You will often use this exercise as a precursor to any kind of
relaxation, meditation or self hypnosis.
Relax into a comfortable chair and close your eyes. Now, clench and
squeeze your toes together, holding for ten seconds and then releasing. Now
move of your legs and do the same thing. Calves, thighs, buttocks -
Clenching each for ten seconds and releasing. Do this throughout your whole
body.
Visualise the tension inside you as a blue liquid. Imagine it leaving
your body whilst you do this checking exercise, trickling out of your
fingers and toes, building up to a gushing waterfall of tension. This will
subside and then just imagine the last droplets of stress and tension
dribbling from your digits like a dripping tap.
By this point you should be fully relaxed, and maybe even not be able to
feel where the edges of your body meet the chair you are sitting in.
From this state of relaxation you can proceed to use any number of
advanced relaxation techniques and methodologies.