Sit up in a comfortable chair or lie on a couch or a bed with your hands resting in your lap or by your side and take three slow deep breaths. Each time you inhale, focus on filling your lungs with clean, fresh air. (Pause) As you exhale, feel all of the tension leave your lungs. (Pause) Now stare at a spot. Look at a spot on the wall or ceiling. (Pause) Look at that …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…will be alert and awake and feeling better than you have ever felt before. (Pause) Each and every time you practice this exercise, you will find yourself relaxing to a greater and greater degree. (Pause) All right, one, two, three, four, five. (Pause) You are wide-awake, alert and feeling better in every way! END OF EXERCISE How do you feel? Do you feel alert and awake and feeling better than you have ever felt before?