on relaxing my muscles rather than worrying about something that happened earlier in the day or something that I need to do the next day that I can't possibly do anything about at 11 pm while I am laying in bed.  I really like relaxation techniques like these, I find them to be very effective. In this particular exercise you are instructed to change the direction of your blood flow simply by the power of suggesting it in your mind and focusing on where you want the blood to go. I find this to be a really simple, but impressive example of the body-mind connection.